Several lighting systems exist nowadays in the market, but the most important that LED has to compete with in artificial lighting systems, are the halogen and the fluorescent lights. The LED is a relativy new and unknown  product in this field compared to others more known in the market. So that, we have made up this comparison with its most strong opponents (halogens and fluorescents), in order to evaluate more easily its features and to understand why it will become the most used system in a near future.  

• Low consumption: A LED lamp is supplied in low voltage, and consums  few power supply.
       Example: An halogen of 50W lights 25 lumens/W achieving a total of 1250 Lumens. To obtain the same lighting with a LED lamp, we need 179 LEDs (using high intensity LEDs of 7 lumens/unit), by this way we will have the same lighting with both lamps, but with our lamp the consumption will be 4 times lower: just 13W. (*Estimated data)

• Low voltage:  All our products have  24V of continuous power supply, and adapt perfectly to the majority of all the power sources, reducing to the minimum the risks of electrocution.

• Low temperature: The LED is powered with low tension, so consuming little energy and therefore emiting little heat. That is owing to the fact that the LED has a device which works by low temperature related to the provided lighting. The other lighting systems with the same lighting features as the LED, emit much more heat.  

• Small spectral width: LEDs have a small spectral width, turning them into the perfect lighting system for artificial vision, because in that way the camera takes the object with more detail, having a better vision of its possible defects. 

• Wide spectral band: The LED is a fix wavelenght device but it can work in a wide band of the spectrum. To cover all this width of band, a huge range of LEDs exits in the market which allows us to light with a specific wavelenght, or what is the same, with a certain colour (red, green, amber, white and even ultraviolet.)

• Higher speed of answering: The LED has a quicker work answer than halogens and fluorescents, (microseconds for instance), what is ideal to work with a strobe system, increasing the features of this strobe. 

• Brighter light: With the same lighting conditions that its rivals, its light is much brighter and clearer.

• With no lighting faults : It absorbs the possible vibrations which the set could have without the production of faults or variations in lighting. That is because the LED has no luminescent filament and that avoids its lighting variations and its possible breakage.

• Longer life and reliability: The life of a LED is longer than other systems of lighting:

Life average Hours LED 100.000 h. Fluorescent  20.000 h. Halogen   4.000 h.

        And its reliability is much bigger because the degradation of light is lower than halogens and fuorescents:

Loss of lighting -20% -30% LED 45.000 h. 100.000 h. Fluorescent   5.000 h.  20.000 h. Halogen   1.500 h.    4.000 h.

*Data provided by the best lighting trades of the market.

 LED disadvantages:

• Price: The greatest problem of the LED is its price, but if it's evaluated its several and excellent work conditions, above all its long life compared to the rest of the lighting systems, we can reassure that it's the most sensible, efficient and profitable investment we can do.