Showing posts with label LED lights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LED lights. Show all posts

Sunday, December 16, 2012

LED lights maintenance of your caution election


LED car lights are more and more widely in the automotive, luxury cars only now gradually senior car to promote open. Compared to traditional bulbs, LED lamps have a long service life, better lighting and more aesthetically pleasing appearance advantages, but the damage to a part of the LED light is necessary to replace the whole, leading to its higher cost, generally in the 1000-2000 yuan. Therefore, consumers in the choice of models to take into account their economic capacity to buy with caution.

LED car lights brake lights, tail lights, turn lights, down lights, brake lights and other lights bit has application. Its characteristics are also very obvious. First, LED lights save more than 60% of the electrical energy than equivalent incandescent brightness. Second, the structure is simple, luminous body semiconductor (solid), surrounded by a transparent epoxy resin sealing, seismic performance. Third: long service life, the use of 10,000 small-time decline of only 50%, and general service life can reach tens of thousands of hours. Fourth: does not contain harmful metal mercury, essentially no radiation. But the biggest factor is temperature affect the efficiency and lifetime of LED automotive lighting, car headlights in use, the heat emitted, leading to the surrounding temperature is high, and the heat is not very fast. Show wide lights LED car made ​​normal operating temperature is below 60 ℃, when the temperature exceeds 60 ℃, the LED is not very stable. So, if the the automotive headlamp surrounding temperature exceeds a certain temperature, LED can easily burn, and sometimes even the base of the LED lights will burn directly dissolved. For most vehicles use LED lights, if serious damage to the diode is even more direct replacement assembly. The price to replace a set of LED lights, traditional lights several times between 1000-2000 yuan.

Monday, December 10, 2012

The North American market observation: LED lighting quality is still high, but the proportion of consumers to buy CFL market

90% of Americans use LED and compact fluorescent lamps (CFL, Compact fluorescent lamp) to replace traditional incandescent light bulbs to reduce lighting expenses. Recent market study found that for U.S. consumers, despite the high quality of LED lighting, only takes a traditional light bulbs 75% power and long life of 25 years, is still 75% of the trial the final choice tighten the CFL, and only 25% The people who choose to use LED lights.

Most of the petition comes to the current market, the price is still the key factor in consumers refused to adopt LED and compact fluorescent. LED price of 25-60 U.S. dollars, the CFL is priced at 1.25 to 18 U.S. dollars. The highest level (the price of the most expensive) LED lights, 23 years later can help consumers save energy costs of $ 130, the same during the 60-watt compact fluorescent lamps can help consumers save $ 60. However, LEDinside pointed out that such research surveys LED product prices with high sweet spot less than $ 10, the price of LED can save energy costs are much higher, and will be more than the CFL payback payback benefits.

The majority of consumers said that unless the decline in the price of the two lamps or replacement will still not high. 2011 LED prices fell 20%, and is expected that prices will continue to decline to $ 10 in the next two to three years.

U.S. market sales in the forefront of LED lamps contain EcoSmart (priced at $ 26), A19 and Philips ($ 25), environmental lighting, light intensity and light adjustment function and the color of the light with incandescent bulbs and halogen bulbs alike, so suited to replace the 60-watt traditional bulb.

Of course, not each LED bulb lighting quality. Consumer Reports found the instability some poor-quality LED bulb lighting and lighting is often darken, priced at $ 20 MiracleLED. The recommended consumer choice containing the the energy mark of LED products to avoid buying lemons.

In fact, part of the LED light bulb products, rendered dim and uneven light and unusual lighting color is a major factor for consumers lamp disappointed, these are mostly manufactured in China, and marked by the traders, agents specific brand name sales.

Normally, a 60-watt LED bulb lumens at least to reach 800 lm, so as to reach the standard of illumination brightness. Lighting light color at least 2000K, 3000K and halogen white chromaticity can reach 5000 to 6000K color is more bluish. The the fixture packaging labels will attach these details, U.S. DOE specification to require manufacturers to do these basic specifications labeled to help consumers buy LED bulbs.

Thursday, December 6, 2012

Africa LED "Dawn" open holds many lessons to enter the best period

Africa and Zimbabwe began to use LED lights a message before causing concern to the industry, and also learned that the move to allow Africa to the city to save energy and reduce the cost of the lighting operation is bound to be lighting a new career milestone in Africa.

African demand for LED lighting rapid
China-Africa trade volume increased year by year
LEDinside understood so far traced back to 1950, an average annual increase of 43.5 percent of trade between China and Africa. As of 2011, China-Africa trade volume reached $ 160 billion, China has become the largest trading partner in Africa. As a result, the emerging African country's economic modernization is increasingly causing concern around, especially in the recession of the global economy, Africa's economy is still retrograde maintain rapid growth. Africa has 15% of the world's population, as basic lighting and municipal lighting the most development potential of the global market, in recent years, Africa has been committed to the development of sustainable lighting solutions seek an effective solution to the power consumption in low-carbon global trend to promote the next LED lighting needs year after year rise.

Throughout its lighting industry
LEDinside drive light bulbs solar panels power of 20-30 watts in Africa, not long ago, people could afford only incandescent, but efficient LED lights, people only need to power only a few watts of solar panels to meet the lighting needs. With LED lights, batteries and solar panels panels falling prices, coupled with the innovation of the business plan, Africa and other regions of hundreds of million households most likely will be able to give up the kerosene lamps, and incandescent lamps, turn to use technology more state-of-the-art lighting.

LED-known enterprises worldwide have to throw a large amount of money to the layout of the lighting market
in Africa
According to LEDinside to incomplete statistics, from the beginning of the end of last year, the coming of the good news of LED industry development in Africa, by the end of 2011, South Africa became the first African African countries out of incandescent. According to another report, the introduction of LED lighting technology annual savings for South African businesses probably 41 million gold (close to 4 million euros) energy, and reduce 60,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions; Over the same period, the World Climate Conference in Durban, South Africa, Philips officials the appeal as soon as possible to achieve the LED lighting globalization. JJ van Dongen, CEO of Philips Africa LED lighting has been greatly benefited African countries, and LED lighting technology is also the possibility of the rapid development of other high-tech (such as mobile phones development technology).

Also to public information, the end of 2011, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance supports, officially launched the special task of international cooperation to address climate change. Gift LED lights and other low-carbon energy-saving products to African countries and other developing countries through the establishment of a special working expenses in three years; and this year, most recently Africa Zimbabwe began using LED lights, this will be a new milestone, so African Cities save energy and reduce the cost of the lighting operation.

It is worth mentioning that Philips plans to invest 1.2 million euros to build 100 solar-powered LED lighting center in rural communities in Africa, each with a small size of a football field, to solve rural Africa do not have the problem of electric lighting. In addition, more global LED lighting, Osram, GE, Spike, optoelectronics, including well-known enterprises in Africa market layout.

The large
of Africa "Dawn" on the economic potential of the LED lighting industry
LEDinside China LED lighting industry will usher in the African opportunity. To China as the largest developing country, its semiconductor lighting products in Africa market can be described as a natural match, under the common development of low-carbon and energy efficiency requirements of the times, it is a golden opportunity to cut into the African market, semiconductor lighting company. The two government and enterprise holds many lessons for the corresponding channels, financial and market protection mechanism should be established to take full advantage of government policies to integrate related resources on the platform of the Alliance as soon as possible so that the lighting companies take root in Africa.

China is very clear purpose of the lighting industry investment in Africa, in particular, is a huge market in Africa see the economic potential of the premise can not help but criticized a certain extent, the Chinese businessmen to get into the African market, however, China's cheap products for local low-income people to bring the gospel.

LEDinside point of view: the balance between product positioning deviation expand in Africa is now the best time to

LEDinside think, the first move to open up Africa lighting the New World is the understanding of how the African market needs products. Need sufficient investigation and research into the lighting market, African market in the low-end of the application of the lighting market, and between China and Africa in the inherent bias in the positioning of the demand for lighting products, lighting companies in China need to find a balance point should be to maximize the advantage of Chinese products. African market in product performance requirements are not too high, as long as the production of the basic functions of taste, reliable and durable and low price products will be able to meet the lighting needs in Africa. It is understood that the basic lighting and municipal lighting is the most potential market in Africa, much-needed development, Chinese enterprises need to field trips or obtain reliable message-depth understanding of the the African lighting device form habits, and thinking about how existing technology integration to find the incision to accommodate a good combination with local products in Africa and device conditions.

LEDinside believe this is the best time of the Chinese enterprises in Africa opened up lighting Xindi: first the debt crisis and the financial crisis in the United States for the enterprises out to provide a favorable environment; Second, the process of investment in Africa, but also accumulated a lot of experience. Thus this period, the enterprises out to go relatively high success rate, the same is true for the lighting industry.