Benefits of LED Lights Replacement
The future of home-based lighting will very soon be the wide distributed utilizing and use of green energy-saving LED lighting. Despite the fact the current market for LED lights products is mainly designed for devotees and professionals, the upsides of LED lighting will drive market demand for more cost-efficient LED lights. SSL (Solid-State-Lighting) is an attractive subject and its been predicted, that soon, energy-saving LED lighting products are going to be powerful and affordable enough to replace incandescent and fluorecent lights for ordinary use in our households, in public places, in car parking lots, in street lights, in outdoor signs, in super markets, in shopping malls and offices.
The working lifespan of current LED lamps is 100,000 hours theoretically. That’s even more than 10 years of ongoing running, or in another caculation, say 33.3% operation (that is 8 hours per day), 34 years of lifespan. The long operational life of an LED lamp is huge advantage in comparison to an incandescent bulb or a fluorescent tube, which is approximately 4000-6000 hours.
Speaking of cost, it seems a little not fair to LED lights. Folks like to do some straightforward comparison between the cost of LED lights and traditional lights such as incandescents, fluorescents and halogen lamps. With incandescent lamps, the true and hidden cost is the electricity bills and the maintenance fee (including the replacement bulbs and the labour cost). When comes to the commercial sector, for example, for shopping malls, car parks, office buildings and highrises, maintenance costs for replacing the light bulbs or light tubes, can be enormous. While LED lighting here could be a perfect solution.
If developed appropriately, an LED circuit are likely to achieve 70-80% efficiency, that indicates 70-80% of the electrical power has been converted to light rather than other forms of energy I . e . heat. While for incandescent bulbs, only 10- 20% of electricity is used to produce light, at the same time, 80-90% of electricity has been wasted to produce heat. Take a simple example, say if I light up my room with a 100 Watt incandescent bulb (8 hours per day), and the electric cost is 10cents/kilowatt hour, then for 1 year, my electrical cost for this bulb would be $29 expense, but $23-$26 of this $29 will be put in to heat the room, only $3-$6 is actually contributed to light the room. When an efficient LED lightis used, the utility cost would be only about $9-$11 per year – 60%-70% saving on power annually. Please be aware of that the savings on maintenance and replacements during the next years has not been counted yet.