It could be argued that light emitting diode (LED) lighting is the best out of all the current options, and it can be argued that out of all the LED lights, a commercial LED high bay light is the best of LED lights. When stating that one is "the best," it's helpful to know what it's being compared to. Most traditional lighting is incandescent or fluorescent, although there is also induction lighting and high intensity discharge lighting. All different kinds of lighting vary based on their longevity, quality of the light, maintenance, cost, efficiency, and whether or not any rebate offers are available for using them. The life of an LED light is significantly higher than any of the options, with incandescent lighting having the shortest life span. In addition to that, the quality of LED lighting is much better than most of the other lighting choices commercially available and its energy efficiency is very high. Unfortunately, there is always a trade off when there's an excellent product. LED lighting happens to be one of the more expensive lighting choices, although some could argue that the initial cost is offset by the great availability of utility rebates and their low maintenance costs.
LED lights are quickly phasing out other forms of lighting, being used commercially as well as in the home. LED lights, previously only available in home improvement stores, are now being placed in grocery stores and places like Target. It is becoming very easy for businesses to acquire a commercial LED high led flood light for barbecue bay light. However, some people are still confused as to how LED lights actually work. LED, standing for "light emitting diode," implies that there is a diode present that is emitting light. That diode has two terminals which conduct electricity in just one direction. Diodes have been used, for years, in technology such as remote controls and cell phones. LEDs are capable of producing a wide variety and spectrum of colors; the color is dependent on the energy gap in the semiconductor of the diode. This makes LEDs all the more useful, as they can come in multiple different colors.
How LEDs use energy and emit light can relate to how much more efficient and useful they are compared to other conventional lighting. LEDs have been noted to use seventy-five percent less energy than incandescent light bulbs, and twenty-five percent less than the other extremely effective lighting: compact fluorescent lighting. In addition to that, LEDs are much more efficient at lighting a room due to how they emit light. LEDs are capable of emitting light in one targeted direction, as compared to incandescent and compact fluorescent lighting which scatters the light. Also, LEDs put out a lot less heat than other lighting, resulting in less loss of energy. Incandescents release ninety percent of their energy as heat. This can be extremely useful commercially, as a room can become extremely hot due to lighting. A commercial LED high bay light can help prevent that.
Relative to other lighting technologies such as incandescent and fluorescent/CFLs, we could almost leave this page blank for LED's. That might throw some people so we'll compare one of the greatest strengths of LED lighting over other available technologies and a key factor in their savings to the owner. Maintenance and Replacement costs and effort goes way down. When we compare watt to watt and bulb to bulb costs in our "How LED Saves You Money" article, we don't even include the financial cost value of labor associated with the more frequent changing of incandescent and CFL bulbs but it's there. So let's into the maintenance and replacement requirements for LED's so we can can contrast those with other available technologies. The key term here is a little electronics 101 called Solid State. Simply defined, Solid State describes an electronic component that is made out of solid materials. An example of a transition would be the old computers than ran on vacuum tubes and today's transitors. For some reason, we're still lighting our world with 1950's technology. Incandescent and fluorescent lights are not solid state. They break, they burst, and in general, they are more fragile. Much more fragile as anyone changing a bulb knows for experience. There are more things to go wrong and invariably, breakage and failure can infect about 20% of finished incandescent bulbs. There's also the intense ability of heat to wreak havoc on any system (literally a law of physics...one of the big 4) and the small world of the light bulb is not immune to our laws of physics. On average, incandescent bulbs will last about 2000 hours. fluorescent and CFL's will last about 8000 hours although they steadily lose their ability to light (lumens) during their life. What about our LED lights? 10,000 hours? 15000 hours? Higher. In fact, you're looking at 50000 hours. There's just less to go wrong with a solid state electronic component. This factors heavily into the cost structure (and advantage) of LED's over any time period beyond 1 year. So what impact does this longer lifespan have on the business owner prescient enough to make the switch? The obvious impact is in the form of labor. You may think..."How much time does it take to screw in a lightbulb" which quickly leads to a few bad jokes. If you have 100 lights in our building not to mention 1000 lights or 20,000 lights, it starts to add up quickly. Why? Because incandescents are going to go out after about 241 days at 10 hours a day. That's only 5 minutes to switch out (assuming they're accessible) but you multiply 5 minutes by 1000 lights and now you ask the question, at $20/hour, can I find something better for skilled labor to do with their time? Yes you can. The answer is to have them put in LED lights and then forget about them for years. ZeroHedge, a snarky but informative financial website has the tagline, "On a Long Enough Timeline, the Survival Rate of Everyone Goes to Zero". That's true for all things including LED lights. So what's involved at that point? This is the genius of our particular LED lamps. When most LED lights fail, the entire light fails and needs to be replaced. We felt even that was wasteful so we built our technology around a chip or "driver" that pushes the electricity to the LED light. We consider 20% reduction in light be time for replacement but you only need to replace the driver in most cases. This approach is substantially less expensive than other LED lights where the entire lamp is replaced. The rest of the industry will be catching up with our technology for years. You will already have it today and it will start saving you today. It's good to be early. When portable luminaire lamp a driver does fail, you will send the lamp back to us, we'll switch out the driver for a new one, and send back the refurbished lamp. The cost is much less to you than to replace the entire lamp. Why throw out the computer because the software has a bug. We don't why...but 99% of business and residences do it every year at their considerable expense.
