LED Lighting for a brighter future!

Good news for fans of the Philips MasterLED range of professional lamps and fittings. Philips continues to innovate, and has just refreshed its MasterLED and LEDBulb ranges as follows: i) New Entry Level GLS LEDBulbs (Not Dimmable): - 6W=32W GLS - 9W=48W GLS - in E27 and B22 - 1yr Warranty ii) New MasterLED Bulb (Dimmable): - 8W=40W GLS Dimtone (colour get warmer with dim level) - 17W=75W GLS - in E27 and B22 - 3yr Warranty iii) New Entry Level LEDSpot, GU10 (Not Dimmable): - 4W=35W - 3000k, 36D - 1yr Warranty iv) Refreshed MasterLED, GU10 (Dimmable): - 4W=35W - 2700K, 25D, 40D - 3000K, 25D, 40D - 4000K, 25D, 40D - 3yr Warranty v) New MasterLED AR111 (Dimmable): - 10W=50W - 15W=75W - 2700K, 3000K - 24D, 40D - 3yr Warranty Novel Energy Lighting is stocking all these new lamps. Please visit our website for pricing. shuttla www.novelenergylighting.com

News article from LUX Magazine (17-Feb-2012): Low-voltage halogen lamps are to be banned from next year under draft legislation drawn up by the European Commission, Lux magazine can reveal. 12V MR16 lamps are the workhorses of retail, commercial and, increasingly, residential lighting and millions are sold every year in the EU. But under Ecodesign legislation, ‘poor performing’ versions are to be phased out from next year. Better-performing versions, such as those with infra-red coatings, will follow by 2016. The law sets out a series of minimum performance measures, including lifetime, output in a 90-degree cone and ef ficiency, which will effectively mean that low quality lamps – often Far Eastern imports – will be excluded from sale in the European Union from 2013. The phase-out is part of the Ecodesign legislation, which led to the phase-out of incandescent lamps in recent years. Paul Hodson of the directorate-general for energy is currently consulting with p...