What You Never Knew about LED Lights

There is no question that more and more homeowners and business owners are switching their lighting to energy efficient LEDs. While you may be aware of the trend, there is a good chance that you may not know some of the following fun and interesting facts about this type of lighting in Scottsdale and the benefits it offers.

What is LED?

Light emitting diodes, more commonly referred to as LEDs, are a type of solid-state lighting that utilizes a semiconductor for converting electricity into actual light. The modern LED bulbs may be six or seven times more efficient than the traditional incandescent lights and help to cut a home’s or business’s energy costs by as much as 80 percent.

Life of the LED Bulb

A quality LED bulb can have a useful life period of 25,000 hours, in some cases more. This means the LED bulb lasts up to 25 times longer than a traditional light bulb you install in your Scottsdale home or business.

More Efficient Use of Energy

Unlike the traditional incandescent bulb, which are designed to release as much as 90 percent of their total energy as heat, a LED bulb uses energy in a far more efficient manner. As a result, replacing all the traditional bulbs in your home or business with LED bulbs can actually reduce your cooling costs. This can be so significant that the LED bulbs, which cost a bit more initially, will pay for themselves in a period of just a few weeks.

Uses for LED Lights

LED lights are found in a number of things you encounter each day, such as TVs, traffic lights and even brake lights on vehicles. Due to their unique characteristics, which include the small size, resistance to breakage, simple maintenance and the ability to focus the light in one direction, these lights are perfect for a number of different applications.

No Mercury Content

Unlike CFLs, the LED lights do not contain any mercury. Also, the LED bulbs have a much smaller impact on the environment than traditional incandescent bulbs. Since the technology related to LED lights is continuing to improve, they also have an edge over the less-expensive CFL bulbs.

The “Big Break” for LED Bulbs

LED bulbs saw their first surge in popularity in 2012 when there were approximately 49 million LEDs installed in the United States. This helped to save approximately $675 million in overall energy costs.

If you make the decision to switch to LED lights in Scottsdale in the next two decades, it will likely save the country as much as $250 billion in total energy costs, reduce total electricity consumption for your lighting by as much as 50 percent and help to avoid a total of 1,800 million metric tons of dangerous carbon emissions all over the U.S., including in Scottsdale.

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