9 reasons to choose LED

2019-08-22

When investing in your own company, understanding and analyzing every possible option is relevant so you can help optimize your investment. Since the turn of the century, LEDs have set off a storm in the lighting industry, providing an ultra-efficient, compact lighting solution that can handle any application. Although the initial investment in LEDs is slightly higher than incandescent / CFL / HID, ROI investment is much shorter and significant savings in consumption and heat dissipation.

Energy Efficiency

They are ultra-efficient SSL that provides a reasonable and reliable advantage for alternative lighting solutions. How do they work? LEDs are similar light pixels that emit different intensities and spectra of red, green and blue light that can manipulate any desired color and brightness. When placed on a microchip, current will illuminate through the LEDs, producing directional visible light.

Unlike any other light source, LEDs use 95% of their energy consumption.

Only 5% of the energy they consume is wasted as a heat discharge, and about 30% of the energy consumed is wasted compared to incandescent lamps, and the benefits become more and more apparent. This promotes LED as a compelling choice for large industrial applications where every penny is important.

Life-Span

When compared to any other lighting product, LEDs demonstrate their reliability and longevity in a variety of applications. Unlike compact fluorescent and incandescent bulbs, LEDs do not “fail” or “burn out”. Instead, LEDs go through what is often referred to as lumen depreciation. Lumen depreciation occurs when the LED experiences a decrease in light output greater than or equal to 30%.The characteristics of these LED technologies have proven their appeal to investors and lighting designers, as warranty and life expectancy can be doubled or tripled compared to LED replacements.

Reduced Thermal Output

One of the most common advantages, including LEDs, is "reducing heat output." One of the main variables determining the life of an LED is the operating temperature. If the operating temperature can be lowered, the life and efficiency of the LED can be optimized. The advantages are even more pronounced because in some environments, LEDs reduce air conditioning costs because of their thermal performance. While the benefits are almost negligible in small applications, it can provide significant energy savings in the summer in large industrial and commercial applications. Since our production of the latest ultra-efficient lighting solutions, one of our most recent customers, Major Tools and Machines，reported a three-year return on investment and a 30% energy savings.

Adjustable Color Temperature

A common misconception around LEDs is that they only produce glare white light. Although the technology is still in its infancy, it may be true. However, in the past decade, new innovations in LED technology have enabled us to achieve any desired color temperature. The color temperature is measured in Kelvin, ranging from 1000K to 10,000K; 1000K provides a "warm feel" similar to incandescent lamps, while 10,000K presents a "cooler feel" similar to compact fluorescent lamps. New medical research shows that different color temperatures have different effects on our brains - "Installing new high correlated color temperature (17000 K) fluorescent lamps in shift work call centers seems to help improve health, function and research participants working performance.These recent medical discoveries are revolutionary, and large companies that are affecting all industries are beginning to focus on lighting companies to optimize overall job performance.

Operation and maintenance costs

One of the most common questions about LEDs is: What are the maintenance and operating costs? Let us first decompose the three most common costs in the lighting industry: replacement of LEDs, labor costs to perform such repairs, and warranty. For some companies, replacing a luminaire can be a huge expense, but as a business, you must understand the specific application, environment, and usage of the luminaire. Standard lamp replacement range from 1,200 hours [incandescent light] to 30,000 hours [fluorescent light], Every LED product we manufacture comes standard with a 100,000 hour warranty.

At AdidingLight, we go to "Adiding". With more than 20 years of experience in the lighting industry, we pride ourselves on minimizing labor costs by simplifying all aspects of installation. Every step of the design process is designed to reduce operating costs, and when you pair your reduced maintenance/operational costs with the industry-leading 10-year factory warranty, it seems to be great.

 Dimmable

LEDs have many advantages over market alternatives. One of the most attractive features of LEDs is dimmability. Although the adjustability has been neglected over the years due to the "flicker or smash" feature, LEDs in 2019 now have dimming capabilities down to 1% brightness while maintaining consistent output. This provides indoor lighting designers with a multi-variable, ultra-efficient and reliable platform.

Zero ultraviolet radiation

After the "revelation" of emergency fluorescent lamps, people were shocked by overall cost reduction and energy efficiency. Research is currently being published on ultraviolet (UV) emissions from households and their relationship to cancer. A paper in the University of New York at Stony Brook found that tiny defects in the bulb would allow ultraviolet light to pass through the light, thereby damaging the skin cells and causing cancer [NPR]. How can this be? Let's take a look.

Compact fluorescent lamps contain mercury vapor. When an electric current passes through the mercury vapor, the mercury vapor releases a large amount of ultraviolet rays. Manufacturers help absorb radiation by stratifying the phosphors in these bulbs, but evidence in real-time applications suggests that this approach is not effective. "According to Stony Brook's researchers, if the phosphor coating breaks, the UV rays will escape. They will see bald spots [NPR] in almost all bulbs collected in retail stores.

Fortunately, LEDs do not use mercury vapor. Instead, they use a blue light source. Among all white LED bulbs, there is a blue light source that is converted to full spectrum color by phosphor. Even if the phosphor coating is damaged, the internal blue light is firmly fixed on the visible spectrum and is harmless to human skin. [NPR]

Although the adjustability has been neglected over the years due to the "flicker or smash" feature, LEDs in 2019 now have dimming capabilities down to 1% brightness while maintaining consistent output. This provides indoor lighting designers with a multi-variable, ultra-efficient and reliable platform.

Instant start

All high-power bulbs, including incandescent, metal halide, fluorescent and high-intensity discharge lamps, take a certain amount of time to turn on. The mercury vapor tube inside the bulb may take several seconds to several minutes to heat the plasma, causing inconvenience to any user. Fortunately, the new technology for high-power LEDs offers a compelling alternative to providing “instant-on” technology. Having this feature is very useful for time-critical businesses that may face frequent power outages.

Color rendering index

If you don't know, all the lights are not equal. Different lights show different tones, vividness and color harmony. Have you ever distinguished different colors under certain lighting conditions?

One of the lesser known variables in LED lighting is CRI [Color Rendering Index]. CRI measures the ability of a light source to "realistically" or "naturally" display the color of an object [LRC], as well as the intensity of light throughout the spectrum. The CRI level is between 0 and 100, with 0 being the minimum and 100 representing the maximum of the solar spectrum. In addition, CRI has a direct relationship with CCT. For example, warmer incandescent lamps typically have a CRI above 95, while cooler fluorescent lamps have a CRI of about 60.