{"id":142,"date":"2014-05-09T11:53:51","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T15:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/?p=142"},"modified":"2014-05-09T11:53:51","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T15:53:51","slug":"whats-old-is-new-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/?p=142","title":{"rendered":"What’s Old Is New Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this week the New York Times had an interesting, although not very informative, article<\/a> about two new lamp manufacturers and their technologies.\u00a0 The first is Finally<\/a>, a Massachusetts based company that is using an old technology, induction<\/a>, to generate light.\u00a0 Induction lamps are very similar to fluorescent lamps except that they do not have electrodes or filaments, which are a fluorescent lamp\u2019s most common points of failure. Instead of an electric arc passing through the gas-filled tube, induction lamps use an electromagnetic field to excite the gas.\u00a0 Like fluorescent lamps, mercury in the lamp produces UV light, which excites phosphors on the lamp envelope to create visible light. Induction lighting has been on the market for many years from other manufacturers.\u00a0 The advantages of induction include very long life, good color rendering, no flicker, and instant start and restrike.\u00a0 The drawback to the other induction lamps is that the equipment producing the electromagnetic field is bulky.\u00a0 The Finally lamp manufacturer has found a way to shrink the equipment to the size of the ballast in a typical retrofit CFL lamp.\u00a0 The only drawback is that it cannot dim with conventional wallbox dimmers.<\/p>\n

The second lamp is the Vu1<\/a>.\u00a0 It too uses an old technology in a new way.\u00a0 The Vu1 is essentially a cathode ray tube, just like old televisions and computer monitors.\u00a0 It fires a stream of electrons at phosphors embedded in a glass plate, which in turn produce light.\u00a0 It does not contain mercury, is instant on, has excellent color rendering, and is dimmable.\u00a0 It is currently available as an R30 replacement lamp.<\/p>\n

Since both of these lamps are designed for the retrofit market, they aren\u2019t likely to be specified by lighting designers.\u00a0 Nonetheless, I\u2019m looking forward to seeing them in operation, and I\u2019m excited to see some alternatives to LEDs.\u00a0 It will be interesting to see where these two technologies go in the next few years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earlier this week the New York Times had an interesting, although not very informative, article about two new lamp manufacturers and their technologies.\u00a0 The first is Finally, a Massachusetts based company that is using an old technology, induction, to generate light.\u00a0 Induction lamps are very similar to fluorescent lamps except that they do not have … Continue reading What’s Old Is New Again<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lamps","tag-new-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gZSw-2i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4255,"url":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/?p=4255","url_meta":{"origin":142,"position":0},"title":"Hello New Year, Goodbye Fluorescent Lamps","author":"Jason Livingston","date":"January 1, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"At this point no one should be specifying fluorescent lamps except in extremely specific situations (for example, I recently specified linear fluorescents and linear LED retrofit lamps in a themed environment set in the 1970s). \u00a0Why? \u00a0Not only are LEDs more energy efficient, but more bans go into effect today\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Lamps"","block_context":{"text":"Lamps","link":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/?cat=13"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3804,"url":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/?p=3804","url_meta":{"origin":142,"position":1},"title":"Fluorescent Phase-Out Continues","author":"Jason Livingston","date":"June 24, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"The big fluorescent news last week was that Minnesota has become the ninth state to pass a phase out of fluorescent lamps (the others are California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington). 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