LED lighting: pitfalls, problems and common sense

摘要

A call to arms for lighting designers. Rick Morrison, principle engineer in specialist lighting for Aecom Australia, based in Queensland, comments on the explosion in LED popularity and lays out some common sense rules to follow when considering LEDs - for tunnels or otherwise All aboard, tickets please roll up, roll up, roll up! I'm off on the next lighting bandwagon, LED lighting. I remember the last great lighting bandwagon, hydrogen dichoric, generated out of the 1980s. These little display type lamps are now resident in the world's housing in plague proportions. Installed by a self-congratulating horde of manufacturer's agents, under the mighty banner of green, energy efficient and reduced lighting load. Not just in houses, but spread all across the interior lighting scenarios of the 1980's, supermarkets, luxury hotels, yachts, and even in offices, receptions and toilets.