When the dark days of winter are in full force, finding reliable, cost-effective locomotive lighting is a timely topic for discussion. While A19 lighting for number plates, steps and engine rooms are ...

Halogen bulbs put out a lot of focused light but they do it at the expense of burning up a lot of Watts and generating a lot of heat. The cost for an LED replacement like the one seen disassembled ...

Ever since the electric light bulb was conceived in the early 1800s, inventors have sought to improve on its design to provide greater light output, better power efficiency, and increased longevity.

Reliably generating light with the limited resources at a car’s disposal was a problem for early automotive engineers. Tungsten filaments, similar to the kind found in household incandescent light ...

Halogen light bulbs will be banned in Europe on September 1 to encourage consumers to switch over to the more energy-efficient light-emitting diode (LED) technology. The ban and switch to ...

If you are looking to replace halogen bulbs with LEDs, combining a rectifier bridge and a current-controlled synchronous step-up/step-down converter creates a high power factor driver circuit, writes ...

Arnold J Wilkins contributed to the IEEE1789 standard on LED lighting, but receives no funding from government or industry. The European Union recently announced a ban on halogen light bulbs, to ...

There are several reasons why you're better off sticking with the stock halogen or high-intensity discharge (HID) bulbs in your car, rather than replacing them with cheap aftermarket LED headlights.