Why Choose LED

Although, LED's that produce a certain spectrum of visible light have been under development from the 1960's, only until recent 5 years have LED's that can produce light at the levels of illumination - for a main lighting source in a home or business - seen mass production. The steps of innovation in the LED illumination industry, also known to as Solid State Lighting (SSL), is currently progressing at an amazing speed. The latest lights available from sounded impossible 3 or 4 years ago!

ADVANTAGES / BENEFITS / CHARACTERISTICS OF LED

1. Environmental Friendly (No RF interference):
• LED has no hazardous content such as Mercury, which if leaked from CFL is harmful.
• LED lamps emit no Infrared or Ultraviolet radiation which is harmful to human.
• LED typically is RoHS compliant, meaning that they have no or at most negligible amounts of hazardous substances within the scope of that compliance (Lead, Cadmium, mercury…).

2. Long Lasting:
• If left on continuously, LED has an estimated rated lifespan of at least 50,000 hours (about 5 years).
• If left on for about 12 hours a day, LED has an estimated rated lifespan of about 100,000 hours (about 10 years).
• It is more long-lasting as compared to the CFL (Refer to Table 3 at Page 13 for a comparison of LED lighting and traditional lighting).

3. Major reduction in power costs:
• LED reduces electricity usage by about 70% as compared to CFL and 80% compared to Halogen Light.

4. Low power consumption, high intensity Efficiency:
• LED generates low wattage but does not compromise on light efficiency.
• With low heat emission, it decreases load on Air-Conditioning
• LED produces more lumens per watt of energy as compare to CFL.

5. Maintenance free, easy installation (Durability):
• LED has no fragile filament or tube. Even if you drop the LED, it will not shatter into pieces.
• In addition, LED suffers no degradation in performance if switched on and off frequently, unlike CFL.

6. Less wastage of light:
• LED lamps have better control over the direction(s) in which their light is emitted. This is advantageous in applications where you only want the light to go in one general direction (Unidirectional) rather than in all directions (omnidirectional).
• Think of recessed ceiling lighting where any light not directed downward is wasted. LEDs tend to generate light in one direction. By using lenses in the LED lamp, this light can be spread out to achieve various specified beam angles.
• To do with incandescent or fluorescent light sources, which emit light in all directions, a reflector must be used (the 'R' part of 'PAR38' for example), and these reflectors are never perfect, causing some light loss in the process. This further increases the efficiency advantage of LED lamps over traditional light sources.

7. Speed:
• LED turns on instantly (reaching full brightness immediately). It lights up quickly in micro seconds compared to other light source.
• CFLs tend to have a warm-up period which may range from a few seconds to over a minute. During this warm-up period they may not be as bright as they will eventually brighten. This can lead to disadvantages ranging from having to wait for light levels to increase to a useful level, wasting time and electricity, to turning the lights on before you really need them, in anticipation of the warm-up period, wasting electricity.

8. Effective in Temperature change:
• LED lamps can be used in colder temperatures than CFLs.
• Most CFLs will not turn on or will only emit very low levels of light in the cold (near freezing).

9. Solid-state and vibration-resistant:
• Different from the tube of conventional lamp which is made of conventional glass, the tube of the LED lamp is made of acrylic. So it is very solid and hardy and will not be broken even if it falls on the floor.