Optec for track

The key design feature of the Optec spotlight range is the separation of light head and control gear housing. The thermally separated mounting compartment ensures excellent heat management for the electronic control gear of the lamps. Because of the comprehensive system structure with its various lamp options and beam angles, Optec is particularly ideal for lighting sales areas, restaurants or galleries. The relationship between visual comfort and light output ratio is optimised for the wide range of applications of these spotlights. The different characteristics and the robust aluminium luminaire housings have stood the test in many practical applications.

The successful Optec range of spotlights already features the second generation of LED spotlights: with interchangeable Spherolit lenses, optimised light heads for increased luminous flux from more compact housings - and as a special feature in the range, an LED projection spotlight with framing attachment.

Summary of lamps and beam characteristics
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System design
Different lighting concepts require luminaires with precisely adapted lumen packages. The Optec product range features assorted wattages in a uniform design with adapted housing sizes, which are easy to combine.

Sharp-edged projection
The projector spotlight with framing attachment produces sharp-edged beams. This, for instance, creates the effect of a crisp focused beam illuminating an image that appears to be self-illuminating. Made of polycarbonate, the framing attachment of the LED projector spotlight ensures easy sizing of the projection area. The projection lens can be adjusted to set the sharpness of the progression.

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Adjusting the projection area
The projection area is increased by pulling out the framing attachment. Perspective distortion is balanced through rotation of the attachment.

Setting the sharpness
The sharpness of beam edges is set by adjusting the lens holder.

Heat management
ERCO places particular importance on heat management. This ensures that LED modules operate within their safe temperature range, achieving rated life and output for the specified power throughout their entire operational life.

Dimming on the spotlight
Spotlights can be dimmed in various ways for efficient visual comfort. The versions with electronic control gear developed by ERCO have an integrated potentiometer to adjust the luminous flux precisely and individually.

Dimming via circuit or DALI
Spotlights with potentiometer can also be operated by external trailing-edge dimmers. This makes them ideal for an energy-efficient renovation of existing lighting installations which are equipped with this widely used dimmer technology. Alternatively, spotlights are also available as DALI-compatible Light Clients.

Varychrome RGBW
The modules of the varychrome RGBW luminaires consist of a combination of warm white and coloured LEDs. This allows for excellent colour rendering and infinite adjustment of the colour temperature.

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Narrow spot
Used to accentuate small objects with high light intensity or to project over greater distances between the luminaire and the target object. Beam angle < 10°.
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Spot
This is the standard characteristic for accent lighting for objects of all kinds, especially to reveal the three-dimensional shape. Beam angle 10°-20°.

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Flood
Used for efficient accentuation of large objects or to uniformly emphasise a complete spatial zone. Beam angle 25°-35°.

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Wide flood
Used for flexible, flooding illumination of surface areas and spatial zones, especially useful for the presentation of goods. Beam angle: > 45°.

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Oval flood
The Spherolit lens or Spherolit reflector, oval flood, has an axially symmetrical light intensity distribution. It produces an oval beam of about 20° by 60°.

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Lens wallwashers
The light intensity distribution of the lens wallwasher is designed to provide very high uniformity.

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The quality of the optical systems has a major influence on the overall efficiency of an LED. To produce directed light, as occurs in spotlights, ERCO develops their optical projection systems in-house. A collimating lens, as a secondary lens, is the interface between the LED lens on the printed circuit board and the exchangeable Spherolit lenses acting as tertiary lenses. The collimating lens directs the light of the LEDs into a parallel beam in order that the required light distribution can then be created by the tertiary lens. The principle of total internal reflection in the collimating lens contributes to the high efficiency of the optical system. Decades of experience in injection-moulded polymers ensure the highest quality levels from our in-house production plant.

Spectral distribution

Coloured light

The radiation spectrum of warm white LEDs is free of ultraviolet and infrared components and has a reduced blue component. Its relative damage factor for sensitive exhibits is less than for halogen lamps with UV filters, making warm white LEDs recommendable for museum lighting.

The saturated LED lighting colours enable a wide variety of mixed colours within the triangle of red, green and blue . LED modules with additional white LEDs, known as RGBW modules , improve the colour rendition for the colours of light with respect to the Planckian locus.

Characteristics of LEDs

Warm white LEDs
The relative spectral distribution of the warm white LED with luminescence conversion is closely related to the relative brightness sensitivity of the cone cells of the human eye. The result is high luminous efficacy and good colour rendition.

RGB LEDs
The RGB LEDs are ideal for mixing highly saturated coloured light. However, the white light from RGB LEDs does not give satisfactory colour rendition quality, making it less suitable for lighting tasks where colour is critical.

RGBW LEDs
Mixing RGB LEDs with warm white LEDs combines the advantages of both systems: RGBW luminaires produce variable shades of white along the Planckian curve with excellent colour rendering, but also coloured light in pastel hues all the way to the highly saturated range.

LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes) are semiconductor elements that directly convert electrical energy into light via electro-luminescence. The outstanding characteristics of LEDs include robustness, long functional life and a high luminous efficacy with high potential for further increase. White LED-light is free of ultraviolet and infrared components and therefore has advantages from a conservation point of view. Daylight white LEDs offer higher efficiency, whereas warm white LEDs have better colour rendition quality. LEDs are dimmable and offer high switching stability, making them ideally suited for lighting control and additive colour mixing. Unlike other light sources, RGB LEDs do not produce any transmission losses through colour filters. To exploit the luminous flux of the temperature sensitive LEDs to the full, good thermal management is indispensable.

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Projects with Optec for track

International projects and application studies introduce interestingarchitecture and exemplary lighting applications. Concrete descriptions ofthe lighting solutions with impressive photos explain how the lightingeffects are achieved.

Kvadrat Showroom
Stockholm

Lufthansa Aviation Center
Frankfurt am Main

ERCO Steigenberger Grandhotel Handelshof

Steigenberger Grandhotel Handelshof
Leipzig

Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. KG
Coburg

Uniqlo flagship store SoHo
New York

Carrasco International Airport
Carrasco (Montevideo)

Oseana
Os (Bergen)

Saatchi Gallery, Duke of York's HQ
London

Leonardo Glass Cube
Bad Driburg

Putna Monastery
Putna (Rumänien)

ERCO adidas NEO Store, Tauentzienstrasse

adidas NEO Store, Tauentzienstrasse
Berlin

Legoland Germany
Günzburg

Domus international furniture
Atlanta

Julie Sohn boutique
Barcelona

Gallerie d’Italia, Piazza Scala
Milan

Aldo Coppola Hairstylist Showroom
Mailand

National Museum of Wales
Cardiff

ZARA, Via del Corso
Roma

ERCO BSH Bosch Siemens Hausgeräte Netherlands

BSH Bosch Siemens Hausgeräte Netherlands
Hoofddorp

The Rug Company Showroom
Stockholm

Iittala flagship store
Amsterdam

Bailly Diehl boutique
Darmstadt

ERCO Students' Union, University of Bath

Students' Union, University of Bath
Bath

Christie's auction house
New York

Winecenter winery Kaltern
Kaltern

Brunner Communication Centre
Rheinau-Freistett

MPreis supermarket
Lans

Tod's Tokyo flagship store
Tokyo

Audi Forum Manhattan
New York

2004 Venice Architecture Biennial
Venedig

Dreipunkt furniture showroom
Stuttgart

ERCO Restaurant Guillaume at Bennelong, Sydney Opera

Restaurant Guillaume at Bennelong, Sydney Opera
Sydney

ERCO Centro Cultural Fundación Circulo de Lectores

Centro Cultural Fundación Circulo de Lectores
Barcelona

ERCO De Bijenkorf department store, shop window

De Bijenkorf department store, shop window
Amsterdam

Hotel Nixe
Binz

Lumas gallery
Düsseldorf

Forsblom Gallery
Helsinki

Terminus gallery
München

Grimm Brothers’ House Museum
Steinau an der Straße

National Portrait Gallery
London

ERCO Museo Superior de Bellas Artes Palacio Ferreyra

Museo Superior de Bellas Artes Palacio Ferreyra
Cordoba

ERCO museum kunst palast, 'Auf Papier' (On Paper) exhibition

museum kunst palast, 'Auf Papier' (On Paper) exhibition
Düsseldorf

Bonnefanten Museum
Maastricht

ERCO Dahlem Ethnological Museum, Africa Exhibition

Dahlem Ethnological Museum, Africa Exhibition
Berlin

Lehmbruck-Museum
Duisburg

Max Ernst Museum
Brühl

Coal washery, Mine Zollverein
Essen

Fondation Beyeler
Riehen, Basel

Augustinian Museum
Freiburg

National Gallery
London

The Uffizi
Firenze

Guide

The Guide section provides thorough information on everything from the physical bases of lighting to suggested solutions for different lighting situations. The interactive knowledge modules vividly illustrate lighting solutions that are possible with this product range.