align="justify">Many companies have ventured into the LED street light market with varying degrees of success. One new company, Remco Solid State Lighting, has delved into this market with a recently patented light engine for a truly equivalent prototype street light. As the old adage suggests, seeing is believing (See the bright LED street light in the foreground).

 

Real LED-based lighting application replacements for existing light sources must be direct lighting replacement solutions - lumen for lumen and LUX for LUX, and offer the benefits of energy savings and reduced maintenance costs.

 

Conventional streetlights use a halogen high pressure sodium bulb. Even non-technical people can see the difference in a picture from the tests. Russel pointed out that despite having retrofitted a GE Cobra street light fixture with its light engine while still using the Cobra optics, the street light was able to produce more light at a greater efficiency than conventional high pressure sodium.