Mark your calendars for Nov. 22nd! Ojai Valley residents will have an opportunity to trade in old holiday lights and receive a new strand of LED energy saving holiday lights. This is part of an exchange event conducted by the Ojai Valley Green Coalition through the Ventura County Regional Energy Alliance, in partnership with Southern California Edison. Event flyer is Here.
This is a great time to take advantage of new Light Emitting Diode (LED) holiday light strands that use sufficiently less energy than traditional incandescent lighting. New LED holiday lights can last up to 20,000 hours. LED lights are available in holiday colors and can be used indoors or outside.
Participants must have verification that they are Southern California Edison customers. Please bring a drivers license or Southern California Edison bill to ensure eligibility to participate in the Holiday Light Strand Exchange Program. The number of light strands allowed for exchange is limited to one per household. Bring in one old strand, and receive one new energy saving LED strand.
Light strands are available, while supplies last, across from the Ojai Farmers Market (Matilija St.) on November 22, 2009 starting at 9 am. Call the Coalition at (805) 669-8445 for more information.
Comments (3)
Thanks for the info
Comment #1 Posted by Todd Bodreau | February 24, 2010 8:20 AM
Commonly called 'light bulbs', lamps are the removable and replaceable portion of a luminaire which converts electrical energy to both visible and non-visible electromagnetic energy. Specialists who work with lighting, carefully avoid energetic units for measuring of the light output of sources of light due to the spectral response of human visual perception. For example, instead of watt per steradian, the special unit candela is used; 1 candela=(1/683) W/steradian for monochromatic light at 555 nm wavelength. Common characteristics used to evaluate lamp quality include efficacy measured in lumens per watt, typical lamp life measured in hours, and Color Rendering Index on a scale of 0 to 100. Cost of replacement lamps is also an important factor in any design.
Comment #2 Posted by Harriett Wawers | March 12, 2010 2:23 AM
The illuminated ceiling was once popular in the 1960s and 1970s but fell out of favor after the 1980s. This uses diffuser panels hung like a suspended ceiling below fluorescent lights, and is considered general lighting. Other forms include neon, which is not usually intended to illuminate anything else, but to actually be an artwork in itself. This would probably fall under accent lighting, though in a dark nightclub it could be considered general lighting. Underwater accent lighting is also used for koi ponds, fountains, swimming pools and the like.
Comment #3 Posted by Wally Imoto | March 13, 2010 11:04 AM