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Lighting Controls Association Updates Introduction Course

By Lighting Controls Association, on August 25, 2011

lighting controlsThe 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.

The new course, authored by Craig DiLouie, principal of ZING Communications, Inc. and LCA’s Education Director, offers an overview of lighting controls, covering:

• Benefits of lighting controls, including visual needs, energy management, energy code compliance and sustainability
• Basic functionality of lighting controls: inputs and outputs
• Manual versus automatic as an input
• Dimming versus switching as an output
• Manual control—how it works, typical energy savings, typical applications
• Occupancy sensing—how it works, typical energy savings, typical applications
• Time scheduling—how it works, typical energy savings, typical applications
• Daylight harvesting—how it works, typical energy savings, typical applications
• Demand response

At the conclusion of the course, an optional online comprehension test is available, with automatic grading; a passing grade enables the student to claim education credit.

EE101: Introduction to Lighting Control is registered with the National Council on Quality in the Lighting Professions (NCQLP), which recognizes a total of 1.5 LEUs towards maintenance of Lighting Certified (LC) certification. This course is also registered with the California Advanced Lighting Control Training Program (CALCTP) for credit to qualify to receive live training.

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Correctional News Publishes Article About Green Benefits Of Lighting Controls

By Lighting Controls Association, on June 8, 2011

In May 2011, Correctional News published “Lighting Controls Provide Green Benefits” by Joshua Slobin, which describes the energy-saving and resulting sustainability benefits of advanced lighting controls.

“Lighting control systems, based on a variety of technologies, have been proven to reduce lighting energy consumption in commercial and industrial buildings by up to 70 percent. These solutions can automatically turn off lights when they are not needed, optimize light levels to suit worker needs, reduce overall demand for lighting energy, and provide facility managers with system-wide lighting management.”

Get the full story here.

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GE Publishes Guide to Linear Fluorescent Lamp Dimming

By Lighting Controls Association, on January 12, 2011

GE Lighting has published an informative guide to linear fluorescent lamp dimming, available here.

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Maintenance Solutions Magazine Publishes Special Section on Lighting Controls

By Lighting Controls Association, on January 10, 2011

Maintenance Solutions Magazine recently published an interesting article by Denise Fong, a principal of lighting design firm Candela, that talks about the six categories of lighting controls. The Lighting Controls Association was proud to sponsor this special section.

When an institutional or commercial organization builds a new facility or renovates an existing one, occupants encounter a lighting system — including new lamps, ballasts, and controls — designed to be more energy efficient than the system it replaced. But whether the system actually performs up to expectations often depends on maintenance and engineering managers. The task for managers and their staffs is to oversee and operate these new systems efficiently and cost-effectively to provide as many benefits as possible to their organizations, including energy savings and reduced maintenance costs related to labor and parts.

Lighting controls offer an appealing array of opportunities. Lighting-control strategies fall into six categories: turning off the lights in unoccupied spaces; turning off or reducing output when daylight is available; reducing output in spaces with limited occupancy; reducing output when multiple uses require lower light levels; reducing lumen maintenance by tuning lights to less-than-full output when lamps are new and tuning higher as lamps age and output drops; and reducing the output based on need or personal preference.

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