electronic Global Trade Credit Platform/eGTCP's Blog: Bet You Don't Know Everything about LED Lights

LED bulbs are electronic devices and since lighting is the most important real estate in the home—everybody uses it in every room. These bulbs are designed to provide home security, safety, or music while casting light. Our blog will help you find the best bulb for the fixture.

Benefits of LED Lighting

LED light bulbs can save money not only because they produce far less heat than metal halides, CFLs, and incandescent light bulbs, also they are roughly 80% more energy efficient than other type bulbs. Upgrading to LED lighting means you won’t spend your summer months cooling down rooms that your light bulbs are busy heating up. While originally a cooler blue tone than incandescent bulbs, LEDs now come in warm white color and daylight temperatures so that you can more easily update your existing bulbs without altering the color of your room. You can see the colors of your makeup or artwork more accurately because LED lighting also offers a superior color rendering index (CRI).

LED bulbs are durable and ecologically friendly. You can recycle LED bulbs and reduce your carbon footprint up to one third. LEDs can stay bright for up to 11 years of continuous operation. This means you can spend less time climbing ladders trying to replace those hard to reach bulbs in vaulted ceilings.

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LEDs are one of today’s most promising technologies.

No mercury, making them a cleaner alternative to fluorescent and CFL lamps.
The lowest energy consumption of any lighting product to date.
Light quality equal or superior to traditional lighting products.
Life that is 20 times than some traditional lighting products.

Things to Consider When Buying LED Lighting

Lumens - Lumens directly measure just how much light the bulb gives out in total. On average, a 60-watt incandescent shines at 800 lumens, with roughly 50-100 lumens of difference above or below. The variance depends on manufacturer and age of the lamp. LEDs are directly rated for their max lumen rating and last much longer without dimming of the bulb. This means variance of LEDs lumens is little.

Equivalent Wattage - While lumens are the new standard, it helps to have an easily recognizable guide. Comparing an LED bulb to an incandescent will give you a rough estimate of just how well it will light a room. As a very ballpark figure for LED wattages, 1/4 or 1/5 the incandescent wattage value is usually close to what you need.

Driver Content - Because of their design, LEDs do not typically run on AC voltage. Many LEDs require some form of driver to convert the voltage from AC to DC for proper operation. The majority of socket-based LED lamps are self-driven, but you should always check before buying to make sure that you buy both an LED and a driver at the same time if it isn't self-driven.

Color Temperature - Your guide to how the light itself will look. Lower values are warmer, with 2700-3000K being a more incandescent "warm white" while higher temperatures like 5000K will deliver a very harsh "stark white" light.

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Do you know of any trusted online suppliers of LED fittings?

I always find it hard to recommend suppliers as it's really a personal choice.
Generally, it is worth remembering you get what you pay for, so with a few exceptions, very cheap LED bulbs won't perform well or last long due to price.

I recommend you eGTCP.com as they have great credit system and professional services including purchasing order matching, trade financing, export services, international logistics and credit assurance, etc. There are 20,000 trusted suppliers on eGTCP platform. You can search LED bulb on that.

LEDs’ price is higher than common bulbs. What should I do if I don’t have enough money?

They are not quite as cheap as low energy bulbs yet but they are getting there.

It is also worth thinking about the running cost when I think about how much a bulb costs. For example, you have four spotlights in your kitchen, it costs $80 a year to run those, whereas LEDs only cost $7 a year to run. The 'payback' time calculation is important. It might be tempting to buy the cheap non energy-efficient bulbs, but in the long term you will be better off to buy LEDs.

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