Showing posts with label Lighting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lighting. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Lighting Fixtures

The main purpose of lighting fixtures or parts is to create artificial light. A lighting fixture consist of 0 parts—the light source, light reflector that directs the light to a certain point, an opening (with lens or without lenses), the light housing for protection, an electrical counterweight, and a cord connecting to the power source. Lighting fixtures can be classified as indoor lighting fixtures and outdoor lighting fixtures.

Before the introduction to an aluminum die casting company, lighting parts are made by welding pieces together. This process is costly, time consuming, and labor extensive. Nowadays, lighting parts are manufactured by die casting, a process wherein molten metal is forced into mold cavities. Die casting is beneficial if you are producing large quantities of small to medium sized lighting parts with good details.

The metal Aluminum is lightweight and sturdy, a material often used to make lighting parts because of its durability and good thermal and electrical properties. Die cast aluminum lighting parts are made faster because they can be produced in net shape, meaning there are no welding or drilling methods needed after. Holes can be added to the mold cavities. These holes are necessary for the installation of covers or lids.

Die cast aluminum lighting parts are used in medical offices and parking garages for lighting fixtures. They are also used for bullet lighting fixtures, street traffic lights, outdoor and wall lighting fixtures. Furthermore, there are special light parts made for Aluminum lighting fixtures used for automobile lighting, marine lighting, medical lighting, and aerospace lighting.

Thursday, January 1, 2015

What are Die Casting Aluminum Lighting Fixture Parts?

Aluminum Enlightenment: What Are Die Casting Aluminum Lighting Fixture Parts. A big, dependable source of light continues to keep the city’s everyday (and night) life alive. This is why keeping every house and structure well-lit is extremely vital. By the simple use of electricity, light is made and helps man for the rest of the day. Several people have already manufactured certain compromise on using electricity light resources in well-organized and power-saving standards. Solar-powered machine is indubitably the finest way to save power in the manufacture of electricity light. An additional way of sustaining light is the utilization of proficient lighting fixtures.

What are die casting aluminum lighting fixture parts? These are specially made enclosures or housings used to hold light bulbs and other power supplies. They can be in any shape, size and the capacity to hold electricity as it flows around the bulb. Because it is made of die cast aluminum, these lighting fixture parts can be durable, cheap and easy to produce.

Additional question then rises: what are die casting aluminum lighting fixture parts for and what makes them more valuable than standard lighting fixture parts? Lighting fixture parts are often manufactured of plastic and it also has the same utilization to that of aluminum. But the benefit of aluminum is its being less disposed to erosion, electrically conductible, uses naturally plentiful resources (unlike plastic), cheap, it is very strong and can even be lighter in weight than plastic lighting fixtures. Answering the question,

“What are Die Casting Aluminum Lighting Fixture Parts for?” They are for illumination – they sturdily support our light by being light regarding both weight and budget.

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Thursday, October 16, 2014

Zinc Applications in Lighting

Light Made of Zinc: Its Applications in Lighting. Lighting is thing that is valued and utilized by numerous people all over the world. At one time, the source of light was a tiny camp fire built out of causing friction between two sticks of wood; existing technology has developed to make it easier for humans to appreciate this extravagance.

The creation of the electrically powered light bulb must have been sent ripples throughout society. The use of gas lights made homes and streets inclined to unintentional blazes. It was once risky to strike a match inside one’s home. But with the introduction of technology, switching on a light has never been simpler.

Of course this technology would not be conceivable without the components that make up a light bulb. Whether it is a simple desk lamp or a red head used in film and television productions, all lamps and lights are made with metal gears that form the whole product. Since light energy gives off heat, these materials must be able to survive extreme temperatures in order to be handy. This is where the process of using zinc alloy as a raw material comes in.

Through the utilization of zinc die casting, lighting parts can be created as materials with extraordinary thermal conductivity. Electrical components, particularly those which involve high energy generation, necessitate high conductivity rates. Lamps, mainly those used in film and television production, could be used for hours on end, therefore underlining a high necessity for decent thermal conductors. This can be attained, with high success, through zinc die casting. Lighting parts need not be manufactured of substandard material.

After all, light should not, at all costs, become dim because of horrible quality.

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Thursday, May 2, 2013

To Die Cast

To Die Cast. A die casting company comes up with precision metal parts reproduced with a good quality. The parts are made for different companies for modern industrial uses.

What are the parts that can be made using the die casting process? These die cast parts may be industrial machinery parts, or automotive or telephone or computer parts. They may be kitchen metal parts or plumbing or toy parts or cast aluminum lighting parts.

Die casting is the process by which reusable steel molds are filled with a liquid metal such as copper, or zinc, or magnesium and then left to cool and harden. These molds are designed by the die casting company for the mass production of metal parts and components. These steel molds are also called dies (hence the term, “die casting.”)

Other metalworking processes available to man are machining, forging, pressing, stamping and fabrication. However, for mass producing precision and quality metal parts, die casting is the preferred method.

You can recognize a die cast component due to some porosity in the molded metal. If the material is a high-fluidity metal like aluminum, copper, tin, lead or magnesium then it might be a die cast. If the surface has a certain smoothness, if the wall parts are thinner, then this might have been achieved by die casting.

A die casting company uses metals like aluminum, copper, zinc, brass and tin, lead and magnesium. All these metals melt at low heat and therefore they are easier to pressure inject to the die mold while in liquid form.

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Limitless and Yet Invisible, the Metal Die Cast Revolution

Limitless and Yet Invisible, the Metal Die Cast Revolution Die casting products are quietly distributed in key markets in different industries around the world. Due to the limitless possibilities for die casting applications, a number of firms are using die cast metals. Today they are found everywhere. Telecommunications, consumer electronics and medical devices, automotive markets, industrial markets; these are some examples. Metal die cast parts are in the electronic and safety-critical applications of automobiles such as the anti-lock braking system, in micro components of mobile phones, in power tools and die cast model cars, wireless devices and their infrastructure equipment, inside electric motors, pumps, refrigeration equipment, and packaging equipment. Die cast methods are also used in the field of art to make metal sculptures for the garden, museum, or gallery.

Metal die cast parts are everywhere, but sometimes we are not aware of its presence. This is how far we have come since the first smithy and the first metalworking activities of antiquity. Die cast parts are in factory impellers, machinery housings and fittings, and other motor components as well as in consumer products around the house that we are barely aware of like gas grill parts, toys, and kitchen appliances. Other uses for die casting products are house accessories like furniture parts, lamp and lightings, doors and windows, safe bolts and locks, water, plumbing fixtures, and die cast heater plates. Think of any finished manufactured product and sure enough it has a die cast part in it. We just didn’t know. This is the quiet revolution of the metal die cast parts.

Thursday, October 13, 2011

How Are Aluminum Lighting Parts Used

How Are Aluminum Lighting Parts Used. Aluminum is a popular material in the fabrication and manufacturing industry. It has a broad spectrum of applications. It is used t manufacture parts for automobiles, military jets and armor vehicles, musical instruments, etc. It is also popularly used as lighting fixtures.

Lighting fixtures are artificial lights powered electrically. A typical, complete set of a lighting fixture has six components. These include the lamp or the so-called light source, the light reflector that directs light, an aperture that may or may not have a lens, the housing for lamp alignment, a power connector, and an optional part called the electrical ballast. There are two types for lighting fixtures according to usage- indoor and outdoor.



There are several reasons why the use of aluminum is so popular with the fabrication of lighting fixtures. For one, aluminum weighs much less than steel (just 1/3 of steel). Another reason is that aluminum is a very good conductor of heat, light and electrical energy which makes it a very suitable material for use in the lighting industry. Lastly, aluminum is a very cost-effective material that lasts longer than plastics.



How are Aluminum Lighting Parts used? These fixtures are used in many industries including, but not limited to, the aerospace industry as well as for marine and medical lighting. Specifically, they are used in medical rooms, street traffic light housings, porches light housing, outdoor coach lights, etc.



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Friday, April 10, 2009

Aluminum Lightning Fixtures – Giving light indoors and outdoors

Aluminum Lightning Fixtures – Giving light indoors and outdoors. Aluminum Lighting Fixtures, available in the market for years, are deemed to be inexpensive than some other manufacturing processes. These items are best to be used in applications where high heat is used – usually in power supplies and light bulbs.

These are electrical devices that are used to give off an artificial light for houses and buildings as well. Before, these fixtures were welded with each other making them so labor intensive and expensive all the more since it was being done by hand and machine. The Aluminum Lighting Fixtures, designed in different shapes and sizes, are usually manufactured in net shape.

Since Aluminum is lightweight, it can be shipped in bulk without added cost. Aluminum Lighting Fixtures, classified for indoors and outdoors, have many types of usage. It’s often used for automotive, aerospace, marine and even medical lighting.

To bring back the important of form and function, these lighting fixtures look good if it is power coated. The purpose of these fixtures is obvious thus making it very useful in so many ways than one.

These lighting fixtures can often be seen in parking garages, street traffic lights and even medical offices that requires hanging lights. For household use, these lighting fixtures can take form as under-cabinet lights. For offices on the other hand, exit lights or emergency lights can be found near the end of a hall that leads to a fire exit since emergency lighting is need to illuminate the place when the main power goes out.

Thursday, June 26, 2008

Aluminum Sand Casting Lighting Fixtures

Aluminum Die Casting Lighting Fixture Parts from aluminum sand castings. A customer who is a lighting parts manufacturer purchases an aluminum sand casting fixture for his lighting products. This sand casting is an "Aluminum Trolley Mount" used to hold his lighting fixtures from the ceiling in a room. This aluminum trolley fixture has to be strong and look good to be part of his lighting products. He has been using this aluminum sand casting for quite a long time. The initial sand casting cost less to get started with a new product line and die casting cost a little more. The sand casting tooling costs less than $5000 to get started and the part price in this case is about $70 each part. My customer buys about 50 parts a month. His total cost to purchase these castings in a year after the tooling is paid for would be $70 per part times 12 times per year times 50 parts per month ($42,000 per year). Can this part be cost effectively produced as an aluminum die casting lighting fixture?

Aluminum Lighting Fixture Die Castings
The die casting part will require die cast tooling. This tooling will take about 10 weeks to be made and will cost about $28,000 to be made. This seems too expensive for some but if the annual total cost is calculated it will show that the tooling cost is justified. The part price in this case is $8 each part. A simple calculation will show the cost of the die castings with the die casting tooling will be better than the cheaper sand casting price.

Aluminum Die Castings
Part Price --- $ 8.00
Annual Quantity --- 600
Total parts cost --- $4,800
Tooling cost --- $28,000
Total product cost --- $32,800

Aluminum Sand Castings
Part Price --- $ 70.00
Annual Quantity --- 600
Total parts cost --- $42,000
Tooling cost --- Paid for already
Total product cost --- $42,000

The aluminum die casting option will cost about $9,000 less the first year and over $30,000 less each year afterwards. Die casting aluminum is a better option.

Sunday, June 15, 2008

Hardware Brackets in Aluminum

Many products in homes need brackets. Chocolate Fountains use brackets to hold the parts together into a finished product. The heater plate in the chocolate fountain requires an "aluminum hardware bracket" to keep it into place. Lighting Fixture Brackets made in aluminum are considered "aluminum hardware brackets". These light fixture brackets replaced the old lantern holding brackets of many years ago. Stables and barns also require brackets to hold items on the walls and to secure items in place. Smaller brackets are used in wood furniture for holding drawers together, holding shelves in cupboards and holding mirrors onto dressers. Other applications include: towel racks, book shelves, and toilet paper holders.

Home building companies use bracket items in several places. These brackets are used in many applications to hold items in place. Old wood framed windows used brackets to keep the correct angle of the wood window frames. Brackets tend to be angular to hold items up on walls or hold items away from walls. A 90 degree bracket could hold a shelf up on a wall or act as a brace to hold two walls together.

Construction people use brackets, called braces, to hold wood beams at the correct angle. Brackets are incorporated in home electrical boxes to hold these boxes into place and at the proper angle. Aluminum Hardware Brackets have many uses around your home and in new construction of houses.

Aluminum Brackets are made using the aluminum die casting process many times replacing other, less economical processes.

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Aluminum Lighting Fixture Parts

Die Casting Aluminum Lighting Fixture Parts and Die Casting Parts have been produced for many years. Aluminum Lighting fixtures are less expensive than other manufacturing processes. Aluminum light fixtures have good thermal properties and are used in applications where high temperature power supplies and bulbs are used. In former years, lighting housings were welded together, which was labor intensive, costly, and had limitations on the shapes available. Aluminum Lighting Fixture Parts can be many shapes and sizes, used in many lighting applications, and can be manufactured net shape. Aluminum weighs 1/3 of a comparable steel part. The aluminum part would cost less to ship due to the weight. Aluminum Die Casting lighting fixtures can be produced in quantities of a few hundred to thousands of aluminum lighting fixtures each day. Aluminum fixtures are electrically conductive and can be grounded. seocontest2008 Contest for SEO 2008 Kineticdc marketing

Saturday, February 9, 2008

Aluminum Die Casting Lighting Fixtures

Aluminum Lighting Fixtures and Parts have been produced for many years. Aluminum Die Casting Lighting fixtures are less expensive than other manufacturing processes. Aluminum light fixtures have good thermal properties and are used in applications where high temperature power supplies and bulbs are used. In former years, lighting housings were welded together, which was labor intensive, costly, and had limitations on the shapes available. Aluminum Lighting Fixture Parts can be many shapes and sizes, used in many lighting applications, and can be manufactured net shape. Aluminum weighs 1/3 of a comparable steel part. The aluminum part would cost less to ship due to the weight. Aluminum lighting fixtures can be produced in quantities of a few hundred to thousands of aluminum lighting fixtures each day. Aluminum fixtures are electrically conductive and can be grounded. SEOcontest2008

Thursday, January 3, 2008

Diecast Aluminum Lighting Fixtures

Lighting Fixtures and Parts are electrical devices used to create artificial light or illumination in houses and buildings. Diecast Aluminum Lighting Fixtures are classified as indoor lighting fixtures or outdoor lighting fixtures. A complete lighting fixture unit consists of the light source or lamp, the light reflector for directing the light, an aperture (with or without a lens), the outer shell or housing for lamp alignment and protection, an electrical ballast, if required, and connection to a power source. A wide variety of special light fixtures are created for use in the automotive lighting industry, aerospace lighting, marine lighting and medical lighting.

Monday, December 3, 2007

Kinetic Die Casting Company

Aluminum Die Cast Parts produced by Kinetic Die Casting, Inc. can be stronger than steel. Kinetic Aluminum Parts Die Casting Company is a part diecaster of lower priced, better quality aluminum
die cast parts, sometimes also known as castings, aluminum part castings, high pressure part die castings, or aluminum diecastings. Kinetic Die Casting has Low Quantity Die Casting Production or High Quantity Die Casting Part Production.


High pressure aluminum die casting is a process we use to make aluminum die cast parts. We inject molten aluminum alloy metal under pressure into a steel diecast die or mold to produce aluminum parts. Diecasting is a very inexpensive aluminum part manufacturing process. Primarily we produce aluminum alloy die castings, but we also make some diecastings in zinc alloys. Kinetic Die Casting Company's die cast design consultants will assist you with die casting aluminum part design, aluminum die casting prototypes, aluminum auto parts and die casting tooling, machining of die cast parts and finish the surface of many kinds of die cast aluminum parts, aluminum lighting parts, Die Casting Military Parts,Aluminum box castings, aluminum enclosures, heater plates for chocolate fountains, aircraft die castings, wheel chair lift parts, wheels, levers, hardware.


Kinetic Die Casting is located 6918 Beck Avenue in North Hollywood, California. Free estimates on aluminum diecast part prices and diecast tooling for aluminum die casting parts in 360 aluminum, 380 aluminum, 383 aluminum and 413 Aluminum Die Cast Alloys. All our parts comply with the EU RoHS standards.

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Internet Marketing

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Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Aluminum Parts as Lighting Fixtures

Aluminum Lighting Fixtures and Parts have been produced for many years. Aluminum Lighting fixtures are less expensive than other manufacturing processes. Aluminum light fixtures have good thermal properties and are used in applications where high temperature power supplies and bulbs are used. In former years, lighting housings were welded together, which was labor intensive, costly, and had limitations on the shapes available. Aluminum Parts Die Casting Lighting Fixture Parts can be many shapes and sizes, used in many lighting applications, and Kinetic Die Casing can manufacture them net shape. Aluminum weighs 1/3 of a comparable steel part. The aluminum part would cost less to ship due to the weight. Aluminum lighting fixtures can be produced in quantities of a few hundred to thousands of aluminum lighting fixtures each day. Aluminum fixtures are electrically conductive and can be grounded.
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