For a lot of businesses, lighting is a very important feature. Aside from its functionality, lighting also greatly influences the customers’ total experience. It helps create the mood and also gives the place its own character and ambience. Dimming light bulbs are usually needed in settings where the mood of the lighting has to be adjusted several times throughout the day. This is especially true for hotels, convention centers, conference rooms and so on.
TCP Inc. (Technical Consumer Products, Inc.) is a company that, for more than seventeen years, has been the leader in developing and innovating the CFL or compact fluorescent lighting technology. In fact, TCP was one of the first leaders in dimming compact fluorescent light bulbs.
In 2010, the company introduced the TruDim™ CFL. It is a fully dimmable CFL with an IC chip integrated in the light bulb’s ballast design. This IC chip contains the company’s own NXP Green Chip technology.
One of the marvels these lamps is that the technology in these compact fluorescent light bulbs allow for a linear dimming effect. Other dimming light bulbs have a curve wherein they usually dim slowly at the start before actually dimming down, and then cut off at about 20%. In fact, this has been the common complaint of consumers with the other dimming CFL lights, they are very slow in warming up and their dimming levels do not come down to as low as incandescent bulbs. But with the TruDim™ technology, the light bulb dims down without any fluctuations and cuts off from 100% to as low as 2%.
Another unique and innovative feature in this new product line launched by TCP is that it has a programmed instant bright segment embedded in it which enables it to start fast. This is another proprietary technology developed by the company that helps the lamp achieve its full brightness or lumen capacity ¾ times faster than the other dimmable products in the market. It then adjusts to normal brightness after thirty seconds.
TruDim™ fluorescent bulbs allow the mood to be created in separate sections throughout an entire area of business. And it can be done any time in the day or night, whether for formal, casual, corporate, or social occasions. The compact design also gives significant savings in energy throughout the lifetime of the bulb.
These TCP lamps are also available with a coating called “TCP-ARMOR” that renders them shatter-proof. They are also available in various colors and temperatures ranging from 2700K to 6500K. They work like an incandescent but without the flickering effect of past dimming CFLs. And with a rated life of 10,000 hours of normal use, it is no wonder these are the leading light bulbs in compact fluorescents.
Cornelius Vanderkolk having come to Hawaii over 10 years ago, jumped into the lighting industry for his initial career as a consultant in calculating ROI and providing energy efficient lighting solutions servicing home owners, businesses, and commercial properties. In Hawaii where Kwh rate is some of the highest in the nation, he has been instrumental in introducing leading edge LED light bulbs solutions into the markets as they became available and first viable. With the fast evolving developments in LED lighting, he is never short of sharing the fast changing technologies amongst client, colleagues, friends and family and presenting something new that the industry has developed.
Outside his professional interests, he is active in a variety of civic and cultural organizations including Habitat for Humanity, church affiliate welfare programs, and participating in the Hawaii Film Festival. When it comes to outdoor actives, one can often find him climbing trails, swimming, and posting adventures and scenery photos on Facebook.
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