LED lighting is truly the next generation technology that presents numerous benefits not only for home LED lighting consumers, but also for businesses, with LED downlighting products and LED tubes that can replace outdated and buzzing fluorescent lighting. . LED lighting offers benefits such as higher energy efficiency than CFLs and fluorescents, lower power consumption, lower maintenance costs, longer life (50,000 hours versus less than 10,000), durability, and Brighter light output than conventional fluorescent lighting. LED lighting is gradually filling the domestic and commercial lighting market with such innovative products as T5 LED and T8 LED tubes, flexible LED lighting and recessed LED lighting.

Fluorescent lighting contains toxic materials such as mercury, which is harmful to the environment and the human body. Did you know that if you drop or break a fluorescent light bulb you must be out of the room for 4 hours, due to the toxic materials floating in the air, which could cause respiratory damage, or long-term asthma in workers who they have to deal with these accessories on a daily basis. Workers and personnel who replace fluorescent tubes on the job, such as electricians, are most impressed with LED tubes, as not only are they easier to install and require no ballast, but they are worry-free as they can last more than 10 years. They are on 24 hours a day and do not contain toxic materials like the mercury dust found in fluorescent lights. For quick installation, the LED tube lighting can be positioned and installed directly into existing T5 and T8 fluorescent sockets, you just need to remove the ballast, plug in the LED bulbs and you’re done! Contrary to popular belief, LEDs are very easy to install today, and most LED products are now “plug-and-play” and still offer a stylish appearance with unmatched energy savings.

Although fluorescent lighting is more energy efficient than incandescent lighting, it’s still an energy-wasting juggernaut compared to LED lighting. For businesses that have a large electricity bill, switching to LED could cut your energy bill in half while maintaining full brightness and no fluorescent flicker. Even with the most advanced compact fluorescent lamps, fluorescent lighting accounts for a high percentage of existing lighting around the world, switching from fluorescent lighting to LED lighting can greatly reduce global lighting energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. greenhouse effect. Now let’s do a detailed analysis to compare LED and fluorescent lighting, and there is no doubt that LED will beat fluorescent lighting.

First, LED lighting is more energy efficient than fluorescent lighting due to the high efficacy of LEDs. LEDs for indoor lighting have already broken the record for efficacy of 100 lumens per watt, while fluorescent lighting only has an efficacy of around 60 lumens per watt. LED has a power factor of 0.9, which means that most of the energy is converted to light, but when fluorescent lighting is operating, a large amount of energy is converted to heat that will eventually be dispersed. LED lighting consumes only 30% of the energy of fluorescent lighting to deliver the same lumen output.

Second, flexible LED lighting has a much longer lifespan than fluorescent lighting, since LED lighting is solid-state lighting that is more stable and reliable. LEDs can last more than 50,000 hours, which is 17 years with normal use. While fluorescent lighting only has a lifespan of around 5,000 hours, which means you need to replace it just as often. Using LED lighting can greatly save the expenses used to buy new bulbs and pay for labor.

Also, the light quality of LED recessed lighting is much better than that of fluorescent lighting. Fluorescent lighting always flickers when turned on, while LED lighting comes on quickly without any flickering. We all know and have seen or lived with flickering fluorescent tubes on a daily basis. In fact, they have been shown to cause headaches, due to the wavelength of the micropulses they emit. Using LED lighting can reduce workplace stress, headaches and increase efficiency, with workers at peak performance, minus the migraines of CFLs!

When it’s on for hours a day, for a long period of time, fluorescent lighting can have some hot spots due to the heat it generates that LED lighting doesn’t. These hot spots make the rest of the light dimmer and quickly result in a dead CFL tube, a perfect reason to switch to T8 or T5 LED tubes, depending on the size of the socket. Fluorescent/CFL pigtail lighting can cause eyestrain, but LED lighting doesn’t as a result of its unmatched even balanced light output, and it doesn’t flicker or emit a low-pitched hum like older fluorescent technology. Today, flexible LED lighting, home LEDs, and recessed/LED tubes are greener than ever, outperforming fluorescent lighting by more than 500%. And of course, fluorescent lights contain toxic materials like mercury, which can contaminate the air if broken and, when thrown away, can cause permanent lung and throat/skin damage if contact is frequent or daily.

By contrast, LED lighting is solid-state lighting that does not contain breakable filaments (like incandescents) or hazardous materials like compact fluorescent lamps. Some may say that the initial costs of LED lighting are too high, due to the technology used to achieve such a high lumens per watt (efficiency) rating, it is true. However, think about the energy savings in the long run and the savings you’ll get from not having to replace your lights, up to 5-10 times more, depending on whether the replaced light was incandescent or fluorescent. Either way, the more high-energy halogen, incandescent, or fluorescent lights you replace, the more money you’ll save each month. Some cities and states even have a government or tax rebate program that pays or reimburses you for energy efficient LED bulbs. Check with your local city, half the bill could be on them due to recent energy grants and programs put in place by President Obama in early 2010. Huge? Why that? When factoring in the true price of lighting, you need to include all 3 variables: startup costs, maintenance costs, and a maintenance network to routinely replace your lights… that is of course if you’re not using LEDs! !

In my opinion, LED lighting will replace fluorescent lighting as it meets sustainable development requirements, incandescent lighting – due to energy saving and durability, and halogen lighting due to heat, safety factor and of course, energy usage! Replace your money hungry lights at home, office, hotel, casino, college, dorm room or even your RV to save battery power! Go green and truly green with LED lighting, and don’t forget to PROPERLY dispose of CFL lights in a sealed trash bag (or two, or the health of your trash can).