80 thousand sets of why Li Jiacheng touted the bulbs sold in the United States?

According to Lei Feng, the light bulb, which looks like a small object, how to make a smart bulb and traditional light bulb at the same time? Yan Sicheng answer is directly to they do not look the same. But how to do the bulb is not the same thing is still lying on the bed can be completed, choose what material, what shape, what the function is to consider things.

Open several crowdfunding website you can see, the lighting hardware has not so-called explosion models, from the perspective of why lighting intelligent hardware is becoming Yan has something to say.

Nanoleaf in the United States?

The public is a good form of the product is not popular, the public to raise the site to know. Nanoleaf first generation products on the Kickstarter raised $270 thousand, for most products, has been a very good result, and the second generation of products is slightly worse, but there are $180 thousand.

So what about sales? Yan Sicheng told reporters they had sold about 80 thousand sets, it sounds like a rather optimistic figure, because the Kickstarter sponsored a Nanoleaf Bloom bulb you $40, you can also choose to buy at a price of $35 on the official website, have praised the other side of the ocean in the United People's or rich.

But landing Baidu future stores are far more cautious, not only the starting price reduced to 168 yuan, limited to 500 pieces of the words is also very loud. Yan Sicheng said he wanted to sell fifty thousand units before the end of the year, but the reporter Lei Feng think after careful research that he would have anticipated down to one thousand.

How did Nanoleaf decide to do it?

The idea originated when Yan Sicheng student at University of Toronto, when he was in a solar car team realized that the energy consumption is a great thing, now there are countless energy is being used, then the energy after being spent? No is No. He began to realize the importance of energy efficiency, how to improve the efficiency of energy use, the idea began to get deeper in his mind. Also in the team, he met a like-minded friend, a very good friend of the power design.

So he took his friends to China, which is a rich and rapidly developing country. "I see a lot of good things in China, and they are very cheap. I see a lot of different lights in Guangzhou, but what puzzles me is why the energy efficiency is so low? The energy efficiency of many bulbs are below 80%, 100W's energy is only 80W of the last light effect. So my partner would like to say that we develop our own more efficient bulbs. "Yan Sicheng speak fluent and the" crooked fruit "accent, in the mind all in search of a Chinese vocabulary. This is the story of three years ago.

LED is the truth of saving light

One bulb looks really like a light bulb, Nanoleaf seems like a similar form of lighting art is not only a mosaic trace, PCB plate itself is like a half finished product, and semi-finished materials shape is commonly used gimmick art. In fact, although we can not say Nanoleaf do not pay attention to color value, but the energy efficiency is becoming the most Yan hung in the mouth of words.

Yan Sicheng made no secret of their appearance in the pay, "before making this product, they have been to dozens of all different lighting factory, found the radiator basically all have aluminum lamp. Why do you want this? We don't need to start from scratch. "

Yan said this is because becoming emboldened them to do, to achieve a high level of energy efficiency, the LED lamp is almost the only choice. Compared with traditional incandescent lamp and tungsten filament lamp, LED lamp has incomparable advantages.

High brightness: ordinary incandescent lamp and tungsten lamp luminous efficiency of 12-24 lumens / watt, while LED lamp can reach 80-120 lumens / watt, and even the future may reach 150 lumens / watt or more.

Low power consumption: 10W, LED, etc. can achieve the effect of 80-100W incandescent lamp, the same brightness power consumption is lower.

Low fever: LED lamp heat is much smaller than incandescent lamp, Nanoleaf in the brightest when you can use your hand to hold.

Small size: LED is basically a small piece of the chip is encapsulated in epoxy resin, so it is very small, very light.

What are the benefits of PCB board as the main material?

Why choose PCB board? Mainly divided into three aspects, one is the heat, the choice of PCB board to facilitate heat dissipation, but also in the back of each LED bulb and copper to heat, after a long time to maintain the use of about 40 degrees. The two is foldable (compared to glass), can be folded form. Finally, directly with the PCB board can be directly embedded in the bulb. Have you considered other materials? Yan said they are considering becoming more soft board or plastic, but the PCB Board meets their needs.

So what does Nanoleaf do? A PCB board is divided into 11 parts, of which there are 6 regular pentagon, the other 5 parts have two sides to extend. Each part is embedded in 3 small LED bulbs, add up to a total of 33. Spliced together, it becomes a nearly all directional light bulb, which is a trade-off