LED Leuchten Shop

LED-TECH.DE optoelectronics ...

2001

... ... has been established on 11/08/2001 by the present director Stefan Lenz with its origin name Candela-Lights® LED-Technologies and has become one of the most competent drop-in centre for LED effects and solutions within a very short time. Because of big empirical values with optoelectronical components as well as long range, international contacts you can still see our company on the top.

... enlarges forsightly the offered product range by LED clusters, outdoor, industrie and effects lighting solutions in the same year. Equipped with this well-assorted product range and distributor network the companys efficiency has been boosted.

2002

... expands the product range at the end of the year by christmas lighting solutions for the first time. Companys and privat customers were happy about energy saving christmas lighting. Candela-Lights® helps encreasing trust into LEDs and adjusted the first technic helpline regarding all questions around the world of LEDs.

2003

... launches internet shop LED-TECH.DE successfully. At this time nobody would have ever thought that LED-TECH.DE once would be the eponym for the whole company. To grand optimal support to the customer LED-TECH.DE also launches the first 7-day-service which is available at any time.

... enlarges its product range by many helpful development tools and focusses on more specific target groups. In june we launched high efficiency products for most effective illumination as well as classic types for cost-performance applications. This way SMD LEDs, through hole LEDs and special parts had been thinned out. The better transparency for the customer has been kept till today. Many customer like the specialism on high power products of leading manufacturers and resulting homogeneous quality. Since november Candela-Lights® offers its well chosen products exclusivly on LED-TECH.DE as its global distribution portal. Because of its easy handling, the transparent conception and the multilingual part descriptions the shop soon had some of the best stand alone features.

2004

... cognized in the middle of 2004 that the growing sale of illuminants over the internet and the enormously growing number of self-appointed speciality retailers that sell the goods on online auctionary platforms at a loss. Because of the market rush with such cheap components LED-TECH.DE decides break up with low cost and low budget components. LED-TECH.de is soon known as one of the best contact points for ultrabright components and high-end parts through out Europe because the mentioned technical values are right and not pimped. This status has been held up to new by new orientation an the market, knowing the goods perfectly and choice of the best partners and distributors on the market. LED-TECH.DE also launches its first support forum www.LedStyles.de which is a great help in case of optoelectronic questions and problems.

2005

... upgrades the unique technical standart of the internet shop more and more. The next step are interactive solutions based on physikal laws. We also launched a new support chat which laterly found many imitators.

... opens the first B2B/B2C settlement in Moers/Eick with included showroom specialized on customer services. Customer from all over Germany now have the possibility to speak with specialists and to see the product live. The electronic shop with over 600 optoelectronic parts and many sample applications offers a full range of possibilities and useable information to the customer. The media call us a "modern company with the courage to light".

... offers since september a special service in addition to the already well selected light emitting diodes comming from the manufacturers. This \"LED classification service\" for own or third party products can do a lot of advances measurements:

- Radiant- (W/sr) and light intensity (cd)
- Peak, dominat and stress wavelength (nm)
- half-power bandwidth (nm)
- color coordinates (x/y) and purity (%)
- correlated color temperature (K)
- Forward voltage (V)
- Reverse current (A)

Light emitting diodes selected this way comply with highest claims to homogenity and quality of all parts of industry and research.

... offers product based workshops around all LED topics since october. The extremply bright Luxeon plug & light kits (1W/3W) found their way to the product range too. We developed and produced our own LED applications from this time.

... included support for the english speaking customers into LedStyles.de. We now deliver to over 30 countries.

2006

... doubles its manpower after a very successful year 2005 to advance internal and field services. We thank all customers using our consultant service so intensivly.

... implements the new product category LED controlling. Long years experiance and knowledge are combined in these products. Customers now have the unique possibility to buy powerful (RGBW) 3 and 4channel controllers with over 100W switching capacity. Optional wireless controlling, individual color fadings, bus system and pc connectivity as well as the variety of products made the new product category well known within a very short time. Still growing with innovative additional products.

... launches the new LED-TECH.DE 2006 shop in march. The enlarged B2B area with interactive inventory control soon got many friends. LED-TECH.De offers more safety, transparency, flexibility and exact conclusions to the customers. We also embedded the Luxeon high power sector supported by the information portal Lumiled.de. The brand new K2 from Lumileds has been promoted and tested. To help customers developing their own applications we also launched a download area for information, tools and software arround the optoelectronic world. Download number soon force their own server.

... welcomes forum user no 1.000. This makes LedStyles.de the biggest european LED community.

... takes the 10W LED technics into the shop in august. Neccessary cooling, including aqua cooling, as well as innovative heat management are main requirements.

... celebrates the 5th aniversary of the trademark Candela-Lights® in november. We now deliver to over 50 countries.

2007

... starts linking part descriptions with LedStyles daily posts in february and develops a completely new help possibility because the linked sites are always filtered to a special content -> the part itself.

... launches the new gift coupon system in march. The new coupons are transferable for the first time and rest money gets saved to the accounts and can be used later so customers do not have to use all credits in one buy.

... responses to the growing high power market by taking the Luxeon Rebel into standart program in may. PCB versions and special optics follow immediately. To run LED applications safely and correctly demands special technics and devices. Because of the markets low spoil of such devices we easily decided to develop those on our own. The MultLine series came to life and is still a successful product line.

... releases the flash based SlotMachine which is a nice and funny forum gimmick that give a code to the users every 10 posts they write. Through this machine and its adapted mini shop users can get LED, resistors and many other things for FREE to get more practice with the components. The competence of the users grew a lot in the past which is a great sucess for us.

... gets structured in a new way. More than 1.000 different stock parts get new part categories. Searching and finding a parts becomes easier and quicker. The name of the product categories are easy to learn and self-explanatory.

... develops the new CUBE PCBs especially for the LedStyles community in november. Users can build 3D objects with lighting LEDs. The positive feedback was enormous and not much later many videos of funny application could be found on video sites on the web.

... becomes an official World Vision partner in december. The fund-raising campaign EVERY POST COUNTS was a great success. We credited every post the users wrote. We also went to bigger business room in december with over 600qm² now. A few days later the new main department of LED-TECH.DE opens its doors. New menbers boost our team.

2008

... starts the LedStyles L!VE campaign in january with innovative LED kits. The main focus is to give more practice to the users and to show what is possible with LEDs.

... launches the unique daytrade on the shops homepage in february. The daytrade shows bargains in form of stock exchange prices. They are changing every minute so that the user can decide the exact moment to buy. We also released a new CUBE PCB the so called TRIPLEX circuit board that offers new possibilities in building more complex objects.

... offers CREE UV parts in april and implement a new professional board into the LedStyles community. Users are happy about better handling and the new features.

... is the first shop to offer the brand new CREE R2 in may. We also decided to cancel all shipping costs for orders within Germany not depending on the ordering value.

... starts the (so far) biggest PDF database for optoelectronic devices of different manufacturers in may.The database contains over 1.000 PDFs. The also new picture galery enables the users to link their own fotos to their posts and their personal profile.

... is the first shop that establishes the 4.2W CREE High Power BULB version for replacing common bulbs in june.

... is happy to see that LedStyles became no 1 LED forum in july. We thank all users to make this happen.

... engages its first trainee in august and offers CREE high power LEDs for less than 2,- Euros for the first time.

... is the first shop to offer the new CREE MC-E in september. PCB versions follow not much later.

... plays a part in a special LED broadcast of WDR. LedStyles also breaks the 100.000 post frontier. We celebrate this memorable occasion with the first LedStyles merchandize part the well known Frosted Cup.

... gets it new measurement laboratory on october-november. The market leader Instrument Systems establishes a complete new high-end laboratory with only the best equipment in our company. It is one of only three laboratories in germany and one of only 10 in the worls. The high quality goniophotometer and the giant 1m Ulbricht integrating sphere enables us to do almost all measurement with lowest possible tolerances in future.

... celebrate its 5th aniversary on 11/24/2008. We now deliver to over 70 countries. The first department in Moers/Eick gets closed and fully implemented into the new main department Moers/Hülsdonk to shorten lead time and to bundel competences.

... becomes and official partner of the WWF in december and run a successful fund-raising campaign on LedSytles again. New LedStyles record attendance: 526 simultaneous users.

2009

... enlarges the almost 1.500 stock parts by new 3.000 special parts in january. These parts are got their own category.

... is the first shop that implement the chip on board (COB) technic. From january till march many different new products appeared.

... starts the CHARITY 2009 campaign on LedStyles in february. Now every posts gets credited the whole year 2009. The total summary will be transmitted to a foundation that the users choose.

... is the first shop that offers the Avago Moonstone. We also offer new exclusive LED profiles and optics in march.

... enlarges the Samsung product family with new mid power modules with IP class in april.

... established a complete new product category with alphanumeric, 7 segment and dtomatrix displays in may. Many custom project appear. New LedStyles record attendance: 1274 simultaneous users.

... buys a Ford Mustang GT 4.6l V8 in june. The cars gets pimped and upgraded with tuning and LED parts exclusively on LedStyles.

... expands very fast till july and soon the new 600qm² main department gets too tight so we decided to take another 200qm² near the administration building. We also had the little problem that the internet shop LED-TECH.DE became much more famous than the original companies name Candela-Lights®. Because of this fact we decided to take LED-TECH.DE as the one and only name for our company and business in future. Candela-Lights® is still an aktive trademark.

... launches the new and very efficiant BUCK drivers (step-down converters) in august.

... announces CREE as the new official technical partner and sponsor of www.LedStyles.de and starts the CREE Illumination Contest 2009 (CIC) in august.

... expands its product range by unrivaled cheap 2.5W COB modules in september. This is the first time that COB modules get offered for under 3,- Euros.

... announces the new in-house S-Line PCB family in october. The PCBs are based on the well known Samsung multichip mid power SMDs. Further products based on Cree MC-E RGBW, XP-G and XP-E as well as optics follow in october, too.

... extends the sales staff to minimize response time on customer requests. LED-TECH also launches the new 3/4channel RGB(W) MultiLine controller in november. A whole range of new products arround 3/4channel technics comes to life.

... is the first shop that offers the Cree XP-G in top rank R5 on mini PCB in december. The LedStyles.de community reached new record high with over 180.000 posts.

2010

... new additional stock staff to handle offers even more faster. The LedStyles.de Charity-Award-2009 reaches 1.000,- Euro donations that we gave to the earthquake victims of Haiti!

... to be continued!

News & Trends

Above mentioned year dates just rawly adumbrate our background. A detailled description (since 07/2006) with all new products can be found here.

Further fields of activity

Encouragement and public relations

LED-TECH.DE is involved in different worldwide benefit projects. Especially LedStyles and its partners, users and sponsors help to make the campaigns become a success. We do not pretent a special target foundation. The partners vote. CHARITY 2009 is the first not time-constrained campaign and is active the whole year. New users are always welcome!

LED-TECH.DE always extends its product assortment and supports many academies, univercities and other public facilities in whole Europe that are engaged in researching and using semiconductor components. Your request is welcome!




''The customer doesn't need products ... he wants solutions!''

We help you understanding the fast developing LED branch. We inform where others sell, we plan new project where others already regulate conversions. Individual solutions are our daily business.


long range service

Beside standart commerce we offer competent information and help to the customer choosing and using the right LED for his application. We have a background with a large assortment of products and high quality manufacturers that can reach any possible demand regarding quality, lifetime, cheap prices and delivery reliability. We also have the possibily to cross parts to maybe cheaper or alternative manufacturers.


LED-TECH.DE optoelectronics
January 2010