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Labor Partners

Six Reasons to Use Controls in Your Next LED Lighting Retrofit

Your aging lighting infrastructure is eating at your pocketbook. Rising energy costs and increasingly frequent service calls mean you…
ImageWerks Admin
November 1, 2016
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Technology

Don’t Set It and Forget It: How to Protect Your LED Lighting Investment

Having performed thousands of lighting retrofits, we’re familiar with that strong desire to “set it and forget it” when it comes to LED…
ImageWerks Admin
September 14, 2016
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Technology

Best-in-Class Lighting: Take a Vendor Neutral Approach

You’ve grown tired of looking out across your uneven and dimly lit facility and are ready to make a change. You have great expectations…
Tony Johnson
June 6, 2016
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Technology

EMC Lights the St. Paul Winter Carnival Ice Palace

Guest blogger and senior lighting designer Keith DeFreese shares how EMC applied its LED lighting expertise to the 2016 St. Paul Winter…
Tony Johnson
February 10, 2016
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Technology

Good Lumens vs Bad Lumens

In the lighting world, specification sheets tend to just list fixture (or lamp) lumens. In many cases, as designers, that is all the…
Tony Johnson
November 24, 2015
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Technology

2014 Nobel Prize Recognizes Blue LED Inventors: Why Now’s the Time to Celebrate

I’m not sure I would say these three men “perfected” LEDs, but we certainly wouldn’t be where we are today without them.
Tony Johnson
October 8, 2014
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Technology

WNDLC: June Update

In my last blog post, I mentioned that perhaps tracking a monthly top 10 average over time would be a valuable thing. It weeds out the…
Tony Johnson
June 18, 2014
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Technology

T8 LED Tubes – What are my options?

In my mind there are three major categories of T8 LED Tube replacements: Direct Lamp Replacements, Ballast/Driver Swap and Ballast…
Tony Johnson
June 2, 2014
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Technology

What’s New on the DLC: T8 LED Tubes

Summer is (almost) here. Let’s go tubing!!! So far we have reviewed the history of Highbay fixtures and Recessed Troffers on the…
Tony Johnson
June 2, 2014
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Technology

What's New on the DLC: Recessed Troffers

Back in March, we reviewed the history of Highbay fixtures on the DesignLights Consortium (DLC) list. Now we will review Recessed…
Tony Johnson
April 10, 2014
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Technology

What's New on the DLC: Highbays

As I mentioned in my “What’s New on the DLC” introductory post, I’m going to work my way through the seven categories on the Qualified…
Tony Johnson
March 11, 2014
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Technology

What’s New on the DLC: An Introduction

What new LED products just came out? What new LED products are coming out soon? What trends can we expect with LED fixtures?
Tony Johnson
March 11, 2014
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