LED Advantages

LEDs have so many advantages over traditional lighting, we needed a whole page to list them!

Environmentally Friendly
In today’s world, environmental concerns are ever increasing. Put your mind to rest and do your part for the environment by installing LEDs. Landfill can be significantly reduced with LED technology. LEDs are 100% recyclable, meaning less ends up in landfill sites. Their extremely long life converts to less lights being manufactured. Consider 50 incandescent bulbs are needed to one LED! Greenhouse emissions are also significantly reduced, often by up to 90%.

Long Lifespan
LEDs have an extremely long lifespan. LEDs generally boast a 50,000 hr lifespan, compare this to a traditional incandescent bulb, which has an average lifespan of 1000 hrs. This equates to approximately 32 years if the bulb was in use four hours a day. In this scenario you would need to replace an incandescent bulb 50 times to equal the lifespan of the 1 LED.

Energy Efficient
One of the biggest advantages of LED lighting is significantly reduced energy bills. Most energy used by the LED is converted into light, not heat. Traditional lighting is relatively inefficient due to the large amounts of heat generated in the production of light.

In traditional lighting large amounts of electricity is lost through heat, LED converts almost all electricity to light.

No Maintenance
Long life and durable construction reduces time and money needed to maintain LED lighting. This makes LED lighting ideal for applications where maintenance expenses are excessive. Office buildings, sky scrapers or difficult to reach installations are perfect for LED lighting. Maintenance issues are often significant factors for any lighting system LED options can virtually eliminate this factor

Durable
LEDs contain no fragile filaments or gas filled tubes, this makes LED lighting extremely robust. LEDs do not suddenly burn out, and are of robust design. This makes LED lighting ideal for use in high risk areas such as basketball courts, security lighting and many other applications.

100% Recyclable
LEDs contain no harmful chemicals such as mercury (found in fluorescent lights). They are manufactured from materials that can be fully recycled.

Low Heat = Low fire risk
LEDs operate at very low operating temperatures compared to traditional lighting. This significantly reduces the chance of fire significantly. If many Halogens are installed in a small area, heat is produced, LEDs eliminate this problem.

Lights instantly
Traditional lighting such as mercury vapour or fluorescent take considerable time to reach their full intensity. LEDs light instantly thus making them suitable for areas where lights are turned on and off frequently.

Silent operation
Eliminate the annoying humming noise that often plague traditional lighting sources. LEDs are silent when they are on.

Low voltage
LEDs are safer to work with and use due to their low voltage operation.

Small design
Since LEDs are basically a computer chip they are physically smaller than incandescent lamps.