What are LEDs?

LED stands for light-emitting diode. LEDs are small light sources that become illuminated by the movement of electrons through a semiconductor material. LEDs can be integrated into all sorts of products to provide white and colored light, such as flashlights, light bulbs, and integrated light fixtures.

  • Low Powered LED
  • Primarily used for drawing
  • attention to something,
  • such as an exit sign, a
  • green power button on a
  • computer, or a red blinking
  • light on a video camera.
  • High Powered LED
  • Primarily used to illuminate an
  • area. ENERGY STAR qualified,
  • LED lighting uses multiple
  • illuminator LEDs inside a
  • fixture to produce white light.
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What is Solid-State Lighting?

 

LEDs are part of a family of lighting technologies called Solid-State lighting. Solid-State lighting (SSL), most commonly seen in the form of Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs), has the potential to revolutionize the efficiency, appearance, and quality of lighting as we know it.

The U.S. Department of Energy estimates that rapid adoption of LED lighting in the U.S. by 2027 could :

  •  Deliver savings of about $265 billion
  •  Avoid 40 new power plants.
  •  Reduce lighting electricity demand by 33% in 2027.

How are LED lighting products different from other lighting, like fluorescent or incandescent?

LEDs emit light in a specific direction, whereas an incandescent or fluorescent bulb emits light — and heat — in all directions. For direct lighting applications LED lighting uses both light and energy more efficiently.

For example, an incandescent or compact fluorescent (CFL) bulb inside of a recessed can will waste about half of the light that it produces, while a recessed down light with LEDs only produces light where it’s needed — in the room below.

Incandescent bulbs create light by passing electricity through a metal filament until it becomes so hot that it glows. Incandescent bulbs release 90% of their energy as heat.

In a CFL, an electric current is driven through a tube containing gases. This reaction produces ultraviolet light that gets transformed into visible light by the fluorescent coating (called phosphor) on the inside of the tube. A CFL releases about 80% of its energy as heat.

LED lighting products use light emitting diodes to produce light very efficiently. The movement of electrons through a semiconductor material illuminates the tiny light sources we call LEDs. A small amount of heat is released backwards, into a heat sink, in a well-designed product; LEDs are basically cool to the touch.

LED lighting, when designed well, can be more efficient, durable, versatile and longer lasting than incandescent and fluorescents lighting.

"Change is not merely necessary to life. It is Life." - Alvin Toffler

 

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