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Advantages of LED Lighting
Energy Savings up to 50% over traditional lighting include:
Increased back-up generation capacity
Reduced cooling costs
Allowing users to install fewer solar panels to power their lighting
Additional benefits include:
Much better optical distribution with secondary lensing
Ability to control lighting digitally through DMX
Use of ambient light sensing on select products to automatically dim lights when adequate ambient light is available
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High Output LED |
Fluorescent |
Metal Halide (HID) |
CFL |
| Useful Life in hours (estimate) |
70,000 |
20,000 |
10,000 |
10,000 |
| Beam Angle (in degrees) |
10-20 |
360 |
>300 |
>300 |
| Lumens/Watt (light source only) |
150 |
82 |
110 |
60 |
| Lumens/Watt (net efficacy) |
120 |
35 |
55 |
26 |
| Fully Dimmable |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Color Changing |
Possible |
No |
No |
No |
| Contains mercury/hazardous material |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Performs well in cold |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
Warm up time required
(in minutes) |
0 |
0.5 |
10 |
0.5 |
| Bulb hot to touch |
Warm |
Warm |
Yes, >100C |
Warm |
| Ultra Violet Level |
None |
Low |
Very High |
Low |
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