Top 10 Advantages of LED Lighting
Lighting should match your needs. LED technology has expanded and improved to provide commercial contractors and consumers with energy efficient light bulbs that feature long lifetime hours, safety improvements, and more. There is no need to settle for preexisting lighting or keep paying high utility bills when you can save when you switch to LED lighting bulbs.
You can now choose from multiple LED varieties to suit your workspace or your home lighting design and match your particular light requirements. Selecting type, brightness, and color temperature will enhance the light layout you need for your commercial office space or home.
What advantages do you get when you switch from traditional to LED light bulbs? Below, we will break down the top 10 advantages of LED lighting:
Energy Efficient
Longer Lasting Bulbs
More Eco-Friendly
Safety Improvements with Less Heat Emission
Brightness and Wattage Equivalency
Great Color Rendering with High CRI
Instant On with No Warm-Up
Wide Color Temperature Range Options
Specialty Lighting: Dusk-to-Dawn, Smart Bulbs, Bug Lights
Dimmable Lighting
Energy Efficient
You can reduce energy costs and save money by swapping out traditional incandescent bulbs and replacing them with low wattage LED bulbs to improve your office or home energy efficiency. Ledmundo LED lights are up to 90% more efficient than traditional light bulbs. LED light bulbs consume less wattage, so you use less power. Our A19 LED features a 60W equivalency, but only consumes 6-watts. That’s quite an energy savings!
LED Tubes provide a good example of energy efficiency. 1 LED tube can perform the job of 2 fluorescent tubes. Not only do you save money on your energy bill, but more lumens per fixture means you need less fixtures when installing LED Shop Lights or recessed LED lighting.
Approximately 90% of the energy in a traditional fluorescent bulbs is converted to light. LED lights convert up to 90% of energy light. LEDs require less energy to produce the same amount of light.
Looking at the top selling A19 LED Light Bulb, your yearly energy cost is only $1.32 with this bulb, based on a three hour day. More on light lifespan in a bit.
More energy efficient means you will save money during the lifetime of each LED bulb you install, when compared to a traditional bulb. You will also benefit from LEDs that run cooler than incandescent bulbs to help you manage the heat of summer indoors.
Longer Lasting Bulbs
LED bulbs have the potential to last tens of thousands of hours, some Ledmundo bulbs feature up to 30,000 lifetime hours. Compared to the average light bulb with only 1,000 lifetime hours, this is a huge leap in technology and product longevity. It means switching to LED bulbs in your home or office supports a sustainable future. The durability of LED bulbs with their naturally long lamp life also helps improve the life expectancy of your light bulbs so you can stop replacing light bulbs all the time.
You will note that Ledmundo uses a “lifetime hours” designation on our website. The Lighting Facts card mentioned previously indicates that the A19 LED Light Bulb will last 22.8 years when used only 3 hours per day. The average homeowner or office worker will likely use a A19 LED Bulb in their recessed downlights for longer than 3 hours a day. Even if you use it 7/24, which is nearly 3 years, you will still save money and experience a longer light bulb lifespan than a traditional bulb, which would have to be replaced multiple time during that 3-year period.
Downlights are a good example for LED bulb longevity as there are side benefits, as well. Recessed lighting usually requires a ladder to reach the ceiling lighting fixture in order to change the bulb. Imagine how many times you would have to go up and down a ladder to change a traditional light bulb vs. the time savings in maintenance hours with the longer bulb life of an LED.
Longevity is not the only thing you can feel good about with LEDs. Ledmundo LEDs are also more eco-friendly than traditional options.
More Eco-Friendly
One of the key reasons Ledmundo LED lights are more eco-friendly than traditional bulbs is because they do not contain toxic elements like mercury and the LEDs do not emit damaging UV or IR. LEDs are the better alternative. Fluorescent bulbs contain mercury and other noxious chemicals that can be harmful to humans and the environment when disposed of in a landfill. When companies want to throw out fluorescents, they have to arrange for special pickup to adhere to compliant disposal regulations. An LED bulb does not have that issue, so you save time, in addition to supporting a sustainable world.
Safety Improvements with Less Heat Emission
LEDs provide a number of boosted safety improvements and also emit less heat than traditional bulbs. Let’s examine lights that are often a fire risk due to where they are placed inside your ceilings: recessed cans. Ledmundo recessed slim lighting and cans won’t overheat and cause a fire.
Brightness and Wattage Equivalency
LED lights are brighter with lower wattage than traditional incandescent bulbs. While many people think about the number of watts a light bulb has as equating to the brightness of the bulb, that is not accurate. The myth of high watts equals brighter bulb continues to persist. Check the lumens of a light bulb to determine brightness.
Great Color Rendering with High CRI
When a light bulb has High Color Rendering Index, or CRI, it refers to the quality of the light. High CRI provides good texture on the objects a light illuminates and delivers accurate color rendering. Many of Ledmundo’s LED light bulbs feature a high CRI rating from CRI80 – CRI95.
Instant On with No Warm-Up
No more waiting for your lights to turn on or warm up! That is a relic of the past. No delay when you flip a light switch is a benefit of LED lights that not many consider.
ledmundo color temperatures include:
- 2300K (Amber) — Appears: Red
- 2700K (Soft White) — Appears: Orange
- 3000K (Warm White) — Appears: Yellow
- 4000K (Cool White) — Appears: White
- 5000K (Daylight) — Appears: Blue
- 6000K (Daylight Deluxe) — Appears: Silver/Multi-Colored
- 7000K (Diamond White) — Appears: Silver
- 8000K (Bright White)
- 9000K (Ultra Bright White)
Specialty Lighting: LED Filament Bulbs , Smart Bulbs, SMD Bulbs
The improvements offered by LED specialty lighting mean you are no longer limited to standard room lighting. Ledmundo offers a great selection of specialty lighting for sale.
Dimmable Lighting
Using a dimmer, in combination with lower voltage LEDs, is a great way to save energy and also provide control over your lighting levels. Dimmable Ledmundo LED lights usually provide a dimming range from 10%-100%. This means you can easily adjust the lighting to exactly the level that you need in each room.