Customer Installations & Articles
Cortes Island off-grid beauty lit by Watt-a-Light
- Tags: 48V DC, Customer Feedback, Off-grid
Saving Energy and living Boat Life in Alaska
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...
- Tags: 32VDC, Customer Feedback, Off-grid
A Layman's Guide to Color Temperature and Choosing the Right One For You
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...
Welcome to Olds, Alberta!
Olds, Alberta City Sign This is a solar run 12V 20W LED Streetlight which illuminates their city sign on the way into town. The 20W LED Streetlight is controlled by our ICOS 20A 12V Controller. Sign during the daytime showing the installation. Beautifully lit at night to welcome visitors to Olds, Alberta.
- Tags: 12V DC, Customer Installations
California off-gridders love our LEDs!
- Tags: 24VDC, Customer Feedback, Off-grid