About thirty percent of the overall electrical bill is consumed energy from light fittings.
Simply put if you opt out of your inefficient halogen fixtures and instead use LED lighting.
By making the switch you are paving the way to better savings through a significantly reduced consumption.
Compared to halogen lights, LED fittings are more energy efficient and cost effective hence they are ideal downlight fittings for many rooms and even as fixtures for the outdoors.
Downlights Any person who has ever attempted to install downlights is aware of the need to properly fit a good number of them in order to achieve ample levels of lighting.
Energy gobbling halogen bulbs prove to be a major problem when it comes to energy efficiency.
Since halogen fittings use up to fifty watts of power there is a bigger chance of needing to install one bulb in ever square meter of the pace.
For an average sized room of 6 meters by 4 meters, this means that there is a need for a total of 24 halogen light fixtures.
With a setup like this, the consumption can easily shoot up to one thousand two hundred watts or the equivalent of leaving a kettle to run for a lengthy period.
Savings in LED Research has shown that using LED lighting affords consumers of up to ninety percent in savings.
Instead of installing a fifty watt halogen light, a five or even seven watt LED fixture is a better choice since it is able to generate just as much light without needing as much energy.
Additionally a twenty four LED downlight structure will only use up wattage of only one hundred and sixty eight in total a much smaller amount compared to halogens.
Incandescent There are several basic types of lighting units that are used in residences.
The incandescent light is the first modern light innovation since the candle and the gaslight.
This type has been present for over a hundred years; light is generated by electricity surging through a filament.
Heat in the filament then produces light white hot.
Obviously this method ends up producing more heat than actual light.
Thus if you use incandescent lighting for your downlight structure you will undoubtedly end up wasting energy in the process.
It is due to this that this type of lighting is being phased out and in some parts of EU they are banned already.
The average lifespan of incandescent light is roughly only a thousand hours, thus replacement happens frequently.
Halogen A small amount of glass within a capsule I heated in order to produce the light of a halogen fixture.
Halogens are very similar to the incandescent and even more so in terms of their average lifespan.
Unfortunately not much has changed in the wastage of energy that gets converted to ninety percent of heat.
By the year 2016 many are expecting that halogen lights will completely be discontinued.
This move alone is said to save the United Kingdom the billions it spends annually on electricity.
LED LED on the other hand, makes light my using diodes instead of the older method of heating up filaments or even through gas.
This fitting is ideal for many compact spaces and hard to reach areas as they can be found at a size of two millimeters.
Furthermore the life cycle of this system lasts much longer than its ancestors with numbers that range from twenty five to roughly seventy five thousand hours in total.
On a six hour per day usage the lifespan of this fitting can equate to about twenty years.
They "burn" bright and yet use very little energy, making it not only ideal for your budget but a good way to help save the planet earth.