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Every year, thousands of seabirds and sea turtles die from getting unintentionally netted by fishermen. However, researchers are shining a light on ways to prevent this problem occurring.Off the coast of Peru in 2011, a two and a half year experiment took place which involved the bycatch of cormorants, a fish-eating bird. Two nets were dropped into the ocean, one with LED lights attached and one without.At the end of the test period, it was appar… Read more

Beautifully breath-taking, Japan’s wildest light display is famed for using millions of LED light bulbs to depict astonishing scenes of nature from not only Japan, but around the world.The illuminations which Nabana no Sato have been creating for 14 years consists of two large tunnels which visitors are guided through. The older of the two tunnels (Kawazu Sakura) uses pink bulbs to mimic the growth of cherry blossoms through the tunnel whereas th… Read more

Before the world of energy-efficient lighting, it was easy to know how bright bulbs were. 60W was brighter than 40W, and 100W was even brighter. But now, watts are not the best way to measure a bulb’s brightness at all… Lumens vs Watts Now that the energy-efficient revolution of LEDs is well underway, watts are not an accurate representation of the light that is produced. For example, a 6W LED can produce the same amount of light… Read more

Update (09/08/18): The loyalty points scheme will now be coming to an end on Friday 10th August 2018, so as of Saturday 11th August 2018 any unused loyalty points you have on your account will be lost forever.Update (30/07/18): We have taken the decision to extend the loyalty points scheme until later in the Autumn. We will come back with a new date in the coming weeks.If you’ve shopped with Wholesale LED Lights before, you will have earned loyal… Read more