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LCA TV: Lighting Controls Association Publishes Product Videos

09/15/2011 by Lighting Controls Association 2 Comments

The Lighting Controls Association has published more than 10 product videos at its YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/user/LightingControlsAssn. These videos reveal some of the lighting control industry’s brightest product offerings in 2011. Shot at LCA member booths at 2011 LIGHTFAIR, each 1- to 5-minute video features a company spokesperson describing a key product introduction from some […]

Filed Under: LCA News, LCA TV, Products

Lighting Controls Association Announces Winners of The 2011 IES Lighting Control Innovation Award

09/12/2011 by Lighting Controls Association Leave a Comment

The Lighting Controls Association is pleased to announce the winners of the 2011 Lighting Control Innovation Award. The Lighting Control Innovation Award was created in 2011 as part of the Illuminating Engineering Society’s Illumination Awards program, which recognizes professionalism, ingenuity and originality in lighting design. LCA is proud to sponsor the Lighting Control Innovation Award, […]

Filed Under: Award Winning Projects, LCA News, Projects

Get Lighting Controls Association Content At Lightsearch.com

08/29/2011 by Lighting Controls Association Leave a Comment

The next time you visit Lightsearch.com, the lighting industry’s leading online directory since 1995, you may notice a change on the homepage. The Lighting Controls Association is proud to sponsor Lightsearch.com and provide its visitors access to LCA blog content via headlines published on Lightsearch.com’s homepage.

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Lighting Controls Association Updates Introduction Course

08/25/2011 by Lighting Controls Association 3 Comments

The Lighting Controls Association is pleased to announce that it has updated EE101: Introduction to Lighting Control, a popular offering in the Association’s Education Express series of online distance education courses about lighting controls. Click to learn more.

Filed Under: Education and Tools, Fundamentals, LCA News

Lighting Controls Association Updates Education Express Course on Fluorescent Dimming

08/15/2011 by Lighting Controls Association Leave a Comment

The Lighting Controls Association is pleased to announce that it has updated EE103: Fluorescent Dimming, a popular offering in the Association’s Education Express series of online distance education courses about lighting controls. The new course, authored by Craig DiLouie, principal of ZING Communications, Inc. and LCA’s Education Director, is divided into two sections: Dimming Control, and Fluorescent Dimming Ballasts. The first section, Dimming Control, provides an in-depth introduction to dimming, including popular dimming strategies, methods, controls, human perception and response, and how different light sources behave while dimmed. The second section, Fluorescent Dimming Ballasts, covers technology and application issues such as dimming methods and lamp-ballast interactions.

Filed Under: Articles, Dimming, Fluorescent Control, LCA News

Control This! 2011 Event Announced For October 20, 2011 In New York City

08/03/2011 by Lighting Controls Association 1 Comment

The Illuminating Engineering Society’s New York City Section (IESNYC) has announced the date for its second annual program on state-of-the-art lighting control systems: CONTROL THIS!

The Lighting Controls Association is proud to sponsor this important industry event.

Control This! 2011 will take place on Thursday, October 20, 2011 at The Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street, 2nd Floor Gallery in New York City.

More than 500 lighting design community members are expected to attend this trade show and lecture series dedicated to the challenges facing the industry in lighting controls and energy management technologies. Control This! 2011 will offer guests the choice of six programs within two tracks: Construction and Commissioning. Attendees will see firsthand the latest innovations and product development in the rapidly growing fields of lighting controls and energy management systems by viewing the latest innovations on display by the industry’s leading manufacturers. Check the website for details on speakers and specific sessions.

Filed Under: Education and Tools, LCA News

NEMA Publishes NEMA 410-2011 Performance Testing for Lighting Controls and Switching Devices with Electronic Drivers and Discharge Ballasts

06/27/2011 by Lighting Controls Association Leave a Comment

The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) has published NEMA 410-2011 Performance Testing for Lighting Controls and Switching Devices with Electronic Drivers and Discharge Ballasts. NEMA 410 provides guidance for the design and testing of lighting controls and switching devices to be used with electronic drivers, discharge ballasts, and self-ballasted lamps to assist in establishing and verifying compatibility between products. This standard has been expanded to encompass additional types of lighting technology, and numerous figures and test circuit diagrams and designs have been added. NEMA 410 may be downloaded free here. To find other NEMA lighting standards, click here.

Filed Under: LCA News, Occupancy Sensors, Standards

Seven Projects To Be Recognized With IES Illumination Awards – Control Innovation Award

06/22/2011 by Lighting Controls Association Leave a Comment

The Lighting Controls Association (LCA) recently announced that it entered into a five-year agreement with the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) to sponsor a new Control Innovation Award as part of the IES’s prestigious Illumination Awards. Twenty projects were submitted in the Award’s first year. IES intends to make a formal announcement in August. However, we are pleased to be able to announce that seven projects were recognized with an IES Illumination Award of Merit, and one of these is being recognized with a higher award. Stay tuned, as further announcements will follow later in the summer.

Filed Under: Award Winning Projects, LCA News, Projects

NEMA Publishes Two Solid State Lighting Standards

05/09/2011 by Lighting Controls Association Leave a Comment

The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) has published two new solid state lighting standards: 1) NEMA SSL 1-2010 Electronic Drivers for LED Devices, Arrays, or Systems, and 2) NEMA SSL 6-2010 Solid State Lighting for Incandescent Replacement—Dimming.
With these publications, NEMA establishes harmonized requirements and expectations for solid state lighting (SSL). Both are directed toward designers, manufacturers, and users of SSL products.

Filed Under: Dimming, LCA News

NEMA Guidelines on the Application of Dimming to High-Intensity Discharge Lamps

04/06/2011 by Lighting Controls Association Leave a Comment

This document provides general information and considerations involved in the design and application of dimming circuitry employed with specific ballasts and lamps in the HID family. Click here to download it free from the NEMA website.

Filed Under: Articles, Dimming, HID Control, LCA News

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