Energy management system and energy efficient lighting solution is at a ramp up stage with new innovations hitting the market at a revolutionary speed. You might have seen or heard about induction lighting and would have certainly seen LED flat panels and LED tubes in gas station lights or parking garage lights. The perplexity may arise when you have to decide between LED and induction light.
Understanding the disparity
For big industrialists, easy maintenance and cost effectiveness may be the parameters to be considered while selecting the lighting, but for common populace life span and bright light may be much significant factors along with the price.
Life: Both induction and LED lights have almost similar life span of 80,000 to 100,000 hours depending upon the type and model of the product but LED lights are still costlier than induction lights.
Conversion Efficacy: LED lights have energy efficacy of 35-55 lumen/watt. Some expensive models may also have 70-75 lumen/watt efficacies whereas induction lights have conversion efficacy ranging between 65-82 lumen/watt. To put it simple, for a 200 watt fixture LED may produce only 11,00 lumen as compared to 16,000 lumen of induction light which means 31% more light.
Cost: To make an LED light fixture for 200 W, an array of LED is used and that may cost 50 to 70% more than the induction lamp that use similar technology as of fluorescent lights to reduce the cost. However, mass production of LED may erase the cost gap in future.
Purposefulness: Light emitting diodes or LEDs are not considered as general purpose lighting because it has poor color rendering index and limited lighting. On the other hand, induction lights are available with same life span, higher wattage and brighter light. Induction lights are surely the next revolutionary and efficient lighting solution.
Understanding the disparity
For big industrialists, easy maintenance and cost effectiveness may be the parameters to be considered while selecting the lighting, but for common populace life span and bright light may be much significant factors along with the price.
Life: Both induction and LED lights have almost similar life span of 80,000 to 100,000 hours depending upon the type and model of the product but LED lights are still costlier than induction lights.
Conversion Efficacy: LED lights have energy efficacy of 35-55 lumen/watt. Some expensive models may also have 70-75 lumen/watt efficacies whereas induction lights have conversion efficacy ranging between 65-82 lumen/watt. To put it simple, for a 200 watt fixture LED may produce only 11,00 lumen as compared to 16,000 lumen of induction light which means 31% more light.
Cost: To make an LED light fixture for 200 W, an array of LED is used and that may cost 50 to 70% more than the induction lamp that use similar technology as of fluorescent lights to reduce the cost. However, mass production of LED may erase the cost gap in future.
Purposefulness: Light emitting diodes or LEDs are not considered as general purpose lighting because it has poor color rendering index and limited lighting. On the other hand, induction lights are available with same life span, higher wattage and brighter light. Induction lights are surely the next revolutionary and efficient lighting solution.
0 comments:
Post a Comment