LED technology advances more every day. So much so that we can now adapt LED lights to almost all conventional lighting devices. We find LEDs almost anywhere, televisions, toys, traffic lights, PCs, mobile phones… And in reality there are many advantages of LED lighting. From energy savings to economic savings, including for safety, durability… Let’s look in detail at the main virtues of LED lighting.
- Energy savings: they save up to 90% energy, far exceeding any other lighting system on the market.
- Useful life: They can exceed 80,000 hours, being between 50 and 80 times more durable than other lighting systems. An LED bulb lit 8 hours a day can last up to 15 years, while a light bulb incandescent only 1 year. If we leave it on 24 hours a day, it can last up to 5 or 6 years. An incandescent light bulb would only last two and a half months.
- Less maintenance: due to the long life of LED technology we do not have to continually replace the equipment.
- Economic Savings: They represent a saving of around 30% of money on your electricity bill. In addition to what we save on maintenance due to its durability.
- No chemicals or radiation: When we talk about LED technology we are talking about a lighting system free of mercury (present in fluorescent lighting systems), tungsten (present in incandescent bulbs) fluorine, bromine, chlorine, iodine, halogen, and tungsten (present in a gaseous state in halogen luminaires) which are highly polluting chemicals.
- Reduces Co2 emissions: By reducing electricity consumption we help protect the ozone layer strong>.
- 100% Recyclable: since all its components are solid.
- They do not emit ultraviolet or infrared light: although there are ultraviolet LEDs known as UV LEDs and also infrared LEDs known as IREDS, conventional LEDs do not emit these types of lights that are present in other lighting systems. Both UV and infrared are harmful to skin cells. In addition, UV rays damage art objects and paintings when exposed for prolonged periods.
- It literally emits cold light: An LED bulb generates 3.4 btu’s per hour, compared to 85 btu’s per hour generated by the incandescent bulb so it is really a safer technology.
- Efficient: LED technology does not waste energy. It uses 85% of the energy consumed to emit light. An incandescent bulb, on the other hand, transforms only 10% of energy into light.
- Resistant: LED technology is resistant to shocks and vibrations.
- Instant on: They turn on immediately and without flickering, reaching their maximum illumination point immediately.
- Reduces visual fatigue: TheLED technology emits its light in a balanced way, an incandescent bulb accumulates a very strong brightness in its central part.
- Eco-friendly: LED technology helps the planet from several points of view, energy savings help the ozone layer, They are recyclable, they do not pollute as they do not contain chemicals, they do not generate as much waste as they have a very long useful life. In addition, since they do not emit heat, they require less effort from the air conditioning systems.