Know More about Energy Efficient Led Lighting
Posted by Alphaassembly on July 29th, 2016
The technology that went into the invention of the very first light bulbs is becoming obsolete in the world of today. Sodium vapor bulbs, metal halide lights and incandescent bulbs are officially being phased out from use. All this has happened because of the invention and popularity of LEDs. This article will help you know more about LED lighting and its energy efficiency features.
What is an LED light?
LED stands for Light Emitting Diode. It is a small bulb which has the capability of transmitting high-intensity and focused light using only a third of the power that older technologies required. These lights are rapidly sweeping up the lighting market because of the many benefits they offer to the users:
• Energy efficiency – LED lights are associated with delivering high quality output through consumption of extremely low amounts of energy. In today’s world where energy conservation has become the motto of the power sector, these lights are rapidly becoming a favorite.
• Savings – Being efficient in terms of energy consumption enables LED lights to deliver monetary savings to the users. Less consumption of electricity for delivering higher intensity of light ensures lesser energy consumption and a reduced electricity bill.
• Colors – LEDs offer many colors to choose from. A common example can be seen in smartphones, when you see colorful light blinking in a corner upon receipt of a notification. For home lighting, LEDs are available in two common color choices – snow white and daylight. While the daylight color achieves soft lighting requirements, snow white is associated with stark brightness.
• Life – LEDs last longer than your conventional bulb. With offering you a life of ten years, a LED lighting is good enough to fit-and-forget. It usually pays you back within six months of its usage.
• No heat – While conventional lighting technology is associated with a lot of heat, LEDs remain cool, giving you a chance to reduce on air-conditioning/ cooling requirements. This indirectly helps you save on that cost as well.
• Resilient – LED bulbs are compact, and can sustain certain amount of impact without breakage. If you manage to shatter a sodium vapor or a metal halide bulb instead, you will have to put up with a lot of broken glass. The same isn’t true for LEDs.
Why is LED energy efficient?
There is a very simple principle behind LEDs being energy efficient and other technologies not being so. In other technologies, electricity is used to heat up a metal element cased inside a glass casing (metal usually employed is tungsten), or to ionize a gas inside tubes or for excitation of gas molecules. When these objectives are achieved, the consequence is emission of light. It would interest you to know that the physics here involves losses at every step in the process and consequently, more energy is required to produce light. In LEDs, however, electricity is directly converted into light without involvement of any middleman (heat, ionization or excitation). This is why very less wattage is required as compared to its counterparts to produce the same amount of light. LEDs produce 100 lumens per watt of electricity, whereas the other luminaries require anywhere between 20 to 40 watts for 100 lumens.
Seeing how beneficial LEDs are, it would be prudent to change all the light bulbs of your home today. Get one soon!
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Alpha Assembly Solutions is a premier company engaged in the development and manufacture of high quality electronics assembly materials. Since the year of its inception, way back in 1872, the company has played its role on the frontline of innovation, bringing many first-to-market products to the fore thereby, creating a premier niche for itself in the market.
