Key LED Facts

• Versatility – Solid State Lighting (SSL) can be packaged in ways that were formerly impossible. Over that years, luminaire manufacturers found innovative ways to take a generally dispersed light and direct it where they wanted it. SSL makes it possible to entirely re-think the luminaire’s form factor and installation method.
• Installation Cost - As LED lighting becomes more widely used, many installation techniques will be changed where lighting is concerned. New development and building projects will save costs incurred with electrical construction of lighting systems. Their low voltage operation allows for a multitude of low material cost design options.
• Color Changing Ability – In applications where color is needed, LED lighting can be intelligently controlled, allowing virtually millions of color possibilities.
• Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) - A cost effective, long term, outright cost of ownership with minimal initial system outlay if this application is used as a replacement light supply using reduced voltage main power (110Vac or 240Vac converted to 12Vdc or 24 Vdc). If applied using photovoltaic solar poser technology, then the saving are considerably greater simply because sunlight is free and fully developed technology to convert that to electrical power is available – off the self.
• Wider Range of Working Voltage Options – LED lighting only requires tiny amounts of power to operate efficiently which is ideal when considering systems to be run from photovoltaic solar or wind generated power (12Vdc or 24Vdc). There is also the option of running LED lighting systems from mains generated power (110Vac ~277Vac 50Hz ~ 60Hz) via conventional transformers at vastly reduced running costs.
• Low Heat Output – Maximum LED operating temperatures are typically 60ºC rather than 300º – 450ºC operating temperatures of conventional lighting solutions. Heat pollution is therefore reduced offering saving of secondary interior systems such as air conditioning.
• Quality of Light - The quality of the white light available can be tailored to suit the human eye – eliminating eye strain, which in certain working and living environments can have a adverse and costly implications, together with Health and Safety issues. LEDs do not produce ultraviolet light and can be perfectly matched to a specific “Color Rendering Index” for industrial and regulatory standards requirements.