Reduce your Carbon Footprint

The use of energy is a worldwide concern, both in terms of its cost and on its effect on the environment. Lighting represents almost 25% of energy consumption in commercial buildings, so lighting control can make a big contribution to energy saving.


The use of lighting control can help further extend the lamp life of the bulb by using “soft start” electronics. Soft start eliminates the initial switch – on current surge (filament shock) that exists when a cold lamp filament conducts approximately ten times it’s steady state current until reaching it’s full colour temperature after about 150 milli – seconds. All iLight dimmers incorporate “soft start” electronics and testing reported that for one type of halogen lamp with a rated life of 2000 hours dimmed to 25% has a life extension of about four times that of a non – dimmed lamp.


The following chart briefly documents the trade off between dimmed levels versus energy savings and lamp life.