Distributor focuses efforts on LED lighting

AbacusLED offers a dedicated and well resourced website, featuring selector guides for high power LEDs, LED drivers and associated products.

AbacusLED is a new division of the UK-based distributor set up with Osram to supporting the fast-growing solid-state lighting market.

According to Abacus Group Semiconductor Marketing Director, Glenn Jarrett: "With concerns surrounding the efficiency, lifetime, handling and environmental impact of incandescent and long-life light-bulb technology, we believe that LEDs will provide the lighting solutions of the future".

"As one of the world's largest and most innovative lighting manufacturers, Osram has launched a complete range of LED lighting solutions to address the needs of this rapidly expanding market".

"AbacusLED offers the OSRAM range of discrete LEDs and LED lighting systems together with electronic driver and thermal management technologies".

The new AbacusLED solid state lighting brochure and website showcase existing high-power LED technologies through a total solution approach.

The venture is also backed by Everlight, Texas Instruments, National Semiconductor, STMicroelectronics, Power Integrations, 3M and Aavid Thermalloy.

Mike Hall, Abacus Group LED Business Development Specialist, continues: "LEDs are proliferating rapidly as a light source in buildings, transportation, safety and other applications".

"Many customers can see the benefits that adoption would bring, but need support not only in selecting the right lighting product, but also implementing the right driver and thermal management solutions around it to get the longest operating life and the highest efficiency".

"AbacusLED backs a comprehensive portfolio of solutions from world-leading manufacturers with the exemplary technical and logistical support for which we are well known".

AbacusLED will help customers keep up with developments in this fast moving technology, Hall believes.

"The pace of innovation in this domain is huge".

"Over the last four years, the efficiency of LED lights has quadrupled, so that they now match the performance of fluorescent lights, and exceed that of halogen", he points out.

"Abacus has relationships with the companies at the forefront of that innovation, such as Osram, whose LED R and D team were presented with the German Future Prize in 2007 by the President of Germany".

"As a result, we are in a unique position to offer lighting designers access to the complete spectrum of LED lighting solutions from low cost, highly efficient light sources to the newest products and technologies in the field".

AbacusLED offers its customers LED light sources from Osram and Everlight, drivers from Texas Instruments, National Semiconductor and STMicroelectronics, thermal management solutions from 3M and Aavid Thermalloy.

In addition to its field applications engineering expertise, AbacusLED offers a dedicated and well resourced website, featuring selector guides for high power LEDs, LED drivers and associated products.

Products can be selected by lumens output, luminous efficiency, colour temperature and package type.

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