The innovative patents pending XCELLUME™ Long Life PAR lamp with PowerBoost™ circuitry produces a fast warm up resulting in a brighter lamp during the initial minutes of operation unlike that of the traditional CFL’s . The unique fluorescent reflector lamp is flat (only 1/4” thick). The lamp has external electrodes, therefore there are NO filaments to deteriorate. This allows the lamp to operate in high vibration environments without effecting life, and with no filaments to burn out, this allows millions of on/off cycles with no effect on life or lumen maintenance. XCELLUME™ yields the life of a solid state LED lamp at the cost of a compact fluorescent lamp with the flood lighting and warm color of incandescent. All this is achieved while reducing power consumption by 75% and saving over $112.00 over useful life of 25,000 hours.

Lumiette Inc. warrants that its products will be free from defects in materials and workmanship for a period of three-years or 25,000 hours (whichever comes first) from date of installation or date of manufacturer if installation date is unknown. Systems demonstrated to be defective within the warranty period will be replaced at Lumiette's discretion at no cost provided that the system was properly installed and operated according to manufacturer’s recommendations.

Tubular Compact Fluorescent Lamps, or CFLs were invented in the 1970’s and commercialized in the 1980’s as the replacement for the standard incandescent light bulb, often referred to as Edison based lamps. And now there is XCELLUME™ by Lumiette, which is the first Flat Reflectorized Compact Fluorescent Lamp.

The incandescent Edison based lamps will be regulated out of existence due to their very inefficient use of electricity to generate light. United States federal law has scheduled incandescent light bulbs to be phased out starting in 2012 and completed by 2014.

Why CFL? The incandescent light bulb uses a lot of electricity to heat a filament to produce a soft white light slightly yellowish white in color often referred to as 2700K. The 2700K is a technical term for the color temperature of the light.

• 2700K = Soft White = A softer yellowish white color
• 5000K = Whiter Light = A light blue white color
• 6500K = The color Daylight = A cool blue white color

How light is created in a CFL is quite simple. When electricity is applied there is an electronic driver circuit that converts the 60Hz 120v power to high frequency and lower voltage, which creates a current that passes inside the tube. This current runs between the two filaments at each end of the tube and causes the very small amount of mercury vapor inside the bulb to release energy in the form of electrons that hit the inside bulb wall. When the electrons hit the inside wall they release energy, it is that energy that excites the phosphor to create the light that we see. By changing the composition of the internal phosphor manufacturers are able to control the color of the light.

Light that is generated is measured in “Lumens” and is sometimes referred to as lumen output. Higher numbers indicate more light output.

• 40 Watt Incandescent - 500 Lumens
• 60 Watt Incandescent - 850 Lumens
• 75 Watt Incandescent - 1200 Lumens
• 100 Watt Incandescent - 1700 Lumens

Another important term is lumen maintenance also known as lumen depreciation. Lumen maintenance or lumen depreciation is the gradual reduction of lamp brightness over the life of the lamp. All fluorescent require 50 to 100 hours to stabilize. The lighting industry long ago established that initial data would be recorded from the 100-hour life point. Therefore when lumen depreciation is given it is as a percentage of the 100 stabilized hour data reading.

On average, a CFL bulb uses 75% less electricity than an incandescent light bulb.