The increasing level of energy consumption with a simultaneous increase in the cost of energy resources leads to the spread of new energy saving technologies. Currently, there is an increase in sales of LED-based lighting products for home and industrial use, which are becoming more and more affordable.
Many European countries have laws to phase out incandescent light bulbs.Energy savingwhen you replace such light sources, as well as halogen and fluorescent lamps with LED ones, it reaches 2-8 times. In addition, switching to energy-efficient equipment reduces operation and maintenance costs, improves the environmental safety of facilities and reduces carbon dioxide emissions.
Energy saving characteristics of LED lamps
The design of the LED lamp, including a housing, an optical system and a crystal with semiconductor properties, allows you to convert electrical energy into light flux without unnecessary losses, thus reducing energy consumption and providing significantenergy saving.
The service life of LED devices, providing effective heat dissipation, reaches 60-100 thousand hours or more than 10 years. The operating time of incandescent lamps is an average of 1, 000 hours. Thanks to reliability, durability and low energy consumptionenergy savingwhen installing new lighting equipment, it is visible even on the scale of a small manufacturing plant or commercial facility. Devices based on LED technologies fully recover investments within a period of 1-2, 5 years.
Choosing LED devices with optimal characteristics
The modern lighting market offers LED devices with different characteristics and energy saving indicators, which determineenergy savingwhen using equipment.
When choosing a lamp, it is important to pay attention to the value of the light efficiency indicator, that is, the amount of light flux emitted by the light source when consuming one watt of electricity. In order to maintain the level of illumination and maintain comfortable conditions in the object, the luminous flux of the installed lamp must be selected no lower than this indicator for the device being replaced. When installing lamps, it is necessary to take into account that for incandescent lamps the lighting efficiency is 10-15 lm/W, for fluorescent devices - 65 lm/W, and modern LED devices - 110-150 lm/W.