Energy Conservation How To: Wanting Residential LED Downlighting, Made-In-USA

Thursday, July 16, 2026

Wanting Residential LED Downlighting, Made-In-USA

Google this: What manufacturer is doing innovation in Made-In-USA "residential" LED downlighting?

Learn that there is no Residential LED lights manufacturing in USA. Until recently there was Ilumigreen in Michigan. This is bad news.

Ilumigreen.

I have a half-dozen in my museum collection.

Lights from American Lighting seem to be interesting.

AMERICAN LIGHTING INC.

11775 EAST 45TH AVENUE. DENVER, CO 80239

Main: 800.880.1180

Customer Service: 983.900.2357

Monday - Friday, 8am - 5pm MST

I have made my phone call to Customer Service and find that these lights are not made in USA. Somewhere in Asia. They mount to junction boxes with screws through the board backplate with keyways that do admit bug littering of the lens. If screws passed through round holes, that would be a very big product improvement. I will persist in now trying to buy a sample via Amazon, as instructed. I won't bother to buy, but wonder whether any old lights-buyer-from-Asia, has a market via Amazon. And, the answer is Yes! Bad news for Amazon.

https://americanlighting.com/products/downlighting/surface-mount

Luminance if 4" lens: 650/8107 = 0.080 Lumens per sq millimeter. TOO MUCH GLARE. Probably made worse vs. edge lights by concentrated diodes not obscured by the thin lens.

(Please see the table that follows.)

Luminance if 6" lens: 1050/12350 = 0.085 Lumens per sq millimeter. TOO MUCH GLARE. Probably made worse vs. edge lights by concentrated diodes not obscured by the thin lens.

Luminance if 5" lens: 750/12688 = 0.059 Lumens per sq millimeter. Maybe OK. This is better glare than similar-appearance HALO SMX and without some HALO silliness. Could I buy and try this, via Amazon?

Far too expensive. Not a realistic product-for-sale.

Shipping from store Lighting Jungle, in Las Vegas. Selling tacky old stuff. It seems to have ugly thickness.

See that these are evidently not LED edge lights, but rather offer in larger size (7 inch),the 1200 lumens potential of a well-distributed set of diodes on a circuit board nearly the lens diameter. Lights are non-glaring if luminance does not exceed that of the Moon, 0.05 lumens per square millimeter.

On the other hand there is this CCT offer typical of edge lights, Color Coordinated Temperature, a range of colors way into the ugly blue. Edge light power capacity grows with limit of the circumferential length of diode tape, and would not be offered in diameter greater than 5 inches.