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LEDs - Making your Investment Worthwhile
LED lights are flooding the market with the promise of saving energy, long life cycle. Here's how to choose the best LED lights and make your investment worthwhile.
What to look for when buying LED lights
LED bulbs (or chips) are the most important components of your new light. Cree, Osram, Bridgelux and Semiled are the world's leading providers of high- performance LED chips, this will ensure that your lights are bright, efficient and long lasting. Some manufacturers keep costs down by using poorly designed LED chips, and these will not provide optimum illumination and will die very quickly.
Power supply
Small, precious LED chips need protection from their power supply, so specially designed circuits protect the chips even in the event of a power failure. If One LED fixture power supply is replaceable, it is a factor of good design, since in case of failure of power supply, you can easily replace that with very low cost. After all, for bigger led fixture, LED chips are the most expensive parts, LED chips are meant to last 50,000 hours, and in most cases the power supply will die before that.
Heat dissipation
At this point you are beginning to see a trend—you really have to care for that little chip. LED chips are very sensitive to heat, and if the design of the chip and the material used allows heat to build up, the light will burn out very quickly. The chip needs to breathe—it needs air circulation. A heat sink base houses the chips internally, and while some manufacturers use thin pieces of flat aluminum board or plastic to increase surface area, this configuration does not allow heat to dissipate, and in this situation the chip will overheat and dim or die in a few months. A solid lighting fixture, on the other hand, will use a solid metal heat sink with fins or a column structure to ensure the chips have proper airflow. Better heat flow equals peak performance—and a longer lifespan.
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AIBC International is an advanced technology corporation that provides quality environmentally and economically sustainable energy products and services, along with superior customer support, to our clients worldwide. AIBC designs, manufactures and distributes comprehensive LED products along with cutting edge solar and wind technology products. Please visit each of our individual products pages for details.
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