LED by the GENIE!
We, Gembird Europe BV, are a European manufacturer of computer-related products. We are happy to use this Indiegogo project to announce our revolutionary EnerGenie LED bulb based upon (patent pending) heat pipe design. Heat pipes are quite common solution for cooling computer CPUs but so far have never been used in LED bulbs. The biggest problem of traditional LED bulbs is heat. The heat not only decreases overall performance of the bulb but also causes long-term degradation of the LEDs and even the bulb to totally fail. Our engineering team used their expert knowledge in the CPU cooling field to construct the most efficient LED bulb in the world!
EnerGenie LED bulb - the world's best!
EnerGenie LED bulb produces awesome 135 lumens per watt. It is around 40% better than the traditional LED bulbs!
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EnerGenie LED bulb - best quality light!
We placed LEDs in three dimensions in our EnerGenie LED bulb as opposed to the traditional 2D placement of the LEDs. The outcome is a far greater lit area - 330 degrees, while traditional LED bulbs barely provide 140-160 degrees.
The EnerGenie LED bulb is dimmable and is available in color temperatures of 2700K (warm light) and 4000K (white neutral light).
The EnerGenie LED bulb has a Color Rendering Index of 85 and is available in High CRI version (CRI 92). The colors would look natural with our EnerGenie LED bulb!
EnerGenie LED bulb - guaranteed longer lifetime!
Efficient cooling of the LEDs means there will be no decrease in light output over years of use, while traditional LED bulbs lose around 30% of their intensity after just 10000 hours.
The driver is well separated from the heat source - failure of EnerGenie LED bulb is virtually impossible.
An EnerGenie LED bulb will work perfectly even in a closed light fixture - where the most LED bulbs would fail to work at all!
EnerGenie LED bulb will save you money!
During the lifetime of one EnerGenie LED bulb you would have to buy several traditional bulbs. This on top of the electricity cost savings!
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EnerGenie LED bulb - true replacement to 100W incandescent!
There are 3 modifications of EnerGenie LED bulb available:
- 8 W version producing 1080 lumens which is equivalent to 70 W incandescent
- 10 W version producing 1350 lumens which is equivalent to 85 W incandescent
- 12 W version producing 1600 lumens which is equivalent to 100 W incandescent
EnerGenie LED bulb @ Indiegogo
We have already invested money in production of EnerGenie LED lamp. The mass production is scheduled to be launched in January 2014 and the first shipments can be made in March 2014. With its own factories, Gembird will take care of all technical and production aspects.
The major reason we published this project at Indiegogo is to get the feedback from the market. With your contribution you will actually be voting for the EnerGenie LED bulb to be available in your country.
We are grateful for your support! With the retail prices expected to be Euro 39.95 in Europe and USD 49.95 in USA, with our pre-order options you could save up to 60% of the cost!
All the options available for contribution are for the most popular 2700K (warm light) color temperature (let us know by e-mail if you prefer a 4000K version instead). With the options Donor 1/Donor 2/Donor 3 you would get a basic 8W model. Use 1350 lumens or 1600 lumens options to pre-order 10 and 12W models respectively.
EnerGenie LED bulb - reliable and thoroughly tested!
The prototype bulbs have been extensively tested in table lamps and ceiling light (upside down) for more than one year. More than one thousand EnerGenie LED bulbs have already been produced as a test batch. The EnerGenie LED bulb is a mature product and we are ready for the mass production which would take place in January 2014.
By March 2014 the EnerGenie LED bulb will be certified by UL/ETL/CE. It will be tested against the following standards:
ROHS
2002/96/EC
2011/65/EC
REACH
REACH 1907/2006
REACH 2005/618/EC
LVD +EMC Directive
2004/108/EC
2006/95/EC
Ecodesign 244/2009
ErP 2009/125/EC Directive
EN 63612 Self ballasted lamps
for general lighting services by voltage >50V -Safety
IEC 62612 Self ballasted lamps for general lighting services - Performance
requirements
EN 62471
Photo-biological safety of lamps and lamp systems
LVD 2006/95/EC Standard
EN 61347-1: 2001,
EN 61347-2-13:2006, EN 60825-1:2007, EN 60598-1: 2004, EN 60598-2-1:1987
EMC Standard
EN55015:2000+A1:2001+A2, 2002 EN 61547: 1997+A1: 2001, EN 61000-3-2:2006, EN61000-3-2:2000+A2:2005, EN 61000-3-3:1995+A1:2001+A2:2005
Some FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions):
Q: Internet is full of stories about failures of LED lamps. How would EnerGenie LED bulb rate in this respect?
A: The major reason of a LED lamp failure is the heat penetrating to the driver. Let us have a look at the traditional LED lamp design:
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As you can see with this design the driver is placed right next to the source of heat - LEDs. The excessive heat might dry up the electrolytic capacitors inside the driver, the outcome of which is the lamp failure!
Now let us check what happens inside the EnerGenie lamp:
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The driver is placed far away from the LEDs. So the failure of EnerGenie LED bulb is next to impossible!
Q: Can this bulb be used in a closed fixture with no opening, like a globe or sphere? Or, must this bulb have air circulation for good, long life?
A: The big advantage of the EnerGenie LED bulb is that the driver is well separated from the source of heat. See the picture below:
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So unlike the traditional LED lamps the driver will not suffer from the overheating at all. We have been testing the EnerGenie LED lamp in a closed fixture shown below for more than a year, without any issues for the driver:
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Q: Would you be able to prove this statement with the measurements? What is the temperature inside the driver cavity after 30 minutes of operation?
A: Below you will find the table with the temperature measurements (in degrees Celsius) inside the driver compartment. All the measurements are taken for the lamps inside the closed fixture shown above.
| Lamp/Time |
5 min |
10 min |
30 min |
60 min |
| EnerGenie LED bulb E27 8W |
27.6 °C |
33.8 °C |
45.8 °C |
49.6 °C |
| A-brand traditional LED bulb E27 8W |
40.8 °C |
50.8 °C |
71.1 °C |
77.6 °C |
Have a look at the chart with these measurements:
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The advantage of the EnerGenie LED bulb over the traditional LED bulbs is quite clear! And of course, lower temperature of the driver guarantees much longer lifetime of the bulb.
Q: How about LED degradation? I heard that the LED lamps produce less light over the time.
A: Correct. This issue is also related to the heat. The LEDs produce much less light when they are exposed to high temperatures. But there are also long term degradation issues. See the chart below:
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You will see that the LEDs exposed to 100 degrees Celsius (which is normal for traditional LEDs) would lose around 30% of their light intensity after 10000 hours of use. Compare it with 40000 hours by 60 degrees Celsius (LED temperature inside the EnerGenie LED bulb). This is why we claim much longer lifetime for our design!
Q: You claim that EnerGenie LED lamp is able to combat the heat much better than the traditional LED lamps. What is the reason for that?
A: Indeed EnerGenie design is all about efficient heat dissipation.
Traditional LED lamp has a low-efficiency radiator. In fact only the edges of the radiator are conducting the heat efficiently while the middle is quite useless. The LEDs of the traditional LED lamps are placed on ALPCB, which is glued to the radiator. Consequently the LEDs placed in the middle of the lamp are most suffering from the heat issues. Further to save the cost the radiator is hardly able to dissipate the heat produced by the LEDs even under the ideal conditions of air convection. In the real world the LED bulbs are placed into tight lamp shades with the conditions far from ideal.
EnerGenie LED lamp has a unique heat-pipe design where the heat dissipation is close to perfection. The radiator is designed in such a redundant way that he is able to dissipate 21W of energy while only 8W is required. So even if the EnerGenie LED lamp is used in a very tight lamp shade there would be no issues with the overheating!
Q: How can you explain the EnerGenie LED lamp being able to work more efficiently in comparison to the traditional LED lamps? And produce 330 degrees of lit area at the same time? Where is the trick?
A: We do use the industry's best LEDs but this is not the major reason of the EnerGenie lamp efficiency. Let us have a look at the structure of a traditional LED lamp again:
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As you can see the LEDs are placed on a single flat surface. The light they produce is quite similar to what you would get from a uni-directional torch. To increase the lit area through the light reflection the glass is covered with a special coating. The result is indeed a somewhat greater lit area (never more than 140-160 degrees). The biggest trouble of this solution is that some light (up to 40%) gets trapped inside the bulb leading to extra heat and poor efficiency of the lamp in general.
The EnerGenie design is totally different:
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The trick is that LEDs are producing the light in all directions! In fact no coating of the glass is required with this solution at all (if the glass is slighty tinted then it is to produce a warmer light, for no other purpose)! No reflective coating means no loss of energy - 0% loss in the EnerGenie lamp. This special LED placement also provides the lit area of 330 degrees. So in all respects the EnerGenie LED lamp produces the light quality comparable with the old incadescent lamps using only fraction of the energy!
Q: What is the color temperature of your EnerGenie lamp?
A: At this moment we plan two modifications of the EnerGenie lamp - 2700K (warm light) and 4000K (white neutral light). Please, do specify with your contribution which lamps you would want to receive.
Q: How about the color rendering index of your EnerGenie lamp?
A: The color rendering index (CRI) is a very important parameter of the light quality. With CRI = 100 (the day light) we perceive all the colors in a natural way. Low CRI contributes to color distortions. For the lamps the CRI should be higher than 80 for the good quality light. Our EnerGenie lamp uses the industry's best LEDs which allows it to have CRI of around 85. Traditional budget LED lamps normally have CRI of around 75.
Q: Can you achieve 90 CRI in the future?
A: We can produce 90+ CRI EnerGenie LED bulb right now. However the trouble with the high-CRI version is that we should use different LEDs and the lamp would become much less efficient. For CRI 90+ (we expect around 92-93 to be more exact) the lamp would consume around 11W of energy and produce around 840 lm of light.
Q: What is the power factor of EnerGenie LED bulb?
A: The power factor of an AC electrical device is the ratio between the energy used by the device and the energy which bounces back to the energy provider. An efficient device should have the power factor greater than 0.9. EnerGenie LED bulb has the power factor of 0.95.
Q: What’s your sales pitch to someone who can get a pack of 8-10 compact fluorescent lightbulbs (13W actual, 60 W equivalent) for the low price of $6.00. I did the math comparing the difference in energy consumption between my current lights & your LED lights; it would take me 20 years to break even, assuming a cost of $0.085 per KWH, 6 hour run time, 365 days a year. Why would someone want to make the switch? I’m content with the light quality in my house. I see no economic rationale to do this.
A: Lifetime of EnerGenie LED lamp will be 7-8 times longer than CFLs. So you would have to buy 7-8 CFLs during the lilfetime of one EnerGenie LED bulb. Addtionally every switching CFLs on and off decreases their lifetime - there is no such issue with the EnerGenie LED bulbs.
Lumen per watt is also much lower. Energy cost might be low in your country now (since it is heavily subsidised), but would keep growing.
It is important to notice that CFLs contain mercury which is dangerous for the health.
CFLs are also quite troublesome to use - they take time to warm up, might also produce flickering and/or humming noises, harsh light with low CRI. You would really enjoy the EnerGenie LED bulb in comparison with your CFLs!
See the full list of differences between LED bulbs and CFLs here.
Gembird Europe BV has been founded in 1997 in the Netherlands.![]()
From the very beginning the company strategy has been to develop its own innovative products. In 2008 the company made big endeavors towards embracing green energy-saving technologies and introduced a new trademark EnerGenie - intended to deal with the energy-related, environmentally friendly products.
EnerGenie is all about environment, all about a better, sustainable, green world. EnerGenie products won numerous international awards, one of them being a prestigious innovation award for the E-printer at CES 2012 in Las Vegas, USA.
Share the wonder of EnerGenie LED bulb with us!
Let us see you smile at your energy bill!
Let your support to EnerGenie be your contribution to a better, green world!
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