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May LED lighting contest winner ready to ditch fluorescent lights

Wednesday, July 6th, 2011


Christopher Cunningham was online trying to figure out what to do about his lighting. The Michigan resident says he “tried going with all fluorescent for the money savings on my power bill but they make everything look like it has a yellow cast. Poor for reading, taking pictures and just about everything else.”

Lucky for Christopher, his online search led him to Cree’s LED lighting photo contest. So he submitted this dimly-lit photo:

May 2011 contest winner

Christopher submitted this photo to our contest.

“I figured it can’t hurt to give it a try and send in a picture of the lighting problem I have in the living room,” he wrote me in an email.

Well, it’s a good thing he did, because Christopher is the May winner of Cree’s LED lighting photo contest. He wins five Cree CR6 ™ LED downlights, which will probably solve his problem, since the lights feature beautiful light quality similar to incandescent lighting.

He’ll also be saving more energy too. The CR6 LED downlight consumes only 10.5 watts, but is designed to replace a 65-watt incandescent light.

“I’m hoping the new addition of Cree CR6s will put some life back into the living room … all while saving on my electric bill,” Christopher wrote.

We don’t think that’s going to be a problem. And, on top of the light quality and energy savings, it will also likely be a very long time before Christopher has to worry about swapping out a burned out bulb. His new Cree LED lights are designed to last 50,000 hours, which means he could leave them on 8 hours a day, seven days a week and they could last more than 17 years!

If you want to try your hand at winning five Cree CR6s, hurry up and enter our June LED lighting giveaway. Submit your photo of your bad lighting situation here. Or if you just can’t wait and you have to get your hands on some Cree CR6s today, find a distributor near you and give them a call!

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Idaho resident wins Cree LED lighting contest, will finally turn on his living room lights

Monday, August 30th, 2010


You know the lighting in your home isn’t working for you when you intentionally avoid turning the lights on. That’s what Jerry Saltzer has been doing in his home’s living room and office for some time. Instead, he relies on floor and table lamps to illuminate the areas. How come?

“The living room (and office) in our house is equipped with incandescent downlights in 16.5 foot ceilings,” Saltzer told me in an email. “The light they produce is fine, but replacing those light bulbs is such a big production that we are inclined to leave them off as much as possible and use floor and table lamps instead.”

Jerry is the winner of the Cree’s July LED lighting giveaway. He submitted this photo of his problematic lighting situation:

July Contest Winner

Jerry wins five Cree LR6™ LED Downlights, which he plans to install in his living room. The LR6 downlight consumes only 10.5 Watts and delivers the warm light of a 65 Watt incandescent light. And Jerry’s new LED lights are designed to last 50,000 hours, which means he won’t have to deal with the hassle of swapping out his living room lights for years to come.

“Installing LED lights with an expected lifetime of 50,000 hours means that we can turn them on every evening and yet probably won’t need to change them until 2050,” Jerry wrote.

There are only a two days left to enter the August Cree LED Lighting giveaway. Just upload a picture of bad lighting in your home or office to Cree LED Lighting Revolution and you could be featured here next month.

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How can grocers make their fruits and veggies pop? Hint: It involves LED lights

Thursday, August 12th, 2010

The ladders at a Michigan-based grocery chain are being used a lot less these days now that the produce sections are lit with Cree LED lights.

Up until a few months ago, employees at the three Value Center Marketplace stores used to haul out the ladder every couple of weeks to replace the burned out 90-Watt Par 38 spotlights that lit up the fruits and veggies, according to store owner Ron Fariada.

But earlier this summer, Ron replaced the energy-wasting incandescent lights in the produce sections at all three of his stores with energy-efficient Cree LRP-38™ LED lights. His new LED lights consume only 11 Watts of energy and provide beautiful, warm light that helps make the color of the store’s fruits and vegetables pop.

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“It’s just worry free,” Ron said. “I’m not going to have to worry about changing any bulbs for years. There was an upfront cost, but you’ve got immediate savings as far as power.”

When Ron opened the first Value Center Marketplace in 1989, he was committed to offering the freshest quality foods and the best in family value. More than 20 years later, Ron now runs three of the grocers just outside Detroit, Michigan.

In all, he replaced 50 incandescent lights at each of stores with Cree LRP-38 lights, for a total of 150 LED lights.

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Ron said he expects a two-year payback on his LED lights when he takes into account the energy savings and maintenance savings. The produce lights in his stores are on for about 12 hours a day, seven days a week. And since the LRP-38 LED lights are designed to last 50,000 hours, Ron could continue to save energy and money for another nine years before he needs to consider replacing the lights.

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Already he’s noticed that when he walks under his new LED lights, the area feels cooler than when the 90 Watt incandescent spotlights were lighting up the area.  Ron said he also expects to see HVAC savings.

The produce at Ron’s stores is hand-picked daily from the local farmers market. And now, it can truly shine under LED lights.

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