Articles by Samantha Montes de Oca

Articles by Samantha Montes de Oca

How to Make a DIY Christmas Wreath With LED Strip Lights
December 4, 2020

How to Make a DIY Christmas Wreath With LED Strip Lights

When it comes to pre-lit Christmas wreaths, white, multicolored, and fiber-optic color-changing are about the extent of available options. This year, you can make your house stand out with an LED DIY Christmas wreath. Using a Color-Chasing RGB LED Light Strip Kit with an included remote, your wreath can display 29 colors and 99 dynamic color-chasing and color-changing modes and patterns.

How to Create Your Own LED Light Fixture: Aluminum Channels
November 6, 2020

How to Create Your Own LED Light Fixture: Aluminum Channels

Build linear lines of light to fit the practical and aesthetic needs of your space. Our ever-expanding line of KLUS brand Aluminum Channels provide safe, durable, and beautiful housing for our offering of LED strip lights.

DIY Halloween Crafts Using LED Tea Lights
October 1, 2020

DIY Halloween Crafts Using LED Tea Lights

Get crafty this Halloween! We’ve put together some Halloween crafts that you can do with submersible color-changing LED tea lights and things you probably have lying around the house. These simple tea light crafts make great projects to do in the classroom, at home with your kids, or just because you’re feeling festive.

The Advantages of LED Hospital Lighting
August 3, 2020

The Advantages of LED Hospital Lighting

Previously, incandescent and fluorescent light fixtures were the light source of choice for hospitals. But as both LED technology and healthcare facilities improve, flickering dull light is being replaced with warmer, more human-centric illumination. The transition to LED lighting not only allows hospitals to provide better service to their patients but reduces maintenance and energy costs so resources can be spent on people rather than bulbs.

Tunable White LED Classroom Lighting Improves Student Performance
August 2, 2020

Tunable White LED Classroom Lighting Improves Student Performance

Traditionally, classrooms have been lit by fluorescent fixtures that emit a single color of light. This color can range from warm white to cool white, but once a light fixture is chosen, there’s no option to change its color throughout the day. Research has shown that the inability to change lighting color to match a natural lighting cycle can have many negative consequences on the body’s mental and physical behavior.

RGBW flood lights on stairs
June 23, 2020

Brighten Up Your Backyard Party with Outdoor LED Lighting

Whether you’re having a few close friends over for cocktails or throwing a Fourth of July bash, outdoor LED lighting can help liven up your yard. Long-lasting, energy-efficient LED lights have many outdoor uses, such as deck, porch, and patio lighting, tree uplighting, and gazebo lighting.

Tunable White LED Panel Lights Mimic Natural Light Cycles
May 7, 2020

Tunable White LED Panel Lights Mimic Natural Light Cycles

Tunable White LED Panel Lights give businesses the option to implement more human-centric lighting into buildings. With the ability to change white temperature with the simple control of remote or switch, these fixtures can mimic natural daylight cycles.

LED Parking Lot Lighting Case Study: CCA Global Partners, St. Louis, MO
May 3, 2019

LED Parking Lot Lighting Case Study: CCA Global Partners, St. Louis, MO

In an effort to improve parking lot visibility while drastically reducing energy costs, CCA Global Partners replaced metal-halide lights with energy-efficient LED lights.
Industrial/Commercial Recommended Lighting Levels
Residential Recommended Lighting Levels
March 8, 2019

Residential Recommended Lighting Levels

Use these tips to find out how much light you should have in each room of your house!