Re: Anyone moved to LED Lighting?

[don@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Don Klipstein)]

In <r8ydnfxjAsY33JXWnZ2dnUVZ_uednZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Robert L Bass wrote:
>salty wrote:
>>
>> ... The simple answer is that most LED replacements
>> for incandesent bulbs in almost ANY application other
>> than indicator lights on a panel,  are accomplished by
>> use of arrays of LED's, not a single LED.
>
>Therein lies the problem.  Lamp housings using reflectors or prismatic
>lenses for nav lights and other purposes are designed to use a light
>coming from a single point.  Incandescent bulbs do that rather well.  An
>LED array can't work as well in that type of lamp because only a few of
>the LEDs are at the focal point.  Light emitted from the rest of the LEDs
>will be scattered in wrong directions.
>
>That does not mean that LEDs can't serve well in nav lights -- only that
>they don't work well as replacements for standard bulbs in *existing*
>lamps.

  There are nav lights out there sufficiently simple and non-critical
in design such that someone can make an LED retrofit for the bulb that
gets the light to meet the spec - despite the difference in emitting
surface geometry and directional characteristics.

  Motor vehicle lights are not as easy to make LED incandescent-retrofit
bulbs for with achievment of legal requirements being maintained.

 - Don Klipstein (don@xxxxxxxxx)