LED Lighting is everywhere nowdays, in your car, in your kitchen, in clubs and bars and even in research facilities. So why is LED lighting gradually taking over from other types of domestic and industrial lighting?
Firstly LED Lighting is far more efficient and flexible. Its power consumption is on average approximately 5% of the equivalent brightness halogen or fluorescent lamp. For locations using vast quantities of light this is obviously going to be a huge saving on energy bills and is also much more environmentally friendly, it also helps in battery powered situations as it prolongs battery life.
Most people have had the experience of changing a light bulb only for it to blow a few days later and need replacing again. With LED Lighting this is gradually becoming a thing of the past. LED lighting creates virtually no heat, and also has a much longer life span than filament lamps or fluorescent tubes. Some LED manufacturers rate their LED units at between 100,000 hours and 1,000,000 hours lifespan. This in the long run obviously means to you a huge saving in replacement costs. So with LED Lighting the saving is two fold, no more replacement lamps, and much lower energy bills.
Also LED lights are solid state components, in simple terms this means that they are exceptionally durable, compared to the filament in traditional bulbs. Shocks, drops and knocks are far less likely to cause damage to LEDs than to incandescent bulbs. This makes them perfect for road use for display companies, touring theaters and performing groups.
As for flexibility LED Lighting offers more more options, this is because LED fixtures are commonly powered using several LEDs to create the brightness required. As such different colored colored LEDs can be fitted in one unit. This means that a single unit can create vast quantities of different colors via color mixing, as opposed to the single colors traditional lighting allows. LED lights also keep their color as they are dimmed as opposed to normal incandescent bulbs which tend to glow yellow when the current through them is lowered (giving off either a yellow instead of white light, or tinted color if the light is being filtered). This makes them much more effective in light controlled situations.
So in short LED Lighting and Lamps are more reliable and flexible, as well as much cheaper in the long run. The flexibility of color means far less equipment and transport space required for touring performing or display groups (no more dimming packs and such like as many LED units or directly DMX controllable). The long life span and high durability means little or no replacement cost, combined with the significantly lower power consumption means much lower operating costs and makes it environmentally friendly.
It's very easy to see now why LED Lighting is taking over.
