Future Lighting Solutions Introduces Usable Light Tool.

Online resource launched to determine Usable Light in real-world LUXEON([R]) based systems

MONTREAL -- Future Lighting Solutions, a division of Future Electronics, today launched its Usable Light Tool, an online resource that for the first time allows lighting designers and engineers to model and evaluate power LED performance for lighting under "real-world" conditions. . The unique tool developed by Future Lighting Solutions delivers side-by-side analysis of light output, efficiency and other metrics critical to lighting engineers.

Typically designers and engineers must rely on datasheet values to determine their choice of LED. However, actual LED performance changes based on the engineering of the system for temperature and electrical conditions. Without accounting for these factors designers and engineers will not achieve their intended result. This new tool from Future Lighting Solutions allows the user to choose LEDs and modify parameters such as the number of LEDs, the ambient temperature and the thermal resistance of the system. The user will then receive outputs detailing the 'usable light' and system efficiencies they can expect using those specifications.

Future Lighting Solutions' Worldwide Technical Applications Engineer, Patrick Durand, explains, "The Usable Light Tool empowers customers, for the first time, to incorporate all relevant data points and charts from high-power LED datasheets into a user-friendly online tool to determine the usable light that can be generated from high-power LEDs under a variety of real world scenarios. In the past, customers were limited to analyze high-power LEDs assuming a junction temperature of 25C, which would yield incomplete and inaccurate analysis results. This tool addresses these limitations and more in order to help lighting engineers in making critical design decisions."

Because the Usable Light Tool allows the user to change various parameters, the designer can experiment in order to determine how to achieve the most light out of his application.

Future Lighting Solutions' Usable Light Tool is available at www.futureelectronics.com/lumileds. New users will have to perform a simple and quick registration process in order to gain access to this resource.

About Future Lighting Solutions

A division of Future Electronics - the 3rd largest Electronic Components Distributor in the world, Future Lighting is dedicated to the LED lighting industry. With more than 6 years of power LED experience, Future Lighting Solutions is the pioneer in delivering the most comprehensive worldwide LED lighting solutions support structure in the industry. The company offers customers LED Lighting knowledge, resources, programs, partners, solutions and logistics support, focused on enabling the adoption of LUXEON[R]-based solid state lighting technology.

Future Lighting Solutions' innovative approach is built around its team of world class LED Lighting experts, its highly specialized and experienced partners, and its exclusive worldwide relationship with Philips Lumileds Lighting.

Future Lighting Solutions; Making LED lighting solutions simple[TM].