Luxim is a privately owned clean tech company based in
Sunnyvale, California
Sunnyvale () is a city located in the Santa Clara Valley in northwest Santa Clara County in the U.S. state of California.
Sunnyvale lies along the historic El Camino Real and Highway 101 and is bordered by portions of San Jose to the nort ...
, which was founded in 2000.
Luxim manufactures a solid-state
electrodeless lamp
The induction lamp, electrodeless lamp, or electrodeless induction lamp is a gas-discharge lamp in which an electric or magnetic field transfers the power required to generate light from outside the lamp envelope to the gas inside. This is in co ...
lighting system. Luxim technology is used in general lighting, entertainment lighting, instrumentation lighting and specialty lighting.
Their light-emitting plasma (LEP) lamp is claimed to be able to operate up to 50% more efficiently than conventional
high-intensity discharge lamp
High-intensity discharge lamps (HID lamps) are a type of electrical gas-discharge lamp which produces light by means of an electric arc between tungsten electrodes housed inside a translucent or transparent fused quartz or fused alumina arc tu ...
s (HIDs) while generating the same maintained
lumen as a conventional 400-watt system at about half the energy. Luxim's light-emitting plasma is designed to complement LED. LEP is designed for use in high illuminance applications.
In the general lighting market, Luxim offers two products: the STA 41-01 and the STA 41-02. Both systems have a correlated color temperature (CCT) in the 5600–5700 range. The STA 41-01 has a color rendering index (CRI) of 75 and a life of 50,000 hours, the STA 41-02 has a CRI of 95 and a life of 30,000 hours. These products are used in high-illuminance applications such as streets, parking lots, big-box retailers, distribution centers, parks, and sports lighting applications.
Luxim works with a variety of luminare manufactures across the world. Presently, the following luminaire types are available on the market: Cobra head, shoe-box, high bay, low bay, canopy, aquarium, and architectural.
References
External links
* {{Official website, http://luxim.resilient.lighting/
Companies established in 2000
Companies based in Sunnyvale, California
Lighting brands
Gas discharge lamps