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T5 Light Fixture Installation

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T5 lights have quickly become the most sought after type of energy efficient lighting on the market today. T5 light fixtures can be used for all kinds of beneficial purposes. In fact, T5 fluorescent light fixtures have become especially popular with plant and aquarium enthusiasts. In the plant category, T5 lights offer an alternative to metal halides which use more energy, don’t last as See more...

T5 Light Bulbs

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Fluorescent T5 lighting comes in many forms including small compact fixtures to large industrial sized light fixtures. Whether you are using T5 light bulbs in your aquarium or greenhouse, you will find that there are many sizes, styles, and intensity levels to choose from. Most companies that carry T5 technology offer other types various types that you can choose from and also price ranges. A See more...

T5 Grow Lights

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Artificial lighting for plants may be a necessity if you plan on growing plants indoors. There are many types of plant lights to choose from but none are as effective and beneficial as T5 grow lights. T5 fluorescent grow lights use very little energy and are cooler when compared to regular metal halide lamps which are typically used for plant growth. You can find many different types of T5 See more...

T5 Light Fixtures Offer Greener Lighting Options

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Most reviews of T5 light fixtures focus on the benefits that CFL or compact fluorescent lights can bring to the average consumer. In fact, most look at the benefits of T5 lighting fixtures in aquariums and greenhouses. If compact T5 lighting technology is so beneficial, why isn’t anyone talking about a much larger global impact? One that can easily be accomplished if such lighting is See more...

T5 Lights - Answers to Common Conversion Questions

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As with all new technology, T5 lights have spurred an endless amount of questions and concerns by consumers. Most new technology also has advantages and disadvantages that one must consider before making appropriate changes. To begin with, many wonder where the term T5 originated and what it stands for. The “T” refers directly to the shape of the lamp-tubular and the See more...

T5 Aquarium Lighting for Corals

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Unlike aquarium systems that only house fish, coral systems require special lighting environment in order to grow and prosper. Fish only systems need lighting so the fish can see and be seen. Reef aquariums offer more options in lighting including the option to choose bulbs that last longer and also offer more energy efficient than regular fluorescent light bulbs. LED or low voltage technology See more...

T5 Grow Light Fixtures

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For many years options in fluorescent grow lights were limited to a few options but much as changed and the industry is evolving to meet the demands of energy efficiency. T5 grow lights are especially popular with many greenhouse plant enthusiasts because although the bulbs run fairly hot, they do not emit or radiate heat to the seedlings or plants below. It is extremely important to only See more...

T5 Light Bulbs

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T5 lighting technology has become quite popular because it offers consumers an alternative or more precisely an energy efficient option to metal halide fluorescent lighting. T5 light bulbs are more compact in size and require less energy to operate. Aquarium enthusiasts were the first to discover the advantages of T5 aquarium lighting because up until 1995, metal halides were the only option See more...

How Advantageous is T5 Lighting in an Industrial Setting

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T5 lighting was created to offer areas that require high bay lights a greener or more energy efficient alternative. Large buildings like warehouses, industrial and manufacturing facilities, schools, and department stores all require many ceiling lights to illuminate the space for long periods of time. In the past, these larger buildings only had the option of using standard tube lights also See more...

How to do a T5 Lighting Conversion

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T5 Lighting has revolutionized the lighting market. T5 lights were designed to be the compact version of regular fluorescent lights or metal halides. Manufacturers of T5 lights were looking to give consumers a greener alternative for their lighting needs. Top reasons to switch from metal halides to T5 lights are: • Save on energy costs • Easy to install • Improve carbon See more...

What is Lux?

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Lux is lumen per square meter. According to Wikipedia, "The difference between the lux and the lumen is that the lux takes into account the area over which the luminous flux is spread. 1000 lumens, concentrated into an area of one square meter, lights up that square meter with an illuminance of 1000 lux. The same 1000 lumens, spread out over ten square meters, produces a dimmer illuminance of See more...

What is lumen?

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Lumen is amount of light emitted from light source. According to Wikipedia, "If a light source emits one candela of luminous intensity into a solid angle of one steradian, the total luminous flux emitted into that solid angle is one lumen. Alternatively, an isotropic one-candela light source emits a total luminous flux of exactly 4?? lumens. The lumen can be thought of casually as a measure of See more...

Comparing your current lighting with LED lighting

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In the past, we have generally referred to the brightness of a bulb in terms of its wattage, or the amount of power that the bulb uses (or energy it consumes). Because of the disparity between incandescent and LED technologies, we have to change our language a bit in order to account for progress. When referring to brightness, we now find ourselves comparing lumens (see Q: What is a lumen?). See more...

TheMain technical requirements for lighting products

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1. High-pressure test2. Grounding resistance test3. Rally test (the power cord to leave lights or the location of the body when the spin-off packaging in-house wiring connection point) 4. Torque test 5. No. wire 6. Wire connections 7. Polar distinction 8. Open wire line to deal with 9. Off-line protection10. Universal shook his head, and other parts of the line have been transferred and See more...

Definition of of lighting fixture

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1. Lighting fixture: the distribution to all, revealing or changing one or more of the light source of light to issue an apparatus, and includes support, and protection of a fixed light source components necessary (but not its own light source), as well as the necessary circuitry and will assist device They connect with the power supply facilities. 2. General lighting fixture: to prevent See more...

Main parts of EN60598 Standard

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EN60598-1:2000 Luminaires-Part 1:General requirements and texts.It contains the work of 0 ~ 1000V voltage lamps all safety requirements and test projectsEN60598-2-1:1989 Specification for fixed general purpose luminaries. EN60598-1 specified in the terms which apply to the general purpose of the lamp fixed at the same time that some of the special kind of lighting requirements. See more...

RoHS instruction the case request

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Member's country will insure, since July 1, 2006, new electronics and electricity equipments which throw in in the market don't include a lead, mercury, cadmium, six price chromes, gather bromine two benzene ether(PBDE)s or gather bromine biphenyl(PBB).Following row of the application be unwell to used for the above-mentioned provision: 1 the mercury content in the small scaled fluorescent lamp See more...

EUP instruction

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The EU Energy-Using Product Directive (EuP – 2005/32/EC) requires designers and manufacturers of energy-using products to apply eco-design principles to effectively reduce the environmental impact of their products from cradle-to-grave. The EuP Directive very broadly defines an energy-using product as: “a product which is dependent on energy input (electricity, fossil fuels and See more...

About Us: China Acmelite Electric Co., Limited is a professional and large-scale manufacturer and exporter of lighting fixtures in Zhejiang province, since 1997. We aim to offer the suitable lighting products and best services to our international customers, and help them to be more competitive and powerful in the global market.

Our main products include T2, T4, T5 and T8 lighting fixtures, halogen lighting fixtures and ceiling light fixtures, which are widely used in home & office, for commercial and industrial purpose as well. Most of the products have obtained Gs, CE, EMC, RoHS certificate and UL listing. They are popular in the global market, especially in North American and Europe. From year of 2007, we also developed two new product lines: Solar powered lighting and LED lighting. Please refer to www.acmelite.net for more details.  More...