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Replacing an Incandescent Bulb with LED Bulb

Is it possible to use a LED bulb instead of Incandescent bulb? When we talk about replacing an incandescent bulb with LED bulb , one question comes in everyone's mind: Is it possible to use a LED bulb that has higher wattage equivalent than the fixture I have? Well the answer is Yes, as far as the LED bulb uses less wattage than your fixture. If you see the label states "100 watt LED equivalent" it does not mean that the LED bulb is using 100 watts, it means the bulb produces an amount of light (Lumens) equivalent to a 100 watt incandescent bulb. When your socket says do not exceed 60 watts, it means the dangers of high heat output is associated with Incandescent bulbs. LEDs do not discharge the dangerous levels of heat. Thereby, if the fixture states "not to exceed 60 watts" and you want to use a 100 watt equivalent LEDbulb , this remains safe to do. Why LEDs are so much efficient? Because LED bulbs or tubes don't use direct he...

How to make a perfect brand choice

In today's world there is a big competition in Brands of different product; same is with lighting products as well. This competition thing makes the decision difficult for a customer, which brand is good or which product is useful. So we'll discuss about some good brands, reason why choose them, and what kind of product is available in that brand range. Let's discuss some Lighting manufacturers. Eiko: Eiko is working from 40 years for fulfilling the lighting needs of commercial and industrial customers and offering complete services, solutions, and products - from traditional lighting through a broad range of LED lamps and fixtures. Their traditional Product range includes linear and compact fluorescent, HID, halogen, incandescent, and specialty lighting solutions. They provide retrofit and a replacement solution with LED Lamp in a variety of wattages, shapes, and color temperatures. From recessed lights to tubes, they have the LED energy-saving products for l...

Parking Garage Lighting

What is parking garage light? The lighting solutions that are used in parking garages are known as parking garage lights. These lights can be surface mounted, suspended or recessed mounted on a structure’s ceiling. They help brighten the garage, and make it easy for drivers to move in and out of parking areas. Parking garages need the light 24/7 means a lot of energy required to keep the place illuminate, but LED garage lights are energy efficient and can provide high performance. The benefits of LED lights have given them an advantage over traditional sources of light like, HID, metal halide and fluorescent. Advantages of LED Parking Garage Lights: There are many advantages of LED garage lighting . The main advantages are maintenance cost reduction, improved lighting and most important, energy efficiency. Let's discuss this in detail. 1. Cost effective: LED garage light fixtures are energy efficient, which helps to decrease the energy bill cost. These fixtures c...

Vapor Tight Fixture

What is LED Vapor Tight Fixture? LED Vapor tight fixtures are gasketed, sealed luminaires that give general enlightenment to indoor and outdoor areas where exposure to water, moistness, and dust is likely took place. It's also called vapor proof fixture. These fixtures are energy efficient and are built for powerful lighting in harsh environs; protect the light source from dust, filth, and moisture. The enduring construction of the fixture includes a full metal fixture liner, which is placed within reinforced fiberglass housing with a high effect diffuser. Vapor tight LED light fixtures are designed to replace incandescent and CFL fixtures with high-quality, long-lasting illumination. These fixtures are use over doorways, fire hydrants, construction sites, scaffolding and emergency call stations. Vapor tight fixtures protect the lighting source from risk, such as corrosive fumes, non-combustible dusts, non-explosive vapors, moisture and gases as well. Mostly you'll...

Top Most Lighting Websites for Canada

Today we will talk about the best lighting websites for Canada , this discussion won't cover only the quality of the product, as most of the big brands have good quality lighting products, we will discuss with other points, like the most important thing is cost effectiveness , so we will add the websites that have multiple brand products with good prices, the list will contains only lighting websites, this list won't contains the websites like lowes.com or homedepot as these websites have different home decor products in their listing. So lets talk about the lighting product websites only. First we will start from the most important part of the home, the kitchen, yes without food who can live and for good food we need good light in our kitchen, you don't need to agree with me but this is all in my opinion. When we talk about kitchen we think of recessed light or downlights for lighting our kitchen desk and cabinets. Let see which store offer good range of recessed l...

Recessed Lighting

Recessed lighting is a contemporary lighting method that not only looks stylish but can also provide lighting for a number of uses, from ambient living areas to function workspaces. However, deciding on the correct number and spacing for your recessed lighting can be tricky. Here, you will find our useful tool for calculating not only the quantity of lights but also their spacing. But first, let's take a look at some key features that you have to consider before recessed lighting installation can take place. 1. LUMENS Lumens, or light output, will in part dictate how bright your room is. How bright you want your room to be is dependent on two things; what the room is used for, and what kind of atmosphere you want to achieve. For example, if you have a home office, you would want it to be brightly lit. However, for a bedroom, you might want slightly dimmer lights. Having said that, the use of the room is not the only factor that dictates the Lumen output of your reces...

How to select a Fluorescent replacement tube?

Selecting the right LED fluorescent replacement tubes can be confusing due to the lots of product types and installation options. This article will assist you in the process and help to make the right choice for your specific projects. If you are new in lighting industry so first you need to understand that, what are the LED fluorescent replacement tubes? LED Fluorescent replacement tubes: LED tubes that can fit directly in the fluorescent tube fixture are called LED Fluorescent replacement tubes, when you feel to switch your lighting technology from fluorescent to LED; you need to know which LED tube is best replacement of your fluorescent tube. We can say that LED tubes are energy efficient replacement for the fluorescent tubes. When we talk about the replacement it's not for wattage equivalent but for other things like length and diameter of tube and brightness. Selection of Right LED Fluorescent replacement tube: The most important thing is to select the exac...