Energy Efficient Lamp offers high-quality lighting.
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ConstantColor® HIR(TM) MR16 lamp features ConstantColor coating, which prevents coating degradation and minimizes light loss, resulting in lumen maintenance rating of 90%. Light loss is also minimized from back of lamp, focusing light on displayed merchandise. Unit's IR coated capsule and cover glass eliminate UV-B and UV-C radiation to help reduce fading and discoloration of displays. Track lighting product is also suited for heat-sensitive applications.
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GE ConstantColor® HIR MR16 Lamps Enhance Efficiency, Light Quality
CLEVELAND, OHIO - New ConstantColor® HIR(TM) MR16 lamps from GE Consumer & Industrial, which can replace standard MR16 lamps, offer up to a 43 percent improvement in energy efficiency and a higher quality of light through improved center beam candle power (CBCP) and color temperature maintenance.
In addition to energy cost savings, customers will achieve savings in maintenance costs since the new ConstantColor HIR MR16 lamps offer a rated life that's two times longer than standard halogen MR16 lamps. Total savings over the life of a single lamp can amount to $9.45 in operating costs compared with a standard halogen lamp (assumes $2 in labor cost per replacement lamp, 4,500 annual operating hours and $0.10/kWh).
The new lamps feature GE's exclusive ConstantColor coating, which prevents coating degradation and minimizes light loss. The result is a lumen maintenance rating of 90-percent. The new HIR MR16 lamp also minimizes light loss out of the back of the lamp, which reduces stray light and focuses more light on the displayed merchandise.
"From energy efficiency and reduced maintenance costs to consistent, high-quality light that puts merchandise in the best light possible, our new ConstantColor HIR(TM) MR16 lamps provide advantages that are hard to beat," says Mike McVeigh, global product manager, GE Consumer & Industrial. "This is also a great new lamp for fixture companies that want to offer a high quality, energy-saving track lighting solution that can serve as a point of differentiation."
An IR coated capsule and cover glass virtually eliminate UV-B and UV-C radiation to help reduce fading and discoloration of displays. The IR coating also makes the lamp ideal for heat-sensitive applications.
GE Consumer & Industrial spans the globe as an industry leader in major appliances, lighting and integrated industrial equipment, systems and services. Providing solutions for commercial, industrial and residential use in more than 100 countries, GE Consumer & Industrial uses innovative technologies and ecomaginationSM, a GE initiative to aggressively bring to market new technologies that help customers and consumers meet pressing environmental challenges, to deliver comfort, convenience and electrical protection and control. General Electric (NYSE: GE), imagination at work, sells products under the Monogram®, Profile(TM), GE®, Hotpoint®, SmartWater(TM), Reveal® and Energy Smart® consumer brands, and Entellisys®, Tetra®, Vio(TM) and Immersion® commercial brands. For more information, consumers may visit www.ge.com.
