Luminode UL Testing to be Completed by Labor Day!
The Luminode is scheduled with UL for approval testing for the last week in August. If all goes well we will have UL approval less than three weeks from now! Although this has been a very long time...
View ArticleLuminodes Pass UL Overload Test! Endurance Test Still Running…
I’m here at UL getting started on day two of a full week of Luminode testing. Yesterday the Luminode passed the overload testing and the endurance test is currently running in which six Luminode...
View ArticleLuminodes Pass UL Endurance Test!
It’s the end of my third day at UL this week and what a long day it has been! After a few disagreements with the robot that turned six of the Luminodes on and off 10,000 times, it finally got the job...
View ArticleLuminodes Pass Every UL Test Performed This Week! Only a Few More Tests To Go…
I’m finishing up my last day this week at the UL facility in New York and although there are still a few more tests left to perform, the Luminodes passed all of the tests run this week! We were hoping...
View ArticleLuminode UL Approval Status
We had hoped to be completed with Luminode UL testing by the end of last week while I was at the UL facility in person assisting and witnessing the tests. Although the tests so far have all passed, the...
View ArticleUL Slips Remaining Luminode Testing at Least One More Week
I received word today that UL did not receive an important piece of test equipment this week as they were expecting. This means that they will not be able to resume the remaining Luminode testing until...
View ArticleLuminode UL Update
UL has now received the test equipment needed to perform the LED and CFL bulb related tests and they expect to begin those tests before the end of this week. Meanwhile UL also tells us that the...
View ArticleTwo steps closer to Luminode UL Approval, but a new snag as well…
We received the good news is that UL has approved our air-gap switch implementation without additional hardware modification! We also have passed the LED/CFL bulb overload test and the LED/CFL bulb...
View ArticleThe End of the Line for the Luminode
Back in 2005 I had the start of an idea that I believed could help spread the promise and benefit of home automation around the world. I believed it so much that I would spend the next decade working...
View ArticleOut of the Ashes
My most recent update from last fall was entitled “The End of the Line for the Luminode”. Thank you so much to our backers for the many kind words of support, condolences, and encouragement. I can’t...
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