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2021: What Steps Are Suppliers Taking to Be More Eco-Friendly?

The shift to live an eco-friendlier lifestyle started in the 1960s where hippies and those alike made daily decisions to live more environmentally conscious. Fast forward to the 1970s, China’s manufacturing sector started taking off. Nations around the world began making a move to source out of China, which forced them to become one of

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Summitech LLC COVID-19 Notice

Dear valued customers, In regards to the COVID-19 global pandemic, Summitech LLC is taking all necessary precautions and steps in order to keep our employees and communities safe in this trying time. Nevada Governor Sisolak ordered all nonessential businesses in Nevada to close for 30 days. We comply with all state-directed requirements. As a part

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Choosing Programmable LEDs

Recent news regarding programmable LEDs sourcing out of China has prompted this article. With a keen eye toward ‘caveat emptor’, we present a guide on what questions to ask of potential suppliers that you are evaluating in the field of addressable LEDs. LM-80 – This standard relates to lumen depreciation, which is the term used

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2019 CES Show

America’s largest consumer electronics tradeshow is upon us once again. Summitech will be attending the trade show in Las Vegas, Nevada on Tuesday, January 8th and Wednesday, January 9th, but the show continues through Friday, January 11th. CES is known for showcasing the next generation of innovations and products every year. Summitech is looking forward

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Listed Versus Recognized – What Those UL Ratings Mean

When you are looking for a product and want to make sure it has a safety rating and is suitable for use in your end product, you must be aware of the slight differences in wording associated with UL labels. UL Listed – This means that samples of the device have been physically tested by

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RoHS 3 – Will you be ready for the new law in 2019?

If you are a supply-chain specialist or an engineer in the electronics industry, you know what RoHS is. You may even know about RoHS 2. But are you ready for RoHS 3? For those that want to learn, RoHS is the Restriction Of Hazardous Substances, a law that originated in the European Union in 2002.

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Be Careful When Sourcing in China

With the advent of Alibaba and other portals into Chinese manufacturing, it has become commonplace for folks to search for the availability of what they need and then contact the manufacturer directly. However, there are many pitfalls to buying products from people you don’t know and trust, and you must be very careful to avoid

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Powering those LEDs – What You Need to Know

Programmable LED strips are fantastic when it comes to adding color patterns to almost anything. But one thing to keep in mind is the power that will be required to run them. Yes, LEDs use much less power than incandescent lights, as most of us know from buying them for our home lighting, but they

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Gamma and LEDs – Adjusting for Brightness

If you’ve ever dimmed a programmable led, you have certainly noticed that the response is non-linear. If you ramp up the duty cycle from zero to one hundred percent, you’ve noticed that the led gets brighter very quickly at the start, then somewhere around the fifty percent mark it stops getting brighter at all. On

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Using A Single Programmable LED ftw!

Most consumer electronics products use indicator lights to display the status of the unit to the customer. Is the power on? Has the unit booted? Is it receiving traffic? These indicator lights are used by technical support personnel to help consumers work through problems they are having. These indicators are almost always LEDs, and they

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