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LED Vendor Questions
1)
Is your company registered as a U.S. Department of Energy Solid-State Lighting
(SSL) Quality Advocate? If you are, please forward "Lighting Facts" labels for
all your LED offerings to pcoppage@1000Bulbs.com.
2)
Have any of your LED offerings undergone U.S. Department of Energy
Commercially Available LED Product Evaluation and Reporting (CALiPER) testing? If so, please forward specific product
reports to pcoppage@1000Bulbs.com.
3)
Has an independent lighting laboratory tested your LED offerings
in accordance with LM-79-08 procedures?
If so, please forward specific reports to pcoppage@1000Bulbs.com.
4)
If an independent lighting laboratory has not tested your LED
offerings in accordance with LM-79-08 procedures AND you've published
literature noting the
·
Correlated Color Temperature (CCT),
·
Color Rendering Index (CRI),
·
Luminous Flux (Lumens),
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Luminous Intensity Distribution (Candelas),
·
Electrical Power (Watts), and/or
·
Luminous Efficacy (Lumens / Watt)
of your LED offerings,
do your figures differ from the figures of the LED packages, arrays, and
modules built into your offerings? If
the figures differ, how were your figures determined?
5)
If one or more of your LED offerings produce white light for
indoor applications, what is the nominal Correlated Color Temperature (CCT) of
your offerings? Was the nominal CCT
determined through the FLR chromaticity based system or the flexible CCT system
in accordance with ANSI C78.377?
6)
If one or more of your LED offerings produce white light for
indoor applications, what is the Color Rendering Index (CRI) of your offerings?
7)
Do you manufacture your own LED packages, arrays, and modules,
or do you purchase them? If you purchase
them, what brand and model number of LED packages, arrays and modules do you
purchase?
8)
How were the life ratings of your LED offerings determined? Do the life ratings of your LED offerings
differ from the life ratings of the LED packages, arrays and modules built into
your offerings?
9)
Do you test your LED offerings to ensure they last as long as
your published life ratings? If you do,
please forward specific reports to pcoppage@1000Bulbs.com.
10)
Were the life ratings / lumen maintenance of the LED packages,
arrays and modules built into your LED offerings determined by an independent
lighting laboratory in accordance with LM-80-08 procedures? If they were, please obtain and forward
specific reports to pcoppage@1000Bulbs.com.
11)
Do you offer any product warranties for your LED offerings? If you do, please forward specific product
warranties to pcoppage@1000Bulbs.com.
12)
Are the LED packages, arrays or modules in your offerings wired
in series, in parallel, or in series / parallel?
13)
Does the current applied to the LED packages, arrays and modules
in your offerings exceed the LED manufacturer recommendations?
14)
If you provide a driver with your offerings, does the driver
maintain a constant DC current through all LED packages, arrays and modules?
15)
If you provide a driver with your offerings, what is the maximum
quantity of product offerings that can be connected in series with the driver
without experiencing voltage drop in the last unit?
16)
If your LED offering is dimmable, do you provide or recommend a
specific driver?
17)
If your LED offering is dimmable and you provide the appropriate
driver, is dimming accomplished by reducing the forward current or by using
pulse width modulation?
If questions arise while considering
appropriate responses, please contact:
Paul Coppage, LC, LEED AP
VP Product Development and Training
1000Bulbs.com
2140
Merritt Drive
Garland, TX
75041
972-535-0884
pcoppage@1000Bulbs.com |
