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LED advantages against halogens and fluorescents

LED has become par excellence the most common lighting system in artificial vision, due to its extraordinary characteristics perfectly adapted to industrial environment. Moreover, yields achieved at present turn LED lighting into next future type of lighting for artificial light applications.

There are these days several lighting systems in artificial vision market, but the most relevant which LED lights have to compete with are halogen and fluorescent lights. LED device is a relatively new and unknown product in this field against others who have spent years on the market, and for that reason, DCM SISTEMES has made up this comparison section where its features will be evaluate in relation with its more direct competitors (halogens and fluorescents) in order to easily understand why it will become the most common lighting system in near future.

Below are detailed its main advantages:

LOW CONSUMPTION

LED lamps need less energy to produce equal amount of light because of their excellent performance. Halogen lamps get performance in the area of 20 lumens/W and fluorescents in the area of 60 lumens/W whilst a LED light performance achievement ranges in the area of 100 lumens/W which supposes five times more performance than halogens and near two times higher than fluorescents.

LOW VOLTAGE

All DCM SISTEMES products are supplied to 24VDC, fitting perfectly to most of power supply sources and minimizing electrocution risks.

LOW TEMPERATURE

Since LED is supplied in low voltage, the energy consumption and heat emission are very low, due to the fact that LED is a device which operates at low temperature. Other lighting systems, as underperformers, emit much more heat with equal lighting features.

SMALL SPECTRAL WIDTH

LED devices emit light in a small spectral width, which means that depending on LED type, light is emitted in a specific color. Due to this fact, filters are not needed to obtain a concrete color, avoiding energy loss. Monochromatic lighting prevents from optical chromatic aberration, improves CCDs performance, and even can be used for avoiding external lighting influences.

WIDE SPECTRAL RANGE

Each LED device has a fixed wavelength but it is available in a wide range of different wavelengths in order to cover the spectrum band from infrared to ultraviolet.

QUICK RESPONSE

LED lights operation response is faster than halogen and fluorescent lights, in the area of microseconds, making them ideal for operating in a strobe system (strobe controllers). Being a solid-state semiconductor, LED does not suffer damages, unlike other lighting types, from continuous turning on and off weakening

BRIGHTER LIGHT

Having the same lighting conditions than its competitors, LED light emission is much brighter and clearer than halogen and fluorescent lamps.

NO LIGHTING FAULTS

LED device supports those vibrations that the system could be subjected to without producing any fault or lighting variation, due to the fact that LED devices have no luminescent filament which prevents from lighting alterations and possible breakages.

COST-EFFECTIVENESS

LED worst problem is its price, but if its excellent work conditions and its long lifespan are evaluated comparing with the other lighting systems, we can reassure that it is the most sensible, efficient and profitable investment to do.

LONGER LIFE AND RELIABILITY

LED lifespan is long compared with other lighting systems and its reliability is much higher because light degradation is lower than halogens and fluorescents: