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Saving Money And Going Green With LED Landscape Lighting
Landscape lighting is an excellent way to enhance the beauty of your home and illuminate your property. Lighting can be used to brighten walkways, front entrances, flower beds, and patios. With outdoor lighting, you can use your yard during the evening hours, long after the sun goes down. Landscape lighting comes in a variety of sizes, styles and finishes. If you are interested in outdoor lighting that is environmentally friendly, LED landscape lighting is a good choice.
In today's world, more and more individuals are interested in protecting the environment. LED lights are energy efficient, and are therefore gaining popularity. People are choosing LED lighting to decrease their energy usage and save on energy costs.
The term LED is an abbreviation for light emitting diode. A light emitting diode is a device that uses electrical energy to produce light. The invention of the LED is not new. However, the use of LED technology in light bulbs is a fairly new concept.
LED lighting has very low energy consumption. These lights require a small fraction of the power required for standard light bulbs. In comparison to conventional, less efficient lighting, LEDs can cut your exterior power consumption by as much as 90 percent. With less energy consumption, you can do your part to help save the planet. LED lights do not contain mercury, and they are free of hazardous chemicals.
Another benefit of LED lighting is its long bulb life. Standard incandescent or halogen lights have an average bulb life of up to 3,000 hours. Other energy efficient bulbs may last 12,000 hours. But LED lights have a bulb life of 40,000 hours or more. With LEDs, you will not have to change your bulbs for years!
Today, homeowners are building creative outdoor spaces that allow them to spend more time in their yards. LED landscaping lighting is the perfect solution for brightening up these exterior areas. LED lights come in a variety of styles and finishes to suit every practically taste. They are also available in different lighting colors for those who want to add a dramatic touch to their landscaping decor. Landscape lighting comes in different voltages, which allow you to select the brightness and intensity that best suits your needs.
If you are looking for ways to go green, consider LED landscape lighting. Eco-friendly LEDs are a safe, reliable option for lighting outdoor areas. LED lights are highly efficient, they conserve energy, they save money, and they have a long bulb life.
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Is it possible to get solar powered lights for the garden that actually works well?
I have seen so many examples where the light is purely a very dim glow.
Are the LED versions any better than the ones seen on market stalls?
Solar Powered lights require enough light to charge the solar batteries. If the charging is impeded in any way, the light will be dim. I found that the LED lights take less engery to charge and stay on longer, even when we have had numerous cloudy days. Make sure you get a charging unit for the solar powered lights that can be mounted in direct sun. That means there will be a wire. Otherwise, if the solar panel is located on top of the light, you will need to be sure that the panel is exposed to light for a good portion of the day to get them charged properly.
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History Of LED Lighting Products
The LED (light emitting diode), has a very long history. It dates back to as early as 1907, and is still evolving today. It took years to perfect the design and to make LED lighting products available in many different shapes and forms, so that it could become easy for consumers to buy it and use it within their homes and businesses.
Electroluminescence was discovered in 1907, by an experimenter and scientist from Great Britain named H.J Round. However, there was no practical use for the discovery for many decades. Another inventor by the name of Oleg Vladimirovich Losev published an article on "Luminous carborundum (silicon carbide) detector and detection with crystals" in the Russian journal Telegrafiya I Telefoniya bez Provodov (Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony). Losev's work was not looked at for many decades, until in 1962, Nick Holonvak Jr., developed the first practical 'Light Emitting Diode' more commonly known today as LED or LED Lights. The first LED lighting products became available to the public in the late 1960's, and produced a red light. They were used mainly as indicators on laboratory equipment and in place of incandescent indicators.
In 1968, gallium arsenide was found to make the LED much more affordable and available to the public. LED lighting products were still very expensive; this meant that not everyone could afford LED. It was later discovered that adding a phosphide would make it much cheaper and still work just the same as the previously used materials.
As years went on, LED lighting became more popular and more and more people started to use this for other domestic appliances such as electronics like radio, television, telephone, calculators and even watches. LED technology was at its peak, as it was the most innovative product on the market.
The first LED screen was developed by James. P. Mitchell in 1977. The first display of the LED television was at an engineering exposition in Anaheim, in May 1978. This LED Flat panel TV display received a special award from such organisations as NASA, General Motors and the University of California Irvine, and a special mention was given by Robert M. Saunders, Professor of Engineering and IEEE President of 1977.
Low-cost, efficient blue LED's did not come out until the early 1990's. This is when the RGB colour triad was completed. This enabled new designs to be created for LED lighting products, these included new designs for outdoor signage and huge video displays for billboards and stadiums.
As the LED material technology became even more advanced, the light output was increased, and LED's became bright enough to be used for illumination such as LED downlights, LED flood lights, LED garden lights, LED street lights and many other forms of LED lights.
Most LED's were made in the very common 5mm T1-3/4 and 3mm T1 packages, but as higher power was becoming increasingly necessary, packages needed to become more complex to dissipate heat. Today, high power LED lighting products bear little resemblance to the early LED's.
Current LED lights are set to dominate the lighting market as they are highly efficient and consume very little power.
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