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Here’s what you’ll see at Cree’s Lightfair trade show booth

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

Spring break for lighting geeks starts today in Las Vegas. Lightfair International runs through Friday, and for those of us in the lighting biz, it’s 1,600 booths of fun, technology and education. Here’s what is going down in the Cree booth:

Our theme is “The End is Near.” That may sound dramatic but we believe it and our booth shows it. The end is near for gloomy, inefficient lighting. The end is near for hazardous lighting. The end is near for heat lamps that pass for acceptable lighting.

I know a lot of you won’t have a chance to join the 19,000 people expected to attend Lightfair. So join me on this virtual tour of our booth and here’s a link to our latest release announcing what we’re showing:

Step into the museum, where we’re displaying our directional lamps.

museum

We’ve broadened our family of replacement lamps to now include flood lights in addition to spot lights, offering different beam angles, light outputs and even different color temperatures. Because really, one size doesn’t fit all in the LED Lighting Revolution. So whether you’re lighting up purses in a showroom or avocados in the produce section, our booth shows you that Cree LED lighting can do it all.

Step into the Cree Café, where we’re dishing up “light” refreshments.

cafe

We’re showing off a gorgeous LED replacement for BR30 lamps. Our LBR-30™ lamp is a 65 Watt replacement that only uses 12 watts, providing beautiful light with high color accuracy. You can also see our LR6™-DR1000 recessed downlight that delivers 1,000 lumens using 50 percent less energy than a 26 Watt CFL, with all of the light and high color accuracy. Bonus: In true LED lighting style, there’s no mercury inside.

Step into our office, where we’re working on showing off our LED components.

components

Doubles as our component showcase, where we have our family of lighting-class LEDs on display (underneath our beautiful LED troffer products). Our LED components are an important part of our Lightfair booth because our beautiful LED lighting fixtures start with great LEDs. I’m sure the most popular demo is going to be our new XLamp® platform, the XLamp XM LED. This new single chip LED delivers a record-breaking efficacy of 160 lumens per watt at 350mA, which to us LED geeks is remarkable. This is the first time this revolutionary LED is on display.

Step into our home, where we’re redefining what you can expect from lighting.

home

It’s all about the CR6™ downlight in the residential setting, where the LED lighting revolution comes home. Visitors can flip the switches between the ghastly glow of fluorescent and the glorious glow of the CR6 downlight, our newest LED downlight aimed at the residential and light commercial, such as restaurants and hotels. This awesome new light is in production now, will be available soon and costs about the same as a twisty, toxic CFL downlight. And, a mega bonus, it’s designed to last 50,000 hours. Imagine not having to change the lights in your home for years. [if you state “decades,” you’ll need to state the number of hours of usage per day the calculation is based on]

Finally, our booth showcases the newly redesigned CreeLEDRevolution.com. The educational site shows off real world examples of LED lighting, features a monthly LED lighting giveaway (enter here) and offers a chance for you to actually join the LED Lighting Revolution by taking a pledge.  

 And if you are in Las Vegas for Lightfair, don’t forget you can stop by our booth to enter our drawing for a free iPad. All you have to do is take a photo of your favorite part of the booth and post it on Twitter or our facebook page. Complete directions on how to entere are here.

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7 tips for making the most out of Lightfair International

Thursday, May 6th, 2010

If you’re in the lighting biz or interested in lighting, Las Vegas is the place to be next week. That’s when more than 19,000 people will pass through the Las Vegas Convention Center for Lightfair International, the world’s largest annual architectural and commercial lighting tradeshow and conference.

Component Side Packed

Scene from Lightfair International 2009.

The tradeshow features more than 1,600 booths, and we’re pretty sure you’re going to see LED lighting pretty much everywhere you turn. I asked a couple of my coworkers who are Lightfair veterans to offer some tips for those who are going. Here’s what they came up with:

  1. Wear comfortable shoes. There is no exception to this rule. You will be on your feet constantly and the Las Vegas Convention Center boasts more than one million square feet of exhibition space.
  2. Decide what you want to get out of Lightfair before you leave. Just like it’s a good idea to determine how much money you’re willing to gamble when you’re in Vegas, it’s a good idea to determine your Lightfair goal before you enter the show floor. Are you going to learn more about LED lighting; to purchase lights for a specific project; to see the latest and greatest technologies; to find a job? Set your goals so that you don’t end up wasting time.
  3. Bring along a list of questions for LED manufacturers. It won’t be hard to find booths displaying LED lighting for a variety of applications. But don’t come to Lightfair prepared to accept everything exhibitors tell you about LEDs. Come armed with some solid questions. Here’s a good place to start.  
  4. Don’t be afraid to ask questions. Now that you’re armed with some good questions to ask, speak up. Don’t take attitude from any exhibitors. If you don’t understand something, keep asking follow up questions until you do. But don’t be obnoxious either. No one wants to be that guy.
  5. Let exhibitors scan your badge. Don’t shy away from being placed on a mailing list by exhibitors. Most of these lists are e-mail based, which means you can unsubscribe later with a click of a button. That said, if an exhibitor offers to scan your badge and you’re not interested, say so.
  6. Avoid eating lunch at noon. The food vendors are swamped come noon. So plan on eating early or eating a little later. There’s no point in standing in a long line for a piece of pizza when you could be looking at more energy efficient LED lights!
  7. Make time for the exhibits everyone is talking about. Obviously you’re going to see what the big companies are up to. But poke around a little to find out which smaller companies are boasting innovative products. You can even ask at the information desks who the ‘must see’ vendors are. You don’t have to be a big fish to boast a good lighting product. Besides, big fish often have mercury inside them, and that’s not good for anyone.

And, of course, you should stop by the Cree booth (#149) because that’s where I’ll be, and if you’re reading this, I want to meet you. And if you’re tweeting from Lightfair, be sure to use the hashtag #Lightfair.

If you have any tips of your own or want to let everyone know what’s worth seeing in your booth, leave us a comment below. See you at Lightfair!

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