This Technical Note discusses issues related to the development of a consumer friendly light output metric....

This Technical Note covers the accreditation requirements for independent laboratories seeking to submit test results to the Lighting Global Quality Assurance program and for manufacturers who would l...

This Technical Note examines the environmental durability of pico‐powered lighting products and focuses on solar radiation and its effect on plastics used in product housings and wiring assembles....

This Technical Briefing Note examines corrosion mechanisms common to electronic assemblies and summarizes conformal coating and potting technologies used to mitigate corrosive action in finished pico‐...

This Technical Briefing Note identifies a few basic design steps and user instructions that can protect pico-powered lighting products from early failures caused by water ingress....

This Technical Note is Part I in a series of Notes examining the environmental durability of pico‐powered lighting products....

This Technical Note discusses how solar module performance characteristics relate to off‐grid lighting systems and how to best assess module performance by measuring the current‐voltage (I-V) performa...

This Technical Note describes ways that sealed lead-acid (SLA) batteries can fail during storage and shipping and suggests steps that manufacturers can take to prevent damage to their SLA products in ...

This Technical Note compares several existing and emerging lithium-ion battery technologies and provides an overview of the safety issues involved in designing products with lithium-ion batteries....

This Technical Note covers methods for measuring lumen maintenance of LED-based off-grid lighting products, focusing on low-cost methods to evaluate a product’s ability to provide long-term lighting s...