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    LED Basics: Choosing and Using the Magic Light
    LED Basics: Choosing and Using the Magic Light
    LED Basics: Choosing and Using the Magic Light
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    LED Basics: Choosing and Using the Magic Light

    By Clarence Jones

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    LEDs are an astounding new invention that will soon replace almost all other light sources on the planet. Because they’re unlike the light bulbs you’ve known, choosing and using them successfully requires a new set of skills and knowledge. Patented by a GE engineer in 1962, LEDs were such an astounding invention, other engineers in the company called them "the magic thing." Originally used as tiny red dots to indicate a device was turned on, it took another 20 years to figure out how to make LEDs in other colors. And more time to make them brighter. All those problems have been solved now. They use about one-tenth the electricity to produce the same brightness incandescent lights would. They don't get hot, so they don't increase air conditioning costs. And their life expectancy is 30 to 40 times longer than standard light bulbs. They have a few limitations, and you should know more about them before you start converting your lighting to LEDs. That's what this book is about.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherClarence Jones
    Release dateMar 17, 2018
    ISBN9781370184576
    LED Basics: Choosing and Using the Magic Light
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    Clarence Jones

    Clarence Jones is an on-camera coach who teaches media survival skills. He knows what he's talking about. After 30 years of reporting in both newspapers and television, he wrote Winning with the News Media - A Self-Defense Manual When You're the Story. Now in its 9th Edition, many call it "the bible" on news media relations. Then he formed his own media relations firm to (in his words) "teach people like you how to cope with SOBs like me." At WPLG-TV in Miami, he was one of the nation's most-honored reporters. He won four Emmys and became the first reporter for a local station to ever win three duPont-Columbia Awards - TV's equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize. In addition to his day job as a news media consultant, he writes more books and magazine articles. He builds his own computers and invents clever devices to for his sailboat. Nine of his books are now available in both print and e-book formats -- Winning with the News Media, They're Gonna Murder You (his memoirs), Sweetheart Scams - Online Dating's Billion Dollar Swindle, LED Basics - Choosing and Using the Magic Light, Sailboat Projects, More Sailboat Projects, Webcam Savvy for the Job or the News, Webcam Savvy for Telemedicine, and Filming Family History. Clarence started working full-time as a daily newspaper reporter while he was earning his journalism degree at the University of Florida. He was named Capitol correspondent in Tallahassee for the Florida Times-Union one year after graduating from college. Six years later, as one of the nation's most promising young journalists, he was granted a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University. After Harvard, he was hired by the Miami Herald, where he was part of a year-long investigation that resulted in corruption charges against the sheriff and his top aides. The Herald stories led to a referendum that abolished the office of sheriff. Miami-Dade is the only county in Florida with an appointed public safety director. Clarence covered Martin Luther King's Civil Rights campaign all across the South for the Herald. His last newspaper position was Washington correspondent for the Herald. He then moved to Louisville, Kentucky to work under deep cover for eight months, investigating political and law enforcement corruption for WHAS-TV. Posing as a gambler, he visited illegal bookie joints daily, carrying a hidden camera and tape recorder. His documentaries during a two-year stint in Louisville gained immediate national attention. He returned to Miami in 1972 to become the investigative reporter for WPLG-TV, the ABC affiliate owned by Post-Newsweek Corp. Specializing in organized crime and law enforcement corruption, his work at WPLG earned four Emmys and three duPont-Columbia Awards (television's equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize). He also won the Robert F. Kennedy Award for "The Billion-Dollar Ghetto," a 10-story series that examined the causes of the riots that burned much of Liberty City and killed 18 people in 1980. While he was reporting, he taught broadcast journalism for five years as an adjunct professor at the University of Miami. He lives near the mouth of Tampa Bay, where he sails a 28-foot Catalina, and frequently publishes magazine articles showing how to make gadgets and accessories he invents for his boat. All of his books are available in both print and e-book versions.

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      Book preview

      LED Basics - Clarence Jones

      Foreword

      LEDs are an astounding new invention that will soon replace almost all other light sources on the planet.

      Because they’re unlike the light bulbs you’ve known, choosing and using them successfully requires a new set of skills and knowledge.

      Why are LEDs So Popular?

      ▪ They can provide the same amount of light as other bulbs and use a lot less electricity

      ▪ LED bulbs are not hot, saving on air conditioning costs (voltage converters in the LED bulb’s circuit board may be slightly warm)

      ▪ They last 20 times longer than incandescents

      ▪ Many will never have to be replaced

      ▪ They come in a wide variety of colors, shapes and sizes to fit existing fixtures

      ▪ No other tiny device can be so bright

      ▪ Turning on and off doesn’t shorten their life

      ▪ They don’t hum, flutter, or cause radio interference

      ▪ They turn on instantly at full brightness

      ▪ They contain no mercury

      ▪ New uses for LEDs are inspiring clever new fixtures designed just for LEDs

      Light-Emitting Diode

      LED is an acronym for Light-Emitting Diode. LEDs are small electronic devices, square, rectangular or circular, and usually about the size of a grain of rice.

      Inside the diode are some very sophisticated, miniaturized electronics.

      Natural light from the sun comes from the hottest source we know. Light created by humans (torches, candles, lanterns and lamps) until recently had always been a side effect of burning something.

      Edison Experiments Failed 3,000 Times

      And then Thomas Edison in 1879 created the first commercially successful light bulb. The idea was not new – others had been working on it for a long time.

      But after 3,000 experiments that failed, Edison finally succeeded. He patented his invention in 1880. The incandescent bulb was the first artificial light that didn’t need fire. But it still required heat.

      A Container With No Air

      Edison’s secret for success was a filament of carbon inside a glass bulb with no air in it. The filament was heated by an electrical current until it glowed. The vacuum in the bulb prevented it from burning.

      Extending the Bulb’s Life

      Even so, we still talk about light bulbs burning. The most perplexing problem for Edison and other inventors had been finding a way to extend the filament’s life. Removing all the air in the container solved it.

      Edison and other scientists also toyed with various ways to create light in gas-filled tubes, but the new incandescent bulbs were so successful the fluorescent tube experiments were shoved aside.

      The popularity of the light bulb also sped the construction

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