Reducing your Carbon Footprint
13/4/2007
The drive to achieve greater levels of energy efficiency continues throughout the illuminated sign market with government and public opinion increasing the pressure on clients to reduce their carbon footprint. Most of the major retail chains now place the reduction in energy usage at the very top of their criteria when making their sign purchasing decision.

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LED - The Facts
13/1/2007
In order to take full advantage of new opportunities created by the arrival of LED technology in the 1990’s sign companies should be aware of the strengths, weaknesses and potential pitfalls of working with different LED systems, let''s look at some of them.

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LEDs Installation
2/1/2007
Much has been made of the detrimental effect LEDs have had on the cold cathode market for illuminated lettering, and indeed, most of the main retail sector has now switched to LEDs, in order to take advantage of the potential cost savings of this type of illumination.

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LED Savings
13/12/2006
In today''s world, retailers are increasingly looking at new technologies in order to reduce their running costs and enhance their environmental images. Well designed signs that are illuminated with LEDs provide significant cost of ownership savings for the retailer and opportunities for the whole of the sign industry.

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LED Lifetime
13/11/2006
Like old soldiers LEDs don''t so much as fade away. They very rarely fail electrically but will reach a point when the light output is negligible. The end user must decide at what point the light level is still going to be acceptable. A common consensus in the industry is that the end of life is judged to be when the sign is 50 percent of its initial brightness.

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