What does MINIMIS make? 
Are your luminaires turtle-friendly or available in amber? 
Are your products UL listed? 
Which models are Dark Sky compliant?
What documentation do you provide?  
What are the differences between the MP Series and the LP Series lines of luminaires? 
How long have you been manufacturing your lights?  
Where are your lights manufactured? What parts are Chinese? 
How are these powered?
How long is your warranty? What are the terms? 
Are they dimmable? 
Do the lights generate heat?  
About MINIMIS 
 
What does MINIMIS make? 
We design and manufacture premium, hand-made, micro-minuscule architectural, marine, and landscape lighting. Made in America. 
 
Are your luminaires turtle-friendly, or available in Amber? 
Yes, luminaires are available with filterless amber LED, and if installed in correct orientation, conform to all state and federal guidelines for turtle-friendly and coastal lighting. Consult your local enforcement organizations for full set of guidelines.
 
Are your products UL listed? 
Yes, UL documentation can be accessed by scanning the UL QR code on all of our cut sheets.

Which models are Dark Sky compliant? 
SHIM, CYST, MINT 1, PILLBOX.

  
What is the IP rating?  
These are all IP67 and IP65, meaning, “suitable for wet location” (kitchen, bath, outdoors, etc., but not suitable for permanent submersion (pools, ponds, etc)). The LED and secondary optics (lens or reflector) are a single, integrated, waterproof unit, eliminating the need for seals or gaskets that can dry and crack, leading to ultimate failure.  
  
How durable are your lights?  
We have designed and crafted our line of illumination to be virtually bomb-proof and shatterproof, leveraging the clear advantages of titanium and acrylic. We chose titanium for a host of reasons, including its durability, corrosion resistance, and thermal stability, making it suitable for harsh environments, from arctic, to desert, to marine. We originally designed our illumination specifically for the luxury marine vertical, so that it would be suitable in any environment. Many of our models are drive-over rated to over 10,000 lbs (4300 kg).
  
What documentation do you provide?  
Located on our resources page (https://www.minim.is/wp/download), you will find cut-sheets, specifications, installation instructions, online lookbook (catalog), and photometries       . 
 
How long have you been manufacturing your lights?  
MINIMIS was founded in 2008, and began shipping our first generation fixtures in late 2010.

How are these powered? 
Our lights were designed to operate error-free and flicker-free, on 12-volt DC, constant voltage. Not constant current. Because of our frustrations with constant current, including fragile and proprietary LED drivers, confusing calculations for serial wiring methods, and the increase in aggregate wattage as you add more luminaires to a serial chain, we responded by designing voltage-driven lights, which offer significant advantages, including more stable, cost-effective transformers, simple parallel wiring methods, and an aggregate amperage of only 0.083 amp on each luminaire’s cabling. Engineered to withstand voltage variation from 9-15 volts, we designed these to operate stably. To facilitate easy specification of our MP-Series lights, we have developed the MP-Series Power Kit – MINIMIS-tested and validated – that contain all the major components required to power our luminaires – all purchased with a single mouse-click. IP67 SELV 12vDC constant voltage driver, IP67 driver enclosure, and IP67 junction enclosure with quick-jumper bus-bars – all UL-recognized (or NRTL equivalent).  Also available is an upgrade kit, enabling an existing power kit to be increased by increments of fifteen luminaire connections, but total number of luminaires connected to this power kit must not exceed 30 (thirty) units. 
  
 How long is your warranty? What are the terms? 
MINIMIS MP-Series luminaires carry a five-year warranty. If operated on a standard eight-hour daily cycle, you can expect over ten years of error-free operation.

MINIMIS RESERVES THE RIGHT TO INVALIDATE YOUR WARRANTY, if any of the MP line of products:
 – are operated on a dimmer on the mains voltage side (upstream of driver)

 – are operated on 12-volt AC or any alternating-current driver.

 – are operated on 12-volt AC to 12-volt DC conversion
 – are operated on a direct connection to mains power without 12-volt DC constant voltage transformer
 – are operated on a constant-current LED driver of any voltage
 – are operated on any DC constant-voltage power source other than 12-volt DC constant voltage
 – are wired in series (serial), or wired in any manner other than parallel
 – are operated on a power grid that is subject to brown-outs that have tendency to damage any electric or electronic items
 – are operated for extended periods on generators or battery power (solar arrays)
 – are operated in IP 68 conditions (submersible, pools, fountains). MP products are to be operated in conditions up to and including IP 67 conditions.
 
Are your luminaires dimmable? 
The MP Series luminaires are indeed dimmable, using a host of standard dimming methods, including 0-10VDC, 10V PWM, and DALI (non-individually addressable), but are never to be dimmed on the mains-voltage side, only the low-voltage side.  
  
Do the lights generate heat?  
As part of the heat dissipation design of the luminaire, you may notice a little heat on the pigtail, about four inches from the base of the luminaire. This is normal. However, the fixture housings generate no heat, and thus pose no danger to curious children’s hands. 
  
About MINIMIS 
MINIMIS leads the premium illumination market with the world’s most minuscule luminaires – feats of design and engineering that are individually hand-crafted to the highest standards of quality. Our luminaires employ only the finest, most meticulously selected of all-resistant materials, and feature custom, precision-crafted optics that are engineered – to the most demanding of tolerances – to operate error-free in our astonishingly minuscule fixture form factors. Natively waterproof, without need for gaskets or seals, our luminaires offer unparalleled elegance, luxury, and performance in all environments, from warm, enveloping interiors, to the most inhospitable of marine conditions. Such hallmarks underscore the exegencies of design vision in luxury residential, hospitality, civic/institutional, and high-end yachtbuilding projects.
 
MINIMIS performs all of its research and development in-house – harnessing emerging technologies and new materials, coupled with a clean, modern design pedigree – ensuring that our vision and our commitment to the minuscule continue to bolster our groundbreaking strides in design, performance, and quality. MINIMIS officers personally monitor every stage of the manufacturing process, with redundant QA/QC at every phase. Through surveys and personal outreach, we maintain close involvement with our clients, designers, and our dealers, internalizing their valued feedback as inspiration for future product developments and refinements.
 
From the very first prototypes and production luminaires that MINIMIS develops, our guiding vision has been to create luminaires that, at once, are minusucule in size, adhere to elegant, minimalist, unobtrusive design tenets, and are powerful in light output. This principle stems from the desire of architects and lighting designers to be able to offer their clients’ projects the effect of light, without the luminaire itself being visible.
 
The advent of LEDs brought hope that luminaires would shrink considerably in size. However, an LED still generates a considerable amount of heat, and if not efficiently dissipated, the heat will quickly destroy the LED, resulting in the unfortunate requirement for LEDs to be equipped with large, unwieldy heat sinks that negate the size advantages that LEDs could offer. “With this in mind,” MINIMIS founder Lorenz explains, “I set about developing an LED/optics base-module that was at once: minuscule, natively waterproof, effectively managed heat, and that emitted a remarkable amount of light.”
 
Our in-house consultants provide technical and design assistance to lighting designers, yacht interior designers, naval architects, shipyards, and yachtowners to select the appropriate luminaire, with the most suitable of accessories, for the ideal environment.

MINIMIS is present worldwide through a growing register of distinguished, carefully curated professional distributors, who are rigorously trained in MINIMIS’ offerings, advantages, and installation methods.