Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Designing with LEDs's (but were afraid to ask)

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*BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK SHOSHANNA A. SEGAL, MIES, IALD, LEED BD+C PRINCIPAL, LUMINOUS FLUX, LLC

Transcript of Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Designing with LEDs's (but were afraid to ask)

*BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK

SHOSHANNA A. SEGAL, MIES, IALD, LEED BD+C

PRINCIPAL,

LUMINOUS FLUX, LLC

*BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK

*BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK

BECAUSE YOU WERE PRETTY

SURE ALL THE “COOL KID”

DESIGNERS WERE BORN

ALREADY KNOWING IT ALL

ANYWAY

REVIEW OF DESIGN PRINCIPLES

OVERVIEW OF DIFFERENCES FROM TRADITIONAL

SOURCES

DISCUSSION OF CONTROL TECHNOLOGY

APPLICATIONS TO FIXTURE TYPES

IMPORTANCE OF SAMPLE EVALUATION

MAKE SURE THERE IS STUFF TO LIGHT

DESIGN FOR PEOPLE WHO WILL LIVE/ WORK IN THE SPACE

LAYERS LAYERS

LAYERS LAYERS

LIGHT THE CEILING LIGHT THE WALLS

SPARKLE REPETITION

ESTABLISH HIERARCHY CONSIDER THE LONG VIEW

CONTRAST UNIFORMITY

CRI VS. SPD EFFICIENCY

BECAUSE WE’RE

NO LONGER

DEALING WITH A

SOURCE THAT’S

SEPARATE FROM

THE LUMINAIRE

TYPES OF DATA TO

ASSIMILATE (L70, LM80)

MEANING OF

MEASUREMENTS (50,000

HRS)

TYPES OF PHOTOMETRIC

TESTING

EFFECTS OF COLOR TEMP. &

CRI ON OUTPUT

A solid-state light source that uses multiple arrays of “white” or RGB (red/blue/green) light emitting diodes as a low wattage, low temperature source. LED arrays cannot operate without a driver, a fixture, and a control. These components must all be compatible in order to ensure that their integrity is maintained. It is an extremely long-lived light source, which also produces very little heat on the object being illuminated.

MEANS OF INCORPORATING MULTIPLE LED’S INTO A PACKAGE WHICH CAN THEN BE MOUNTED ONTO A BOARD AND USED IN A LUMINAIRE

SIMILAR TO THE BALLAST IN A FLUORESCENT SYSTEM, RESPONSIBLE FOR CONVERTING AC POWER PROVIDED BY BUILDING TO DC POWER USED BY LED. REQUIRED FOR DIMMING & SWITCHING FUNCTIONS AND POTENTIAL WEAK LINK IN ANY SYSTEM

LUMEN DEPRECIATION

TEST

PERFORMED ON MODULE

ITSELF

DEPRECIATION OVER

TIME AT PRE-DEFINED

TEMPERATURES

PERFORMED ON MODULE

& LUMINAIRE

INCLUDES ELECTRICAL &

ILLUMINANCE TESTING

PROVIDES PHOTOMETRIC

RESULTS

PROVIDES EFFICACY

(LM/W) RESULTS

POINT IN TIME AT WHICH

LUMINAIRE PROVIDES A

GIVEN % OF IT’S RATED

OUTPUT

COLOR

METRICSTHE MACADAM ELLIPSE

BEAM SHAPE & PEFRFORMANCE

EFFECTS OF COLOR AND CRI

CAN WE PLEASE STOP MEASURING LIGHT OUTPUT IN TERMS OF WATTAGE?

SYSTEM RATHER

THAN COMPONENTS

SYSTEMS NEED

NETWORKS

MEANS OF CODE

COMPLIANCE

OPERATIONAL REALITY

SCALE AND

ADAPTABILITY OF

LED’S OFFER WIDER

FIELD OF

INTEGRATION THAN

EVER BEFORE

HOW THE LIGHT IS GENERATED HOW THE FIXTURE IS DESIGNED

LF1

LF1

LF2

LF1

LF2

LF3

LF1

LF2

LF3

LF5

MANUFACTURER A MANUFACTURER B

A+B=?

LF1

LF2

LF3

LF5

PAR A: “PAR 38 2700K 2000L 25°25W”

PAR B: “PAR38 WW 1300L FL 24W”

DAYLIGHT + PAR A DAYLIGHT + PAR B

Many aspects of design that were previously

considered “nice to have” are now crucial

LED’s need to be controlled to work

Within the context of a game without rules our best

defense is to look at everything

More specificity is not always better, it might just be

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