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Ever since the great
scientist Nikola Tesla stunned his audiences with fabulous demonstrations of induction
lighting more than a century ago, this intriguing technology has always been revered
as the most magical of light sources that we’d all love to embrace - if only we
could afford it.
In the early 1990s Panasonic,
then Philips, GE and Osram all placed practical lamps on the market. More recent
years have seen impressive Chinese dabblings in the art, but nobody really had
the technology completely under control and all they could offer was a technically
complex lamp that the customer was left to engineer a complex luminaire around.
The one thing that has always held back the original induction lamps is
their astronomical price – most will set you back £250 for lamp and gear, and
require even more costly purpose-made luminaires.
Ten years ago they seemed
more attractive and they set some good milestones in terms of their stable, high
quality white light with the ultimate in service life.
But today, high
lumen CFL’s and ceramic metal halides can also offer nearly the same from a very
much cheaper system so induction sales had pretty much stalled. |
| But we at Victory Lighting
hope to overcome these problems and have begun marketing our new new Saturn lighting
system throughout Europe. We have now brought together not just that lamp, but
a broad range of purpose designed luminaires for outdoor lighting installations,
and are ready to offer a complete fit-and-forget induction lighting system to
the customer.
Three basic product families will be the first to market
– decorative lighting columns and bollards for gardens or city centres, industrial
floodlights and high bay units, and a special streetlighting lantern featuring
a novel lamp shape and special optics to deliver the correct beam profile.
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