Solid state lighting is new focus

RS has added solid state lighting technology to its electronic product portfolio adding over 460 new products to its already extensive range.

RS has added solid state lighting technology to its electronic product portfolio adding over 460 new products to its already extensive range.

Solid state lighting is the use of high-powered LED components and assemblies to provide lighting of buildings, rooms, features and signage as well as flexible and imaginative opportunities to the automotive and commercial industries.

It enables both new and retrofit alternatives to conventional forms of lighting, such as incandescent, halogen and fluorescent lamps and offers designers advantages over these traditional lighting solutions in terms of lifespan, energy consumption, flexibility of use and maintenance.

Highly manufacturer driven, the solid state lighting market is moving towards innovative, larger and ever brighter components and assemblies.

Likewise, the luminaire market is seeing growing levels of sophistication and the desire to improve energy efficiency.

The effect of this is to demand that component suppliers and solution providers develop new products extremely quickly.

By offering a comprehensive and complimentary range of LEDs, drivers, optics, accessories and hardware from leading names such as Philips Lumileds, Osram and Dialight-Lumidrives, RS is helping customers to meet these challenges.

Among RS Components' new solid state lighting portfolio are products from Dialight-Lumidrives' Colour Engine, Philips Lumileds' Luxeon K2 and Osram's Linearlight Flex ranges.

Dialight-Lumidrives' Colour Engines are modular red, green and blue light engines, which enable OEMs to easily construct dynamic full colour change applications using LED technology.

With simple plug and socket connections they can be used for a wide range of applications including architectural detail lighting and signage.

The simple modular approach is ideal for OEMs with limited electronics capability.

Colour change using LED technology creates deep saturated colours with the ability for total control which is impossible with any other light source.

These solutions combined with the generic advantages of LED technology will enable products which are not only very long-lived, but are cool running, emit no UV radiation and are energy efficient.

Philips Lumileds' Luxeon K2 combines advances in LED die and packaging technologies providing new opportunities for lighting innovation.

These LEDs offer significant increases in temperature capability and luminous flux, permitting a much broader range of solid-state lighting applications.

With these new capabilities, engineers can extract more usable light from existing system designs and develop new LED assemblies with simpler thermal management, lower piece counts, and smaller footprints.

At 1000mA, Luxeon K2 delivers more than twice the light than at 350mA while maintaining lifetime, quality and robustness.

Osram's Linearlight Flex is an LED module on a flexible PCB with light emitted either at the top or at the side.

The modules can be used for long illuminated lines, for backlighting complex structures and for illuminated signs.

Klaus Goeldenbot, RS UK General Manager said: "Light emitting diodes offer major economic benefits thanks to low energy consumption, long life and low maintenance and are the perfect basis for creative ideas and new lighting solutions".

"With the introduction of these products, RS is helping to provide engineers with the easiest access to the widest range of technologies, products, and solutions for all their application development needs".

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