LED lamps for the home

Today, the growth of electric tariffs is increasing quite often, for example, over the past 10 years they have risen almost 20 times. The only way to fix this problem is to save energy consumption.

Features of choice

The main reason that delays the complete re-equipment of lighting devices on LED lamps is the cost of these devices.

When choosing you need to consider:

1. It is not worthwhile to buy lamps on LEDs of an unknown manufacturer. Its marking should be on the case or box, and be clear. Necessarily on the box is not on the sticker, there should be a barcode made using typographic printing. It is advisable to buy them not at the market or in the store, but from authorized distributors;
2. It is also necessary to take into account the flow of light. For example, devices with a light stream of 600 lumieres can replace a 55-60 cotton incandescent lamp. We are also interested in the indicator of light temperature. Neutral and warm white shades are best suited for a residential building. Cold colors are comfortable only in the open air and in industrial premises.
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3. A high-quality lamp and even an LED lamp cannot be inexpensive, in the cheap, probably there are low quality components.
4. A powerful lamp requires a radiator to remove excess heat. The cooling radiator in any LED lighting fixture should be solid. High-quality cooling is a guarantee of its long service life.
5. The base must be firmly fixed in the housing., there should be no burrs on it.

What affects the cost of LED lamps:

1. Lamps from different manufacturers differ significantly in their characteristics and quality. The differences are more noticeable with an increase in the product's service life, so the same lamps after six months can give different light. The reason for this is the degradation of the LED (decrease in light output). At this time, the LED emits less light and heats up more.
2. For a product to last a long time, good cooling required.
3. Since 2015, they began to use a combined cooling element (aluminum + plastic). A pure aluminum radiator will become disadvantageous over time.
4. In inexpensive products use a metal radiator or ceramic cooler.

Pros and cons of LEDs

The reason for the recognition of this lighting method is its many advantages over other light sources:

1. Main plus - the long life of these products (an average of about 50,000 hours).
2. Compared to similar lighting methods - minimum energy costs.
3. Economic benefit - The result of saving electricity and durability of products.
4. Significant light output of elements, almost all the energy entering the lamp is reorganized into the light flux, compared, for example, with an incandescent lamp that gives at the same power significantly less light and emits much more heat.
5. You can select the appropriate LED color: from a warm color to a daytime shade or use cool white. Here it is necessary to take into account such a characteristic as a binocular - a systematization of the color and wavelength emitted by the LED. Unscrupulous manufacturers of cheap lighting products on LEDs often do not monitor the compliance of the color bin. For this reason, you must make sure when buying that all products are the same in brightness or color.
6. If you need to arrange a color highlight, then RGB elements are most suitable for this - the number of shades is limited only by the invention of the room's designer. They allow you to create a backlight of any shade, and if you need to change it as you wish.
7. With LED lights, you can easily adjust the brightness stream of light.
8. Variety and flexibility of products, their compactness, makes it possible to implement a huge number of design ideas in almost any interior.
9. LED lamp does not heat up during operation, which increases the level of security. This allows the use of such lighting devices for lighting devices in the floor, since the possibility of getting burned upon stepping on the lamp is reduced to zero.
10. Lack of elements toxic and harmful to people makes it possible to talk about this light source as a completely safe and environmentally friendly device.

Without a doubt, the question arises about the shortcomings of the LED luminaires; here the most important factor is “cost”. Of course, the cost of the device is of great importance, but the payback of the device due to the very long life and significant energy savings reduces the importance of this minus.

In addition to the cost, there are several more negative qualities of LED lighting. First of all, he needs a special power source. In addition, despite the term of operation, after a certain period of time, the element loses its brightness due to changes in the physical and chemical characteristics of the crystal emitting light.

Over time, its degradation will begin, it depends directly on the quality of the used heat-removing element. For this reason, when buying such products, it is necessary to take into account not only the cost of the device, but and its manufacturer: it is better to buy a device more expensive, but a trusted company, to prevent unnecessary costs.

If an LED fails in the matrix of the lighting device, then it is impossible or very difficult to fix such a breakdown.

Varieties

For the lighting device, several types of lighting devices are used:

LED bulbs

There is no need to throw away your usual chandelier, you just need to buy a suitable LED light source.

LED strip

They are mainly used to illuminate the ceiling and for additional lighting. If desired, you can replace the main lighting of the room with a powerful tape on the LEDs;

LED Matrix Lights

The many varieties, dimensions and shapes of LED lights are simply amazing, but they are mainly suitable for interiors arranged in modern styles. For this reason, lovers of country style or interiors in a classic style will have to use the usual lamps.

If you purchase a product of neutral white light, then after 2-3 days, you will not have the desire to change it to the usual shade. Neutral white light is natural, and it resembles a little the luminous flux on the street in the daytime.

Reviews

1. Pauline Brilaya. “The main disadvantage of LEDs is the heterogeneous spectrum, the maximum is on blue, which negatively affects vision. If you manage to suppress it with a light filter, then this shade in the spectrum will be completely absent. ”
2. Viktor. “These touted LED lights break down quite often.”
3. Glory. “I personally installed more than 1000 lighting devices on LEDs and never got burnt, even from those that people installed a few years before my arrival.”
4. Maniak. “Sometimes the marriage is directly in the design of the product, it is unacceptable to heat the LED more than the permissible design temperature. To remove heat, a cooler is installed at a rate of at least 20 cm per watt of power. If the design is different, then the lamp will not last not only 2 years, but will die in two months. ”
5. Sham. “A luminaire that gives 105 lumens is a maximum even for expensive lamps, and also only during the first three months. But inexpensive Samsung diodes can achieve 110-120 lumens and degrade longer. We will be objective. ”
6. Arkady. “You should not even look for good fixtures under an ordinary base. It’s just impossible to push good cooling into the usual size form factor. ”