Optoelectronics
Everlight's SL-Dolphin LED fixtures replace traditional street lights in Boston LED Trial
Everlight Electronics Co. Ltd announced today that the City of Boston, MA has installed 20 of the company's SL-Dolphin fixtures for their first LED cobra-head replacement project. These lights are installed in a municipal parking lot in the city's Jamaica Plain district, a classic streetcar suburb that has evolved into one of Boston's most diverse and dynamic neighborhoods. Boston will be monitoring the energy savings achieved using Everlight's 128 Watt Cobra LED fixtures instead of the previously installed fixtures using 250W high pressure sodium lights. In addition to saving >60% of the energy costs, LED technology reduces light pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, and re-lamping costs with a LED lifetime of more than 50,000 hours.
LED In addition to greatly reduced energy consumption and zero maintenance costs which Everlight LED street lighting technology brings to municipal budgets, other technological advantages include:
- Pollution Free/RoHS compliance (no Mercury, lead, or other hazardous
components).
- Shock, vibration, and impact resistance (no arc, tube, or glass to
break).
- Solid State device with silent operation (no filament to burn-out).
- Fast response time: Instant on with no re-strike delay (no flicker).
- Instant on in hot and cold weather.
- Better color rendering shows true colors of the objects lit (cars,
clothing, etc.), improving security.
The SL-Dolphin is part of the growing portfolio of lighting modules from Everlight. Other typical applications include fluorescent replacement in office lighting environments as well as landscape accent/spot and architectural lighting, display case accent, flood, mood, biological and general lighting.
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