[3/6] Lighting tutorial: how about an LED panel?

Many existential questions pollute or enrich our nights. For example: "What is life?" or "Is Earth home to the only form of life in the universe? Among this never-ending list is one that Play! has taken the trouble to answer: what is an LED?

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With our customer success manager lighting expert - Boris, whom you're beginning to know well - we took a few minutes to make a video about the type of light most used in business. As Woody Allen used to say about a theme not very similar but with the same number of letters, this one can help you understand everything you've always wanted to know about LEDs but were afraid to ask.

Why LEDs?

Yes, but before I tell you what it's all about, it's worth noting that the LED is a revolution in its own right, since from the outset it has been the answer to a number of concerns raised by halogen sources. These includedenergy savings, color palette and mechanical resistance.

It's a source that, even if it took a long time to make its way into homes as a lamp or onto streets as a street lamp, had long been on screens. Not only TV screens, but also computers and some portable games consoles, where LEDs were already being used for backlighting purposes, enabling night owls to watch or play in low outdoor light conditions. So if you thought you'd never heard of these extraordinary lights, in reality you knew them at least by sight. 

What about the LED?

So we could call them " light-emitting diodes ", but we won't, to limit the risk of finger sprains on the keyboard - and because we wanted to make this irrelevant little joke. So we'll stick with the name "LED" and add "panel", not to say "light panel".

These projectors are more than practical. As well as being ecologically aware, they feature dimmers that allow you to adjust one or even two parameters, as shown by the one used by Boris. First of all, there's the knob for adjusting intensity. This parameter makes these projectors particularly versatile. Indeed, they create both very weak and very strong light. So they can be used as a back-up spotlight to catch shadows, or as a main spotlight.

The second parameter is color temperature. A LED panel gives the user the last word in color mood or atmosphere. You can either turn the temperature upwards towards blue, for cooler, higher-contrast colors. Or you can turn it down for warmer colors, tending towards yellow.

Now that you know what we like so much about these lights, we're left with just one question, at least as important as the one about the existence of any god: " What are you going to do with these LED panels? To answer that question, we'll leave you to enter your comments in the area just below.

While we wait for Boris' next tuto, here are a few videos that might interest you:

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