Have you made the switch to LED lighting in your home?
Maybe you don't know about the benefits of LED lighting yet, so you haven't given it a try. It's time to make the upgrade today. Stop buying the same old lightbulbs and find out what LED lights can do for you.
In this guide, we'll give you some of the most compelling reasons to make the transition. After you're done reading this, you'll be poised to install LED lights in your home. Let's start learning about the benefits of LED lighting!
1. Save Energy
One of the top benefits of LED lights is their energy efficiency. Whether you care a lot about the environment or just want to save some money on your electric bills, this is one advantage you're sure to enjoy.
LED bulbs use about half as much electricity as incandescent, halogen, and fluorescent bulbs do, or even less. This can save you a lot of money at home, not to mention cutting down on your energy use. If you have places at home where the lights stay on for a long time, having efficient bulbs will make a huge difference.
Unlike most light bulbs, LEDs also send the light in a particular direction. Traditional light bulbs send out both heat and light in every direction at once. However, LEDs get mounted on flat surfaces, and send out light in a hemisphere rather than a sphere.
Since the light is directed where it needs to be, there's less light wasted, making the LED efficiency even greater.
2. Save Money
LED bulbs also last longer than other types of lighting. You'll save money on your energy bills, and you'll also save because you'll be replacing the lights less often.
LEDs don't actually fail or "burn out" like regular light bulbs do. They just gradually get dimmer over time. You'll no longer have to deal with the shock of having a light suddenly go out late at night. When your LED light gets too dim, you can just replace it with a new one.
A good-quality LED bulb lasts for tens of thousands of hours. A high-quality fixture or lamp can help the bulbs last even longer. Meanwhile, most incandescent light bulbs last for just 1,000 hours.
Make your home lighting system more cost-effective and low-maintenance by installing LED bulbs now.
3. Function in Cold Weather
Did you know that the weather can actually affect your home's lighting?
LED bulbs do great in cold weather; fluorescent bulbs, not so much. When the temperature drops, it takes a higher voltage to start a fluorescent lamp. The luminous flux, or intensity, of the fluorescent light also gets decreased when it's cold.
LEDs are exactly the opposite: cold weather makes them work better, not worse. They're great for outdoor use, or for use in unheated spaces like garages and attics.
4. More Durable
LEDs aren't enclosed with glass and they don't have filaments. This makes them much harder to break than the traditional light bulb. They generally won't be damaged by impacts, vibrations, and other possible interferences.
Most traditional light bulbs use exteriors made of quartz or glass. If you've ever accidentally broken a light bulb, you know how annoying (and sharp) the cleanup can be. LEDs eliminate this problem by avoiding glass most of the time. Although they can still be damaged by a direct impact, it's much harder to break most LED bulbs.
5. Turn On Instantly
When you turn on a fluorescent lamp, it won't reach full brightness right away. One of the benefits of LED light bulbs is that they achieve instant brightness.
Other types of bulbs can take as long as three minutes to reach maximum brightness. Stop waiting for the lights to turn on fully and make the switch to LED bulbs.
6. No Rapid Cycling Issues
You might be aware that switching a light on and off a lot will make it burn out faster. This is true of traditional light bulbs, but LEDs don't have this issue. Rapid cycling won't create problems, so turn the lights on and off as often as you'd like.
This also makes LEDs a great choice for occupancy or daylight sensors that automatically turn the lights on and off.
7. Easy to Control
If you have fluorescent lights, it can cost a lot to make them dimmable. However, LED lights are much more easily compatible with dimmer controls. You can also dim them much further than most other types of light bulbs, giving you a greater range of options.
Another benefit of dimmers with LED lights is that you can have continuous dimming, instead of step-level dimming. Instead of a tiered set of brightness levels to choose from, you can adjust the lights to anywhere on the brightness spectrum.
8. No UV or Heat Emissions
If you're using incandescent lights, most of the power actually isn't getting converted into light that you can see. The vast majority of the power converts into infrared or radiated heat.
A lot of heat, plus UV emissions, can pose a danger. If you've ever touched a light bulb that was just turned off, you know that they can get dangerously hot. You can avoid these burn hazards by switching to LED lamps. LEDs emit almost no heat or UV rays.
9. Quiet
If you've been around fluorescent lights, you're probably very familiar with the humming sound they make. You might not even realize how annoying that sound is until you make the change to LED lights. Once you've experienced a home with quiet lights, you'll never want to go back.
Ready to Experience the Benefits of LED Lighting?
These are just a few of the benefits of LED lighting - there are many more. But why not experience them for yourself, instead of taking our word for it?
Everyone's home lighting needs are different, and making the right choice depends on a lot of factors. However, LED lights tend to win out over other styles in almost every category of comparison.
Worried about changing your lighting all on your own? Don't be - just hire a reliable electric service to do the hard parts for you. Request our electrician service.