by Fred Bass | Jun 27, 2019 | Blog, LED, LED Lifetimes
Much like light itself, LED lifetime accuracy reduces the further you look outside the LED chip. If lighting was simply a case of fitting an LED chip to a wall, we probably wouldn’t be having a debate about LED lifetimes. A 25,000 hour LED chip bought from a quality... 
by Fred Bass | Mar 11, 2019 | Blog
The lighting industry has seen huge change in the last five to ten years. Whatever your views on the legitimacy of LED lifetime claims, customers are making the switch to LEDs and they are lasting at least long enough to effectively wipe out the lamp resale market.... 
by Fred Bass | Feb 18, 2019 | Blog
A recent industry survey by CSIL (R3362 Nov 18) based on 2017 lighting consumption in the EU has some quite surprising numbers, for example the largest sector is consumer lighting where it is estimated only 4% of products sold were serviceable and overall it is... 
by Fred Bass | Jan 8, 2019 | Blog
It used to be that there were only three certainties in life: Death, taxes, and that switching to LED was good for the environment. But now we’re further along the adoption curve, worrying trends around failure rates, serviceability and damage to the circular economy...