

Light engine that are up to 48 inches long and 15 inches wide are lighting up the bottom line of LED light fixture manufacturers who create linear products such as replacements for fluorescent lighting.This advancement in light engine design allows for the quicker, easier, and therefore cheaper assembly of linear light fixtures. Instead of two, four or even more light engines wired together to operate a linear or other larger LED fixtures, a lighting manufacturer can simply connect the LED lamps to a single circuit board thereby providing significant savings on labor, components and assembly time.Acra Phenolic, a supplier of new and retrofit interior LED lighting for the office space and manufacturing sectors, has seen significant savings by becoming an early adopter of this technology advancement.Kearney selected this supplier not only because it was an innovator of the extended-length board, but also because the company performs 100 percent comprehensive testing, control and data reporting and recording, “MADE does this automated inspection of each LED circuit board, ensuring that it lights properly, the color temperature, power output, brightness, and color rendering index are correct,” Kearney explains. “As a result, all of these things that I would have to do myself are already done when the products arrive at my facility. And that provides an important quality assurance as well as added savings