LED news and articles from Solas

“On 14th September we opened a brand new RPM studio, with 20 state-of-the-art bikes and jaw dropping lighting effects to blow you away and carry you through the challenging workout.”
© Edinburgh Leisure
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Solas joins forces with GreenLED to provide the best in White LED lighting to the Scottish market.

Finally a true replacement for a 50w Halogen, the Regulus uses only 7w a saving of 85% on energy costs and lasts up to 20 times as long.
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Life is Colour and Warmth and Light
And a striving evermore for these;
(Julian Grenfell - 1915)

In any environment people appreciate a splash of colour. Colour has instant associations with moods and can define the feel of an room subconciously. By keeping control over the colour, the atmosphere can be completely altered to fit requirements.
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Reduce costs and your carbon footprint using energy efficent, low carbon LED lighting in your business.
Simple tips to reducing your carbon footprint and so saving money on your lighting:

* Reduce quantity & ouput of lights used.
In Britain we have a habit of feeling that whole rooms need to be fully lit. We have traditionally used a pendant light fitting or chandelier in the centre of the room with one or more bulbs to give light everywhere. (more…)

The Metro reports that LED light bulbs could sell at £2/ea. within 2-5 years.
Professors at Cambridge University have discovered a way of producing Gallium Nitride - an important part of LED manufacture - on Silicon rather than the traditional, costly Sapphire.
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When the National Library in Edinburgh put on the exhibition ZigZag: the Paths of Robert Burns they needed someone to sympathetically light the displays while keeping the overall light levels below certain requirements to reduce deterioration of the original manuscripts.
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Solas provided a complete LED based lighting solution for the Historic Scotland exhibition of Pictish Stonework at the historic village of St. Vigeans.
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Solas is called in by Studio MB - designers for Dynamic Earth - to help save the ‘new’ lighting to the permanent Ice Berg at this Edinburgh attraction.
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“The lighting made all the difference to make our simple stand, stand out in the crowds.”
Solas was contacted by Designate to help make their client’s stall stand out at the Scottish Golf Show with little budget and little time.
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To provide a tutorial on the uses of LED lighting in interior design, Stephen made his way through to Glasgow on Thursday morning.
Stephen was giving a presentation on the ways lighting and LED lighting in particular could be used to benefit when designing hotel interiors. The event was tailored to the 18 3rd year design students who are currently working on a group project to design a ‘Metropolitan’ hotel.
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