Grote’s New Lighting Products Include LED Conversion Bulb


The SuperNova LED Hook-Up Lamp


LightForm flexible lighting film

Grote Industries has developed several new lighting products, including one it calls a game changer – the Trilliant 36 LED WhiteLight Conversion Bulb – and another described as the first of its kind – LightForm flexible LED lighting film.
The company said its long-lasting Trilliant 36 LED WhiteLight turns any PAR 36 incandescent or halogen lamp into an LED WhiteLight Lamp.

“The LED bulb snaps easily into any standard PAR 36 housing and has two terminals designed to accommodate either a screw or a FastOn cable connection,” said Mike Grote, business development manager for the company.

By simply changing a light bulb, he said users can turn an incandescent or halogen lamp into a 900-lumen LED WhiteLight lamp that delivers beam evenness, cooler temperature and light/dark contrast similar to natural sunlight.

The life span of an incandescent bulb is 25 to 500 hours. The Trilliant is rated at 40,000 hours and uses half the power of incandescent bulbs. “In many cases the bulb will outlast its housing and the vehicle on which it is installed,” Grote said.
The bulbs come in a wide flood-beam pattern and in the company’s new TractorPlus beam pattern.

“It’s not just the number of raw lumens a lamp will produce,” Grote said. “It’s how you focus those lumens on the task at hand. Our new beam patterns are a refinement that pays off in better visual acuity and in better human and vehicle performance.”

The company’s LightForm flexible LED lighting film, less than one millimeter thick, is a solid-state product for placing LED light in tight spots formerly inaccessible to lighting.

The light film is flexible enough to bend around corners, over contoured areas and into complicated shapes. It can be cut with scissors, sewn into fabric or applied to an indoor or outdoor surface with a strip of two-piece adhesive.

LightForm comes in colors and is the first product of its kind, according to the company.

“We’re marketing it as decorative, but also to fire services and the transportation industry,” said Chris Cammack, Grote’s product marketing manager. “Its use is limited only by the imagination. A fire chief was one of the first to call us for information. He had the idea of sewing it into his company’s hoses.”

Wire-free and made of two-piece conductor material, the light film hooks up to a standard 12-volt power source and comes in 10-inch strips which can fasten together to form a 30-inch light strip. Each 10-inch strip produces 7.8 lumens of LED light, about as much light as a 40-watt bulb, Cammack said.

Another new product from Grote is the SuperNova LED Hook-Up Lamp, designed to light the space between tractor and trailer.

Until now, the company said one or two incandescent hook-up lamps were mounted on the rear of a cab, often causing a bright spot at the center of the work area with light diminishing on the periphery.  

The SuperNova, according to Mike Grote, focuses LED white light in places inadequately lit by previous hook-up lamps.

The unit creates a controlled, 250-lumen beam pattern that casts light evenly across an area. One SuperNova can replace two incandescent lamps while offering a 50-watt power savings, Grote said. 

 The lamp emits brilliant light that approximates the characteristics of sunlight – the light most favorable for human sight, he said. The 12-volt lamp is rated for 50,000 hours of service. 

Grote Industries has been in business 109 years. The company makes for vehicle safety and lighting products. For information, go to www.grote.com.


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