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Hornet is a slim, low profile LED light that ‘disappears’ under the eaves of a building. The technology behind the lighting system is different from traditional lighting. Rather than employing a single COB LED solution, the Hornet has a linear strip comprising 24 Lumileds Luxeon high-voltage, low-current LEDs driven by a compact, high-voltage LED driver design.
To maximise thermal heat dissipation away from the LEDs, Gerard Lighting mounted the LED board on an internal vertical wall allowing the heat to be transferred through the diecast body to external surfaces.
A custom lens was designed to capture the light and optimise the output by using refraction and total internal reflection with angles calculated to achieve the required beam and optimise the efficiency.
A combination of clear and frosted sections of the lens produced beam uniformity with soft edges.
In the LED chips that were used there’s a unique lens system that has been designed in house.
The Hornet has a lens system that disperses the light around the LED chips – to make sure the light is dispensed from the fitting and highly reflective, so the Hornet is delivering as much light out of the fitting as possible in its small size