| SLI announces CENIT 400 series fixture
SLI Lighting has announced the addition of the CENIT 400 series Fluorescent T5/HO High Bay Lighting fixtures. The CENIT line is a range of compact industrial fixtures designed to offer high light output by utilizing highly efficient T5/HO lamp technology. The T5/HO lamp delivers high color rendering, several choices of color temperatures and good lumen maintenance. With this high lamp efficacy, up to 104 lm/W, the CENIT Fixture range offer energy savings of 25%t or more. CENIT features anticorrosive treated steel housing, finished with electrostatic powder paint.
An anodized aluminum reflector is designed specifically for each lamp configuration. T5/HO lamp technology and the photometric information of every CENIT model is available through SLI customer support offices. The CENIT series can be used for various high bay applications including warehouses, indoor sport facilities, industrial manufacturing facilities and commercial applications where high energy efficiency may be needed.
New series of lamp holders available from Soanar
Supermini of GE and Powerball HCITF of Osram, both these two new discharge lamps are characterised by high efficiency, compact design as well as perfect optical alignment of the light. Both lamps provide brilliant and harmonious object lighting with their extraordinary light arrangement. The new GU6.5 lamp holder from BJB is designed for both lamps. For both light sources the position of the lamp focus in the light fitting is of crucial importance. This new twist and lock lamp holder provides an accurate focus position of both lamps. BJB have allocated a new series number for this lamp holder 25.705 These new series lamp holders are available from Soanar . .
Lady of the lamp
She may not have had the powers of the genie in Aladdin's lamp, but the "dancing" lady in Elizabeth Gerner's hanging lamp was certainly magical to Gerner's grandson. When he was 5, the boy would sit mesmerized as oil flowed through thin tubes surrounding the lady in the lamp to give the impression that she was dancing. Gerner's grandson, now 19, may no longer carry a torch for the lady, but the lamp is still a fixture in her Albertson living room. Gerner, 78 and a retired elementary school secretary, recently shed some light on the lamp with Newsday writer Daniel Bubbeo:
How did the lady dance?
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Hope for gas lights is fading due to vandals
Bournemouth's last surviving gas lamps could be lost to future generations following a spate of attacks by vandals. In a desperate bid to save the atmospheric lamps, which still light up parts of Throop and Holdenhurst, one concerned civic leader is calling on residents to be vigilant. "Someone must have seen those responsible," ward councillor Ron Whittaker said. "This is deliberate vandalism. There have been endless attacks to gas lamp heads in Throop and repairing them is causing considerable cost to the local authority. .
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