LED Tube Basics

LED tube is everywhere in our life. Then what's LED tube? Today, I'm going to show you LED tube basics.



LED tube is also known as LED tube light, or LED fluorescent tube.

Traditional fluorescent tube light has two filaments at both ends. The tube is filled with argon and mercury vapor, and coated with a fluorescent powder. The gases emit ultraviolet and make the powder lighting if connected with electricity. As it contains heavy metal pollutants, " Mercury ", discarded fluorescent tubes could be a great threat to the environment. But LED tube is different. It applies light-emitting diodes as light source; it's high luminous efficient, energy efficient, eco-friendly, and enjoys longer service life.
LED tube lighting
LED tube lighting

LED tube's dimension is just like traditional fluorescent tube's. There're T5 tube, T8 tube, as well as T10 tube. The length could be 0.6m, 0.9m, 1.2m, 1.5m, 1.8m, or 2.4m. T5 and  T8 tube are the two most common used LED tubes. They're designed with 3014,or 3528 chip.

Installation of LED tube is very simple. You only have to replace the older fluorescent tube with led tube, and then remove ballast and starter. It's done. The tube would work if you switch the power on.

LED tubes have many advantages, and you could find them everywhere, like buildings, shopping malls, restaurants, schools, homes, factories and other indoor places. Are LED tubes only used for lighting purpose? No, we all get it wrong. Actually, LED tubes are now also used for lighting decoration. They're an outstanding just like other decoration lighting products. The prices of LED tube from different manufacturers could be different. Usually, the price ranges from 5 to 20 RMB for each.



Generally, energy-saving LED tube consumes only about 20 % of ordinary incandescent bulbs', but its service life is more than 10 times that of the latter. Theoretically the service life can reach more than 50,000 hours.  Some brand high-quality LED tube's life could be up to 10,000 hours in practice, but those poor products only could be used for 1,000 hours. Some are even worse; they could not last 20 minutes. LED tube is almost maintenance-free. There is no problem like frequently replacing the tube, ballast or starter.

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