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Utilizing LED Spot Lamps to Substitute Old Fashioned Halogen Spot Lighting
Posted on June 30, 2011 by sielement
Utilizing LED Spot Lamps to Substitute Old Fashioned Halogen Spot Lighting
This Review will chat about “Adopting LED Spot Lights to Get Rid of Conventional Halogen Spot Lamps
Small halogen spot light bulbs are traditionally used to provide more focused beam or accent lights. They have been broadly used as a more energy-saving alternative to incandescent bulbs in retail facilities and household lighting systems. The halogen bulbs work at high temperatures, a great deal of heat dissipated around the ambient lamp. What’s more, the lamp, especially the filament should not be exposed to serious vibration to prevent the light from failure too soon.
For example, the power consuption of the typically used par20 , MR16, GU10 halogen lamps ranges from 20W to 50W, and their lumen output ranges from 160 lm to 700 lm. This means that, it equals to an efficacy of roughly 16 lm/W. The life expectancy of a normal halogen lamp is roughly 2000-3000 hours, quite likely equal to 3 to 4 months of usage in a local store.
Having studied about halegon spot lights, now let’s move onto LED spot lights.
Spot lights are normally utilised as spot or accent lighting in some difficult-to-reach small areas where people would not hope the bulbs to be changed too often. LED lamps lasts many times longer than the conventional halogen lights. Some LED spot lamps are made of a cluster of small LEDs, the other LED spot bulbs are made up of a smaller quantity of high-power LEDs. Both of them are able to produce very high-quality light and can be a good retrofit of halogens.
What’s more, LED light bulb needs very small proportion of electricity to provide advanced of lumens output, this means that, they get higher efficiency.In point of fact, MR16, GU10 and PAR LED Lamps, consume much less electricity to emit the similar amount of light than halogen lamps. At present, LEDs are able to offer 110 lm/W in general use (in the lab, this value is much higher), with three 1-watt high-power diode of this, the whole light output would be nearly 300 lumens. What is more, with regular focus beam angle of 15, 30 or 45 degree, the light bulbs can be able to provide significant amount of usable light without much waste light as halogens do.Furthermore, the LED technology has been continuously improving from year to year dramatically, higher and higher efficiency diode chips appear in the market.
LED spotlights do not rely upon heated filaments or gas materials to provide light, and they do not carry mercury like fluorescents. Therefore LED lights can be working very close to delicate items such as jewelry, valuable merchandises in the show case or shelf, expensive ornaments and photographs at home, without heat damage or fading over time.
Further more, LED lamp is the ideal choice as it is environmentally friendly. It releases much less CO2 emission than incandescents, halogens and fluorescents do, helping to reduce the carbon footprint.
There is another benefit of using LED spot lamps as the retrofit of halogens. This benefit would be the dimmable function of LED lights. Now, the dimmable functionality and be achieved in more and more LED lights. Imagine that, in a cafe or a canteen you run, when some of the tables are not occupied, is it smart to have the dimmable lights? As you would neither like to waste the electricity nor like to leave the unoccupied tables fully dark?
The author is interested in energy-saving, energy efficiency sector, particularly in LED lights technologies and products such as led bulbs and led tubes etc. The final copyright of this article belongs to Sielement LED Lights, but welcome anyone to republish.
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