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The beginning of the LED Street Lighting Era...
The first PFI compliant street light manufactured entirely in the UK, or as I call it, the beginning of the purge. Its a very interesting thing, very heavy, bulky and the LEDs are what I call suction cup LEDs, using a big diffusing/reflecting cone. It really shows the other way things couldve gone - there looks to have been experimentation with replaceable components like the LED modules, but its very primitive, and things went the opposite way to be made cheaper, less serviceable and quickly recyclable.
Keywords: led;advanced leds;marlin

The beginning of the LED Street Lighting Era...

The first PFI compliant street light manufactured entirely in the UK, or as I call it, the beginning of the purge. Its a very interesting thing, very heavy, bulky and the LEDs are what I call suction cup LEDs, using a big diffusing/reflecting cone. It really shows the other way things couldve gone - there looks to have been experimentation with replaceable components like the LED modules, but its very primitive, and things went the opposite way to be made cheaper, less serviceable and quickly recyclable.

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Album name:LeoLampposts / LED Lanterns
Keywords:led / advanced leds / marlin
Manufacturer:Advanced LEDs LTD
Type/Model:Marlin 1000
Wattage:45W
Date manufactured:2010
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Date added:10 Sep, 2026
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Ash   [10 Sep, 2026 at 08:31 PM]
It is a good example of how things could and should have been done in terms of assembly, but this design specifically is extremely glary. With each LED pointed to a specific area, only this one LED is the only point source of light when the luminaire is viewed from the ground from that area. What they should have done is create a cluster of replaceable LEDs in the optical center of an otherwise HID lantern assembly. There were several lanterns from several manufacturers doing just that (some using Philips Fortimo modules) but they all seem to have went out of favor in favor of the inferior flat things. At least one of the reasons (or excuses to blame the design) was the poor reliabillty of the LED modules themselves

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