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The Next Wave in LED Lighting
Known as the architect’s choice for eco-downlights and under-counter lighting, CSL® (Creative Systems Lighting) revels in taking their products as far as they can go. At this year’s LIGHTFAIR, they introduced their next generation of products, as well as upgrades to existing collections, in architectural lighting, task lighting, linear, eco-downlighting, cylinders and steplights. Here is a sampling of what they unveiled.
HEAT SINK Extruded aluminum heat sink minimizes LED temperature for longer service life
OPTIC HOLDER Field changeable optics easily snaps in BEAM SPREADS Spot, narrow flood, flood and wide flood ACCESSORIES Additional light control or diffusion MEDIA HOLDER Accepts up to two accessories
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Acrobat Small Aperture LED Downlighting CSL created Acrobat after listening to architects’ and designers’ needs for a small aperture, adjustable and trimless downlight with multiple beam spreads. Available in 1,2,3 and 4” sizes, this new collection of small aperture adjustable downlights is available with four different trim styles and beam spreads. It features an integral input driver, 90% efficient, 0.99 power factor, high-performance COB LEDs, a two-step binning process, 50,000 hours at 70% lumen maintenance, multiple dimming options, four different CCTs (2700, 3000, 3500 and 4000K) field replaceable light engine and driver (L70) and is UL/C-UL listed for damp locations.
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Q&A
with Jeff Cunius, Director of Engineering, CSL® Some designers and architects have a lovehate relationship with LED (Light-Emitting Diode) lighting systems. While they are innovative with great potential for energy efficiency, they represent a major paradigm shift for the design community, and their true reliability and lifetime is only recently being accepted as the industry go-to. As designers and architects continue to move away from incandescents toward LED, we wanted to ask Jeff Cunius, the Director of Engineering at Troy/ CSL to give us an update on the latest LED development: where the technology is headed and what designers can expect from Troy/CSL in the future. What has been the single most important LED development in the last year? Tunable LED lighting and lighting controls to set brightness and CCT of LED luminaires. The level of control as far as precise output and settings, continues to grow-literally every year it gets better. LED Adjustable Cylinders As a new addition to CSL’s collection of LED eco-downlight cylinders, this one is all about the swivel. The LED Adjustable Cylinder has all of the components that you’d expect from CSL, but they’ve added a lockable ball swivel to make the product even more useful. It is available in 2”, 3” and 5” and a choice of 21 finishes. Puck Lights The updated ProPuck LED features a high power 4.5W LED, 250 lumens and 35,000 hour lamp life at 70% lumen maintenance. LED models may be linked with up to 100 units, are dimmable with standard incandescent dimmers and include a solite lens. CSL also offers a 20W/120V Xenon version that can be linked with up to 50 units and is dimmable with a standard incandescent dimmer. Eco-Counter Collection CSL’s low profile Eco-Counter series with integral electronic driver provides even illumination on all surfaces. It is available in four lengths and with dual switchable CCTs. The LED Light Engine is offered as 6W, 12W, 18W or 24W LED. It is available 2700K or 3000K at 90 CRI and can be switched with a rocker. Integral Dimming Driver produces 50,000 hours at 70% lumen maintenance (L70) and it’s linkable up to 600W.
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What’s the most common thing architects and designers ask you for today? Smart Lighting and IoT enabled luminaires. Controlling luminaires without a complicated controls system seemed to be the talk of LIGHTFAIR 2017. Where do you see LED technology going in the next five years? 10 years? LED lumen output and CRI (Color Rendering Index) continue to improve. What can we expect from CSL in the next year? What are you working on right now? CSL will be introducing an LED multiple line of luminaires as well as LED track heads.
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