Boston uses SL-Dolphin fixtures in street lights

These lights are installed in a municipal parking lot in the city's Jamaica Plain district, a classic 'streetcar suburb'.

Boston will monitor the energy savings achieved using Everlight's 128W Cobra LED fixtures instead of the previously installed fixtures, which used 250W high-pressure sodium lights.

In addition to saving more than 60 per cent of the energy costs, LED technology reduces light pollution, greenhouse-gas emissions and re-lamping costs, with an LED lifetime of more than 50,000 hours.

In addition to greatly reduced energy consumption and zero maintenance costs that Everlight LED street-lighting technology brings to municipal budgets, other technological advantages include: pollution free/RoHS compliance (no mercury, lead or other hazardous components); shock, vibration and impact resistance (no arc, tube or glass to break); solid-state device with silent operation (no filament to burn-out); fast response time: instant on with no re-strike delay (no flicker); instant on in hot and cold weather; and better colour rendering to show true colours of the objects lit (such as cars and clothing), improving security.

The SL-Dolphin is part of the growing portfolio of lighting modules from Everlight.

Other typical applications include fluorescent replacement in office lighting environments as well as landscape accent/spot and architectural lighting, display-case accent, flood, mood, biological and general lighting.