5 Crucial Facts About LED Lighting

While standard incandescent light bulbs have been phased out, homeowners still have many options for lighting. These options include LED lights, halogen lights and compact fluorescent lighting. At Tesla Electric, one of our main residential services is helping customers transition to energy-efficient LED lighting. If you are thinking about a lighting upgrade, the following information about LED lights may be helpful.

1 .LED Lights Work Differently Than Incandescent Bulbs
With those old incandescent bulbs, light is produced by heating a tungsten filament inside the bulb. This filament can get as hot as 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit. LED lights, on the other hand, produce light when an electric current passes between two poles. While LED technology allows us to install lights that are just a bright as incandescent bulbs, the heat output is significantly lower. In fact, LED bulbs produce almost no heat at all, providing consumers with a safe and highly energy-efficient light source.

2. LED Lights Have A Long Life
One of the reasons why many people have mourned the end of the incandescent bulb era is the cost. Those old bulbs were very affordable and LED bulbs do have a higher price tag. However, while an incandescent bulb might only have a few hundred hours of life in it, the life of an LED bulb ranges from about 25,000 hours up to as much as 100,000 hours. While the upfront cost may be higher, it could be years before you need to replace your LED bulbs. In fact, if you had one lamp with an LED bulb and one with an incandescent bulb, you might have to replace the incandescent bulb 40 or more times before you needed a new LED bulb. This not only saves you money in the long run, it also saves you from the hassle of constantly replacing bulbs on ceiling fixtures and other hard-to-reach locations.

3. LED Lights Use Less Electricity
LED lighting uses up to 90{cf3ffe263aa2b2d847fb5548661558606d3c3550eefcbdc4df8c1add0b89075a} less electricity than those old incandescent bulbs, which translates to a huge savings for homeowners. For instance, if you spent $50 on electricity generated by your LED lighting, the same amount of incandescent lighting would as much as $300. Not only will this save you money in the long run, it’s good for the environment as well.

4. LED Lights & Dimming
Many people mistakenly believe that you cannot install LED lighting with dimmer controls, but this is simply not true. In fact, the use of a dimmer control actually extends the lifespan of your LED lighting because less heat is dissipated when the lights are dimmer. We can install LED lighting in your home with or without dimming capabilities, depending on what you need.

5. LED Lights Are Durable
CFLs and incandescent bulbs are rather delicate lights, but LED lighting is far more durable. Strong and shock resistant, LED lighting is the perfect choice for outdoor lighting as well as your indoor lighting. If you do place LED lights outdoors, these work well in any kind of weather as well as in very hot or very cold temperatures.

If you would like to upgrade to any type of LED lighting, including pot lighting, give the team at Tesla Electric a call. We serve the entire Toronto metro area, and we offer the Tesla Lifetime Guarantee on all of our work. In addition to LED lighting installation and pot lighting installation, we also provide lighting and electrical repair services, knob & tube replacement and a full range of services for commercial properties.