The LED Advantage
Over the years, LED technology has advanced so much that it is now popularly acknowledged as a “Green Lighting – Cost Saving” solution for electric lightings. Besides being highly recognized for its safety features, it is also well known as an environmental-friendly lighting source from the time of manufacture and throughout its entire lifespan. This is important especially to corporations who are committed to a carbon reduction target.
The other benefits and advantages of LED over the older conventional lightings are as follows:
| Efficiency | LED lightings emit more light per watt than incandescent bulbs or mercury, metal halide and halogen lamps. |
| Energy Savings | Electricity usage is typically 50 – 80% less using LEDs. |
| Very Low Maintenance Costs | In fact, no technical maintenance is required at all. |
| Color | LEDs emit light of an intended color without having to use any color filters unlike traditional lighting methods. |
| Size | LEDs can be very small (>2mm) and easily populated onto printed circuit boards. |
| On/Off Time | LEDs light up quickly (<1mS), with no flickering and reach 100% brightness instantly. |
| Cycling | Unlike fluorescent lamps which fail faster when cycled often and require a longer time to re-start, LEDs continue to work well even when subjected to repeated on-off cycling. |
| Dimming | LEDs can be easily dimmed by pulse-width modulation or lowering the forward current. |
| Temperature | LEDs in whatever form or shape, radiate very little heat. |
| Lifespan | LEDs can lasts between 35,000 – 65,000 hours of use. In comparison, fluorescent tubes can last 10,000 – 15000 hours and incandescent bulbs, only 1,000 – 2,000 hours. |
| Durability | Being made with solid state components, LEDs are shock resistant and not easily damaged, unlike the fragile fluorescents and incandescent bulbs. |
| Focus | LED’s package is designed to focus its light whereas the others require external reflectors to collect light. |
| Harzardous Contents | There is no mercury or lead in LEDs and it does not give out ultraviolet radiation. |
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