Ellumiglow Lighting Technologies Blog

We are excited to announce our new summer hours in our showroom! We welcome visitors in the Pacific Northwest including Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, Eugene, Salem and Bend Oregon to visit Monday through Friday, 9am to 6pm. Designers looking for ideas for showroom lighting or retail lighting, feel free to stop by. We have a number of LED's, Laser, and Electroluminescent lighting pieces to show real world scenarios of how lighting can help enhance and bring focus to your products. For more information or to make an appointment to meet with one of our lighting experts, please call 877.615.6556 or email info@ellumiglow.com.

One of the biggest requests we hear at Ellumiglow.com is, "we want something that looks like Neon, but isn't Neon." We heard you and that's why we created Pixel-Free LED . The world's first and most versatile light strip that's perfect for stage performances, retail and trade show displays, safety, signage and more. Neon looks cool, but the chemicals used are harsh, difficult to work with, fragile and require advanced knowledge of glass. Pixel-Free LED is easy to work with and customize, bright and even changes colors (with RGB). Flexible, diffused and customizable, Pixel-Free LED strip lighting checks all the boxes for today's most popular requests. Many times, custom display and production companies spend a great deal of time and resources to diffuse LED hot spotting in their displays because today's high end clients don't want to have to subject their customers on the harsh reality of today's bright LEDs. Instead, Pixel-Free LED offers ...

If you are interested in the latest lighting technologies, want to learn how to incorporate #lights into your next product idea or project, then you owe it to yourself to come visit our storefront in Inner SE Portland, Oregon. We've been hard at work creating some fantastic displays that showcase how to use all of our products. Coming soon to our blog are the behind the scenes look at how we made our EL Wire & Laser Wire® displays, #PixelFreeLED Infinity mirror and more. Our office address is located across from Montage at 222 SE Alder St. STE 1, Portland, OR 97214 - We're open from 9am to 4pm Mon - Fri, and hope to see you soon! Here's a couple sneak peaks of the work in progress. If you would like to make an appointment to discuss how to #integrate lighting into your product line, we would love to talk. Please call us at 877.615.6556 or email info@ellumiglow.com.

We get the question often, what's the difference between Electroluminescent Wire and Laser Wire™? They're both accent lights, right? Well, that's about where the similarities stop. Let's dig into the differences here. We also created a quick video showing the differences side by side (below). EL Wire has been around since the early 2000s, and is a thin wire that is powder coated with the element of Phosphor. Specialized voltages and frequencies excite the particles inside, creating a beautiful glow. The inside is made up of a copper core wire, and small angel hair wires which create a positive and negative charge for the electrodes to pass through. EL Wire can be cut to nearly any length and can be bent to nearly any shape. Laser Wire™ systems on the other hand are using specialized optical fibers which transmit light down an extremely thin tube. The entire diameter of the wire is 0.9mm, and the lighted element inside is less than 0.2mm. That's about the size o...

We are excited to announce the beginning of a new era of LED Strip Lighting, including the addition of our Auralux line of high output RGB LEDs. The new Auralux 3535 RGB LED puts out a whopping 1320 Lumens per meter, with a narrow 110° beam angle. This makes it ideal for retail applications, stage performances, and more. Designers love these strip lights due to the rich colors the upgraded chip puts out. We put this video together as a side by side comparison to our already bright Auralux RGBW lights. For more information on RBG or RGBW lighting, or RGB LED Controllers , please contact info@ellumiglow.com.

Ellumiglow is proud to announce the partnership to distribute Lumilor EL Paint through its authorized channels. With a proprietary twist on EL Paint, Lumilor manufactures a specialty mixture which allows a multi-stage application process to add light to just about anything. ABOUT LUMILOR Lumilor, based out of Medina, Ohio is a company specializing in Electroluminescent coating applications. Back in 2009, founder Andy Zsinko, an aftermarket painter and the mastermind behind Lumilor was sharing a beer with his pals when he came across the realization that there had to be another way behind glow in the dark paint applications. With short lifespans and disappointing brightness, he knew there had to be a way of controlling lighting. Thus the start of Electroluminescent Paint. ABOUT EL PAINT Electroluminescent (or EL) Paint is exactly how it sounds. A paint based application that allows you to add light to nearly any material. Helmets, cars, bicycles, buildings... If you can dream it, ...

LED Video Walls are spectacular when used in retail environments, stage performances, and events, but the knowledge gap between them seems to be extraordinarily complex. From send and receive cards, to the video processor, and that's before you get to the actual videowall led . In this post, we hope to explain some of the working components of them to make understanding the process of LED Video Walls a little easier.  What To Look For In An LED Video Wall The main question we get when dealing with digital video displays is what spacing (we call it "Pitch") do you need between LED's? The rule of thumb we like to say is 1:1. 1mm spacing per 1m (~3ft) from your viewing distance. If it's a small retail display, the most common distance from viewing the display is probably 2-3M (6-10ft), or a pixel spacing of 2mm - 3mm. If your spacing is farther apart, the resolution will appear lower. If your spacing is more (closer together), you may not notice the additiona...