Manuel Abello, Magnitude
Location: Nassau
Tuesday, April 13, 2027
10:00 am – 11:00 am ET
Credits TBA
Intermediate
Driver, LED, and dimmer are specified separately and fail together. Pairwise compatibility does not guarantee three-way compatibility: a driver validated with a tape and validated with a dimmer can still flicker when all three are combined, and datasheets rarely publish the conditions needed to predict it. This session gives specifiers a repeatable method. Participants will identify the five operating conditions any dimming claim requires, calculate whether a load falls within a driver’s characterized range, evaluate flicker data against IEEE 1789-2015, and write specification language that captures them. Track: Design and specification topics.
Learning Objectives
- Identify the five operating conditions a dimming or flicker claim must state to be verifiable: dim level, control protocol, light source, load condition, and the standard and metric used.
- Calculate whether a proposed LED load falls inside a driver’s characterized operating band, using published minimum and maximum load values.
- Evaluate a manufacturer’s flicker data against the IEEE 1789-2015 risk boundaries and the Title 24 JA8 flicker provision, and state what each does and does not cover.
- Write specification language that requires those conditions as submittal items instead of naming a wattage.
Speaker
Manuel Abello
Eastern Regional Sales Manager
Magnitude
Manuel Abello is Eastern Regional Sales Manager at Magnitude Lighting, an LED driver manufacturer. He has spent more than a decade in architectural lighting and controls, holding various roles throughout his career in lighting starting at Lutron Electronics from field service engineering through Ketra market development post acquisition, Director of LifeStyle Technologies at AHT global and Specification Sales at Genesis Lighting in South Florida. Before lighting, he served six years in the U.S. Navy as a submarine nuclear electronics technician and propulsion plant supervisor. He holds a B.S. in Nuclear Engineering Technologies, an MBA from the University of Miami and is a M.Eng. candidate from Cornell University.