LED Lighting
Labels to Become More Informative
For as long as I can remember there’s always been some sort
of debate about labeling. No, I’m not
talking social labeling like geek or jock or what have you, but the kind of
label that goes on your soda bottle, medication, and other products you buy. Mainly that debate is what absolutely needs
to be included and what the manufacturer can have the option of including.
Starting last month, LED lighting manufacturers had the
option of adding more information to
their labels. The original information –
metrics, lumens, watts, efficacy, color rendering index and correlated color
temperature – could be joined by lumen maintenance, warranty metrics, or both
of those things. This means the
possibility of four different labels you may have to study and understand when
choosing a new LED light, but it shouldn’t be that hard.
According to www.lightingfacts.com, the new information would
ride on the label just beneath the correlated color temperature, bumping down information
like the registration number, model number, type and the IESNA LM-79-2008
information (the industry standardized test procedure that measures performance
qualities of LED luminaires to allow true comparisons to other types of
lighting).
When it comes to LED lighting, I think the more information
out there, the better. Many consumers
still hesitate to grab an LED bulb, mainly because of initial price. Maybe having this extra information will take
more LED bulbs to the checkout counter.
One can only hope.
http://www.lightingfacts.com/content/label - this
website is for a US DOE program
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