February drops

The master class brings together the works of three authors on the same topic- a combination of living materials, symbolizing spring (flowers, leaves), with non-living materials, which personify winter and…

“Smart” light bulbs

An automated lighting system is a computerized network that, like a smart home, is capable of responding to various external events and changing the operating mode of devices connected to…

in a favorable light

There are many ways to organize holiday lighting. Our ancestors were quite able to achieve the desired effect with the help of candles, which are still used today to create…

How to extend the life of an energy-saving lamp?

Photo: ShutterStock/Fotodom.ru Modern energy-saving lamps are complex electronic devices, they can break down for a variety of reasons, which, upon closer examination, can be divided into two groups: the unsuccessful…

What is “quality of light”?

Photo: Vistosi Characteristics such as color consistency, saturation, and fidelity apply to both colored and white light. The two main characteristics of white light quality are color temperature and color…

What is luminous flux?

Luminous flux is a term that indirectly characterizes how much light is emitted by a light device, as well as how exactly the device emits and distributes this light. To…

10 benefits of LED lamps

Photo: "Lamps, Malaya Ordynka 39" LEDs have now become affordable, they consume much less energy than incandescent and halogen lamps, and provide quite a decent quality of light. All this…

How the LED lamp works

Photo: Verbatim The LED has no gas, no filament, no fragile glass envelope, and no potentially unreliable moving parts. Light emission is carried out due to the recombination of electrons…