Not all of us carry around a pocket lux meter, so often it is just easier to go with the specs that are published by the lighting fixture manufacturers. In fact, that is often all we can do as we don’t always have enough spare time or cash to order samples of every 36 x 1W LED fixture on the market. So which specs should we be looking at anyway? Some fixture manufacturers list lux and lumens anyway, which when listed accurately are as about as precise as you can be w......

On today’s LED market, LEDs come in all shapes and sizes. Some shapes and sizes are common knowledge, such as POWER differences (even if this does not necessarily translate into good output or efficacy), others are not so common such as color bins. Color bins are used to group together LEDs with identical/similar wavelengths or color temperatures. LED color bins are important because they determine the quality of color consistency between different LED fixtures. It......