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New EU Ecodesign Directive
Updated Dec 2012 Let’s look at the crucial parts of the European Union’s amended (Oct 2009) Ecodesign Directive: 5. Implementing measures shall meet all the following criteria: Please notice the word...
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Incandescent Home Lighting
In this post, I thought I’d share what kind of lights I use in my own home. I use mainly incandescent light, but very little of it. As a principle, I only turn on as much as I need at any given moment....
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More on LED
Light Colour I recently had a look at some of the currently available LED bulbs in my local hardware store. The majority were more or less appalling in light colour. Two clear bulbs (with little light...
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LED News Snippets
I’m starting to get really tired of all these LED articles and press-releases now replacing the over-optimistic CFL -pushing articles in the news stream, so sorry for starting out a bit grouchy. But...
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Warm-White LED Review 2
3W Philips ’MyAmbiance’ LED Candle Lamp Info: 3W, E14 socket, clear, 136 lumen, 20 000 hour life rate. Price: Over €10. Colour: 2700 Kelvin, decently warm-white. Impression: A similar design as the...
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Coloured LED Review 2
6W IKEA ‘Dioder’ RGB Lighting Strips IKEA Dioder (photo: IKEA) Info: 6W, 90 lumen, 20 000 hour life rate. Strips join together into either one long strip or at angles, e.g. around a small mirror....
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New Philips-Apple LED Innovation
This new Philips RGB bulb can be set to almost any colour, just like other RGB lamps. But instead of a separate remote control, this one is controlled by an iPhone or iPad app, wich makes it a lot more...
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Swedish Consumer Tests Autumn 2012
There were two major Swedish tests made during fall 2012. Råd & Rön and Testfakta. The former is issued by Sweden’s leading consumer organisation, Sveriges Konsumenter, and the latter is a...
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Flickering LED
A friend’s apartment building has recently been refurbished with warm white LED downlights in the entrance hall and corridors. Being of higher quality than the usual mediocre LED bulbs sold in shops,...
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LED Update
Over the last couple of years there has been a very rapid development of LEDs. Some problems still remain, others have been mitigated in innovative ways. Summary from some of the latest studies,...
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