LED Lighting

LEDinside observed that 40W equivalent bulb price drops big in China, and 60W equivalent bulb price runs steady globally. In March, 2014, 40W equiv. LED bulb retail price declined globally by about 1.3% to $14.9. 60W equiv. LED bulbs retail price did not change too much, remaining at $20.8. In March, 40W equiv. LED bulb retail price dropped by 14.7% in China, and the existing products' prices fell. Take 7W bulb(450-500LM) from one China manufacturer for example, the price reduced from $4.3 to about $2.9. Also, 5W bulb(450LM, 30,000h service life) this month, the price dropped to $4 from $12.3. In addition, the exchange rate rise also led to a price reduction. Besides, 40W equiv. LED bulb retail price the United States also showed a significant decline, 7.6%, in March. The existing products' prices basically showed a steady a downward trend; some commodity's prices dropped more obviously, such as price of 6W CREE dimmable bulb fell to $ 4.97 in some areas of the Unit

Due to the high energy prices and the impact of Japan's nuclear disaster over the past few years, people all around the world are once again aware of the importance of developing green energy. Although many manufactures have been committing to solar panel's production and improvement on energy efficiency for years, they still could not break the energy efficiency, which is 20%, bottleneck. In this case, people gradually shift their focus to energy saving LED. This trend formed in the second half of 2013, and is expected to step into a breaking growth of LED lighting in the next 3 years. The first wave of LED industry originated from the financial tsunami at the end of 2008. Samsung released LED-backlit TVs and enjoyed an unexpectedly hot-selling at that time, which opened up to an 18-month growth of LED TVs. LED TV's penetration rate steadily increased, from 3% in 2009 to 38% in 2011. LED share prices enjoyed a globally high rise. But a big change happened in 2011

Walmart announces plans that they will purchase energy-efficient LED ceiling lighting for new supercenters in U.S., stores in Asia and Latin America, as well as ASDA supermarkets in the United Kingdom. Compared with the lighting sources used before, new fixtures will save 40% of energy consumption, which will further help Walmart reduce the kilowatt hour (kWh) per square foot of energy to power Walmart's buildings by 2020. This is Walmart's largest purchase for GE lighting products until now. "We have worked to find and scale energy-efficient LED lighting solutions that are cost effective and high quality, and now working with GE, we're paving the way to make this a mainstream solution for the retail industry," said Doug McMillon, president and chief executive officer of Walmart Stores, Inc. "LEDs have become an integral part of our energy efficiency model for our stores and play a key role in achieving our overall sustainability goals. Just as import

According to the retail price survey on LED bulbs carried out by TrendForce, the retail price of LED bulbs used to replace 40 watt bulbs drops to $15.1 USD, about 0.8%, all around the world in Feb, 2014; the decline is relatively obvious in U.S. market. Also, the price of replacement LED bulbs for 60W, shows a similar decline, about 2.1%. It decreases to $20.8 USD. In February this year, the price of 40W replacement LED bulb in U.S. market fell the most obviously. The average price fell 11%. 7W LED light bulb(luminous flux: 470lm) from Walmart's own brand, Great Value, only costs $8.48 USD; CREE dimmable LED bulb(6W, 450lm) is now $7.49 USD. Besides, prices of parts of Philips LED bulbs also undergo a decline. As in China, the price for 40W replacement bulb decreases 1.9%. Samsung LED bulb(6.9W, 490lm)'s price drops from 19.5 USD to 12.5 USD while the warranty changes to 3-year. As to 60W replacement bulbs, the price in everywhere shows a stable falling except Unit

Efficacy & Price Trend Forecast 2014~2040 for LED Light, Fluorescent Light, N' Incandescent Light                                    Lighting Efficacy                                                                 Cost U.S.Energy Information Administration predicts that the price of LED light is almost close to that of fluorescent light or incandescent light by 2020. At that time, incandescent lights are probably eliminated as they could not meet the energy-saving standards in next few years. On January 1, 2014, the United States banned the production and sales of 40 watt and 60 watt incandescent bulbs; but many American families store a number of these traditional bulbs before the ban. Probably, 75 watt and 100 watt traditional light bulbs would also become one part of the ban. Due to the the federal standards and development on lighting technology, the bulbs' quality sees a great improvement; the service life and lighting efficiency also increase a lot acc

LED display is popular for indoor and outdoor display applications. To get the most out of your LED display, I put together this simple list of do's and don'ts for using. It's simple yet quite informative. 1. Do start PC before switching on display screen; and shut the PC off after switching off the display. If you do it in a wrong way, it will cause a serious failure in display and LEDs. 2. Make sure that the interval between switching on and off the display is over 5 minutes. 3. Better to power up the LED display after you access the project control software in computer. 4. Do not start up LED display when it's all white in screen, because the current impact to the system reaches the maximum. 5. Do not start up LED display if the controlling section is not power on. 6. Do not use the display for a long time if the ambient temperature is too high or against heat dissipation. 7. Do shut off the display screen if one part of it appears very bright.

If you're going to buy LED displays, you'd better check the following information for reference. 1. Flatness. LED display's surface flatness should be within ±1mm so as that the displayed image is not distorted. A partially-raised section or other types of unflatness would cause a viewing angle problem. Flatness is mainly determined by the quality of production process. 2. Brightness and View Angle. Proper brightness is a key factor to LED displays' performance. The brightness of indoor full-color LED display is about 800~2000cd/m2, and outdoor full-color displays' brightness is 5000~7500cd/m2. A higher or lower brightness over an actual need would lead to invisibility. Screen brightness is determined by the size of LED chips. View angle directly affects how many audience the display is good for; thus, in a certain circumstance, the larger the view angle, the better the LED display. Outdoor full-color LED Display 3. White Balance Effect. Whit

Before you carry out a big purchase for LED display screen, you'd better check the following information first. 1. Brightness. Generally, brightness varies in accordance with different applications. A. Brightness for indoor use> 800CD/M2 B. Brightness for semi-indoor:> 2000CD/M2 C. Brightness for outdoor use(display screen faces north):> 4000CD/M2 D. Brightness for outdoor use(display screen faces south):> 8000CD/M2 The brightness of red, green and blue light contribute differently in composition of white light. Here a are some data and specifications for you reference. Generally brightness ratio for these 3 colors is 3:6:1. Precise ratio is 3.0:5.9:1.1. With a certain brightness and pixel density, the calculation for a single-tube's brightness would be as follows. Take two red light, one green, and one blue light for example. Red LED light's would be: Brightness (CD) / M2 ÷ Pixels / M2 × 0.3 ÷ 2 Green LED light's brightness: brightness(

There're many types of LED display for choice. Generally, LED displays could be classified in following ways. 1. Classification by Application. LED display could be used for indoor, outdoor or semi-outdoor applications. Indoor LED display generally ranges from less than 1 square meter to over 10 square meters. It's usually used for indoor applications. This type of LED display has a moderate brightness, large viewing angle, but light weight. It's suitable for watching at a close range. Outdoor LED display's area is from several square meters to 10 or even hundreds of square meters. Its brightness is around 5500~8500cd/sqm. This display sreen can be used under the direct sunlight. It's better for watching from a certain distance, say tens of meters. Besides, this outdoor LED display is weather-proof and lightning-resistant. LED Display (Times Square, NY) Semi-outdoor LED display screen has a relatively higher brightness than indoor LED display. I

LED display(LED Screen) is also known as electronic display screen. It, composed by LEDs and LED pc panel, displays characters, pictures, flash, video and other forms of content by lights on and off with different LED lights in different colors, including red, blue, white, and green. Different effect could be adjusted in accordance with different requirements. Take LED display for advertisement for example. Scrolling caption for advertisement is a flash saved in a memory card in the display; it's displayed by professional techniques. Traditional LED display usually consists of display module, control system and power system. LED light-emitting materials used for LED display production mainly include the following 3 forms. 1. LED emitting light. LED emitting light generally consists of a single LED chip, reflector, metal anode, and metal cathode. A basic pixel is composed with one or more single light(in different colors). Because of its high brightness, LED light is usuall

LED Grow Light , inspired by the sunlight, offers artificial light for plant's growth. Light is one indispensable environmental factor for the growth of plants. Controlling plant morphogenesis through light adjustment is a very important technology applied for plant's cultivation. LED grow light is the very practitioner of this technology. It helps with photosynthesis, promotes plant growth, shortens time for flowering and fruiting, thus increases productivity! In modern agriculture, LED grow light is undoubtedly indispensable. LED grow light As a 4th generation light source, LED grow light show its unique features in many ways. LED grow lights with different wavelength help with photosynthesis and morphogenesis of different plants. It not only help adjust the flowering and fruiting, but also control the plant's height and nutrients. LED grow light generates little heat and occupies small space, which makes it a good choice for multi-dimensional cultivation sy

LED Grille light is usually found in office lighting. It's a good choice for high-power indoor lighting for a long time. LED Grille light applies solid light source; thus its service life mainly depends on LED light source and driver cooling section. Now LED light source's service life reaches more than 100.000 hours; and with the development of LED technology. the drive cooling section could basically achieve an ideal state. Advantages of LED Grille Light 1. Energy-saving. With the same conditions. the power consumption of LED grille light is only 10% that of incandescent light. 2. Long Service Life. LED chips generally could work well for over 50.000 hours. which is longer than fluorescent lights or incandescent lights. 3. Dimmable. At past. dimmer was designed for incandescent lights. When you dim the incandescent light. the light turns into red. Besides. there were almost no dimmer for fluorescent lights. That's why dimming technology saw no further develop

Do you know how many and what tests should LED wall washer undergo for quality certification before delivery? This article would help you to know it. Temperature Test Temperature test is a must in quality inspections of LED wall washer. There's a temperature limit for different components. During product designing, manufacturers should pay great attention to heat dissipation, especially that of certain components, such as insulation sheet. Components could be easily damaged if working under a high temperature condition for a long time. This might cause a fire or electric shock. The internal power module of wall washer is enclosed in a small space, which might lead to a heat problem. Therefore, manufacturers should select components in proper size, which would avoid the over-heating problem when the components work under full-load condition. Aging Test  LED wall washer should undergo a 24-hour aging test before delivery; and waterproof test should be carried out im

Here I'm going to show you 7 basic specifications of LED wall washer that you'd like to know before buying. 1. Power Power is a key factor determining LED wall washer's projection distance. Generally, the power could be 18W, 24W, 36W, 48W, etc. However, the power is flexible. It could be changed upon different requests. Usually, high-power LED wall washer is always in a single row. Concerning on heat dissipation, the power of 1-meter-long wall washer, which is designed with couples of 1W lighting bulb, must not exceed 36W; otherwise, a serious Lumens depreciation would happen as a result of heat dissipation problem. 2. Voltage DC power or AC power. Usually, build-in power supply requires AC 220V(AC110 in Japan), but external power supply requires low voltage, like DC24V, DC12V, DC27V and so on. The voltage could be different due to different customers' requirements. 3. IP IP protection is also a basic specification of LED wall washer. What's IP pro

LED PAR is one important part of stage lighting and lighting for residential and commercial applications. Here I'll show your LED PAR basics for a better understanding on it. LED PAR is also known as LED par can or LED par light . PAR is short for "Parabolic Aluminum Reflector". LED PAR is usually found in illumination or decoration use for home, shopping malls, restaurants, and a variety of large-scale performances. There're LED par lights with different functions or specifications, such as waterproof LED Par, die-cast aluminum LED par light, LED PAR38, LEDPAR30, LED PAR20, LED PAR64, etc. LED PAR in Retail Lighting Application LED PAR applies superior quality and high efficiency LED chip. It shows a good brightness and s high color rendering index Ra, up to over 80. The light is close to natural light, which is good for human eyes. Selected components, including drive power supply, guarantee the service life and quality of LED par light. Besides, LED

LED stage lights are important parts of stage lighting. Stage light is a general term referring to all kinds of lights used for stage lighting. Now I'll show you 4 aspects to understand LED stage light and the composite of stage lighting. Classifications of LED Stage Light According to application, there should be 4 main kinds of LED stage lights. 1. LED Stage Lights for Performance A. LED Par (also LED par can, or LED par light). LED par has a similar shape like LED downlight, but in a smaller size. Generally, LED par can be divided by specifications, including PAR 64, PAR 56, PAR 46, PAR 38, PAR 36 and so on. B. LED Gobo light(or someone may call it pattern light). It's typical technical combination of led light and colorful patterns. C. LED moving head. It does not have the pattern or color effect of traditional moving head, but its scanning effect is much better than the latter. D. LED strobe(or LED strobe light). LED strobe is generally designed with low-po

Here are 10 features and advantages of LED tube that you would like to know. 1. Eco-Friendly "Eco-friendly" is the most common feature and advantage of LED lighting products. But I still would like to mention it again. Compared with traditional fluorescent tube, LED tube does no contain any mercury, lead or other harmful substances which could cause a pollution to the environment. Besides, the tube cover can be recycled. That's why LED tube is recognized as one of the green lighting products in the 21st century. 2. Less Heat Traditional lamps light with tungsten, which would generate a lot of heat in use. However, the lighting efficiency of LED tube light has reached 140L​​/W with a temperature below 60 ℃ at the tube's surface. LED tube does not produce any ultraviolet light, thus causes no harmfulness to documents, or clothes. LED tube show 3. Noise Free LED tube does not generate any noise, which makes it a nice choice for places where sophistic

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'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 tu

I might forget to show you the service life and price of LED downlight in older posts, so I'd like to make it up with the following short article. Service Life of LED Downlight LED downlight is applied with solid light source. Its service life mainly depends on the solid-state LED light source and drive cooling part. At present, the LED downlight's service life reaches more than 100,000 hours. With a evolvement of LED technology and the application of technology in the drive and cooling, high-quality LED downlight's service life basically reaches 10,000~50,000 hours, almost 10-50 times of the ordinary halogen downlights. LED downlight saves up 80% energy, it is almost maintenance-free. LED downlight in kitchen LED Downligh Price As the LED bulb halogen downlight is more complex in structure than the common lights', the LED downlight price, even in the case of mass production, is higher than common halogen lamps. At present, led downlight is mainly used

Today, I'm going to show you the features of LED strip light . LED strip light, with its unique design, has many benefits and features that other kinds of LED lighting products could not be compared with. LED strip is typically sold in metres. It operates at 12-volts. LED strip light also costs much less, for it only consumes less energy to create the same lighting effect. LED Strip Light for Outdoor Decoration LED strip light can be found in two specific types: single colour and colour-changing RGB (Red, Green and Blue). Like normal LED bulbs, single colour strip light could be warm white and cool white; while the colour-changing strip light permits users variable ambiances. Additionally they come in a variety of brightness, ranging from an ordinary light for domestic applications, to exceptionally bright for business applications. The brightness of a LED strip light is determined by the range and size of its LED chips. There're two primary chip sizes, 3528 (