19. January 2010 by Brent.

Does blinking lights make light therapy work better? Hmm…. Does a strobe light make you dance better because they can’t see 3 quarters of your fancy dancing moves?

I kind of get a kick out of this question.

Whenever a light is blinking, that means it’s off for some amount of time.
That means you’re not getting light therapy for the time it’s off. They usually blink on and off evenly. You’re only getting half the light energy. Kind of like filling your coffee mug with dripping water rather than pouring. Which would you rather do?

I haven’t seen any studies indicating blinking is better than non-blinking.
Only three reasons I can see to blink:

1. Looks pretty and makes you think it really is doing something special.
Put on your leisure suit, get out the old Bee Gee album, and hit your Light therapy blink button. yowza yowza yowza

2. Blinking or pulsing may cause cells to be more stimulated. Like getting slapped. That’ll wake you up. Again, you would have to say that the blinking is more beneficial than twice as much energy, because to reiterate, “THE BLINK MEANS THE LIGHT IS OFF”. No Light = No Light Therapy. Just simulate the blinking by putting your light in behind a fan and save yourself the extra blinking money.

3. Most logical and real reason: LED’s get hot. Heat reduces their lifespan, and reduces the amount of light you actually get. Most electrical engineers make the light blink to cool them. In fact most LED’s are actually blinking, but it’s so fast you can’t see it. If you have a video camera with a variable shutter speed, you can speed the shutter speed up and can usually detect the blinking.

Anyways, I don’t know why but all this talk about blinking is making my eyes tired. Stare deep into the blinking lights. Your getting
sleepy…..sleepy…zzzz

Posted in Uncategorized | Print | 3 Comments »

15. January 2010 by Brent.

I did a blog check for light therapy, and didn’t find much. I found lots of marketing blogs, most on SAD lights, but not a lot of good independent (if there is such a thing) info. So either blogs are out, or light therapy is ripe for a good blog. So we’ll give it a go. It really surprises me since we are seeing light therapy products everywhere now that no one has either jumped on it, or continued it long enough to be “THE” one.

Maybe because I know what Light Therapy is, it jumps out at me, but 6 years ago, I had never heard of it. I remember when I first heard about twitter. Then 2 days later I had heard the word 20 times. Isn’t that how things work. It takes 3 key times to see or hear something before our brains even know that we were introduced. For me it’s like a slap in the face usually saying “your old Brent, catch up with the times. I’m the last to know.

 Everyone of course remembers where they were when they first heard Kennedy was assassinated, or where they were when 911 occurred. No one knows what they were doing when they heard about light therapy. Something I bet everyone remembers is their first botox injection, ouch. I haven’t had one, but probably need one. Doesn’t everyone secretly imagine getting plastic surgery or botox? I might admit something like that if this wasn’t for public consumption.

So back to the point. Hopefully we can start some useful information exchange regarding all things about light therapy. To me it’s not about a product, it’s about people getting the concept. Light what? Light therapy. Oh is that the sun tan booth? Is that something to make me lighter? Is it fact, fiction, or fad?

Well that’s enough blathering for the first one. I’ll post another soon, to really start getting things going. Feel free to tell me to go away. I get that daily. Although I have bad hearing, or listening maybe. Suggestions welcome.

Posted in Uncategorized | Print | 1 Comment »

13. January 2010 by Brent.

Welcome to the new blog of LED Technologies, LLC!  We’re excited to be able to bring you information about our technology and our DPL System.  If you would like to order a system please go to www.ledtechnologies.com.  For questions or comments this is the place.  Thanks for reading!

Posted in Uncategorized | Print | 1 Comment »