APEM Components, Inc., a leading manufacturer of quality switches and joysticks, announces the availability of a range of reliable and energy-efficient based LED lamps, ideal as drop-in replacements for existing less efficient incandescent or compact fluorescent (CFL) indicator lighting products. Based LED lamps offer an extremely long lifetime (typically 100,000 hours),low power consumption, low heat generation, and excellent shock and vibration resistance, Their long service life reduces the total cost of ownership and their high reliability makes the product line i...

1. Incandescents are dead. As manufacturers phase out traditional light bulbs that don't meet new federal standards for efficiency, the first to go are 100-watt bulbs in 2012. The phase-out continues with 75-watt bulbs in 2013 and 60-watt and 40-watt bulbs in 2014. You could substitute halogens or compact fluorescents CFLs, but LEDs will take you straight into the future of lighting. LEDs have been used in flashlights and reading lights for years. 2. Long live LEDs. Well-designed and -manufactured LED bulbs are rated to last 25,000 hours, or at least 22 yea...

By Scott Watson To understand more about the LEDs lighting designs, there’s a need to dig into the background aspect of light bulbs and lighting systems.  For more than 100 years now, light bulbs have been in use all over the world.    Such bulbs have undergone series of   changes   through the ingenuity of several scientists across the world.  The technology of the light bulbs and lighting systems has always   improved from one level to the other.  Basically, the whole scenario about light bulbs can be unders...