LED news and articles from Solas

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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“The lighting solution is working perfectly. We’re really pleased.”
Solas recently had an interesting request from Plymouth University from a phd student working with wave tanks.
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St Mary’s Church in Lanark has recently had their organ renovated by A Furniture Clinic . Having stripped all the dark grime that has accumulated over the years, they were looking for a way to light the new found beauty subtlely and efficiently.
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The GRV has recently renovated 37 Guthrie Street Edinburgh, creating a new arts and live music centre in the middle of Edinburgh.
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Facts & Figures in Polworth, Edinburgh has recently taken advantage of LED technology to light up their display window.
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The Cities Downtown Developement authority has pledged to replace 1,400 downtown street lights with LED equivalents which will each last up to 10 years, reducing maintenance costs replacing bulbs.

For the full story see Yahoo News.
For UK Solar assisted LED street lighting see Advanced LEDs

Solas has now introduced a low cost, ultra bright LED strip light running at 12v.

The unit is encased in an tough plastic tube with completely water proof end caps.

Units can be supplied in any standard LED colour (White, Warm White, Red, Green, Blue or Amber)

During July this Year the CN tower in Toronto was finally given a lighting make-over. To replace the outdated existing lighting solution, Color Kinetics was asked to assist in providing a lighting solution to transform the tower.

By using LED lighting, the tower now uses about 40% less energy to light and costs 30% less to maintain over the older conventional lighting system.