LED ceiling lights instead of high hats?
We are renovating the garden floor of our brownstone and all interior walls are removed. Any comments on LED overhead ceiling lights as opposed to high hats? The LED’s are much more $$ but , aside from saving cost in electricity, are there any other advantages?
We are renovating the garden floor of our brownstone and all interior walls are removed. Any comments on LED overhead ceiling lights as opposed to high hats? The LED’s are much more $$ but , aside from saving cost in electricity, are there any other advantages?
Ceiling lights produce different colors of illumination and they make entire room colorful!
ceiling lights are giving contemporary homes a new look in illumination décor.
ceiling lights are giving contemporary homes a new look in illumination décor.
Last forever, no.. If you keep an LED cool and have good voltage control it can last for decades. The formulas for calculating creep are very well grounded and given a temperature and voltage you can estimate how long it will last with a high degree of accuracy.
They don’t break due to vibration or other physical shocks. They break due to 1/ short circuit — usually due to a voltage shock or 2/ creep, which is an exponential function of voltage and temperature.
Anyway, I would expect a white LED light assembly to last anywhere from 5 years to 25 years depending on a number of factors. It will give a more pleasant light than CFLs, but less pleasant than a good halogen. Their main advantage, other than the heat, is that they will last longer. On grid they are no better for the environment than a halogen, the operating electrical savings are offset by the additional resources required to create them (off-grid, and in battery operated devices, they are better than even CFLs).
This may change in the coming years; blue light LEDs (the technology on which all white light LEDs are based) are a relatively new technology and major advancements are still being made. Currently they are significantly less efficient than red, green and especially yellow LEDs, but the gap is closing.
Last forever (in theory, since no one knows how they degrade in light output exactly). Does not save energy compared to CFLs/fluorescent. In checking out a lighting spec I did, even a local rep suggested not specifying LEDs for the price.
You might look into commercial fluorescent hardhats which can be fitted with warm white lamps, just as good as incandescent. Dimmable lamps cost more.
The other big benefit is reduced heat from the fixtures. From what Ive read, the light from LEDs isn’t consistently colored and can be inappropriate for what most homeowners need it for. Its used more for mood lighting rather than task lighting.
I used LED for my undercabinet lighting. They do the job there but compared to my xenon lights in my last house, the light is definitely not as bright.