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Yvonne Carts-Powell

LEDs installed in Buckingham Palace.

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In Buckingham Palace, LEDs were recently installed to illuminate the palace’s grand staircase. The lights were manufactured by Bespoke Lighting International (Birkenhead, England) and LEDtronics (Los Angeles, Calif.), which recently merged. The project required 32,000 warm white, red, green and blue LEDs. The new lights provided a range of several thousand color temperatures. “The system is controlled remotely by radio transmitter,” explained Pervaiz Lodhie, president of LEDtronics.

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