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Compared with traditional lights, what are the advantages of new upgrade industrial led lighting

Author : CWCE LIGHTING

Update time : 2021-11-25 16:15:43

Industrial led lights are widely used in large warehouse and workshops, What's special with the Industrial lighting?

LED Lighting in an Industrial Facility
Due to the unique characteristics of LED lights, they are becoming popular for commercial and industrial applications. Despite its higher cost than conventional light sources, LEDs are more durable, reliable, and do not need any maintenance. The most advantageous factor is their long lifespan, which can last for as long as 50,000-100,000 hours. With properly designed fixtures, LEDs can operate well in all temperature environments, and are much more energy efficient than the conventional light sources. Read on for more information on the 5 key benefits of LED lighting for industrial applications.

Return on Investment of LED Lighting for Industrial Applications
However, people seem to have some myths regarding usage of LED lighting for industrial applications. Industries should be aware that LED lighting is a cost-effective replacement for fluorescents, HIDs, and other industrial lighting. While initial purchase costs for LED lights are a little higher than fluorescents, the price difference is just a one-time issue. Moreover, they are energy-efficient, meaning industries that use LED lighting will have a lesser electricity bill.

Unlike past decades, when lighting-related energy costs played a relatively small role in purchase decisions, a decade of rapidly escalating energy prices has transformed energy use into the major cost driver for industrial lighting applications.

Commercial and industrial organizations should not trade off for shorter initial payback periods—usually measured in months, they should look for long-term benefits, say for years. From a purely financial perspective, it makes sense to go for LED lights due to the long life and maintenance savings.

LED Lights Don’t Require Maintenance
It is a myth that LED lighting requires maintenance. People think that the magnetic ballasts of LEDs require servicing and replacement from time to time, but LED lights have electronic drivers, which do not need replacement. Today, these drivers are designed to face any type of rugged environment. A magnetic ballast used in traditional industrial lighting like HID, HIF, HPS, and metal halide wear out fast, requiring servicing or replacement.

In large commercial and industrial facilities with hundreds of fluorescent or HID lights, servicing magnetic ballasts is quite expensive. But LEDs are semiconductors with electronic drivers, which play important role in managing the power delivery and makes the light energy efficient. Because LEDs use electronic drivers, they provide LED manufacturers with the opportunity to integrate control features like sensing, dimming and instantaneous on/off into lighting fixtures for maximum functionality and efficiency.

Well-Designed LED Lighting Drivers Don’t Fail
Another key benefit of LED lighting for industrial applications is that well-designed LED drivers don’t fail during the usable lifetime of an LED. It is unlikely that a driver or any other component would need to be replaced. Furthermore, in a well-designed LED fixture, frequent on/off switching does not shorten its useful life, unlike traditional fluorescent or HID lighting fixtures, whose useful lifetimes are significantly reduced by such operations. In fact, frequent switching actually lengthens the useful life of an LED, as turning off an LED fixture slows the pace at which total operating hours accrue.

LED Lights Don’t Contain Mercury
People usually think that LED lights contain mercury, like fluorescent lighting does, but LED lights are mercury free and are not harmful. They work well in high temperature environments. In fact, well-designed LEDs work well in any type of environment. A well-designed lighting system that manages heat dissipation well is a prerequisite for lighting operating at any temperature—hot, cold or anywhere in-between. LED lights also perform extraordinarily well in cold environments.

LED Lighting Can Manage Glare
A final benefit of LED lights for industrial applications is their ability to manage glare. A glaring lighting system is not suitable for many industrial facilities. Today, LED lights are designed well to manage glare. All high-output lights are bright. Once the newness wears off, the glare passes quickly. Moreover, well-designed optics on LED fixtures also minimizes direct brightness and glare. And, LED lights now have excellent color temperature for industrial environments.

Compared with traditional lights, what are the advantages of new upgrade industrial led lighting?

1. Long Lifespan
Compared to the lifespan of your average incandescent bulb, the lifespan of a LED light is far superior. The average incandescent bulb lasts about a thousand hours. The lifespan of an average LED light is 50,000 hours. Depending on how you use it, its life may be as long as 100,000 hours. This means that an LED light can last anywhere from six to 12 years before you need to replace it. That is 40 times longer than an incandescent bulb.

Even if you’re using fluorescent, metal halide or sodium vapor lights, an LED light will last at least two to four times longer.

As such, savings extend not only to replacement costs but also to the maintenance costs of your company’s lighting bill.

2. Energy Efficiency
Another one of the leading LED lighting advantages is their energy-efficient operation. You can measure the energy efficiency of a lighting source in useful lumens, which describes the amount of lighting that the device emits for each unit of power, or watt, that the bulb uses. In the past, we measured light by how many lumens it produced, but the reality is that some of these lumens go to waste. LED lighting produces less waste light and more useful lumens than other lighting technologies.

If you replaced all the lighting in your office, school or other facility with LEDs, you could see as much as a 60% to 70% improvement in your overall energy efficiency. In some cases, the improvement could be as great as 90%, depending on what kind of lights you are replacing and what kind of LED lights you are using.

These improvements in energy efficiency are directly correlated with financial savings. When you replace a traditional light source with an LED light source, your energy usage is going to plummet, making LED lights are a smart investment for the bottom line of any business!

3. Improved Environmental Performance
It is becoming increasingly important for companies to become eco-friendly. Customers increasingly want environmentally friendly options and using an environmentally friendly light source can help companies reduce their energy use, as well as attract a socially conscious consumer base.

The environmental benefits of LED lighting also extend to their manufacturing process. Many traditional lighting sources, like fluorescent lighting and mercury vapor lights, use mercury internally as part of their construction. Because of this, when they reach the end of their lifespans, they require special handling. You do not have to worry about any of these issues with LED lights.

4. The Ability to Operate in Cold Conditions
Traditional lighting sources don’t like cold weather. When the temperature drops, lighting sources, particularly fluorescent lamps, require a higher voltage to start, and the intensity of their light diminishes.

LED lights, on the other hand, perform better in cold temperatures by about 5%. This is why LED lights are a better choice for lighting needed in freezers, meat lockers, cold storage spaces or refrigerated display cases. Their ability to perform so efficiently in cold weather also makes them the perfect choice for lights in parking lots, lights used to illuminate the perimeters of buildings and lights used in outdoor signage.

5. No Heat or UV Emissions
If you’ve ever tried to change an incandescent light bulb right after it goes out, you know how hot they get when they’re in use. Many traditional lighting sources like incandescent bulbs turn more than 90% of the energy they use to heat, allocating only 10% of energy to actual light production.

LEDs emit almost no heat, and most of the light they emit is within the visible spectrum. This feature is one reason that medical experts are looking at LEDs as a possible solution for Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), which affects many people during the darker months of the year.

It also makes LEDs ideal for illuminating works of art that will degrade or break down over time with exposure to UV rays.

6. Design Flexibility
LEDs are very small (about the size of a spec of pepper). This means that they can be used in almost any application. Remember, their original use was as an indicator light in a circuit board. If you combine them in bunches, you create a traditional bulb. If you string together a series of LED lights, you create a line or series of lights — like a string of Christmas lights.

Think of the options this gives you for lighting in your facility. LED devices can be so small you can use them for illuminating everything from a shop floor to a major league football stadium.

7. Instant Lighting and the Ability to Withstand Frequent Switching
If you’re looking for a light that needs to come on quickly, choose LED lighting. LED lights can turn on and off instantly. If you’re using a metal halide lamp, for instance, you need to be prepared for a warm-up period. Think of how a fluorescent light flickers when you turn it on and often takes two or three seconds before its fully lit. These are some of the complications that can be circumvented by installing LED lights.

Also, traditional lighting sources have a shorter lifespan if you frequently switch them on and off. LED lights are not affected by frequent switching. It does not cause any reduction in their lifespan or efficiency.

This feature makes LEDs an ideal solution for your business if you need your lights to come back on immediately after a blackout or a power surge. This capability is also useful if you want your lights to come on promptly when an employee opens a building early in the morning before the sun comes up.

Since LEDs are unaffected by switching on and off, they can be rapidly cycled for flashing light displays or applications that require sensors that frequently switch from on to off and back again.

8. Low Voltage Operation
If your business is in a location where flooding may occur, you want to be able to light your facility with devices that require as little voltage as possible. LEDs are perfect for this because they operate on very low voltage. When you use a low-voltage system in areas that may be prone to flooding, you are protecting your staff and others from potentially harmful or fatal shocks. If, during a flood clean-up, someone mistakenly touches some electrical component, a low-voltage lighting system that generates 12 volts is much safer than a line voltage system that generates 120 volts.

This also makes them extremely useful to use outdoors where other lighting solutions might not meet with local codes.

9. Dimming Capabilities
LEDs perform well at almost any power percentage, from about 5% to 100%. Some lighting sources, such as metal halide, perform less efficiently when dimmed. Sometimes, you cannot dim them at all.

The opposite is true for LED lighting. When you use less-than-full power on an LED light, it operates more efficiently. This feature leads to other benefits, as well. It increases the lifespan of the bulb, and it means that you are using less energy, thereby reducing your energy costs.

It’s important to note that you cannot use traditional equipment for dimming lights when using LEDs. They need hardware that is specific to their technology.

10. Directionality
Every conventional lighting technology emits light at 360° around the light source. This means that if you want the light to illuminate a specific area, you’ll need to purchase accessories to channel or deflect the light in the desired direction.

If you don’t use something to reflect or redirect the light, you’ll waste energy lighting areas that don’t require illumination, which will result in higher energy costs.

An LED light, however, only lights up an area of 180°, which makes LED lighting perfect when you need recessed lighting in an industrial kitchen, hallway or bathroom. It’s also ideal for lighting artwork, not only because it will not degrade the artwork but also because you won’t lose any of the lighting power to the back of the light source.

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