For 40 years, Moon International has been envisioning, creating and implementing original and productive retail spaces. Their team of innovative designers is always looking for new and more efficient ways to backlight their beautiful signs. They know that LED lighting is more than just a trend – LEDs use a considerably smaller amount of power to output light, and last far longer than conventional bulbs, even compact fluorescents which is very important in the retail grocery trade they serve. In addition, their small and flexible shapes allow for a wider range of applications than could normally be achieved with other forms of lighting. 

Newark’s Greg Fell had been calling on Moon for a number of years, so, when an opportunity came up for LEDs, Greg helped them choose VCC for their interior cabinet lighting project. They selected VCC’s one watt starboard LED with heat sink. VCC unique method of light delivery options helped provide a suitable solution for a complicated design.

MOON’s customer required a multiple of LED’s wired together to back light a display cabinet, with little
ventilation. VCC all in one LED and heat sink package made MOON’s design become reality, requiring just soldering the LED to the Starboard heat sink and then using double sided tape gave an easy functional solution for MOON. VCC starboard 1Watt LED’s are available in multiple colors.

Let us help you find the right VCC product for your design issue.

LED’s are a staple of signage and signal applications and with the wider use of high power LEDs the range of applications is constantly expanding to practically limitless proportions. High power LEDs can be driven at currents from hundreds of mA to more than an ampere, compared with the tens of mA for other LEDs. Until recent years their use has been limited by the need for large heat sinks and thermal management issues.  The latest developments have introduced the ability to control and maintain brightness levels without “hot spots” and “not spots” for further efficiency improvements. More strategic configurations of heat sinks, new heat sink materials and metal core printed circuit boards have improved control thermal of management problems. These advances have allowed new areas of development.

High power LEDs from VCC are now in use for in an almost limitless number of applications among which are:

• Accent lighting applications such as: contour lighting, stairway lighting, pendants, coves, displays and front panels.
• Outdoor lighting applications such as: floodlights and landscape lighting.
• Specialty lighting applications such as: Flashlights, reading lamps, security lighting and more.

Architects, Engineers and Security Specialists are including LED usage in the basis of their core designs effectively replacing incandescent, halogen, and even fluorescent style lights. The largest selling points in these applications are the ability to meet new environmental standards from LEED and other groups for close to 40% improved power efficiency and the ability to reduce the overall carbon footprint of the building. High Power LEDs also enjoy a longer operating life that practically eliminates the need for maintenance.

High power, high intensity LED selections from VCC offer many additional benefits including:

• Silicone lens technology
• Saturated color spectrum
• Special “design-to-fit” secondary optics
• Low thermal resistance
• Full dimming capabilities
• Superior ESD protection
• 100% RoHS Compliance

Our LED selection experienced less than 10% light output decay under test conditions and with our many vivid, saturated colors, surface mounted options and high energy efficiency, our product range has the right high power LEDs for your requirements. Contact us today and our dedicated professionals will be happy to help select the right product for your high power LED application.

1W High Power LED on Star Board

After enjoying initial success with our through-hole LED offering, VCC is moving forward with its surface-mount LED line. The introduction of the surface-mount line rounds out VCC’s ability to be a true single-source solution for LED needs. Whether its the LED, a light pipe, or any other of the many VCC mounting components, we are now a one-stop shop for our customers.

Standard package sizes will include 0402, 0603, 0805, 1206, and PLCC2. Additionally, VCC will be offering a line of high power SMD LED solutions. These include .5W, 1W, and 3W products. Custom design solutions are also available. LEDs will be available in early October.

All of the VCC LED specification sheets are currently available at the VCC website.