Cree is leading the LED lighting revolution and setting the stage to obsolete the incandescent light bulb through the use of energy-efficient, environmentally friendly LED lighting. Cree is a market-leading innovator of lighting-class LEDs, LED lighting, and semiconductor solutions for wireless and power applications. Recently Cree announced it is extending the warranty on its entire family of fixture products to five years: “We have almost 20,000 hours of real-world data on products from our early installations nearly three years ago, and the performance is rock solid,” said...


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It has finally arrived, a truly dimmable low voltage MR16 LED bulb. With ultra brighter Cree LED as light source, Alcon Lighting's MR16 bulbs give off reliable white light and are the best to be used for background or effect lighting, the MR16 bulbs are dimmable and compatible with low voltage dimmers. They only consume a fraction of the power used by the standard lamps to give the same light output at 3*2W, so they are perfect for application in areas where you would like to leave lamps on for long periods but perhaps do not need bright lighting. They are compact, green and high efficient...


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Welcome to Part II of our series, The Science Behind LEDs. In this article we will focus on energy & money savings benefits of LEDs, as well as their ever-expanding applications. As of 2010, many LED lamps are available as replacements for the ordinary screw-in incandescent or compact fluorescent light bulbs, ranging from low power bulbs from 5 up to 40 watts, through conventional replacement bulbs for 60 watt incandescent bulbs (typically requiring about 7 watts of power), and a few lamps are now becoming available to replace higher wattage bulbs. Safety/Toxicity: Of course, the vast...


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An Alcon Lighting favorite, Consumer Reports just offered us a very informative & positive first look & review of the Cree CR6 LED Downlight: The Cree CR6 was designed to replace a 65-watt incandescent recessed bulb, and it claims to provide warm, beautiful light without sacrificing energy efficiency or dimming ability. In our initial take, based on a pre-retail sample, the Cree seems more promising than some of the other LED bulbs we've seen. It brightened instantly when we turned it on, like an incandescent does. It also seems to dim almost as well as an incandescent and better...


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TIRUPATI, India -- Cree, Inc., a market leader in LED lighting, announces that Tirupati Municipal Corporation in the Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh, India has joined the Cree LED City(R) initiative, an international program that promotes the deployment of energy-efficient LED (light-emitting diode) lighting. Tirupati converted more than 140 street lights to LED fixtures in order to better light two of the city's busiest roads. Tirupati is home to the Venkateswara Swamy temple, which hosts between 50,000 and 100,000 pilgrims each day. As one of India's important pilgrimage centers and a major...


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Cree continues to lead the LED Lighting Revolution with the announcement of a new 150mm LED wafer production facility in Research Triangle Park that is targeted to create hundreds of green jobs in North Carolina. The new LED wafer production line will be located in Cree's existing RTP production facility, and will allow Cree to produce 150mm LED wafers that are more than double the size of current ones, increasing the number of LEDs from a single wafer, helping to make LED lighting more cost-effective. The new production line is scheduled to be installed over the next several quarters with a target...


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