It is acronym standing for light emitting diode. Replacing your fluorescent lights with LED tube light can be a confusing and daunting task. There are many advantages of LED tube lights over fluorescent are covered quite extensively. The three primary advantages of LED lights are:
- Higher efficiency, energy saving(30%-50%).
- Longer lifetime (typically 50,000 hour).
- Here no mercury is used.
- It is much cooler than fluorescent or incandescent lights.
- This are made up of epoxy lenses not of glasses.
- They are much more resistant to breakages.
- High brightness and intensity.
- It is reliable.
- It emits low radiated heat.
- It has a directional lighting.
Edmund germer invented the first tubelight. It is tube shaped flourescent lamp. Material that are used inside the tubelight are filament coils as electrodes, phosphor coated glass bulb, mercury drop and inert gases (argon).
LED lights are energy efficient and also they consumes 90% less power than incandescent bulb or fluorescent lights. Since LEDs are only use only a fraction of energy of an incandescent light or fluorescent light.
These tips and features will help you in determining the brightness and longevity for LED tube lights along with the power it will consume.
- Check the lumen for the brightness.
- Wattage and efficacy for power consumption.
- Should be environment friendly.
- Should operates at a much lower temperature.
It doesn't work directly on power supply. It needs some auxiliary components to work. The auxiliary components are ballast (it may be electromagnetic ballast or electronic ballast) and starter ( it is a small neon glow up lamp that contains a fixed contact, a bimetallic strip and small capacitors.
LED lights are considered far superior to the traditional light bulbs, and those who haven't made the switch yet should seriously consider it. LED tube lights last longer. They used less power and glows more brighter than other traditional incandescent bulbs or any other lighting products.
Disadvantages of using traditional incandescent bulbs:
- Heating dangers.
- Costs high.
- Fragility.
- Doesn't lasts for a longer period.
- Harmful for eyes.
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