Scroll down for our latest posts.
Interest in low voltage, or 12v, lighting has grown in our increasingly energy-conscious customers over the last several years, with the emergence and proliferation of long-life, energy-efficient lighting.
But to properly understand the full benefits of low voltage lighting, we should start here: low voltage lighting is more of a tactical application than a budgetary or energy-saving one, though there may be moderate gains in these areas in certain instances.
Topics: Retail Lighting
If you're responsible for determining the right ambiance and light quality of your application, then you probably already know how important understanding Color Rendering Index (CRI) and Correlated Color Temperature (CCT) is.
Here's the problem: CRI and CCT are anything but easy to understand.
Topics: Lighting Design, Restaurant Lighting, Retail Lighting, CRI, Hospital Lighting, Color Temperature
Dimming LEDs may be getting easier and easier, but problems still can –– and often do –– surface when you try to run LED lamps on dimmer controls.
But why?
Unfortunately, there's no easy answer. Diagnosing LED dimming issues isn't all that unlike diagnosing a sickness.
You start by checking vitals before looking at the symptoms of the issue.
In a dimming scenario, the vital check is pretty simple:
Topics: Restaurant Lighting, Retail Lighting, LED Dimming
Properly aimed lighting is one of the most important, yet easily overlooked aspects of great retail design. Done correctly, it will accent the merchandise you want to sell and lead your customers through your store. Check out this step-by-step guide on aiming to make your store attractive to customers.
Topics: Lighting Design, Restaurant Lighting, Retail Lighting, Hospitality Lighting
Alice + Olivia launched in 2002 as a women's fashion brand that was exclusively sold in Barneys New York. The company's steady growth over the last 15 years now has it selling its clothing in 50 different countries. And part of that growth has come through the brand's expansion to its own brick and mortar locations.
Alice + Olivia opened its first boutiques in New York and Los Angeles in the mid-2000s and has since gone on to open 38 worldwide.
Topics: Retail Lighting, Project Management
When LED lamps first started to make their way to the market, early adopters experienced a great deal of frustration when they attempted to get them to dim. In most cases, the technology just wasn’t far enough along, and problems persisted for years. So, in a setting like a restaurant, where
The lighting industry has waded through the often-choppy, often-murky waters of LED dimming over the last several years and, while a lot of the problems have been solved, flickering and strobing and early burnout still happens all the time.
Why?
Topics: Restaurant Lighting, Retail Lighting, LED Dimming
Are you currently retrofitting to LEDs and left with some old lamps? Do you just pile them up in the back of your building?
Hopefully not.
As we move forward in the ever-changing world of lighting, staying educated and sensitive to the environmental impact of energy consumption and use of lighting has been more important than ever before. When you purchase lighting, you may not just be thinking about replacing the lamp that is in the
Topics: Restaurant Lighting, Incandescent, Movie Theater Lighting, Lighting Maintenance, Energy Efficiency, Fluorescent, Inside Regency, Retail Lighting, Parking Garage Lighting, Hospitality Lighting, Hospital Lighting, Multi-Family Lighting, Office Building Lighting, Home Lighting, Hotel Lighting, warehouse lighting, Education Facility
Last year, we published our first-ever LED Buying Guide. We say over and over again around here that our goal is to make lighting easy for our customers, and the LED Buying Guide was published with that objective in mind.
The lighting world has undergone rapid changes over the last decade with the emergence and proliferation of light emitting diode (LED) lighting technology. Just seven years ago, in 2010, less than 10 manufacturers made up 90 percent of the lighting market. Last year, that market share was spread between more than 400 manufacturers, each with its own fluid, iterative product line.
That's a lot to keep up with.
So, how do we make things easier for you?
Topics: Lighting Design, Restaurant Lighting, Lighting Maintenance, Energy Efficiency, Retail Lighting
About a year ago, I was on a Costco
Care to guess why?
Topics: Lighting Design, Restaurant Lighting, Movie Theater Lighting, Retail Lighting, Hospitality Lighting
This is the fourth article in our series exploring savings and payback calculations for lighting retrofits. The complexity of lighting payback calculations can make your head spin and make you wonder what applies to you and what doesn't.
This article focuses on the labor savings that you gain when you switch to long-life lighting products, like LED.
Topics: Savings, Payback, & ROI, Lighting Maintenance, Energy Efficiency, Retail Lighting, Project Management, Office Building Lighting
Regency Lighting
9261 Jordan Avenue
Chatsworth, CA 91311
Phone: +1-800-284-2024
Fax: +1-800-763-7636
Send us a message.
National Lighting Distributor since 1983
Find the location nearest you.
©
Regency Lighting
All Rights Reserved.
©
Regency Lighting
All Rights Reserved.
