LEDs Magazine — frequently quoted and linked-to by EleBlog — is a wonderful publication. It has a natural disadvantage, however: It is shooting at a target that is moving at . . . well, at the speed of light.
That is to say: It’s a monthly print publication. Things change very fast in the LED business.
Today’s must-read — in the EleBlog’s considered opinion — is a 2,850-word piece by Maury Wright, editor of the publication: Varying approachs to LED retrofit lamps show no limit.
It’s from the February issue (which must mean it was prepared in December and early January). It’s an update on what various companies are doing . . . how they were doing, anyway.
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While it is the EleBlog’s habit to post a short quote from pieces we like (or hate), we can’t really do much of that here. THE WHOLE THING is worth a read. At least, it is if you are in the lighting business, the electrical contracting business, the electrical distribution biz, are a lighting rep, work for a lighting manufacturer . . . or, even, if you are just a plain old citizen!
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However, here’s an interesting 3 paragraphs — not necessarily typical of the article — on Switch Lighting. These are the final 3 paragraphs of the thing (bolding added by EleBlog):
The company has introduced 40W-, 60W-, 75W-, and 100W-equivalent lamps as well as a novel LED 3-way lamp. Indeed, the company was the first of the retrofit lamp players to tout a 100W-equivalent lamp. But only in the fall of 2012 did Switch began to sell lamps commercially. The Switch40 sells for $42.99, the Switch60 sells for $49.99, and the Switch75 sells for $58.99. The Switch100 is priced at $65.99 but still isn’t readily available.
The reason for the delays in shipping are basically unknown to anyone outside the company. Surely the design is complex, and the pricing supports that fact. Seeing sample lamps over the course of 20 months, it’s apparent that the design went through a number of changes. The LEDs that are mounted facing outward around the center of the globe were once installed on aluminum fingers. Some type of printed-circuit board has replaced those fingers.
Fortunately for Switch, the company had an early start in the retrofit lamp race. They still have an opportunity to make money assuming the lamps deliver on the promised specs. A startup entering the market today facing a two year development cycle would have a tough time recouping the R&D expense with socket saturation looming.
Source: http://electricalcontractor.com/?p=8545
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