Sunday @ 11:30am
Tullio Dell Aquila
Tullio Dell Aquila has been a professional lighting designer for well over a decade. World renowned for his pioneering work with high power LED’s his innovative lighting designs span numerous commercial, automotive and aquarium applications. During his career Tullio Dell Aquila has designed lighting products for many of the top companies in our industry. His dedication and innovation has helped pave the way for aquarium lighting as we know it today.
In 2008 he was highly acclaimed for taking high power solid state led lighting to a level never before imagined. The project, the world’s largest Tiffany chandelier. When using conventional lighting technology proved impractical and the use of solid state LED lighting for the project thought impossible. Tullio Dell Aquila was commissioned by Philips/Lumileds and Meyda Tiffany to the daunting task of designing the world’s first high power magnetically dimmable solid state LED system for the chandelier project. At nearly 40 feet across, 20 feet high, and with less than two weeks before the scheduled unveiling this was no small feat. Not only was a solid state LED lighting solution of this magnitude not possible at the time, even if a design solution could somehow be devised the parts and components needed to implement such a design simply did not exist. In a global press release issued by Philips/lumileds Tullio Dell Aquila achieved the impossible. He designed and built the various components required to complete the project on site and had the entire system installed and operational in time for the highly anticipated unveiling. According to Philips/Lumileds his unique design reduced projected electrical cost to operate the chandelier by 93%, consumed 75% less energy and incorporated the world’s first high power magnetically dimmable LED drivers which he also designed and built for the project.
http://www.ledsmagazine.com/news/5/4/3
As an avid reef aquarium hobbyist he will readily admit one of his true passions has always been designing high quality aquarium lighting products. From LED moonlights to the first full spectrum, and actinic led lighting systems, his pioneering work with LEDS continues to lead our industry today. Tullio Dell Aquila has dedicated much of his career to educating hobbyist and professionals alike about the exciting possibilities that LEDs offer to our industry. But his contributions to aquarium lighting do not stop here. His focus on the spectral requirements of corals, and invertebrates, has improved the output, spectral distribution, and quality of many aquarium lamps popularly sold today. His developments in specialized reflector systems, advanced thermal design, and high efficiency microprocessor controlled electronic ballasts, have helped revolutionize metal halide and fluorescent based aquarium lighting products as well. His designs will continue to influence aquarium lighting for many years to come.
RAP 2015 Discussion
LED lighting the facts and the myths.
A comprehensive look into the science of LED aquarium lighting. The discussion will also include in depth information about Metal Halide and T5HO lighting systems.