New Ironing Board Accessories
For years now we’ve been asked why we didn’t offer a sleeve board for our popular C81 and C88 home/professional active ironing boards. So when we finally got around to designing one, we figured we would go one step further and add an optional bottle holder for all those customers that insist on using a gravity feed iron (why you would want to use a gravity iron over a steam boiler system is still beyond me, but I digress).
So now we have 3 terrific options. The sleeve board and bracket (#C8SH), the bottle holder and bracket (#C8BH), and one that includes both accessories (#C8SBH). I really love what we’ve done with the sleeve board. It was very important to design a sleeve board that would be convenient to use, and move away when not required (plus we’ve used a terrific quality cover/pad set). The combination makes great sense as well for gravity iron owners. When you compare the package with our competition, ours is priced hundreds of dollars less, and provides in my opinion, a superior product. Plus we have cETLus approval on both our C81 and C88 active ironing boards.
New UberLight 8000 Series LED Task Lights
Wow, what a busy week so far. Yesterday I write my first blog ever. Then later in the day we launch our new website. Today, I get to talk about something that we’ve been working on here at Reliable for the last 18 months, our new ÜberLight 8000 series LED task lights.
We first came up with the idea of creating an LED light well over 2 years ago. It seemed the logical next step in the evolution of our ÜberLight series of lights. We thought a couple of months of tooling, and we’d be off to the races. Boy were we wrong. The project was much more complicated than we originally expected.
The main obstacle was developing the fixture head. We used our 7000 series lights as a template, but we quickly realized that what makes a good halogen light does not necessarily make a good LED light. LED’s are so much more powerful. We use 28 bulbs in our fixture head. It took many months, and many tries to get them into the correct position, with the right balance of brightness and direction.
A year and a half later, I’m pleased to announce that we’ve produced a series of task lights that are absolutely wonderful to use. LED’s are so exciting to work with. The energy savings alone guarantees these lights are a sure investment for anyone who requires a quality task light. The life of these bulbs is simply amazing… up to 60,000 hours!
I just wish that someone would offer this technology of lights as replacements for our halogen ceiling lights at home. I’m really getting tired of changing those suckers.
