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Jun 16th, 2008
OceanLED lights the way out of the Bronze Age
OceanLED, the leading manufacturer and designer of LED underwater lighting products, has revealed an exciting new development set to revolutionise the future of underwater lights and fittings. After a year of intensive development, the company has announced that it will be implementing a unique Polymer, named Delnaeco for its LED housing units to replace the Aluminium Bronze currently used.
Aluminium Bronze has always been used by OceanLED for its housing units. Although an expensive choice, it’s one of the most robust metals when used underwater, and is renowned for having a great resilience to salt water corrosion as well as having thermal characteristics to help keep the light and LEDs cool.
For the past year, OceanLED has been working with a Swiss based, advanced Polymer specialist, to develop Delnaeco. Plastic has always been deemed as the ultimate material to use for an underwater light, but problems such as durability, flammability, scratch resistance, chemical resistance, thermal conductivity and optical clarity have prevented it from being suitable. The Delnaeco Polymer is 1.5 times stronger than Polycarbonate, V0 rated for flammability, almost 100% optically perfect, resistant to all known solvents and adhesives and most importantly thermally conductive.
OceanLED has used Delnaeco Polymer on its new Amphibian lighting range. Delnaeco’s unrivalled thermal conductivity has enabled the Amphibian product line to become the world’s first lighting collection designed to be used in and out of the water.
The Amphibian uses OceanLED’s Tritonium glass lenses, specifically designed to inhibit barnacle build up and ensure that the polymer light lens cannot be scratched like other polycarbonate underwater lights. The combination of Delnaeco Polymer and Tritonium lenses ensure the Amphibian can be used on a variety of surfaces such as trim tabs, engine brackets or even on boat trailers for night launching, and will lead the way for the future of OceanLED’s lighting applications.
In addition to Delnaeco’s technical qualities, the new polymer will also help OceanLED to reduce its carbon footprint, by enabling savings to be made in raw materials and weight transportation costs. These savings will be directly passed on to the consumer.
Nigel Savage, Founder and Managing Director at OceanLED says, “We still use the highest quality LEDs specifically selected for colour correctness, high light output intensity and low current consumption to ensure longevity. Our lights still have thermal cutout should they get so hot that they could damage the LED, they still have reverse polarity protection for peace of mind when fitting and they now have no external electronics. In essence we have created a light that will never need replacing”.
For more information please contact Lee Savage on +1 954 523 2250, e-mail lee.savage@oceanled.com or visit the website at www.oceanled.com
For press enquiries please contact Kate O’Sullivan at ADPR on Tel: +44 (0) 1460 241641 or e-mail
kate@adpr.co.uk
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