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LUNA Pull & Play Series - DIDA

This video introduces the LUNA Pull & Play Series, DIDA recessed spotlights, comes with 1,2,3,4 heads, with pull out & turn function, stylish & modern design.

A full scope of the lamp housing, how to pull & play, and also four different types of dimming, Triac, 0-10V, DALI, Mesh wireless, all of these contents are included in this video.

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How to choose the right power supply for constant voltage LED strip light?

Tue, 07 Dec 2021 17:23:00 +0800

LED strip lights becomes very popular in the recent years. You could use LED strip lights as cove lighting, or direct linear light.

It's most possible that this article would help solving how to choose the right power supply for your LED strip lights. Let's get start.

Before going on

You might need to classify what type is your LED strip lights. For the full definitive guide for LED strip lights, please check this page.

Constant Voltage LED strips: This is the most common type of strip lights. DC5V, 12V, 24V, etc.
Constant Current LED strips: This is not the common type but is also widely used in LED lights. You might need to know more for choosing the right driver for this type.
RGB or LED strips with ICs: Not only you need to consider choosing the right power supply, you might also need to worry about the controlling

Constant Voltage LED strip lights

Constant voltage LED strip lights means the input voltage of the LED strips are fix in voltage. For example, DC12V, or DC24V, etc.

Step 1

So first, you need to know what is the input voltage of your strip lights.

Easy, you can know from the surface of the LED strips in most cases.

If no, you might guess from how many LED chips per cut. 3 LEDs will be 12VDC input generally. 6 LEDs will be 24VDC.

Step 2

Identify the total power consumption of your LED strip lights.

It's related with the density and length of LED chips. The more LED chips and longer the LED strips, it's more likely to be more power consumption.

The power/meter can be found on the packing.

Tips:

Try not to use LED strip lights for over 5 meters. The reason will be the voltage drops for over 5 meters will have significant impact on the brightness.

Example

the labeling of the LED strips tells:

Input 12VDC, Power: 8Watts/m.

And you are going to use 3.5 meters.

The total power consumption for this LED strip lights will be:

8Watts/m * 3.5m = 28Watts.

Step 3

The last, we need to use a power supply to provide capacity bigger than the actual LED strip light's power.

Normally, capacity of 120% of the total led strips power will be enough.

So, back to the example.

28Watts * 120% = 33.6Watts.

Conclusion

Any power supplies in 12VDC output, and with capacity of over 33.5Watts will be okay.

You might found these powers are popular in the market: 35W, 50W, 60W, 75W, 100W, 150W, 200W, 250W, 300W, 350W, etc.

So, 35W of DC12V power supply will be the right choice. 50W or 60W will be alternative choice if you cannot find 35W.

Can I use 350W power supply for only 33.6W LED strips?

Of course you can, only it costs more and with much bigger size.

7 tips for choosing power supply for constant voltage led strips

If the label only shows: Power < 14.4W/m. How can I know the actual power per meter for the LED strips?

Well, that is a bit difficult. You might guess from the quantity of led chips per meter as follow:

60 chips/m, power is around 8 watts/m.
120 chips/m, power is around 14watts/m.
over 200chips/m, power is around 18-20Watts/m.

But this will vary for different formats of LED chips.

2. If you connect one end of the strips to the power supply, the longer strips you are using, the unit power per meters will be decrease.

For example, you are connecting 1 meter of DC12V led strip lights with 14Watts. What is the total power if you connect 5 meters of the same strip lights? 14Watts/M * 5 = 70Watts?

The actual power will 70Watts, should be around 60-65Watts. The reason is that the unit power consumption will decrease when you connect longer.

3. If you measure the total power consumption of the LED strip lights with power supply, you might found that the total power is actually bigger than the one you calculated from the LED strip light parameters

The reason will be the total power consumption consists two parts: the actual led strip light power consumption, and also the power consumption of the power supply.

Every single electrical device will have its own power consumption. The bigger it consumes, the lower efficiency it got. Good quality power supplies will have over 90% efficiency, meaning that only consumes maximum 10% of the total power consumption.

4. Not just focus on the output parameters of the power supplies, you must also pay attention to the inputs.

You need to know what is the electricity inputs of your region or country. There are many types of them all over the world, differ from AC110V, AC220V, AC240V, and AC277V.

So it's a MUST to make sure you also choose the right inputs for the power supply as well.

5. Connecting LED strips to power supply on only one end, please make sure the length of the LED strip light not exceed 5 meters. This is only advice for low voltage input led strip light, for example DC12V or DC24V.

If you really need longer than 5 meters length, try to connect both ends to the power supply. It might get better effects comparing to connecting only one end.

6. In most cases, people do not pay attention to the cables using for connecting LED strips and the power supply. But the fact is that it's very important for low voltage input led strip lights.

Let's do a simple maths.

Using 100Watts of power supply for 80Watts of DC12V led strip light in AC220V electricity:

The input current of the power supply is:

80W / AC220V = 0.3637A

The output current of the power supply is:

80W/ DC12V = 6.67A

Now you can see the difference.

So please make sure that you use the big enough cable for the output, and not for long.

7. For constant voltage power supply, as long as you use big enough capacity, it's okay to use much bigger capacity one for small power LED strip lights.

For example, using 400Watts power supply for only 10watts of led strip lights are

We will continue to introduce how to choose the right driver for the constant current led strips, and also controllers in the next blog posts.

The 2021 LED Strip Lights Types Definitive Guide

Mon, 23 Aug 2021 18:14:27 +0800

LED strip lights becomes very popular in the recent years. You could use LED strip lights as cove lighting, or direct linear light.

It's most possible that this article would help solving all your questions.

We classify almost all led strip lighting by many different ways, and giving all pros & cons of each one. You might feel crystal after reading. Let's get start.

LED strip light classifications

Firstly, we are going to classify all the led strip lights by the following specifications:

1. by SMD types of LED chips

2. by outer sealing materials

3. by Input voltage

4. by LED colors

5. by controlling

6. by apparent shapes

by SMD types of LED chips

LED strip lights consist with three major parts: substrate, LED chips, and necessary accesories.

The core part is LED chips. So when we differ the types of LED strips by LED chips, we could have the following.

SMD5050 led strips

SMD5050 is one of the earliest SMD LED chips. The unit power of this 5050 is rarely small, around 0.05-0.1W at the first beginning. But it becomes much bigger power in later times, and now it can be range from 1-3 watts per chips.

SMD5050 is also the most common LED strips. The reason is the large size of SMD5050 which is 5mm width, times 5mm length. And the six pads are also the main reason for the popularity. Since 6 pads can combine at least 3 different colors of LED chips inside one SMD5050. And also we have 8 pads for more different functions.

You might found that the RGB LED strips are mostly comes with SMD5050.

SMD2835 led strips

Besides the SMD5050, the SMD2835 will be the next popular LED strip lights. SMD2835 is widely used in down lights, T5 or T8 tube, and outdoor lightings as well, thanks to the medium high power (range from 0.2-1W) and stable performance,

There are only 2 pads for a SMD2835 chips, so it is used only for single color.

SMD3014 led strips

SMD3014 might show up a bit early than SDM2835. It got regular 0.1Watts per chips. Most of the back-lit applications are used SMD3014 due to the small size (3.0mm length x 1.4mm width).

In the LED strip light usage, the SMD3014 can not do better than SMD2835, no matter in power, brightness, stabilization, etc. However, it can be used in low power strip lights or somewhere needed to be slim size.

SMD3528 led strips

SMD3528 is the elder brother of SMD3014 & SMD2835. It got bigger sizes than SMD2835, but with lower power, around 0.1W per chips. It becomes out of market during the popular of SMD2835.

SMD5730/5630 led strips

5730 & 5630 are nearly the same format without significant difference. This size of LED chips got high power (0.5-1W, typical 0.5W) and brightness, with the advantage of large size. It is not common in the usage of LED strip light. However, it was quite common used in High Voltage LED strips.

COB Strip lights

COB means Chips On Board. Unlike the SMD LED chips, which the wafer is placed within the bracket, and connected with pads by golden wires. COB is a technique to place the wafer directly into the circuits, without brackets or golden wires. Later, a continuous fluorescent powder will be glued on the surface.

This is a new types of LED strips, and with the advantage of a continuous light beam. And surely will be the future trend of LED strip light.

By the apparent sealing materials

As we mentioned earlier, LED strips are consist of soft or hard substrate, LED chips, and necessary accessories. We could classify the types of strips by the apparent sealing materials as follow.

Raw Strips

Substrates, LED chips, resistants, and connecting cables, sometimes with back tape, that are all the necessary parts of the strips light. This is the basic type of LED strips, we called it Raw Strips. Even you can see the soldering pads and also you can touch them. However, thanks to the low voltage design, it's still very safe to use this raw strips.

Half-irrigation Strips

For some cases, we still need protection for the LED chips and pads. Such as washing rooms, shower rooms, etc. When we place a layer of transparent silicon glue on the LED side, that is called half-irrigation LED strips.

The silicon provide protection from dust & fog for LED chips, and the back side remain the same, with back tape. So it uses just the same, but with more protections.

Full-irrigation Strips

Same as half-irrigation strips, when we place transparent silicon or PVC glue for all sides of a raw strips, we can get a full-irrigation strips.

This type of strips can be used for outdoor or even underwater. There are also some cons either. The brightness will get decay, and also the color temperature will be shifted as well. Typically, the color temperature will get 200-300K higher. For example, a strips with 2700K in raw strip type, will shift to around 3000K in the full-irrigation type.

PVC Strip

PVC strip is made by extruding milky+white PVC outer materials into the raw strips.

The milky PVC is placed just on top of the LED chips, so we could get a continuous light beam. And the white PVC is placed for the other parts, to achieve a better appearance.

There are some cautions before using this PVC Strips. Be aware not to use in applications of acidic or high temperature scenes. Otherwise, the PVC materials will get aging, hardening, and muddy.

Silicon Pipe Strip

Comparing to PVC materials, Silicon got much better performance.

More stable, even in severe chemical applications
resist to high temperature,
anti-aging, will not muddy during long time usage,
waterproof, excellent insulation resistance.

In a word, silicon is perfect, but expensive. It's a smart way to use silicon pipe, with the less silicon, but powerful effects. However, the silicon pipe is transparent, so we will still see dots for each single led chips, not a continuous beam.

Silicon Strip

The ultimate solution will be extruding milky + white silicon sealing materials plus the raw strips.

Same comprehensive advantages of silicon pipe strip, and also a constant beam. Nice! what left is budget.

Hard Substrate LED Strip

Almost all the above strips we talked are based in soft substrate, so called Flexible Printed Circuit Board (FPC). The main advantage will be flexible, bendable.

We still have many applications in only straight linear way. For example, stairs, cabinets, cove ceiling lights, ect. So the Hard Substrate LED strips are also in great demands.

Normally, we will use aluminum as the substrate. Aluminum PCB Strip lights is as follow:

Aluminum Profile Strip Lights

Aluminum profiles, a very popular word in the recent years of decoration. Actually, it's a combination of raw strip lights, inside a particular structure of aluminum profiles, normally comes with a milky or sanded PC cover.

This type of strip lights can expand into hundreds of different sizes and structures. You can easily found particular aluminum profile for any applications. Such as: stairs, cabinet, skirting board, cove lights, linear designs, etc.

We will continue to introduce the rest classifications in the next blogs. keep updated by subscribe to our newsletters now.

More Recessed Spot Light Catalogs available

Mon, 07 Jun 2021 17:24:24 +0800

Now 4 series of Recessed Spotlight Catalogs available

LUMU Recessed Spotlight

A powerful, flexible recessed spotlight system.

Total 132 combinations.

4 power ranges, 6 types of rings, trimless or grille structure, 6 cup colors, fix or swing, square or round shape, 3 anti-glare accessories. etc.

RIM Recessed Circular Spot

A charming, delicate spotlight system.

Total 28 combinations.

Sustainability, safety, better light, flexibility.

Down light, spotlight, track spot, all in one.

Check more specifications

MINI Recessed Spotlight

A MINI recessed spotlight system.

Two types of casing, total 7 items.

As small as 30mm, more beam angles optional.

COLOR Recessed Spotlight

A colorful spotlight system.

6 colors, 3 types, 4 sizes.

Making a colorful & powerful spotlight series.

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Lack of Electricity! Covid-19 back?!

Mon, 31 May 2021 17:56:25 +0800

There was some time when we thought that the Covid-19 has temporary past in China. And we will be back to normal in a short time. However, things get the opposite of what we want.

Due to the lack of water in the past year, the hydropower in China has significantly decreased. And the summer comes lot sooner than ever this year, resulting now we are lack of electricity now. And this situation was not seen in the past decades in China.

So now, lack of ICs, rising prices of materials, and lack of electricity. Most of the manufacturers in Guangdong, Hunan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang province now have to closed 2-3 days a week because of no electricity. In a result, the lead time of each order will get delayed AGAIN.

That is all?

The Covid-19 now is back to China. Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Foshan, these three cities are under attacked by the new Covid-19 virus. Some districts are quarantined and schools, shops, shopping malls, and also factories are closed. 2021 the 26th Guangzhou international lighting exhibition has announced a postpone to unknown time. The 2021 lighting industry surely will get really bad impacts. and we have to hold on by our own efforts, wishing all bad things past soon.

Let's encourage and help each other!

Rising Raw Material, Out of stock & Late Delivery?!

Sun, 09 May 2021 15:23:33 +0800

Rising Raw Materials, aluminum, copper, ICs, and lots more

Beginning in the January 2021, the LED lighting raw materials was getting start to rise. Materials like aluminum, copper, carton paper, packing paper, PC, ABS, silicon gels, ... almost every kind of materials to making a lamp are rising the prices.

We could see many LED manufacturers began to rise the LED lighting product prices at the past several month. Base on the historical experiences, the raw materials will fall after the Chinese New Year. However, the 2021 is so special. we could see from the above diagram that aluminum and copper keep rising prices in the past month, even the past half year, and sees not stopping.

Many more LED manufacturers cannot stand for that, and more announced rise in prices also. Would that be the only problem for the lighting business in 2021? NO WAY！

ICs Out of Stock

You might heard of the news that Smart phone CPU and ICs are in short supply at the beginning of 2021. But you probably not knowing that not only the Smart phone ICs, but all ICs for all industries are in short supply, and many are out of sock.

If you are in the LED Driver or Power Supply related business, you might found out that it's so hard to get even one plate of ICs. We are back to the primitive society that people are not trading ICs in money, but in another ICs. In a result, we are now really out of supply of LED drivers, or power supplies, or controllers.

Late Delivery Time

All materials are rising prices, so suppliers are not willing to have more stocks. So each materials need longer delivery time.

And ICs are out of stock, in a result of a really late or even endless waiting time for a LED driver.

Rising labor cost, and lack of labor also be a headache for LED lighting manufactures.

So, you might expect to have a much longer delivery time for all LED lighting products in the next one year or so.

Please be patient and understanding the awkward situation of all LED manufacturers, and hope everything will be recovered and be nice again! Keep Fighting!

2024 Top LED Driver & Power Supply Brands List

Sat, 08 May 2021 15:34:21 +0800

If you want to know how to choose the right power supply for the LED strips? Please check this blog.

In the year 2023, the LED driver industry witnessed a cut-throat competition that made it quite challenging for companies to thrive. As we move towards 2024, it appears that the industry will still face hurdles in its path to progress. However, to gain a comprehensive outlook, we need to delve into the world of big companies that operate in this industry and explore their unique offerings. By doing so, we can get a better understanding of the current state of the LED driver industry.

OSRAM

OSRAM is a famous lighting brand located in Munich, Germany. Osram has been deep worked in the lighting industry for over 110 years.

The semi-conductor company under the OSRAM group, got the most excellent products not only in LED chips, but also LED drivers

Constant Current Linear - Indoor
Constant Current Compact - Indoor
Constant Current - Outdoor
Constant Voltage - Indoor
Constant Voltage -Outdoor
Programming tools and accessories

The OSRAM LED drivers cover almost all needs, and with the advantages of:

Power from as low as 6watts to 300Watts.
Got econimic 3 years warranty products, and also high quality 5 years warranty.
Cover lots of dimming control systems: Triac, DALI, Bluetooth, etc.
Got dial-up setting for different output currents.
with various sizes, from ultra slim, tiny, to linear, standard, to outdoor waterproof.
with fully approvals for many international standards.

The most used series are: OT FIT standard, linear, Triac dimming drivers.

Link to the OSRAM LED Driver Page

PHILIPS

Philips, another famous lighting and consumer electronics company, located in Netherlands. Philips brand have been working in the lighting industry in 1891, even earlier than OSRAM.

For the last 10 years, the Philips lighting business have got big changes. Signify, a new company in the lighting field, now in charge of the Philips lighting business. And it extends a lot more brands that you have never heard of: Hue, Wiz, ADVANCE, interact, etc.

Now, You cannot find any LED drivers on the philips lighting website.

Xitanium Series, High quality 5 years warranty products.
CertaDrive Series, Standard 3 years warranty products.
Xitanium SR Series, Wireless series of Xitanium.

If you not confused with the information above, try this link for more details.

Link to Philips/Siginify LED drivers

TRIDONIC

Tridonic GmbH & Co KG, a lighting products and energy saving company located in Austria. Tridonic produced the magnetic ballast for the fluorescent lamp early in 1956. And later with the electrical ballast in 1978.

The Tridonic LED driver got the following series:

Engineering Linear Driver
Compact LED drivers
Constant Current Output drivers
LED Track head drivers
Outdoor LED drivers
Universal input LED drivers.

All the Tridonic LED drivers got 5 years warranty, with global approvals, and excellent quality

Link to TRIDONIC LED Driver Page

MEAN WELL

Meanwell is one of the largest global standard power supply manufacturer established in Taiwan, China in 1982. It ranked NO.4 of the global DC power supply manufacturers in 2020.

The main manufacturing and R&D center which established in Guangzhou, 1993, now offers 1000 series of over 10,000 types of power supplies.

The main series are as follow:

LED Driver
Adaptors
KNX
Metal casing power supply
Rail Power Supply

And the most common series are: AP, ELG, HLG, HGB, LP, XLG, LCM, And LRS.

Meanwell provide indoor use LED drivers, Plastic adaptors, 3 in 1 dimming function drivers, with 3 years and also 5 years, and the best 7 years warranty.

With the excellent and reliable performance, Meanwell will be your best choices for LED power supplies.

Link to Meanwell LED Power supply page

MOSO

Moso, is the famous national high technology enterprise in China, established in 2006. The main product lines of MOSO are LED drivers, consumer SPS drivers, PV inventors, etc.

Moso produces mainly in outdoor lighting, industrial lighting, and landscape lighting LED driver products. It provides full global approvals, and good designs in outdoor, lightning protection, and with 5 years warranty.

Link to the Moso LED Driver

INVERTRONICS

Invertronic was established in Hangzhou, China, in 2007. Similar to MOSO, Invertronic main products are LED outdoor constant current, constant voltage, High bay drivers.

Invertronic also provides full global approvals. wit good designs in outdoor, lightning protection, and with 5 years warranty.

Link to the Invertronics LED Power supply page

EAGLERISE

Eaglerise was established in 1990s in Foshan, China. Now we have 3 production bases, 3 R&D centers.

Eaglerise main product lines include 7 major categories and over 500 models covering LED driver, LED lighting fixture, solar step-up transformer, distribution transformer, power, industrial control transformer, vehicle power supply, communication power supply, widely used in the fields of lighting, renewable energy, industrial control, electricity utility, etc.

The LED drivers got compact, constant current, constant voltage, and smart control drivers. Eaglerise provides also 3 years standard quality and 5 years warranty high quality. Most of their drivers are indoor use. And with stable and long history, the Eaglerise is one of the most likable brands in LED Lighting.

Link to Eaglerise LED driver

HEP

HEP Group specializes in innovating and manufacturing environment-friendly, energy-saving, delicate electronic lighting control gears for industrial and commercial purposes since 2002.

HEP, stands for High-reliability Electronic Performance.

HEP also have subcompany in Germany, in charge of sales and R&D departments. It gots a full range of LED constant current, constant voltage, dimming, and also outdoor LED drivers.

HEP got very slim and compact drivers for compact commercial lighting, and with global approvals also.

Link to HEP Power supply

LIFUD

Lifud, established in 2007, headquarter in Shenzhen, China, got two main manufacturing centers in Shenzhen & Sichuan. The main products commercial and household LED drivers.

The first product lines are indoor compact LED constant current drivers. Later with high bay, outdoor waterproof, and also constant voltage coming up.

Almost all series got 5 years of warranty, and price competitive, a rising star in LED driver industry.

Link to the Lifud LED driver page

KEGU

Kegu was established in 2010, with headquarter in Foshan, China. Similar to Lifud, the main products are commercial and household LED drivers.

Now adding track head drivers, smart control drivers, with global approvals and reliable quality. Almost all series got 3 or 5 years of warranty, and price competitive, another rising star in LED driver industry.

Link to KEGU LED driver page

LTECH

LTECH located in Zhuhai, is an international technology company. Ltech focus on LED intelligent lighting control systems, and intelligent drivers and smart home products since 2001.

LTECH has always been at the forefront of LED lighting control technology in China, and it is more one of the powerful manufacturers of global LED lighting control systems.

With 20 years of strong accumulated research and development of technology, LTECH keeps innovative In the field of intelligent lighting and has created hundreds of new LED intelligent control technology which developed three main product lines - "LED Controller", "LED Dimmable Drivers" and "Smart Home".

Link to LTECH LED Controller & Driver Page

EUCHIPS

Euchips was founded in 2005 and located in Shanghai. The company has devoted to research, development and sales for 16 years. Sililar to Ltech, its maind products are for LED controlling sytem and related drivers.

In the controlling system field, Euchips joined DALI and KNX organization. DMX, DALI, 0-10V, Triac and KNX dimming control system produced by Euchips’ R&D team provided intelligent lighting solutions for customers all around the world.

Link to EUCHIPS LED Driver & Controller Page

If you want to know how to choose the right power supply for the LED strips? Please check this blog.

2021 The Ultimate LED Magnetic Track Lighting Guide

Tue, 04 May 2021 10:31:07 +0800

2021 The Ultimate
LED Magnetic Track Lighting Guide

Q&A

What's LED magnetic track lighting system?

LED magnetic track lighting system is a latest track lighting system. It runs in a safe low voltage DC48V in all the tracks, and it's much safe comparing to the normal direct electricity input track system.

The lamps connect to the tracks by magnetic force, and sure with spring enforcement structures. You can slide any lamps within the track even when it's on power.

The system provides more than 3 ways of installation, can fit in many applications, such as home, shops, offices, hotels, etc. Not to speak of a number of lamps with multiple functions.

It can dim using 0/1-10V, or even color changing using DALI or Bluetooth wireless control. And now can connect to intelligent home system as well.

How do you install a magnetic track light？

The magnetic track light system offers three or four different type of installation.

Recessed Install: You can use the recessed install if you have a false ceiling. Imaging this, you can not only install the magnetic track system in the ceiling, but also on walls and connect with the ceiling parts by the providing accessories. Using external power supply and place it in a proper place where easy for maintenance.

Ceiling Mounted Install: Do not have a false ceiling or suspended ceiling? Not a problem. You can use the ceiling mounted magnetic tracks. 100% as the recessed type, you can install the tracks and lamps on ceilings, or walls. Not only choosing an external power supply, you can have integrated power supplies for the ceiling mounted type for good looking.

Suspended Install: If you have a tall ceiling, such as hotel halls, or offices, No worries, use the suspended magnetic tracks. The formation of the tracks are lot more flexible than the normal track lighting.

You might need more skillful workers for trimless (border-less) installation. For the other installation method, you will find it's more easy than you expected.

Can I add more lights to track lighting?

Yes, sure you can.

Before adding more lamps, make sure you have installed big enough transformers in your magnetic track system. For example, you have installed a 350Watts capacity of power supply, and only fits in 100Watts of lamps for now. Surely you could place 200Watts more power of lamps in this system.

Be aware of NOT to use over 80% of the total capacity of the power supply for a stable and long operational system.

Are there different types of track lighting?

Only spotlights in track system? It's behind the times.

By using the magnetic track lighting system, you can have all lamps you could imaging of:

Linear down light, Linear spotlight, track spotlight, Swing-able (bendable) spotlight, decorative suspended lamp, etc.

what is more?

Dimming, using familiar 0/1-10V, DALI.

Dimming and also color changing using DALI 2 and Bluetooth.

Usage scenarios by intelligent wireless smart control system.

and many more.

How does the magnetic track system work?

The magnetic track lighting system runs in DC48V, so we need a AC to DC transformer before connect it into electricity.

You could choose using external power supply or integrated one. But make sure the Input Voltage of the power supply fits the voltage of your country. For example, AC220V in Europe, and AC110V in the United States.

There is a separated driver for Each magnetic track lamp in the gear box with strong magnets. This driver's input voltage is DC48V which is the standard power system runs inside the magnetic tracks. This DC48V input drivers not just provides stable voltage and current to the LED chips inside the lamps, but also gives more functionality, such as 0/1-10V dimming, DALI control, Bluetooth wireless control, etc.

When you plug a magnetic track lamp into the system, the lamp will on. And you can control it by the corresponding control gears or Apps.

This is how the magnetic track lighting system works.

Why choosing Magnetic Track Lighting System?

A fashion looking. This system matches the minimalist design style, and of course, many other main stream designing styles.

Abundant optional lamps. You can find more than 20 different types of magnetic track lamps to achieve your lighting design plan.

Powerful functions. Easy to dim, change color temperatures, and even intelligent control system.

Safe. Running in DC48V provides a much safer environment.

Flexible. You can add, move, remove lamps easily without any approval electrician. Just plug in, and out.

The shortest answer is doing. Consider the magnetic track lighting system into your current lighting plan now.

Magnetic Tracks

Four M20 Magnetic Tracks

M20-TFL1 Recessed track L shape joints

M20-TFL2 Recessed track L shape joints

M20-TC Ceiling mounted track L shape joints

M20 -TP Hanging/suspended track L shape joints

M20 Magnetic Track Accessory fittings

Videos of M20 Magnetic Track & Connections

Three M35 Magnetic Tracks

M35 Recessed Magnetic Track L shape joints

M35 Ceiling mounted/ Suspended Magnetic track L shape joints

M35 Magnetic Track Accessory fittings

Videos of M35 Magnetic Track & Installation

Videos of M35 Magnetic Track Connections

Dimming & Controls

—— 0/1-10V Dimming: connection diagram

By using the four-wire design of the magnetic track, we can support a magnetic track system which is 0/1-10V dimmable.

You can match our 0/1-10V dimming luminaries with any 0/1-10V dimmer or dimming system to achieve the ideal effects.

—— DALI dimming: connection diagram

By using the four-wire design of the magnetic track, we can support a magnetic track system which is DALI dimmable & controllable.

We are supporting DALI-2 version.

—— Wireless Bluetooth Dimming & Scenes Function

By using the wireless bluetooth dimming & scene system, you could easily setting each luminaire into the exact brightness or color temperature at your will.

You can setting up as many using scenes as you need, such as: Party, Meeting, Living, Working, Movie, Study, Relaxing, etc.

Using smart phone APPs to setting, or controlling, or you could use traditional panels as follow.

What is more, you could using motion sensors, worked with the scenes together to provide you with a SMART & INTELLIGENT home or offices.

—— Wireless Bluetooth Dimming & Color changing Function

2021 LED Track Lighting Definitive Guide

Sat, 24 Apr 2021 14:23:20 +0800

What is LED track lighting

Track lighting, as the name shows, is a lighting system which runs on tracks.

Tracks are normal in straight shape. with many different connectors, you can joint into various shapes and forms. The connectors includes I, T, L, + shapes. Designers can form as much as they want for the projects by these accessories.

Tracks provide at least three different kinds of installation. there are Suspending with poles, surface ceiling mounted, and recessed installation.

The lamps using within the track system,

Most of the time, the track luminaries are housing made of metal or die-casting aluminum. People need to buy

In recent days, the track lighting updates into LED track lighting system. The LED track lamps are more compact, powerful and less power consumption. The LED track lamps are composing with the following parts:

aluminum housing: for thermal dissipation.
LED cob chips or arrays: giving out light.
LED driver: transforming electric supply for LED chips.
Lens or reflectors: Optical parts to generate focus and comfort light.
Track Power Kit: for connecting into tracks and electricity.

Nowadays, the LED track lighting system updates with many more functionalities.For example, dimming with 0/1-10V, TRIAC, or DALI, Beam angle adjustable, and the latest with Magnetic track Lighting System

How/where to use LED track lighting?

In summation, why the LED track lighting system are popular and widely used.

it provides with three installation methods.
it offers endless possible of formations.
it provides rooms for adding and removing lamps.
it uses for focus lighting.
it supplies with dimming, controlling functions.

So the following applications are most suitable for the track lighting system.

- household kitchen
- household living room
- clothing shops
- toys shops
- grocery stores
- exhibition halls
- museums
- shopping malls

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Tracks Installation

Surface ceiling mounted

Pole hanging or suspended

Ceiling recessed or embedded

Notes: Poles are not included in tracks. If you need pole hanging or suspended, you need to contact the seller before buying.

Connecting Parts

The tracks can extend into many different designs and shapes when uses the following connecting parts.

The connecting parts:

LED Track Lamps

Types of track lamps

The most common type of track lamps are the spotlights. There are normally 15°, 24°, and 36° beam angles.

But sure there is wall washer types, for example:

And even, there will be also down light types.

Sizes of the track lamps

The size of the track lamps are based on the power of the lamps. The most standard powers are: 5W, 7-10W, 12-15W, 20W, 25W, 30W and 40W.
Tips: you might be fooled by fraudulent suppliers for the false labeling of the power. It's so common to find a 20W LED track lamp with only 12W power in actual.
How to avoid this fraudulent suppliers?

Functionalities of track lamps

Besides for the spotlighting effect, the track lamps can also have many other new functionalities.
Dimming： you could dim a track lamp by TRIAC, 0/1-10V, DALI or even bluetooth wireless control.
Color changing: DALI or bluetooth wireless control can also achieve the color changing, from 2700K to 6500K.
Wondering what is 2700K or color temperature？
Zooming focus: You can choose not one angle, with Zooming lens track lamp, you can adjust the beam angle from 20-60°.

Smart Controlling: Bluetooth wireless control track lamp can be dimming, color changing, usage scenes, and more.
Magnetic Track Lighting System, a new, low voltage, safe, more flexible Track lighting.

How to choose LED track lamp?

The advantages of using LED track lighting.

Easy to connect, can extend to a variety of scenarios.
Three ways of installations, recessed, ceiling mounted, and suspended.
easy to move, change or replace lamps.
more functionalities. Dimming, zooming, etc.

The disadvantages of using LED track lighting.

roblem, the track lighting runs in high voltage, so it should be careful when get in touch with it.
Track lamps will bulge out of the ceiling, consider it will fit your interior design or not.
Track lamps are spotlight effect, cannot achieve general lighting effect.

How to choose the best suit track lighting system?

you can follow the below several steps to help choose the best suit track lighting system for your own.

First, you need to understand the track lighting system suitable for spotlighting effect. If you need lots of spotlighting and focus effect, congratulations, track lighting system is the best suit. However, if you need more lighting effects, you might want to consider a more flexible and more powerful track system, a magnetic track lighting system.
Then, consider the decorating style and track installations. The track lighting provides at least two colors, black and white. And three ways of installation, recessed, ceiling mounted and suspended. You will have much higher percentage to find the one you love.
Next, find the right position for installing tracks. Before doing this, you might need to do a lighting design plan, using computer to simulate the lighting effects, and see where is the best location for tracks. If you do not know how to do this, please check the lighting design service here.
Lamps will be the next thing we need to worry about. Wattage, color temperature, beam angle, color rendering index, etc. these are all we need to decide before buying. You will be well instructed if you have somebody done the lighting design plan.
The extending functionalities, such as dimming, color changing, grouping. You also need to think over before buying. You may need to decide between functionality and cost. You could consult us for the optimal solution.
Tips: Do not 100% trust the parameters shown in the lamp labels. Let me tell you that many track lamps actually got 12watts, when they claim as 20watts. Surprised, right? So choose the trusty suppler to avoid this.
Last but not the least, receiving the lamps and installing. After the lighting design plan, and all consideration beforehand, you can achieve at least 90% of the desired lighting effects. Trust me. Just enjoy the comfortable and functional lighting environment that you created.

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