June 2011 - Greyling BC29A Design
This product is directly targeted at the marine aquarium market.
The BC29A LED Retrofit unit has been specifically designed to
fit under the hood of a BioCube 29 gallon aquarium lighting
hood.
It features up to 48 LED modules and 16 driver modules.
This product is in current development. Production is slated to begin in
2011.
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June 2011 - Greyling .33 Board
This is a general purpose LED board with up to 24 LED modules
and 8 drivers. The size of the board is 12 inches wide
(304mm) by 6 inches tall (152mm).
This board will be sold for horticulture, general lighting, and
aquarium use. Numerous other application may also apply.
This product is in currently in production.
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January 2011 - Greyling Mini-9 Board
This was a trial product to see if 9 LED modules
performed well enough for the marine aquatic market.
The board features up to 9 LED modules and 3 drivers.
The prospective customer did not choose to take this product to
production. And our view point on the this product was
that 9 LEDs was not enough to have enough light to serve a
variety of applications. Our follow up product with 24
LEDs is the better design to release to a wider customer base,
so we are producing the Greyling .33 board as a substitute for
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August 2010 - Greyling Mini-3
The Greyling Mini-3 is a test product. It
demonstrates a single driver and LED circuit on a basic Greyling
copper clad board.
This smaller board helped us test an improved modular driver
design.
Although this design was never mass produced, we do intend to
release a 3 LED module design like this for product sampling in
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August 2010 - Greyling Board 304 x 457mm
We consider this product a full size Greyling LED
Board. This is a 72 LED Module system with up to 24
drivers. There is also space reserved on the board for
electronic control and wireless communication.
This was our first fully modular LED board and we learned a lot
from these prototypes.
This board was on display at an aquarium show in Florida in
September of 2010.
This unit has a universal size of 12 inches wide and 18 inches
tall. At some point in the future we will return to this
design, perfect it, and then offer it for sale to the general
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June 2010 -
Greyling Driver Module
Previous work featured drivers which were either built-in or
hardwired into the product directly.
This driver was designed to be modular and therefore
replaceable. Creating a modular driver allows us to make
more advanced drivers in the future and allow the customer to
upgrade their existing products.
This linear driver supplies approximately 400mA of constant
current and is not only low in cost but very robust. |
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June 2010 -
Greyling LED Module
One of the drawbacks of buying LED lighting is the uncertainty
when you will need to change LEDs. Most LED modules
in the market are hard to work with and expensive.
The Greyling LED Module is a single LED replacement that can be
changed by hand without special tools or soldering thanks to our
unique pressure activated connectors which are integral to
the circuit.
The universal design is low cost, easy to clean difficult to
accidently damage and you may choose from a large variety of LED
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October 2009 - All-In-One Board
This project investigated combining all the essential components
for LED power and brightness adjustment and thermal control on a
single board.
We did sell about a limited number of pieces to customers in the
US and England.
The product didn't prove out to be the most flexible and cost
effective because the customer could not change the LEDs or the
electronics and we could not cost effectively create enough
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September 2009 -
Cree XPG Board
This was a follow-up product to compliment all the previously
created LED boards. Like previous LED boards, customers
had to attached their own LEDs and wires to make use of the
product.
We never sold any of these boards. There was little or no
indication that Cree has enough business happening at this time
create any demand for this mounting board.
We later used our experience with this test product to make a
Greyling Module for the Cree XP footprint. |
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July 2009 -
Rebel Board 48
Press Release
The Rebel Board 48 was our first foray into large board LED
lighting. This product features 48 Luxeon Rebels and all
16 drivers built directly into the board.
The product was only 15mm thick and performed nicely but lacked
user serviceability.
A handful of units were sold. Some of those became
horticultural units with Red and Royal Blue LEDs and several
unit were sold for aquarium lighting. |
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February 2009 - Rebel Spot 36
Press Release
This product demonstrated our capability to create high density
LED circuit board arrangements.
This board is 1.4mm thick and has over a 1,000 tiny thermal vias
to pull the heat down to the bottom copper layer.
To this day, we don't believe anyone else has created a board
with this level of light density.
We made 75 prototypes. Most were sold to a French customer
for stage lighting but others went to Benjamin Moore paint
company and the final stock was sold out to 3M research
laboratories.
We learned quite a bit from this project and we may return to it
someday and take this development to the next level.
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January 2009 -
HP1 System
Press Release
This was our last large scale LED control system. We
developed this unit just before the world when into recession.
This unit contains all control and power capability for 80 channels.
It featured control by DMX-512 or by a non-proprietary serial
port byte code protocol.
Current drivers were built into the stack of equipment.
There was thermal feedback communication to the control
equipment so lighting circuits could be dimmed down to prevent a
over-heating condition at the physical LED light fixtures.
This was an enormous undertaking at the time. We spent
quite a bit of time and money on this development.
And we do intend to bring this software and control design to the
Greyling System platform in later 2011.
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December 2008 -
Rebel Strip Development
This project was sponsored by a customer who was combining solar
power with LED lighting for windows.
This design incorporated a light sensor and dimming capability.
Once the sensor was set, the unit would automatically come on at
night and turn off at daybreak. Prototypes are still under
test and working correctly in Alaska.
We did not go into product on this product but it is entirely
possible that we'll follow up on this design and combine
Greyling elements into it and then take it to production at a
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August 2008 -
Cree MCE, XP LED / Rebel Single LED Board
Press Release
Based on our succeed with Rebel Boards, we decided to expand out
line to include Cree products. We also make another
larger Rebel Single board.
This line of products created a standard hole footprint.
We also make drilling templates to help the customer place this
board directly to a heat sink to minimize drilling errors.
The reception to this product line was weak. We did
continued sales of these boards approximately a year later.
We did however take our experience with us to help create the
new solderless LED modules that was created in June 2010.
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May 2008
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Development of the Titan Controller
We were an easily supporter of Lamina Ceramics products.
We did sell some of their Titan LED product line.
The Titan LED Engine lacked thermal control and we designed a
board that bolted down directly to the frame and digitally
monitored temperature and modulate a cooling fan.
We also built this unit to tightly integrate with their lens and
lensing frame.
However, we went unappreciated as a customer. The company
thumbed their nose up at us and we stopped giving them
preferential treatment. We wished them good luck,
but seems they didn't get that delivery. Some number
of months later the parent entity, Light Science group, came in
and took over the company.
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April 2008
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Development of Rebel Circles
We had a customer ask us to specifically to developed this product
to apply LED lighting to a crystal flower sculpture.
The 3 color LED board worked very well for intended use.
The design was also applied to a set of motorcycle headlight
with success.
This product never went into mass production. |
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February 2008 -
Development of Rebel Squares
Press release
The Rebel Square becomes the very first product on the market to
deliver on the promise of mounting LEDs on FR-4 circuit boards.
The product sells but not in great enough quantity to
warrant further investigation. The LED market is very weak
at this time and tying products together - (i.e. LED boards,
drivers, and control) is confusing.
This product was a good test of FR-4 copper board capabilities and we
have leverage the results in all our work that followed. |
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June
2008 -
80 Channel DMX Lighting System
This unit was custom built for a Disco customer.
This unit was hand built and driven by our own software.
Each channel pulse width modulated 1.4 amps of current.
And the control signaling was strictly DMX-512.
This unit was a precursor to our HP1 unit.
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