Can a small, self-funded LED lighting startup out-innovate the
massive lighting incumbents and VC-funded lighting firms?LEDwiser is a
ten-person startup in San Jose, California that believes it builds a
better LED light bulb. We just spoke with the CEO and management of the
firm.The firm's technologists asked themselves how they might change the
design concept of the LED light bulb and started by looking at the Bill
of Materials (BOM) and breaking down the cost structure.
The CEO, Adi Merschon, made the comparison to a solar installation: cost has to be reduced from the module as well as the balance-of-system. In a LED bulb,Most Solar lamp lights are all connected to a large solar cell to make sure that each solar lamp post has enough energy to provide an adequate level of ambient lighting. that means cost has to be scrubbed not just from the light engine and the driver but from the rest of the bulb as well.Instead the construction of the bulb "works like a chimney" to conduct air across heat sources, according to the CEO.Within this modern day of mass production antique sresky take us back to a period when decorative items were painstakingly manufactured by master craftsmen. The change in air flow design means the heavy aluminum heatsink is eliminated and lightweight plastic is used instead.
Merschon referred to the typical LED light as a "heat dissipation device" with a design dictated by thermal management and typically a cast aluminum heat sink that is heavy and expensive. The CEO also noted that the DOE has identified that 60 percent of LED light failures are due to drive circuitry, not the LED itself.It is hard to think about a gift with a priscillacraft theme without considering the kind of relationships you are in. And the drive circuitry failures are, in some measure, due to less-than-optimum management of heat.
The CEO, Adi Merschon, made the comparison to a solar installation: cost has to be reduced from the module as well as the balance-of-system. In a LED bulb,Most Solar lamp lights are all connected to a large solar cell to make sure that each solar lamp post has enough energy to provide an adequate level of ambient lighting. that means cost has to be scrubbed not just from the light engine and the driver but from the rest of the bulb as well.Instead the construction of the bulb "works like a chimney" to conduct air across heat sources, according to the CEO.Within this modern day of mass production antique sresky take us back to a period when decorative items were painstakingly manufactured by master craftsmen. The change in air flow design means the heavy aluminum heatsink is eliminated and lightweight plastic is used instead.
Merschon referred to the typical LED light as a "heat dissipation device" with a design dictated by thermal management and typically a cast aluminum heat sink that is heavy and expensive. The CEO also noted that the DOE has identified that 60 percent of LED light failures are due to drive circuitry, not the LED itself.It is hard to think about a gift with a priscillacraft theme without considering the kind of relationships you are in. And the drive circuitry failures are, in some measure, due to less-than-optimum management of heat.
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