Pineapple Hospitality brings TCP’s TruDim CFL lighting technology to the hospitality industry
Hotels that are looking to reduce their energy costs may find that the TCP, Inc. TruDim compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) is truly a bright idea. Now available through Pineapple Hospitality, the TruDim CFL performs like a traditional incandescent bulb – with dimming capability all the way down to 2% of lighting capacity – with all the environmental benefits of CFL technology.
“In the past, dimmable CFL bulbs would flicker when they got to the lower end of their lighting range. This is because typical dimmer switches are built for incandescent bulbs, not CFLs. This flicker creates not only a bad visual experience, but it can actually cause early failures for the bulbs,” says David Geraci, CFL Product Manager for TCP. “The TruDim bulb was designed to eliminate that flicker while dimming all the way down to 2%. No other CFL has been able to successfully dim that low before.”
Geraci explains that when it is set below 2%, the TruDim won’t flicker, it won’t fail – it will actually shut itself off, preserving electricity and protecting the bulb from damage.
Pineapple Hospitality, the premiere distributor of green hotel products and marketing programs for the hospitality industry, has added TruDim to its line of energy efficient lighting products.
“TruDim lights up a void the hotel industry had in terms of lighting quality and energy efficiency,” says Ray Burger, President of Pineapple Hospitality. “Previously, there were no suitable and affordable options to retrofit recessed can lighting in meeting rooms and lobbies – the two most common uses for this new technological advance.”
“TruDim lighting matches the output you’d expect from a traditional incandescent light, at a price that beats the LED solutions on the market today. We’re very excited to have the opportunity to bring this unique solution and its benefits to the industry.”
Outshining the Competition
According to TCP, TruDim utilizes a patent-pending high performance CFL ballast design that features proprietary NXP GreenChip power management IC chip technology. This innovation gives the TruDim CFL smoother full range dimming performance, which is designed to more accurately match the human eye’s reactions, making the dimming function more pleasing to the end-user.
“People are so used to incandescent lighting, they want and expect the same kind of performance from the CFL,” says Geraci. “With the TruDim, we can plot the lighting output and find it is step-for-step equal to incandescent lights along the dimming range. That is the kind of seamless transition people have been waiting for.”
TruDim also outshines the competition with quicker start up, achieving full brightness more than 75 percent faster than other comparable products. TCP’s advanced digital InstaBright technology boosts the CFLs’ power briefly to increase initial lumen output and then adjusts to normal output levels after 30 to 45 seconds.
TruDim Technology will also enable low-dimming level starting capability, which reduces the need to reset the dimmer to full-on every time the lights are turned on.
“If you turn the bulb off at 10%, it will turn on at 10%,” says Geraci. “Other dimmable CFLs have to start off at 100% output. This is the user-friendly convenience factor we designed into the TruDim.”
Plus, TruDim bulbs are rated for 12,000 hours of average life, reducing the burden on your property’s maintenance department. Other CFLs rate out at 8,000 hours.
Industry Applications
“There is certainly a need within the hospitality industry for an energy efficient dimmable CFL, especially in 24-hour burn areas,” says Scott Parisi, President of EcoGreenHotel. “Hotels are always looking for new technology that will reduce costs and make their property more efficient. But previous CFLs and LED weren’t as effective, didn’t live up to their specifications, or were too costly to install.”
“There are areas like lobbies where dimming is desired and/or mandated. With TruDim, we’re able to address these certain areas with a cost-effective solution that we weren’t able to before because the lighting didn’t dim properly.”
Parisi mentions that many hotels use dimmable lighting to set different scenes in their lobbies or restaurants throughout the course of a day. But hotels couldn’t rely on the CFLs performance as the lights dimmed, leaving them to rely on traditional lights.
“For every TruDim bulb installed, you are going from 75 watts down to 23 watts – a 300% decrease in energy usage,” says Parisi. “You will see a significant decrease in your electric bills right away. These bulbs can offer you payback within one year, plus most states have some kind of rebate program that you can also take advantage of.”
Pineapple Hospitality offers TruDim is several lamp styles, including R30 16-watt, R20 14-watt, A-Lamp 16-watt and 14-watt, and 14-watt Globes. TruDim works with all standard rotary and slide dimmers in any application where incandescent is used. These include:
Features and Benefits
About Pineapple Hospitality
Headquartered in Saint Charles, Missouri, Pineapple Hospitality™ brings fresh ideas to hospitality guests’ doors and owner/operators’ bottom lines — including FreshStay® (www.freshstay.com), EcoRooms & EcoSuites (www.EcoRooms.com) Environmentally Sensitive Amenities™, EO®, Tommy Bahama, Eco.Fresh, ecossential elements and greenSPA™ amenities, AVIVA and WAVE dispensers, Energy Efficient Lighting and Controls, Custom Linen & Towel Re-Use Programs, , Green Earth Key Cards, Energy Management Systems and Controls, High Performance showerheads, Zero Odor, and dozens of other products and programs. For more information, please visit www.pineapplehospitality.net, or call us at 636-922-2285.
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Reader Comments:
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Great Idea
Now a days as Economy going ,It would be real good things for Hotels. 2011-08-01 jayptel |
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