Osram Ostar Lighting LED
Osram Ostar Lighting LED
Osram soon to release new 1000 lumens LED light bulb for sale
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Following on from the recent news about the
Pharox 240V LED Lightbulb going on sale in Holland, another manufacturer has released news about a powerful new LED lighting product. Bulb manufacturers
Osram (Osram Opto Semiconductors) have updated the
Ostar Lighting LED - creating an
LED spotlight bulb which is brighter than a
50 Watt halogen spot light with a lighting output in excess of
1,000 Lumens of cold white light.
The new improved hexagonal
Ostar Lighting LED uses around 22 Watts of electricity to generate 1,100 lumens (at 50 lumens per Watt) with a current of 1 Amp. This is a fraction of the consumption of an equivalent ~100 Watt incandescent bulb or 50-60 Watt halogen bulb but considerably more than many other less bright LED spotlight bulbs.
In order to get 1,100 lumens out of the Ostar
six 1 square millimeter
LED lighting chips had to be packed tightly in the unit using the latest high density chip-packing techniques. The fitted 38 degree reflector
lens increases the light output by around 30-40% without changing the beam characteristics.
The Ostar Lighting LED should last 10 times longer than an equivalent halogen spot bulb, and 50 times longer than an incandescent lightbulb with an average life time predicted of 50,000 hours. Unlike
CFL energy saving bulbs, LED bulbs contain no
toxic mercury. The new bulb is bright enough to use in general lighting, for example in desk lamps.
German company
OSRAM Opto Semiconductors is a wholly owned subsidiary of OSRAM, one of the two largest lightbulb manufacturers in the world. Their
Ostar will go on sale during summer 2007. No pricing information is available at this time.
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