Before we get into this topic, let’s remember that history is filled to overflowing with cries of lighting technology destroying human health. When the incandescent lamp emerged, the gas light industry flooded the market with baloney about its harmful effects (including claims that electric lights caused women to get the vapors), in support of the healthful glow of gas lighting (gag). Fluorescent and HID technologies have been under attack from their very first introduction. It’s quite funny to see now the defense of HPS by LED detractors, as it has been the target for criticism for decades. My advise for the apoplectic LED detractors… take a very deep breath and get over it. Every light source carries with it a compromise, including daylight, with undesirable effects we must do our best to mitigate. I suggest to anyone interested in the processes of new lighting technology: An interesting read on the 60 years it took to get lighting off the gas. That said… (more…)
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Why LEDs are Bad… and Great at the Same Time.
Posted: March 23, 2018 in General SSL Commentary, UncategorizedTags: LED, Lighting
Hey, What do You Do When You Aren’t Doing the Lighting Thing?
Posted: June 15, 2017 in UncategorizedI’ve posted this sort of content before and will do so again. This is the sort of thing I cobble together from found objects, spare parts, experiments in fabrication, and other brain re-setting exercises.
My center all touch-stone and tribute to the mechanical arts that compete at the Bonneville Salt Flats every year.
Follow your passion and success will follow you
I find these “inspirational” vivications irritating and shallow. At the risk of being pedantic, allow me to explain.
In this case, the words evoke images of everyone loving what they do, and succeeding for it – with the inference of success pointing to fame and fortune. Certainly, if you look at successful people in the public eye; actors, musicians, athletes, motor sports champions, internet and social media innovators, software developers, wealthy investors, etc…, they (more…)
Money does not buy happiness.
We’ve heard it before, and it is a compelling sentiment. Unfortunately, it is all too easy to assume that the basic needs of sustenance, shelter, security and comfort are a given. These cost money. Without food, protection from the elements, security from harm, and a modest degree of comfort, even a basic level of happiness is not possible. We live in a world (more…)
Links and Handouts for the LED Specifier Summit Meter Presentation
Posted: November 14, 2016 in General Commentary, Light Meters, Uncategorized
For those who attend my presentation on Metering and Meter use at the LED Specifier Summit this Tuesday (9:00AM) here is the related reference information and a copy of handouts for the presentation. Let me know what you think and post your comments or questions here. If you have any questions or wish to discuss this presentation or have a metering issue you’d like some help with, let me know.
Here is a copy of the presentation handout here: LED Spec Summit KLW Meter Presentation
The following are a summary of the links to the meter files content referred to in the presentation:
I have several fresh and brewing ideas about office lighting, putting new technology to work to make sitting in our little prisons more enjoyable and healthful. To put these ideas in context, and to consider real-world application nuance and detail, I’m collecting images of actual office spaces from anyone will to share. I don’t need great pictures, just a quick snap with a phone that shows as much of the space as possible, perhaps with the lighting visible.
My office also houses the 3D printers. They need the clean/warm space to work best, and I like having them close.
If you have a moment, include any comment you might have about what you hate about the space, and the lighting, and perhaps what you like most? The spaces don’t have to be all cleaned up and tidy, in fact, the mess tells me as much as the arrangement.
I promise the images will go no further than a folder on my hard drive for reference in creating illustrations of model spaces within which I will be laying out alternative approaches and lighting products that might be applied.
You can do this all in less than a minute with a smart phone by sending me a an image to 414-241-5124, or kwillmorth@lumeniuque.com. I’ll send you a look in the future to what came from the effort, giving anyone who participates an inside peak of what I came up with and why.
Thanks in advance to all that participate!
Exploring the Impact of Social Media on Lighting Technology – A Personal Take
Posted: September 16, 2018 in General Commentary, UncategorizedAccording to marketers of Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, et al, social media is the engine of change, the foundation for bringing information and real transformation to the people. With Social Media, we will see the world connected and refreshed through the voices of the previously unheard. Social Media is the new light, the symbol of freedom and ultimate new world order founded on the concrete foundation of the first amendment, the true voice of “the People”. It has enabled revolution and advanced the human cause. It all sounds so… amazing and spectacular, if not completely incredible.
Behind the scenes, social media is actually just a software/app product that generates (more…)