Tag Archive: landscape

May 4th, 2012
post by admin | | 0

Immediate Burial LED Power Provide for Landscape Lights


Milford, CT (PRWEB) April 27, 2012

Q-Tran Inc. introduces remote LED power supplies that are listed to be directly buried into the ground, providing a great distribution point to power all your LED lighting.

The Q-SETeLED & Q-SETMLED Power Supplies remotely power LED lighting. These products mount directly into the Q-VAULT-5, an IP68 listed enclosure, capable of being buried into the ground or in concrete.

The Q-SETeLED comes available in either 60 watt or 120 watt (12VDC) or 100 watt or 200 watt (24VDC) models. Up to two Q-SETeLEDs fit inside one Q-VAULT-5 allowing up to four LED power supplies inside of one Q-VAULT-5.

The Q-SETMLED is available from 60 watt-300 watts in 12VDC or 24VDC. One Q-VAULT can accommodate up to 2 Q-SETMLED units. Boost taps provide the ability to recover voltage drop over longer runs and secondary circuit protection prevents any damage to the LED lighting.

The Q-VAULT-5 is IP68 listed in a five-inch housing equipped with a door, gasket, two stabilizing bars and a water-tight installation kit. The kit, which enables the contractor to install the unit efficiently for long-lasting durability and operation, includes one epoxy packs and an application syringe, water-tight putty, desiccant pouch, silver marker, installation instructions, spare parts, drilling guide labels, and wire ties. The housing cover is offered with a Stainless Steel Diamond or Bronze Plate, and with a Flush Mount or Concrete Pour Ring. It measures 9.5 inches long, 16.5 inches wide and 12.5 inches deep.

The Q-SET standard halogen or AC fed LED fixtures come in three circuit breaker configurations. Available in the Q-Scape System are: Q-SET1, which ranges from 60 watts to 300 watts, offers a single circuit breaker in a 2.5-inch cassette; Q-SET2 ranges from 360 watts to 600 watts, includes two circuit breakers in a five-inch wide cassette; and Q-SET3 ranges from 540 watts to 900 watts, is equipped with three circuit breakers in a five-inch wide cassette.

All of the Q-Sets include five secondary taps, ranging from 11 through 15 volts, which are used to compensate for losses when dimming. Loads may be connected at varying distances and to one or more of the secondary taps to recover voltage drop while producing 85 to 100 percent light output. Primary and secondary circuit protection meets or exceeds the NEC Article 411 for UL-2108 and UL-1838 Landscape Lighting Codes, and the Pool and Spa Wet Label Direct Burial Standard.

Many of the LED fixtures designed for landscape lighting are designed for 12VAC, which is our standard Q-SET transformer. If the fixture requires a remote LED power supply our Q-SETeLED or Q-SETMLED would be recommended.

The patented Q-Scape also includes an innovative grouping of Q-Wires, Q-Clik fittings, and other components.

About Q-Tran, Inc.

In 1993, Q-Tran, Inc. was founded by John Tremaine, an accomplished lighting designer who was born into a family of lighting entrepreneurs and innovators. He began his career with The Miller Company, a firm acquired in the 1930s by his great grandfather, who founded the National Electric Lamp Association (NELA) before selling it to Johns grandfather. In the early 1920s NELA became General Electrics lamp division in Cleveland, Ohio, and was later transformed into a prestigious research institute that is still thriving today.

Q-Tran was established to fulfill a need in the lighting industry for flexible remote transformers that eliminate noise and heat while enhancing the quality of light output. Operating with the mantra EnlightenedThinking

Chandeliers , , , , ,
February 17th, 2012
post by admin | | 0

Hinkley Lighting Introduces Alter with LED Landscape Lighting


Chicago, IL (PRWEB) January 13, 2012

More than 130 years ago, Thomas Edison introduced an incandescent lighting system that was safe, practical, and economical for the time. Times are changing however, and what was once an efficient lighting system is now energy wasting technology.

Today, electric lighting affects the environment adversely and burns up to 25% of the average home energy budget; change is essential. Enter light emitting diodes, or LEDs. This new technology is rapidly advancing to become the most energy efficient, long lasting, durable lighting on the market that the United States Department of Energy believes to have the potential to more than double the efficiency of lighting systems, significantly reduce our carbon footprint and transform the built environment.

Hinkley Lighting is helping to transform our environment and decrease the amount of light pollution with the introduction of their eco-luxury landscaping systems that allow you to make green choices in all aspects of design. Nexus, Atlantis, Piza and Harbor collections are among Hinkleys new 2012 designs that beautifully incorporate this new technology. Fixtures are fully equipped with integrated LED light sources and built-in drivers.

Four important areas to consider with landscape lighting are path, deck, accent, and step. Low-level path lights, or area lights, are necessary to keep walkways visible. Deck lights and step lights are unique in their subtle light distribution, and provide safety with multi-level construction throughout your property. Accent lights use directional beams to act as spotlights to trees and other architectural elements.

Benson Littman, Littman Bros Lighting owner, sees LED lighting as a responsible investment that increases the value of your home. Hinkley landscape collections have made LED do-able.

There is zero maintenance with LED because the bulbs never burn out. The quality of light has been hard to achieve in LED and Hinkley has done a better job than its competition in LED landscape lighting, Littman said.

About Littman Bros Lighting

Littman Bros Lighting has more than 30 years of experience in the industry. With their close relationships to the industrys leading designers and a team of specialists, Littman Bros is able to provide their customers with the finest quality products. With the help of Hinkleys LED collections, Littman has become a strong advocate of LED lighting.

# # #





Related asd href=”http://caseyalt.com/?cat=7″>Energy Saving Light Bulbs Press Releases

Chandeliers , , , ,
April 24th, 2011
post by halogen-bulbs | | 0

Lighting Q&A: Lighting And Light Bulb Basics

By Larry Tibbets

* What are the different types of lighting?

The different types of lights are incandescent, tungsten-halogen, compact fluorescent lamps, tubular fluorescent fixtures, and HID (high-density discharge).

•Incandescent lights have a relatively short life. They can only withstand between 1000 and 3000 hours of continuous use. They are also the least efficient source of regular lights.

•Tungsten-halogen are lights that belong to cateogyr of incandescent lamps. They have become gradually popular in recent years. They generate a white light with more intense standards.

•Dense florescent lights are a kind of fluorescent light but generate color more similar to some incandescent lamps. They combine the standard features of other lights.

•Tubular fluorescent lights are in tubular shape. They have a smaller diameter but are more efficient compared to other lights. They have a magnetic ballast that the lightning features depend upon.

•HID is a type of light that has a high output of light. Its components are mercury, metal halide, vapor and high pressure of sodium lighting.

* What are the different kinds of fixtures?

An extensive diversity of fixtures is available for different purposes. In general, fixtures are practical, versatile, presentable, and durable to make the interior design colorful.

The three main groups of fixtures are end piece fixtures, ceiling lights fixtures, and landscape fixtures.

•End piece fixtures have a design to work with solid standard cable wire.

•Ceiling light fixtures are handled with modified cable with larger diameter and capacitors.

•Landscape fixtures are used for giving colors and additional attraction for the background of landscape.

* What is a fluorescent light?

A fluorescent light produces energy from the atom. It is composed of many small particle pockets that expand to cause momentum. The basic unit of lights in flourescent is “light photons.”

Atoms discharge light photons when the electrons heat up. The electrons travel around certain orbit to increase the net charge and produce energy levels. After that light is produced from the nucleus.

* What is incandescent light?

Incandescent lights produce light by a shimmering filament. The filament is heated by white-hot electric current. Incandescence is the light-giving method. A glass container or lamp encloses the bulb.

It normally has a vacuum with a low-pressure to produce oxidation of filament with a high temperature.

* What is halogen?

Halogen can provide brilliant illumination by the use of electric current to heat the filament of metal and tungsten until it burns. Halogen has a filament inside a container or envelope.

A halogen lamp works much the same way as an incandescent lamp. On the other hand, the chemical reactions between halogen lamps are proficient and brighter than incandescent lamps.

About the Author: Larry Tibbets is a regular contributor to lighting- and electrical-related guides and websites such as aa href=”http://www.Lighting-Help.com” rel=’nofollow’>Lighting Help. Website: http://www.Lighting-Help.com

Source: aa href=”http://www.isnare.com” rel=’nofollow’>www.isnare.com

Permanent Link: aa href=”http://www.isnare.com/?aid=55690&ca=Home+Management” rel=’nofollow’>http://www.isnare.com/?aid=55690&ca=Home+Management

Energy Saving Light Bulbs General Information, LED Bulbs , , , , , , , ,
March 8th, 2011
post by LED-Bulb | | 0

Architectural Landscape Lighting

By R. Neal

Architectural landscape lights should work to unite the manmade and the natural in a manner that is compliant with regulatory codes and affordable for your clients. While landscape lighting represents a focus on illuminating and magnifying points of interest in the natural scenery, architectural landscape lighting creates the sense that buildings and technology are in harmony with Nature and establishes a more unified presentation to anyone viewing the facility at night.

Developing an architectural landscape lighting system that will remain true to this intention without costing additional money down the line requires a great deal of planning and research. You will have to determine all the necessary photometric requirements of the system, locate specification grade equipment made in the United States by manufacturers who emphasize quality over quantity, and be willing to use pioneering technologies that many of your clients may not yet understand, but can quickly be educated in if you can just find the time and resources to show them all the benefits you can bring to their table.

For example, one of the most costly components in any architectural landscape lighting system has always been any type of incandescent luminaire, such as a quartz floodlight, that consumes too much electricity in comparison to the light it produces. Not only does this waste money, it violates recent dark sky laws in most places, and it also results in ongoing replacement costs as they fixtures inevitably burn out. Newer fixtures that rely upon electronically ballasted fluorescent lamps, improved HID sources, and now LED light bars deliver a better quality of lighting and comply fully with the recent crackdown on light pollution.

By investing now in specification grade architectural landscape lights, you can save your clients money on excessive energy bills and help them avoid a possible parts shortage that could hit those who wait until the last minute to replace mercury vapor and incandescent lamps. Instead, propose to them architectural landscape lights that feature fluorescent lamps and ballast controls with superb CRI, LED’s that can save as much as 80% on power consumption, and HIDs featuring higher than ever LPW efficiency rating, you generate savings that translates into ROI and recession proofing the Spartan budgets of a very cautious and somewhat nervous customer base. You can do this too without sacrificing the visual component of the system as well. Our new generation of architectural landscape lights not only performs better than the previous generation of technology, but it actually features more attractive, diversified and decorative fixture housings in a variety of fixture housings and finishes heretofore unimagined.

RLLD Commercial Lighting’s inventory includes everything from decorative fluorescent bollards, post mounted lights, LED Street lighting for industrial parkways and private thoroughfares, super energy saving low voltage landscape lights of every variety, and HID floodlights that can output more light with less energy than ever. All of our lighting fixtures, without exception, are made by world-class US manufacturers who produce them in domestic factories located within our borders. Because our sources are exclusively American, we ensure both quality and compliance and also pass on manufacturers’ warranties unavailable to cheaper parts procured from overseas channels.

One additional benefit we deliver to both small and large companies alike is supportive, adjunct lighting design services with every purchase of architectural landscape light fixtures. We have invested a great deal of money in proprietary lighting design software that enables us to calculate the precise photometric requirements for optimal foot candle density and directional lighting control that you need to build a truly winning proposal. By nailing down the technical and regulatory details first, we can then help you focus on finding fixtures and accessories that add aesthetic value to your client’s location. This in turn enables you to creating an architectural landscape lighting system that is customized to the exact parameters of your client’s site and guaranteed to perform reliably with a minimum of maintenance for years to come.

About the Author: aa href=”http://www.rlldesign.com” rel=’nofollow’>RLLD Commercial Lighting (rlldesign.com). For more information on aa href=”http://www.rlldesign.com/architectural-landscape-lighting-a-197.html” rel=’nofollow’>Architectural Landscape Lighting, aa href=”http://www.rlldesign.com/commercial-lighting-t-25_39.html” rel=’nofollow’>Area Lighting, and aa href=”http://www.rlldesign.com/commercial-lighting-t-25.html” rel=’nofollow’>Commercial Lighting visit us online.

Source: aa href=”http://www.isnare.com” rel=’nofollow’>www.isnare.com

Permanent Link: aa href=”http://www.isnare.com/?aid=332483&ca=Business+Management” rel=’nofollow’>http://www.isnare.com/?aid=332483&ca=Business+Management

General Blog , , , , , , , , , , , , ,