element14 Features showcases lighting solutions for Asia Pacific

SINGAPORE: element14 (formerly Farnell) announced that the newest instalment of ‘element14 Features’ showcases lighting solutions such as high bay LED lighting, solar powered LED lighting and MR16 LED lamps, among others, from over 115 brands from industry leading LED suppliers such as Avago Technologies, CML Innovative Technologies, Cree, Kingbright and Lumex, driver ICs suppliers such as Diodes Incorporated, Linear Technology, ON Semiconductor and Texas Instruments, and LED power supply specialists such as, Recom, TDK Lambda and XP Power.

As the next generation of lighting source, high power LEDs are environment friendly and boasts of a long life, reducing the cost of maintenance. To address challenges in meeting efficiency and reliability goals in LED lighting designs, engineers can now benefit from element14’s comprehensive product portfolio of LED drivers and power management devices to control the power stage, regulate LED currents, while eliminating the need for multiple components and ensure they keep their designs affordable.

“The LED lighting market is growing tremendously at an annual growth rate of over 30 percent till 2016,” says William Chong, regional director of Supplier Marketing, element14, Asia Pacific. “To support the increase in adoption rate of LED technology, element14 is dedicated to providing our more than 50,000 LED lighting customers with the best-in-class products from world-leading suppliers, and featuring solutions and design resources to aid them in incorporating these energy saving technologies into their designs.”

Engineers can access a comprehensive range of design resources and find a broad spectrum of products from leading brands via the latest instalment of ‘element14 Features’.

Complemented by application notes, training materials and design tools, ‘element14 Features’ is a platform where engineers can access all the information that is required for their lighting designs. Engineers can also easily submit their question to the element14's lighting experts through ‘element14 Features’.

Product line cards which are available on the site give an overview of the different solutions that are available from each supplier. Customers can be assured that these genuine components will deliver the highest standard of quality, performance and reliability.

Among the solutions, its high-bay luminaires deliver energy efficiencies, better illumination and the ability to integrate with building control systems. Exclusively available on element14, the Cree XM-L Lighting Kit includes parts for light source, power supply, optics and thermal for plug-and-play evaluation, facilitating customers’ lighting design solutions.

MR16 LED lamps are power efficient, environment friendly, safe, long-lasting, shock resistant and it is gaining widespread popularity as commercial and decorative lightings as well as in other applications. Engineers seeking to optimise their lighting designs by fitting more lumens into a small design package can now do so with Cree XLamp MT-G LED. Delivering 600 lumens, this component is suitable for high-output, small-form-factor, directional-lighting applications such as MR16 fixture.

Power management is one of the constant challenges engineers face. Recom’s RACT20 series of AC/DC-drivers can be dimmed linearly down to 0 percent without flickering, and is suitable for indoor LED lighting systems.