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NLB News
05.31.17 Designing With Tunable White Light is Focus at the National Lighting Bureau’s Annual Lighting Forum
Relying on tunable white light “is the best, most-affordable way to ‘future-proof’ your work and [...]
05.16.17 Metamerism and Tunable White Light
Metamerism. The word refers to the way that colors change when viewed under different light [...]
04.05.17 AMA Lighting Recommendations Based on Wrong Metric, Say Speakers at National Lighting Bureau Forum. Not All Blue Light Is the Same.
The American Medical Association's (AMA's) warnings about too much "blue light" at night are seriously [...]
Sponsor News
06.26.17 HID Lamp Indexes Decline First Quarter 2017 in Year-Over-Year Comparison
NEMA’s shipment index for high intensity discharge (HID) lamps post a decline in shipments in [...]
06.26.17 Linear Fluorescent Lamp Indexes Decrease in the First Quarter of 2017
The linear florescent lamp index continues a downward trend, T5, T8, and T12 lamps all [...]
06.05.17 New Lighting Standard Outlines How to Designate LED Direct Replacement Lamps
After technical review, ANSI Accredited Standards Committee C78, Electric Lamps, published ANSI C78.52-2017 American National [...]
