LEDs Magazine Highlights from LightFair – Lutron (VIDEO)
LEDs Magazine chief editor Maury Wright and Lutron design and development leader Ethan Biery discussed LED drivers with granular dimming for a smoother lighting transition.
Lighting end products weren’t the sole focus at LightFair International (LFI) 2015. Solid-state lighting (SSL) enabling technologies found their own spotlight during the conference and exhibition. LEDs Magazine chief editor Maury Wright stopped by the Lutron booth to discuss the ever-evolving LED driver with design and development leader Ethan Biery.
Biery introduced the EcoSystem H Series LED driver that addresses a concern from some users transitioning to LED-based SSL: a noticeable drop in light output when LED drivers dim down to 10% or 1%, rather than the smooth dimming they experienced with incandescent lighting and legacy dimming technology. EcoSystem H-Series LED drivers deliver “dim to black” and “soft on” features.
He demonstrated a variety of LED light sources in conjunction with the new LED drivers, showing a higher level of dimming granularity – smooth, continuous dimming and a smooth transition between on and off. The H-Series was introduced for the first time at LFI.
Wright and Biery also discussed LED drivers available for various SSL scenarios that do not require such a high level of dimming granularity, such as the EcoSystem 5-Series and the Hi-Lume A-Series.
The additional driver offerings are intended to provide options for various value-to-application scenarios, where the higher level of granularity may not be as much of a necessity.
Maury Wright | Editor in Chief
Maury Wright is an electronics engineer turned technology journalist, who has focused specifically on the LED & Lighting industry for the past decade. Wright first wrote for LEDs Magazine as a contractor in 2010, and took over as Editor-in-Chief in 2012. He has broad experience in technology areas ranging from microprocessors to digital media to wireless networks that he gained over 30 years in the trade press. Wright has experience running global editorial operations, such as during his tenure as worldwide editorial director of EDN Magazine, and has been instrumental in launching publication websites going back to the earliest days of the Internet. Wright has won numerous industry awards, including multiple ASBPE national awards for B2B journalism excellence, and has received finalist recognition for LEDs Magazine in the FOLIO Eddie Awards. He received a BS in electrical engineering from Auburn University.
