There is no safe formula for success in business. Industry structures continuously evolve. The Goodyear, IBM and Honda approaches will probably not work forever. Chinese makers of cheap goods need a high volume of shipment to offset thin profit margins, and delays in payment due to tight credit problems can dangerously destabilize their cash flow. It’s a domino effect. The developed market’s weakness is hurting China and all the other emerging markets. We will strive to strategize ways to recognize the nature of competition and sustain the change in everyday behavior needed.

What is different is that a premium product or service doesn’t become premium because its maker put a fancy label on it or calls it premium. The customer determines the grade. The product must inherently deliver more. Company no longer count on positioning a product as “exclusive” or best of class and expect it to be accepted on those merit alone.

The one thing that no one can deny is the fact that life is all about choices. We are what we are today as a result of the choices we made in the past and that is why it is imperative that we must make right choices always. We at D’ Light Shoppe are immensely driven to succeed in a world where the rate of change seems to accelerate every day.

The trend today is inexorable: what customers want, and what they are increasingly able to get, is more-for-less. There’ll settle for less-for-less, and they’ll gravitate towards same-for-less, but they will really want is more-for-less. The way our business is currently delivering value to customers and to help customers to translate their ideas from vision to reality.

Value is and will continue to be an important consideration as the buyer weighs and evaluates choices of where to spend more money. More- for- less is a game plan pregnant with possibilities. We will continue to provide customers with more quality of products, more quality of service, at less cost. Moving forward constantly, looking and searching for new ways to add more and do it for less.

In view of the economic uncertainty, this issue we will be trying to eradicate myth, unveil the very basic of cost saving methods with common sense. To adopt the following simple care will help substantially reduce maintenance cost.

MAINTENANCE AND CARE FOR LAMPS

Lamps play an important in producing the gentle atmosphere, and regular maintenance should not be neglected. Good care and regular maintenance can prolong the usable lifespan of the lamp, providing durable high luminosity and displaying vividly clean appearance as well as possibly save energy. The following are some elementary steps for your implementation.

1. Periodic Clearance

Although the indoor lamps are less likely to collect dust in a short period of time, it does not warrant insulation against any foreign materials against the appearance. Soon the layers of dust will have adverse effect on the performance of the lamps and somewhat influence the output efficiency.

2. Avoiding Moisture

Excessive moisture in any given space will indefinitely shorten the usable lifespan of the lamp. Minimize the humidity by providing well ventilated or to dehumidified to avoid damage to the lamp.

3. Replacing Old Bulbs

When the incandescent lamp and energy saving bulbs approaches the end of the serviceable life, the output and the efficiency will gradually decrease. In order to provide the best illumination result, the light bulbs should be replaced when both ends of the bulb become dark.

4. Discarding Low –Efficient Lightings

There are many factors that will influent the energy consumption; frequent switching, change of ambient temperature, voltage and frequency of circuit loop resulting in wastage of power. Different lightings have diverse effects with vary illuminating properties. As in the incandescent lamp which uses 3 times more energy than the fluorescent lamp; the dimmer switch control output can reduce energy consumption.

5. Making Good Use Of The Natural Light

Prior to serious interior design planning, the door, windows and other open spaces should be considered in advance to allow sufficient natural daylight, thus avoid unnecessary illumination and let the artificial lightings only for the nightly illumination.

The above issue and other daily common factors will effectively and expeditiously break the insurmountable barriers in lamps maintenance to create awareness for a better life.

Should you have any enquiry or require exchange ideas leading to improve evaluation of diverse array of light innovations, business partnership, franchise or any relevant consultation, do contact:

D’Light Shoppe

Lot 10, Ground Floor, Kolam Centre (Hilltop), Off Jalan Lintas, Luyang, 88300 Kota Kinabalu.

Tel: 088-272736, Fax: 088-272739

Mr. Richard Tay, 0168310001 (HP) email, richtay@usa.com

Announcement!!!

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Now everyone can afford decorative lights...


location : Lot 10, ground floor, kolam centre, off jalan lintas, luyang 88300, kk,sabah.
( opposite southen bakery )

date : 24th May 2008 to 24th June 2008

DownLights

Today, we are introducing new variety of downlights.

Here are some samples sold in D'Light Shoppe,Hilltop.

Stylish silver .
6 inch.
w/out glass

Modern look
6 inch/4inch/2inch
with glass

White
4 inch/6inch
with glass

Introduction

The first lamp was invented around 70,000 BC. A hollow rock, shell or other natural found object was filled with moss or a similar material that was soaked with animal fat and ignited. Humans began imitating the natural shapes with manmade pottery, alabaster, and metal lamps. Wicks were later added to control the rate of burning. Around the 7th century BC, the Greeks began making terra cotta lamps to replace handheld torches. The word lamp is derived from the Greek word lampas, meaning torch.

Oil Lamps

In the 18th century, the central burner was invented, a major improvement in lamp design. The fuel source was now tightly enclosed in metal, and a adjustable metal tube was used to control the intensity of the fuel burning and intensity of the light. Around the same time, small glass chimneys were added to lamps to both protect the flame and control the flow of air to the flame. Ami Argand, a Swiss chemist is credited with first developing the principal of using an oil lamp with a hollow circular wick surrounded by a glass chimney in 1783.

Lighting Fuels

Early lighting fuels consisted of olive oil, beeswax, fish oil, whale oil, sesame oil, nut oil, and similar substances. These were the most commonly used fuels until the late 18th century. However, the ancient Chinese collected natural gas in skins that was used for illumination.

In 1859, drilling for petroleum oil began and the kerosene (a petroleum derivative) lamp grew popular, first introduced in 1853 in Germany. Coal and natural gas lamps were also becoming wide-spread. Coal gas was first used as a lighting fuel as early as 1784.

Gas Lights

In 1792, the first commercial use of gas lighting began when William Murdoch used coal gas for lighting his house in Redruth, Cornwall. German inventor Freidrich Winzer (Winsor) was the first person to patent coal gas lighting in 1804 and a "thermolampe" using gas distilled from wood was patented in 1799. David Melville received the first U.S. gas light patent in 1810.

Early in the 19th century, most cities in the United States and Europe had streets that were gaslight. Gas lighting for streets gave way to low pressure sodium and high pressure mercury lighting in the 1930s and the development of the electric lighting at the turn of the 19th century replaced gas lighting in homes.

Electric Arc Lamps

Sir Humphrey Davy of England invented the first electric carbon arc lamp in 1801.

• How Arc Lamps Work
  A carbon arc lamp works by hooking two carbon rods to a source of electricity. With the other ends of the rods spaced at the right distance, electrical current will flow through an "arc" of vaporizing carbon creating an intense white light.

All arc lamps use current running through different kinds of gas plasma. A.E. Becquerel of France theorized about the fluorescent lamp in 1857. Low pressure arc lights use a big tube of low pressure gas plasma and include: fluorescent lights and neon signs.

First Electric Incandescent Lamps

Sir Joseph Swann of England and Thomas Edison both invented the first electric incandescent lamps during the 1870s.

• How Incandescent Lamps Work
  Incandescent lightbulbs work in this way: electricity flows through the filament that is inside the bulb; the filament has resistance to the electricity; the resistance makes the filament heat to a high temperature; the heated filament then radiates light. All incandescent lamps work by using a physical filament.

Thomas A. Edison's lamp became the first commercially successful incandescent lamp (circa 1879). Edison received U.S. Patent 223,898 for his incandescent lamp in 1880. Incandescent lamps are still in regularly use in our homes, today.

Lightbulbs

Contrary to popular belief, Thomas Alva Edison did not "invent" the first lightbulb, but rather he improved upon a 50-year-old idea. For example: two inventors that patented an incandescent lightbulb before Thomas Edison did were Henry Woodward and Matthew Evan. According to the National Research Council of Canada:

"Henry Woodward of Toronto, who along with Matthew Evans patented a light bulb in 1875. Unfortunately, the two entrepreneurs could not raise the financing to commercialize their invention. The enterprising American Thomas Edison, who had been working on the same idea, bought the rights to their patent. Capital was not a problem for Edison: he had the backing of a syndicate of industrial interests with $50,000 to invest - a sizable sum at the time. Using lower current, a small carbonized filament, and an improved vacuum inside the globe, Edison successfully demonstrated the light bulb in 1879 and, as they say, the rest is history."

First Street Lamps

Charles F. Brush of the United States invented the carbon arc street lamp in 1879.

Gas Discharge or Vapor Lamps

American, Peter Cooper Hewitt patented the mercury vapor lamp in 1901. This was an arc lamp that used mercury vapor enclosed in glass bulb. Mercury vapor lamps were the forerunners to fluorescent lamps. High pressure arc lights use a small bulb of high pressure gas and include: mercury vapor lamps, high pressure sodium arc lamps, and metal halide arc lamps.

Neon Signs

Georges Claude of France invented the neon lamp in 1911.

Tungsten Filaments Replace Carbon Filaments

American, Irving Langmuir invented an electric gas-filled tungsten lamp in 1915. This was a incandescent lamp that used tungsten rather than carbon or other metals as a filament inside the lightbulb and became the standard. Earlier lamps with carbon filaments were both inefficient and fragile and were soon replaced by tungsten filament lamps after their invention. See - Tungsten Wire History

Fluorescent Lamps

Friedrich Meyer, Hans Spanner, and Edmund Germer patented a fluorescent lamp in 1927. One difference between mercury vapor and fluorescent lamps is that fluorescent bulbs are coated on the inside to increase efficiency. At first beryllium was used as a coating however, beryllium was too toxic and was replaced with safer florescent chemicals.

Halogen Lights

U.S. Patent 2,883,571 was granted to Elmer Fridrich and Emmett Wiley for a tungsten halogen lamp - an improved type of incandescent lamp - in 1959. A better halogen light lamp was invented in 1960 by General Electric engineer Fredrick Moby. Moby was granted U.S. Patent 3,243,634 for his tungsten halogen A-lamp that could fit into a standard lightbulb socket. During the early 1970s, General Electric research engineers invented improved ways to manufacture tungsten halogen lamps.

In 1962, General Electric patented an arc lamp called a "Multi Vapor Metal Halide" lamp.