We believe that if the decisions being made are engineering-centric over people-centric, that productivity will inevitably suffer. There is
no other asset more important than the people working in any artificially lit spaces including offices, libraries, or classrooms.

We generally spend more hours under artificial lighting than we do outside under the suns natural wavelengths. What could therefore be more sensible than to try and emulate, as best we are able, natures crisp fresh light for the time we spend indoors?

EnerLink LED uses only quality branded Osram LED with extremely high colour rendition (CRI 95) and even a high R9 value (R9 95) that enhances the Red colour spectrum that are often neglected with other light sources.

For us, while the engineering details are genuinely important, our motivation is to increase the wellness of the people working under our light fixtures and if that means we sacrifice a few lumens to achieve that, we are ok with that. If the people are happy in a given space, they will work harder, be more productive and be more accurate with their respective tasks. It makes so much sense but is so often not in the engineering ideology. EnerLink LED is a high quality product at a fair market price. The range is built in New Zealand and exported across the world. The EnerLink LED range is so adaptable; it has been used to solve a variety of problems, both in existing buildings and new installations.

WHY LED?

LED is in the process of changing everything we know about lighting. Because LED is not a lamp source it needs to be treated quite differently to traditional light sources. LED is an electronic component that happens to give light, so it needs to be treated as an electronic component and not a light bulb or traditional fluorescent tube. EnerLink LED has been developed by Antipodes LED in New Zealand, using a co-operative group of engineers from around the world.

These engineers combine their knowledge of LED technology, driver technology and commercial lighting manufacturing to ensure that all heat produced is within tight requirements of the electronic component that is LED. All international requirements in terms of testing are available for download from our website, www.enerlinkled.com.

LED technology is also greatly improving the ability to render colour accurately and very soon will have colour rendering better than 90% in accuracy as standard, as compared with fluorescent, which generally speaking, is only 80% accurate. LED has no warm-up time and therefore will give 100% light from the moment you turn it on; this is especially noticeable when compared with the small fluorescent technology that can take up to three minutes to reach full brightness.

WHY INVEST?

Because LED is a solid state device it does not have the limitations of filaments that are associated with both incandescent light bulbs and fluorescent technology. These filaments limit the life of traditional sources and can be seen as blackened ends of tubes or in the light bulb itself. Because LED is solid state, if the temperatures are handled correctly, there can be many hours of maintenance-free lighting for the customer. The other advantage of LED is the much higher potential limits for light output versus energy input; this means far greater energy savings without diminishing the amount of light in your space. LED is also very easily dimmed so it can be used in conjunction with natural lighting to further reduce power bills, lowering precious overheads which instead can be invested into more staff, more computers or more stock.

IMAGINE A COST-EFFECTIVE LIGHTING PRODUCT THAT HAS A FAMILIAR LOOK BUT OFFERS INSTANT SAVINGS AND RADICALLY LOWERED MAINTENANCE.

All you need to do is take down one fitting and replace it with our EnerLink LED fixture. EnerLink LED is generally wide enough to cover the dark burnt-dust patch that the old surface fluorescent left when you took it down. The ceiling won’t even need a repaint! EnerLink LED easily links old fluorescent-based technologies to new LED. The biggest issue the market has at present is the relatively high cost of quality LED and its respective control gear (called an ‘LED Driver’). EnerLink LED complies with international standards, as well as offering unbeatable value and quality. To maximise your savings, you can add a wireless Zigbee module that will switch off EnerLink LED if there is a lot of natural lighting in a space, such as in an office or classroom. This system also will turn off after a set period of time if there is no one occupying the space. How much energy is wasted each year by lighting empty offices or classrooms?

Even better, there is no need for expensive retrofitting of data wiring because the sensors and EnerLink LED fittings will talk together wirelessly. EnerLink LED has the ability to link one fitting to another to create one long light fitting. It even has an inbuilt channel for running power supply cables between fittings. This eliminates the need to mount the fittings on a separate channel (such as unistrut), so it can be used in supermarket aisles, manufacturing, warehousing or even libraries where continuous suspended lighting is often required. We have very carefully selected a universal-styled product that is able to cover a wide range of applications, from retrofitting standard fluorescent battens to office (VDU friendly) uses. The product could be surface- or suspended-mounted or even be linked to form lines of light (think supermarket shelf lighting or library shelves). It could be used as direct lighting only or in suspended mode, with a low-profile LED extrusion on the back and an uplight component added.