Golden DRAGON Plus: Maximum Efficiency for Urban Lighting

The lighting used in urban areas, such as roads, tunnels, bridges or squares, already often goes beyond the general function of illumination. After all, it has the ability to guide road traffic, present buildings and advertisements in the right light, or give pedestrians a safer feeling at night. However, efficiency and economy also play an increasingly important role when it comes to urban lighting.

OSRAM Opto Semiconductors offers a new version of the Golden DRAGON Plus specifically for outdoor applications. From now on, roads, car parks, underground car parks and public parks can be illuminated even more effectively and energy-efficiently by light with a neutral-white colour appearance. Colour temperatures of 4,000 K, 4,500 K and 5,000 K are available. The new Golden DRAGON Plus combines maximum efficiency with slightly reduced colour rendering properties – i.e. typically 90 lm/W at 4,000 K and a CRI of 70.

With the new Golden DRAGON Plus, efficiency can hence be increased by more than 15 percent. Its colour appearance is very similar to that of conventional lighting technologies (e.g. HID, high-pressure discharge lamps), meaning that the light is perceived as comparable. The new LED also boasts a very long service life in excess of 50,000 hours (depending on the operating conditions) and contains no materials harmful to the environment. The radiation characteristics and footprint are compatible with the previous Golden DRAGON Plus LEDs, enabling the customer to switch to the required version easily at any time, without having to redesign the optical system. The new LED supplements the established Golden DRAGON Plus with a CRI of 82 and a typical value of 75 lm/W.

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