The price gap between low-voltage lighting and more traditional high-voltage lighting is narrowing, and the advantages of using low-voltage lighting are becoming increasingly apparent. Most consumers are familiar with the well-known energy-saving benefits of LED lighting, but many still wonder when is the best time to make the switch? Here's a list of the latest LED benefits that explain why LED technology is now a wise choice for any lighting installation:
Longevity
With recent advances in low-voltage lighting technology, lighting life expectancy has reached new milestones. In contrast, fluorescent lamps reach the end of their lifespan more quickly and abruptly. Fluorescent lamps and other traditional light sources need to be replaced much more frequently than LED lighting. Customers demand high-quality, low-maintenance light sources, and LED lamps offer a simple, long-lasting solution.
Flexible to Fit Anywhere
LED lighting fixtures offer endless installation possibilities. LED strips and ribbons are extremely small and can be cut on-site to fit in virtually any location. The compact size of LED strips makes them an ideal lighting solution for areas that traditional lighting fixtures cannot reach.
Superior Brightness
With recent advances in low-voltage lighting technology, some linear LED fixtures now offer higher brightness than fluorescent lamps of comparable length. The compact fixture design enables installers to create powerful, low-profile LED lighting in parallel, providing exceptional brightness throughout a linear space.
More Color Options
Low-voltage lighting offers far more color temperature (CCT) options than fluorescent lamps. LED lamps offer a wide range of white light color temperatures, including warm, neutral, and cool white, as well as single-color options such as red, green, and blue. Elemental LED even offers professional services to customize color temperature lighting to meet specific customer needs. With color-changing RGB technology, pre-programmed or programmable color controllers can be used to switch between different single-color modes or color-changing effects.
Excellent Lighting Uniformity
LED lighting provides consistent and uniform light output, which is particularly important in linear lighting fixtures. The uniform lumen output of linear LED lighting provides consistent ambient light fill in any space along the entire length of the fixture. LEDs produce a consistent beam angle from diode to diode.
Energy Efficiency
Low-voltage lighting uses 80% less energy than CFLs and incandescent lamps. The cost savings from LED lamps' lower energy consumption are just one of the many advantages of low-voltage lighting technology. With recent advancements in LED technology, LEDs now lead the lighting industry in terms of lifespan, brightness, uniformity, and color options.
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