MasonliteUSA

Please see the attached press release concerning the Voltarc closing. If there are any questions please do not hesitate to ask. Thank you, Jeremy Light_Sources_Inc._PressRelease_VOLTARC_08_06_09_final.pdf

Joe and I are now working side by side! Its great to have him on board.

As an employee of LSI and LCD Lighting hopefully I can add some insight to all of this and answer any questions that there may be. As many of you know back at the end of 2008 Voltarc had filed chapter 11, now almost a year later LSI has aquired the assets of Voltarc. The current plan is within the next 4 weeks, pack up the equipment that is located in Waterbury Connecticut, and move it to our current manufacturing facility in Orange CT. We will still keep the Voltarc name for all lamps and wiring devices. If there are any questions please ask. thank you, Jeremy

Hello all, Just want to say a big thank you for those of you that stopped by the booth to say hello. This show was much better than expected and we had a huge response from the Long Life T8 HO lamps. Thank you again, Jeremy

Every lamp that will be offered in the T8 long life as well as the T12 lamps (all except the T12 long lamps, 108, 117 & 120 along with the U lamps) will have the tri-band phosphor. The Tri-band phosphor holds up better in the long run, gives you a higher CRI so it brings out the colors more. We will offer our product in Triband Cool White (the triband cool white will bring out the reds alot better) Triband Day Light (the triband daylight will bring out the blues alot better) and we are also going to offer our Triband 5000, the Triband 5000 has been blended for the highest CRI available. The 5000 is reccomended as this will bring out all of the colors the way they should be seen, it will make the reds redder, blues bluer, greens greener ect.. The Triband is one of the main ingredients in longer life. It will not degrade as fast as the halo phosphors normally used in the sign industry. Thanks for the question. If there is anything you would like to not just give a shout. Hope to see you at the show. Best Regards, Jeremy

Hello all, Been a member here for a little while and mostly a lurker on the site just to keep up on things here. I just want you to know that we will be an exhibitor at ISA 2009. As some of you might remeber the masonlite name as being the manufacturer of neon tubing and electrodes, when we purchsed the company we decided to take a change into the market, we have been producing fluorescent long lamps F108, F117, & F120, along with all the T12 U lamp sizes. We were at the USSC show in AC but there was not much traffic there like the ISA show. At this show we will be showing our new product line of T5, T8, & T12 long life lamps, along with our T8 cold climate lamps, and our diffused lamps. I know there is some talk in the works about switching from T12 to T8 lamps in certain sign cabinets. Usually more bad then good, but I think once you see the good it may change a few minds for those still using fluorescent lamps or replacing them in current signs. If this is something that may be of interest to you please take a swing by our booth 4066. If there are any questions please feel free to let me know. I look forward to meeting some of you. Happy New Year to all and safe travels in April. Jeremy

No problem. Just figured if I can help a little I would.

If I may add my 2 cents into this as I work at a plant that manufatures all types of fluorescents, specialty fluorescents and CCFl lamps. On the CCFL lamps in diameters from 2mm - 8mm, the lamps use a neon/argon gas mix with a gas pressure of aroung 50 - 60torr and only a few mg of mercury. the smaller the diameter and the longer the length greatly increases the lamp starting/ignition voltage. The highest is usually around 1200 volts and that is on a 2mm X 500mm lamp. Once the lamp strikes the operating voltage on the same lamp will drop to around 800 volts. The CCFL lamps use a very high voltage but a extremly low current, current levels are usually anywhere from 5 - 8mA. They are extremly efficent and if the lamps are driven properly the lifetine is up over 30,000+ hours. Also the phosphor used on the mini lamps (at least the ones we manufacture) use a Tri-band phosphor which is a red green blue mix. We have over 150+ differnt blents that we can use on these lamps. I know that sounds a bit crazy but the reason behind this is due to the LCD flat monitors are all differnt. If you pull a OEM lamp out and do not match it, it can throw the color of the dispaly way off, this is extremly important for us in Avionics applications. On T5, T8, & T12 lamps there is ~20 mg of mercury in them. On compact lamps, there are nothing more than a smaller designed fluorescent lamp that operates in the same manor as a T5-T8-T12 type of lamp. There are differnt methods for these lamps, such as rapid starting, instant starting, and filiament preheat. This is all depending on application and ballast. Sorry for the boring post but if it helps one person that it worked. If there are any questions you guys every have please dont hesitate to ask. If you want to see some of the applications that these products go into vist our website at http://lcdl.com not sure if you are allowed to post websites so sorry if that broke any rules. Jeremy