Customer Installations & Articles

Featured in Western Mariner Magazine's June 2019 edition, Redden Net of beautiful Campbell River, British Columbia is celebrating 40 years! That's 40 years of experience, advise, and providing high quality commercial fishing gear including rope, hooks, rain gear, and chandlery items....basically forty years of 'Everything Marine'! As one of our original stocking dealers, Redden knows and trusts our Watt-a-Light products. They stock a variety of our marine grade LED lighting products in their in-store inventory. Customers regularly stop and pick up our 10 Watt marine grade LED bulbs and 5 Watt marine grade LED bulbs to upgrade boat lighting and for use with solar...

Tucked away in the beautiful Appalachian mountains close to Berea, Kentucky, you'll find Salamander Springs Organic Permaculture Farm and founder Susana Lein's tiny passive solar house. Totally off-grid, this 340 sq. foot tiny house was built by hand from rough lumber, salvaged woods, clay, and straw, and also incorporates an earthen floor which serves as thermal mass to retain solar heat in winter.  Powered by a small solar electric system, we are honoured that Susana carefully chose our Watt-a-Light™ 10 Watt 24V DC LED Bulb to provide warm light above the stove and sink after dark! Susana is a pioneer in permaculture in North America and has...

Another happy customer from Auke Bay, Alaska! She lives on this beautiful 42 ft boat and wanted to save on energy consumption by switching to LEDs. She purchased our 5 Watt LED 32V Watt-a-Light™ (soft daylight) LED bulbs for the engine room and is very happy with them - so happy, she came back for more!   "I have a 42 foot wooden boat that was built in the Alf Hansen shipyard, State of Washington, for the Forest Service to patrol outside Alaska waters. Being built in 1954, it was all wired, very tidily, for 32-volt electricity in reverse polarity. I...

Most of us only think about temperature when we want to know if we should wear a jacket on a balmy fall day or perhaps apply some extra sunscreen. In Canada, we use the Celsius scale to measure temperature and we are familiar with 0°C as the freezing point.   However, the Kelvin unit is actually the basis of all temperature measurement and the same 0°C would be measured as 273.15K on the Kelvin Scale. Let's take a look at how this relates to color temperature and LED lighting... What is color temperature, you ask? Technically speaking, color temperature refers to the temperature to which...