Why LED Cooler Lights Are More Energy-Efficient Than The Traditional Lights?

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Why LED COOLER LIGHTS Are More Energy-Efficient
Than The Traditional!
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• Introduction
• Be it an industrial, commercial or a residential
  user, if an average user claims that nearly 5 of
  his income is being spent on paying energy bills,
  its really a matter of concern. Because, what
  appears is not always whats true. Before the
  invention of solid state lighting technology,
  nobody knew if we could save energy by just
  switching from one lighting technology to
  another. But now most of us know and that brings
  us to an understanding that LED lights and hence
  in this discussion, LED Cooler Lights are more
  energy-efficient.  
• But you Might Ask, why are these LED Cooler
  Lights more Energy-efficient?
• With new standards in lighting set by governments
  around the world, several measures were passed in
  favor of lights that were more energy-efficient
  and that later became a trend. The trend now
  continues with the lighting experts to improve
  ways in which LED lights can become more and more
  energy-efficient.
• To that end, the LED Cooler Lights are more
  energy-efficient because of the following factors
• The Working Principle of Traditional Fluorescents
  and LED Cooler Lights
• And, The Power Draw By The Tubes - Traditional
  and LED Cooler Lights
• Lets discuss the first one.
• In order to better understand the working
  principle of LED Cooler Lights, lets first
  understand the same of fluorescent tubes.

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In fluorescent tubes, where the current has to
pass through a gas conductor in the form of free
electrons and vaporize the mercury. When
electrons collide with the gaseous items of
mercury, free electrons are released which first
jump to higher levels and then fall back to
original levels. When they fall back to their
original state, photons of light is emitted. Now,
this light energy is in the for of UV which is
not visible to human eye so the same light which
when strikes the phosphor coating on the tube,
the same process of electrons being excited to
higher levels and then falling back to original
state is repeated, the difference just being that
now, its phosphor instead of mercury and photon
energy this time is now visible to the human
eye. Now, in order to start the fluorescent tube,
lot of free electrons and ions are needed to
allow flow of charge through the gas, which
unfortunately isnt the case and so for this
reason fluorescent tubes take too long to start.
Also, when they start, they warm up too soon.
Here is where, the fluorescent tubes waste lot of
light into heat. By contrast, LED Cooler Lights
use method where the light-emitting diode is a
 two-lead or p-n junction diode to which when
suitable voltage is applied, emits light when
activated. Here the voltage and the energy gaps
are engineered to be optimal and hence very less
energy gets wasted in comparison to fluorescent
tubes. We now come to the discussion on - The
Power Draw By The Tubes. Since, the fluorescent
tubes require extra power to start the tube, the
method that is most commonly used to supply that
extra power is making use of a starter switch and
a magnetic ballast. Now, whats the purpose the
starter switch? 
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The starter switch actually allows for preheating
of the tube so that less amount of voltage is
required in order to trigger the production of
electrons from the electrodes. On the other hand,
the function of ballasts is to limit the amount
of current that is being supplied to the tube. In
absence of both these starter switch and the
ballast, a very high amount of current would flow
to the tube directly, eventually allowing for
more heat production in the tube and waste of
significant energy into heat and not light.
  Now, coming on to the power draw by LED lights,
they do not require any ballast, the prominent
reason being they draw less power from the power
supply. In LED Cooler Lights, we have LEDs
drawing power from the driver instead of the
ballasts, though we do have compatible LED lights
that are compatible with the existing ballasts.
But, even in these compatible LED lighting
fixtures that are supposed to work through the
existing ballasts sooner or later come to fail.
These ballasts while they are working make the
LED Cooler Lights to draw more power from the
line source. Conclusion The two methods
discussed in the above sections clearly explain
as to why LED Cooler Lights would be more
energy-efficient than the fluorescent tubes. For
you as an user, savings in energy is worth
hundreds of dollars every month and so
energy-efficiency of any cooler light stands out
to be one of the most important criteria only
other than savings that is brought in any
lighting fixture through the use of dimmers,
timers and sensors.
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