All Posts by "Clive Bentley"
There has been a ton of talk over the years about home automation, with various companies making big claims about how simple it will be to implement, including massive heavyweights light Google. We haven’t seen much evidence on any of these claims happening any time soon. A newly announced company and product may help usher Read More
Many of you are familiar with the name Bridgelux for a variety of reasons, including their awesome multi-chip arrays, as well as the use of their chips in many Asian LEDs. Well, you may become more familiar with that name in the near future now that Toshiba, one of the largest electronics producers in the Read More
The newly announced Maxspect Razor is a hot and sexy little number that is getting a lot of attention from our tech rabid readers. Therefore we have gathered all the technical and LED details about the fixture to spill to help tide you over until we can get our grubby mitts on one in person. Read More
Rejoice DIY LED builders! Cree, in their mighty engineering prowess has seen fit to give their popular XT-E royal blue LED a spec bump recetly, letting you squeeze even more from an already powerful LED. This update puts the XT-E royal blue on par with the newer XT-E white with a maximum current of 1500mA Read More
Looks like Cree’s pint sized powerhouse XM-L LED is getting some competition this month in the form of the new Luxeon M from Philips Lumileds. Cree and Philips have historically played the one-upmanship game for as long as we can remember, so it wasn’t really all that surprising that they were working on something to Read More
Some of you may be familiar with PicO Aquariums product lineup already, but there is a new addition to this grassroots manufacturer’s lineup. While they have had great success with their rimless all-in-one aquariums over the last few years, many of their customers wanted options without the filtration system, but still kept the same high Read More
With the new Maxspect Mazarra X being snuck into Reefstock recently, and Mr. Saltwater Tank doing a brief video clip on it, we assume there are many of you who are really itching to find out more information about this upcoming fixture. Well, we have details. The Mazarra X is basically an upgraded Mazarra S, Read More
Cree has just announced what we have been anticipating for a while now; the XT-E white. While it’s not besting the XP-G in terms of overall output (it’s close) and efficiency, The XT-E white will bring some of the same features that the XB-D did. The XT-E white is using the same silicon carbide technology Read More
The Cree XB-D LED just announced today is being released into the wild to start bringing high quality and high output LED fixtures down to a price range that will start to compete with the many budget fixtures that are currently on the market. How Cree is accomplishing this increased performance per dollar in the Read More
You may have begun to notice Cree XT-E blue LEDs being included on some newer aquariums lights and unlike previous advancements, this generation of LEDs is designed for more than simple brightness and efficiency gains. The Cree XT-E royal blue LED has been around for a little bit now, and is starting to get attention Read More