How can you charge your solar battery without a sun? Do you need a special charger for solar batteries? Or Can you charge solar light batteries in a charger? Yes, you can charge solar light batteries with a battery charger. Actually, you can charge any rechargeable battery with an alternate source. Solar batteries are just … Read more
This article presents a list of the available light bulb base or socket types and standard light bulb base sizes. Also covers, what do the different lamp bases mean, why different lamp bases are used for different lighting applications, and where those light bulb bases are used. Details are after the Light Bulb Bases chart … Read more
If you want to switch to LEDs and are looking for the right product, you should know the term binning. But what is LED binning? And Why LED binning is important? LEDs, like other manufactured products, have material and process variations that yield products with the corresponding variation in performance. LEDs are binned and packaged … Read more
This article has been restored from Wayback Machine Internet Achieve. The intention of restoring this article is to provide missing information to users of the article on “Lighting” on Wikipedia. The Wikipedia article refers to the article “Lighting: Bright Idea“ originally published on Time.com on Dec. 04, 2008, by PETER GUMBEL. But this page is … Read more
The length of a 60 W, 240 ω light bulb filament is 60 cm. 1) If the potential difference across the filament is 120 V, what is the strength of the electric field inside the filament?2) Suppose the length of the bulb’s filament was doubled without changing its diameter or the potential difference across it. … Read more
The IK rating means the degrees of protection provided by enclosures for electrical equipment against external mechanical impacts or shocks in joules. The IK rating consists of two digits (00 to 10) after the term ‘IK’ (e.g. IK05). IK ratings are particularly important for lights and lighting fixtures that may be fitted in an area … Read more
During any festival you can often see them outside or by the window: LED candles that flicker in the dark and pose no risk of fire. Candles are also gaining ground in cemeteries. What is it with these wax candles and how does it work? Of course there are also big differences in the LED … Read more
LED lamps are conquering living spaces and revolutionizing the design of automobiles. Sitting in front of a flat LED computer monitor, it is hard to imagine that the first practical incandescent lamp was invented less than 140 years ago. Dark times At the beginning of the 19th century, there was the first street lighting based … Read more
The IP65 means the degree of protection against accidental contact and ingress of dust along with water jets from any direction. Here, ‘IP’ stands for Ingress Protection or International Protection, and digits ’65’ describe the exact degree of protection against contact, and the ingress of foreign bodies as well as water. You may have seen … Read more
The beam angle of a light or lamp is the angle of light distribution or emission. This angle of lighting also determines how much area will be covered by light. Lamps come in a variety of beam angles from as narrow as 4 degrees to as wide as 120 degrees (e.g. SMD LEDs). For example, … Read more
