The best choice for tubes: Philips LED

Philips LED Tubes are the safest choice for replacing your fluorescent tubes. 

Watch the video on why Philips LED tubes are the best to replace your fluorescent tubes with. They are safe, reliable, of the best quality, offer huge energy savings and long lasting performance. Philips is a brand you can trust and these tubes are worth every penny. Philips tubes comply with the international standards and are validated and certified by credible third party laboratories. 

Here at The Led Specialist, we think Philips tubes are the best choice. Click here to see the full range that we stock, 

Start saving energy by replacing your fluorescent tubes with Philips LED tubes NOW! Prices soon to be reduced! 

Light up your garden life!

The Philips My Garden range now available from The Led Specialist. 

This range offers you a stylish way to illuminate your garden, perfect for hot weather and those summer BBQs. Some of these have LEDs built in but others require you an additional lamp. We have made it easy on our site by including this lamp, so you don't need to worry about having to buy the lamp to go inside. 

Below is  a few examples of some of the range we have, from wall lights and porch lights to pedestals and posts, the Philips myGarden range is a fabulous way to light up your garden or outdoor space. 

Eden Wall Light LED
















Creek Post Black including Philips 9.5W Corepro GLS


























Bamboo Inox Wall Light with Sensor 

To access our full range of outdoor lighting, including the Philips MyGarden in addition to; floodlights, wall lights and the Outdoor Osram Lightify wifi lamps, please click here.

Which? Best Buy Lamps in Stock at The Led Specialist!

Once again the Which? Best Buy consumer awards have announced their winners for this year with brands Integral and Crompton coming up trumps. 

Wins two years in a row for Integral, last year they won the award for best spotlight with their 5.3W GU10. At the Led Specialist we have sold large quantities of these lamps and haven't heard a complaint yet! 

This year, Integral won the 1st place for best buy light bulb with the 8.2W Omni GLS which is available in BC and ES caps. It boasts a lumen output of 806, 25,000 hour lifetime and an extra wide beam angle of 260°. 

Integral commented  that, 'this is the ideal lamp for consumers who like the classic bulb look and brightness, but also want to enjoy the savings of LED. This product is perfect for existing lampshades and fixtures.' 

This lamp is equivalent to 60W and comes in colour 2700K, very warm white, perfect for your home. 

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The Led Specialist 8.2W Omni GLS BC

Integral's other winner this year was the 16W Classic GLS lamp. This is equivalent to an 100W incandescent lamp and offers 1521 lumens and a  25,000 hour lifetime. It is 2700K, very warm white. This is more powerful than Integral's other winner but nevertheless also offers great performance. It is a perfect lamp to replace the existing fittings in your home and is extremely thermally efficient. 

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The Led Specialist 16W GLS BC

Crompton's winner this year is the new Manor range 5W GLS in ES and BC. Which said that this lamp, 'provides a consistent and efficient source of light and looks like an old-style incandescent too.. it is also good value.' 

These lamps offer 400-440 lumens, a 20,000 hour lifetime, 10,000 switching cycles. They are available in clear or satin glass. This is a luxury lamp for use in both in decorative and everyday applications. 

Please go to our website to see this range: 

The Led Specialist Crompton Led Manor Range

We are  extremely proud to stock all these items, please order from The Led Specialist website to see why these lamps won the Best Buy awards this year! 

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Change your interaction with light, Forever. Osram Lightify : ORDER NOW from The Led Specialist

Osram Lightify: 'The Connected Future of Lighting'

We are seeing more and more Wifi lamps and systems that are making our home lighting much more connected and colourful but this Osram Lightify seems to create the most connected lighting system yet, with a variety of lamps and luminaries, from GLS to strip tape, GU10 to garden lighting. This is truly the future in connected lighting. 

The Lightify app is completely free and can be installed on smartphone or tablet. The app allows you to control the networked Lightify lamps, luminaries, strips and garden lights individually or in different groups in your home and garden. To start you just need to install the app and purchase a starter kit; which consists of a Lightify Gateway and an LED GLS Lightify lamp.

This Lightify will allow you to explore and discover entirely new lighting possibilities. lighting in your home can now be customised depending on your moods and personal preferences with, changing your home environment to suit your life. Want to be able to go to sleep? Perhaps a warm red light in your bedroom would help you relax best. Want to create a party environment? Perhaps set every light in the house to a different colour? It's now completely up to you. 

The wireless Lightify system can have more lights added to it at any time, with a maximum of 50 lamps on the network. All those lamps controlled by one app. Installation is extremely simple, plug and play and thats all there is to it. 

'Lightify will change you interaction with light. Forever.' 


'Infinite worlds of colours' - The lightify app can change your lighting colour to several different white tones as well as 16 million different colours. The app displays the different colours in a circle so you can continuously select an almost unlimited supply of colours. Out of these colours you can chose your favourites and modify these at any time.
 







Colour Picker - Not only do you have 16 million colours literally at your fingertips, you can use the colour picker to select a colour in a photo or picture that you like and set your lights to that in just a couple of clicks. 

Memory - If you create a particular lighting atmosphere that you favour, you can save it and whenever you want to use it again you can at any time.  This way your lighting is even more personal to you. 

'Pre-Set lighting Scene' -  On top of all those features, you can utilise the pre-set lighting scenes that are saved in the app. If you need to create a relaxed home environment after a long, stressful day at work you can change your home into the ulimate relaxation zone by using the pre set scene, 'relax'. If you simply need a bit of waking up, you can change your lights to an activating bluish light scene called 'active'. 
If you are on the road a lot of the time you can pre-set lighting sequences before you leave and have individual control of this anywhere in the world. Lightify features the 'presence simulation', activate this before you go on the road and the lighting in your home will simulate your absence. 

You can control Lightify via the app at any time, anywhere in the world, all you need is mobile internet access. The possibilities really are endless with Lightify. 

Please click here to see the full range on our website. 

If you would like to watch the video of the Lightify on the Osram website, please click here



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Lux Review: 600x600 Panels- Integral Panel is 5 *

Lux Magazine’s technical editor Alan Tulla has recently reviewed the latest LED replacements for recessed fluorescent fittings.

In order to review these items, Tulla tested ten different panels from the cheap and cheerful to the more expensive and higher quality aswell as edge lit and backlit. Edgelit being the flatter, slimmer panel and backlit the thicker, more hefty. Due to the competition for lowest price on the market being so hot, Tulla explains that a lot of photometric data is missing from the panels of some suppliers and this can cause issues involving glare, uneven light distribution and dark ceiling areas where the panels are not arranged properly. All making for a poor installation.

A panel that did not disappoint was the Integral Led Panel,using 40W, the panel emits over 5100 lumens, 5121 to be precise at 128 lumens per watt. Tulla states in his review that this panel is, ‘a third more efficient that many of its competitors’ aswell as having, ‘clear installation instructions and technical data. There’s even a cone diagram showing the illumination level at various mounting heights.’

Tulla finishes by saying that the Integral panel is a, ‘no-nonsense unit with huge light output at a competitive price.’

Tulla gave the Integral Panel five out of five stars.

This panel is excellent value for money and can be found on our website. http://theledspecialist.co.uk/

 If you would like to take a look at the photometric data from Integral, please don’t hesitate to contact us by email on sales@ledspecialist.couk or Telephone 0118 950 7125.

Image Courtesy of Integral, Blog post adapted from Lux Magazine Review: 600X600mm LED Ceiling Panels, Issue 44, April 2015

The Future: Internet of Light as part of Internet of Everything

Lighting as the bridge between physical and digital.

The Led Specialist attended Philips' most recent webinar on The Internet of Light and semantic lighting by Zary Segall, professor at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. At the start of this webinar Segall states its purpose, to start thinking about 'how we are using light to connect the physical and digital world in ways we never dreamed of.' A concept that at first seemed desperately confusing to us but as the webinar went on, our understanding of it increased and began to make us excited. This article is a break down of that webinar and the exciting ideas that is explores.

 Smart Lighting is all about user experience, before beginning the webinar, Segall took a poll asking the question,  has your experience with your mobile phone fundamentally changed in the last 25 years? The answer to which is pretty obvious for most but he also asked attendees of the webinar to answer another question for the poll, has your user experience with your kitchen lighting changed fundamentally in the last 25 years? This created the opposite answer. For the last 25 years the way we interact with our kitchen lighting or delving deeper; home lighting and lighting in general has not been challenged or changed and remains extremely simple but Segall poses the question, what if light could understand you? 

User experience is all about you and a more modern description of you is you as a physical sense and you in a digital sense, or as a digital representation of yourself. The way that google defines you and things about you and all the information that has been put together about you through the digital world. There are many features of this you, which Segall refers to as the W, the double you. For instance, the bio-mechanical W is the digital model of the way we move, the way we move an arm, a leg, they way we touch things and the way we eat. If we take the way we eat further; a digital model could understand that you have eaten something and know how many calories that you have intaken by connecting to the internet and discovering how many calories that item of food contained. Further still, it could analyse the choices you make when eating food to decipher your health and even further the W could eventually understand and interpret your cognitive processes, i.e. your thoughts and thought processes. Although this all sounds extremely futuristic and something out of i-robot, Segall assures us that we are so close to achieveing this in the not too distant future. 

In addition to the bio-mechanical W, the digital you also includes; the emotional W, the physiological W and the semantical W. Semantical meaning relating to meaning in language or logic. Segall's next concept relates specifically to this and the semantic W would understand the context and the task that it is doing as well as understand the relationship between humans and objects. Segall explores this by asking how we model the interaction between people and objects? Light. Light is the answer, light is what actually connects us to an object, it brings us information, everything we do includes light. How a piece of information is transmitted is through light, from writing it down to reading it. The Semantic W applied to this means that light becomes the most important semantic object. 

Segall gives this example, a piece of paper on a table that a light is shining on, the light will absorb the information that is on the piece of paper and search for more information on what is on the text and then this extra information can be projected by the light. The light could also be tuned to certain objects and people, so if you move the piece of paper, the light will follow. 

This interactivity of light is shown in another example, map folding, one of those annoying things that you just can't seem to get right and Segall admits that he himself is a terrible map folder. The solution he presents for this is light. The map is placed on the same table from before and the light illuminates instructions and markers as to where the map should be folder. Once each fold has been carried out it shows the next fold in the process until the map is folded perfectly. 

The next example of this is really quite incredible if slightly unnecessary, using light to make a cup of tea. Picture this; cups and teapot on table, teabags then placed on table. The light shining on the table finds information about the teabags and how they should be brewed at 97°C for 2-3 minutes. When the boiling water then gets poured into the teapot the light on the teapot is red until it reaches the optimum temperature of 97°C when it turns green and the light produces text reading 'okay to brew'. Once the tea has been brewing for the 2-3 minutes with a timer and red light shown the light then switches to green with,  'tea ready'. When the tea is then poured into a cup the light projects the different temperatures at which you may want to drink your tea which you can touch. The light then goes red until your chosen temperature of the tea is reached.  

The above concepts are pretty amazing although we are left questioning the need for this technology. Tea making and map folding (although extremely important) are not the most crucial processes in our lives or ones that specifically need improving, but perhaps this technology will be applied to more critical processes when it has been improved further. 

The final few examples of using semantic light are uses such as for mobile shopping solutions, making books interactive through light and even decorating and re-decorating your home instantly. The point that Segall finishes on  is that our physical and digital space is becoming one, light is what connects us and our entire world becoming clickable. 

Available for Pre-Order,NEW Sylvania LIFX Wifi Lamp that will last you 27 Years!

The Smart Phone Controlled Wifi lamp is getting more and more popular with more brands getting their version out on the market. Here at The Led Specialist, we are liking the new addition to the competition. 

The LIFX is a wifi enabled, multi-coloured, energy efficient LED lamp that you can control using your smartphone. This new lamp has come to be through the new and fashionable way of raising funds for startup businesses, crowdfunding. Using the Kickstarter site LIFX raised $1.3m in only six days. It soon became clear that there was real demand for this product in the market. Since being on Kickstarter, LIFX has received a lot of media attention and has been highlighted in such newspapers as the New York Times, Washington Post and The Economist amongst others. It is now being regarded as one of the best new smart home devices and is extremely desirable. 

Inventor, Phil Bosua and his passionate team of developers, engineers, markerting and customer support staff aim to deliver the top of the class in the smart bulb experience and it certainly looks like LIFX is a contender to outshine the others. The team claim that ' LIFX is like going from black and white television to full-colour HD' with a whopping '16 million colours at your fingertips.' It is impressive without a doubt. 

Aswell as the ability to change the colour of your lamps to what seems like every imaginable colour, a simple app update will allow you to wake up naturally each morning with an automatically increasing light and help ease you into blissful sleep with a feature that slowly dims. In addition to the aesthetic and holistic advantages of this lamp, it is also amazingly simple to install; available in traditional bayonet (BC) and edison screw (ES) caps, LIFX can be installed into existing fittings with no need to hire an electrician. LIFX also has a lifetime of up to 40,000 hours, which means if it is in use for 4 hours a day, it will last you a staggering 27 years! 

Take a look at the video and see for yourself at http://www.havells-sylvania.com/lifx/  or go to our website to pre order :http://theledspecialist.co.uk/led-light-bulbs.html?product_brand=18