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 Off-the-Shelf vs. Proprietary Electrical Efficiency Rather
than using off-the-shelf power supplies, we spent 18 months in the development of a dedicated power supply. It's married
to a specific number (24) of a specific LED (Philips Lumileds Rebel). The headroom we’ve gained provides an 8%
gain in efficiency over the canned solutions our competitors use.
Thermal Management The
Main Body in the Cireon product line is an extrusion like no other. Simply looking at it, you can see the tall and
frequent cooling fins that progressively narrow to channel heat away from the LED's. The
extrusion process renders much less porosity and much higher thermal conductivity than die cast heat sinks . We spent over
a year working and reworking multiple designs to achieve our one-piece design (no thermal conduction barriers). Adding
to our heat sink design is the generous 25mm spacing of our LED array (largest in the class). Together,
this means a 13.5in2 per LED passive dissipation surface area, more than twice the 6in2 manufacturers recommendation.
Using metal clad boards with thermal vias, and thermal pads that marry the boards to the main body, no other SSL comes close
to our thermal management.
Optics Rather than using the off-the-shelf products our competitors use, we developed
proprietary optics designs that are unmatched in performance and price. With eight unique distribution
patterns, from round to square to rectangular, we have a solution for virtually every layout. Our optics team
specializes in “imagery”, with capabilities utilized by the DoD and CIA in applications from missile tracking
to surveillance. Our custom solutions also reduce component cost and assembly time, providing performance and a competitive
unit price.
Quality Assurance With
products designed for manufacture, lot traceability and in-process controls, the statistical likeliness of our producing an
out-of-spec product is extremely low. But adding our fully automated end-of-line inspection system, the possibility
of a defective product getting out the door is remote. During the automated inspection, every luminaire is run
through a full electrical and optical test using a 10,000V lightning strike simulation, measurement of color
temperature (CCT) and color rendering index (CRI), plus a vision system measurement that insures the maximum range in energy
output from the highest to the lowest LED in the array varies no more than 5%. When performance is confirmed, the CCT, CRI,
and output data is logged by the barcode serial number on each luminaire, and only then are the product and container labels
printed. We retain your data indefinitely so, should you ever want to add to or replace luminaires, we can provide a product
that matches in color and output.
Made in the USA All
of the hardware components (castings, moldings, metal stampings, extrusions, etc.) are sourced with US companies and produced
domestically. Though some of the electronic components come from Europe and Asia, the power supply and LED boards are populated
and the final assembly of every luminaire is done here in California. All Cireon products well exceed the
ARRA requirements.
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