Certified Testing Laboratories

Underwriters Laboratories is a certified global organization for product safety testing, certification and inspection conforming to the safety codes of the country.

Electrical Testing Laboratories – Intertek is a testing laboratory that inspects, tests and certifies product compliance to North American safety standards.

AWG

U.S. standard set of non-ferrous wire conductor sizes. The “gauge” means the diameter. Non-ferrous includes copper and also aluminum and other materials.

Beam Angle

The angle between the two directions for which the intensity is 50% of the maximum intensity as measured in a plane through the nominal beam centerline.

Color Rendering Index (CRI)

The measure of a light source’s ability to render the color of objects “correctly”, as compared with a reference source with comparable color temperature.

Correlated Color Temperature (CCT)

A specification that defines the color appearance, “warmth”, or “coolness”, of a white LED, by relating it to that of a reference source heated to a particular temperature, and measured in degrees in Kelvin (K).

Digital Multiplex Signal (DMS)

Industry standard protocol for the one-way transmission of dimmer intensity or other data from a controller to a DMX compatible product. Sometimes called, DMX 512, it may be used to control up to 512 channels over a series of DMX connections. Think of each “Channel” as a “Color”, so if you have an RGB light, this would use 3 “Channels” or “Colors”.