Who made the first LED streetlight? « on: September 20, 2023, 07:01:56 AM » Author: HIDLad001
I have looked online, but I can't find any clear answer. I am gonna guess RUUD Lighting or Leotek.
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	Re: Who made the first LED streetlight? « Reply #1 on: September 20, 2023, 11:51:09 AM » Author: Rommie
Don't care, just wish they hadn't
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	Re: Who made the first LED streetlight? « Reply #2 on: September 20, 2023, 01:27:21 PM » Author: HIDLad001
I like to learn about all lighting technologies, LED included.
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	Re: Who made the first LED streetlight? « Reply #3 on: September 20, 2023, 03:48:30 PM » Author: Rommie
That's as maybe, but what I hate is LED being forced on us. Not once have I ever been asked do I want LED streetlights, they just come along and replace perfectly good HID lamps by the street-full when there's nothing wrong with any of them. If you want to learn how they work, that's fine, buy some and use them at home; you don't need to replace perfectly good street lights to do that. I've never said people shouldn't be able to use LEDs at home if they want to, I just hate them being forced on me in the street.
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	Re: Who made the first LED streetlight? « Reply #4 on: September 21, 2023, 10:58:09 AM » Author: HIDLad001
Here we go again... The same thing could be said about high and low pressure sodium. There was a time (albeit way before I was born) when all of the mercury streetlights were getting ripped out and replaced with high and low pressure sodium streetlights. People hated this new lighting technology and how it was this "harsh yellow light" and how it was "wiping out mercury vapor" and "was being forced upon us". Then decades later when everything is being replaced with LED, people are saying the same thing about how LED is so terrible. Someday a new light source is going to be invented, and people will be feeling the same way about a new light source replacing LED.
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	Re: Who made the first LED streetlight? « Reply #5 on: September 21, 2023, 11:12:25 AM » Author: Rommie
At least sodium (low or high pressure) lamps are discharge lamps. Anyway, I'm not going to argue with you, you like them, I don't. Let's leave it there, shall we..?
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	Re: Who made the first LED streetlight? « Reply #6 on: September 21, 2023, 03:27:24 PM » Author: HIDLad001
The point is if any light source is replacing another light source, there will be bound to be people that hate the new light source. Now back to the original topic and does anyone have any guesses as to who made the first LED street light?
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	Re: Who made the first LED streetlight? « Reply #7 on: September 21, 2023, 09:25:23 PM » Author: Maxim
I would guess RUUD/BetaLED also. My local swim club has fixtures circa 2012-2013 that are going strong to this very day! See here.
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	Re: Who made the first LED streetlight? « Reply #8 on: September 21, 2023, 09:26:31 PM » Author: LightsoftheWest
My guess is Leotek. They've been making LED street lights since the mid 2000's.
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	Re: Who made the first LED streetlight? « Reply #9 on: September 21, 2023, 09:33:56 PM » Author: HIDLad001
Leotek's first streetlight was released in 2004, and was based off of a standard small-size cobrahead and has an LED array in place of the optical assembly (the one on the bottom left).
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	Re: Who made the first LED streetlight? « Reply #10 on: September 21, 2023, 10:17:06 PM » Author: Patrick
Beta LED lights such as this one appeared early in the gallery.  The Ann Arbor globes are one of the first post-top LED installations I remember.
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	Re: Who made the first LED streetlight? « Reply #11 on: September 22, 2023, 08:29:15 AM » Author: HIDLad001
So as far as I have seen, RUUD Lighting or BetaLED didn't invent the LED streetlight, but they created the first popular and economical LED streetlight that saw widespread use in the US and other countries like the UK and Australia. Does anybody have a release date?
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	Re: Who made the first LED streetlight? « Reply #12 on: September 22, 2023, 03:01:47 PM » Author: LightsoftheWest
The first production run of the LEDway began in August of 2008.
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	Re: Who made the first LED streetlight? « Reply #13 on: September 22, 2023, 03:14:29 PM » Author: Molly
I'd probably say Leotek comes first. RUUD Lighting/BetaLED comes in second. There was a Leotek SL-36W1R-FX in my town that's probably been there before 2007 because it still shows up on the 2007 street view here.
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