Efficient LED technology to improve the residential and commercial lighting

Lighting accounts for about one percent more than the average American household energy usage, even to the commercial building energy use four. Traditional incandescent light bulbs for energy efficiency is very low, only 5-10% of their electricity consumption in order to change the illumination light output can be converted to use the rest as heat are wasted. Compact fluorescent lamps with higher energy efficiency, but in terms of performance and life is clearly insufficient. LED-based solid-state semiconductor lighting to a small minority of innovative technology since coming to realize the considerable progress. As a case study of residential lighting, as shown, LED has become in many areas has become a viable option. Moreover, a series of new technological advances for business applications provide more choices.

Within the lighting industry, leading manufacturers and lighting designers / teachers are aware of relying solely on the selection of energy-saving effect and can not guarantee the massive popularity of energy-efficient light source. Final term, energy efficiency, the comprehensive advantages of design, quality, performance and price are the key decision in the commercial and residential LED lighting market share.

A few years ago, Molex joined a by businesses and government agencies in the industry alliance, the implementation of a program to improve the technical level of the semiconductor lighting project, significantly reducing energy consumption while maintaining superior lighting quality. Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Oak Ridge National Laboratories, ORNL) of experimental results confirm unmistakably LED energy saving effect, and their quality of lighting can be optimized by proper design and technology.

ZEBRA Union near the city of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory built experimental four-family homes, Oak Ridge No. l and 2 houses in size and appearance is exactly the same, and the 4th on the 3rd house of inter, too, except that the way its construction and internal subsystems. Lighting is one under evaluation subsystem. Semiconductor LED lighting Molex provided mounted within the 4th residential home, the housing 3 adjacent thereto is used in a compact fluorescent lamp, both the energy consumption will be compared.

Lumenique company owner Kevin Willmorth designed LED lighting inside the house on the 4th, to prove to simultaneously enhance LED design, output appropriate illuminance levels and reduce energy consumption. Its goal is to make led lighting design in both functional and aesthetic appeal. The 3rd house using compact fluorescent tubes and fluorescent tubes ordinary bar, and traditional lighting demonstration project used the same. Results of the entire design is that the energy consumption on the 3rd residential lighting was 2.1W / R2.

Using compact fluorescent lighting indoors, the power consumption of 192W 14fe get on the table (Note: Units candlelight, foot candle) illumination, and the right to use LED lighting illuminance 38fe get on the table at the same time power is only 76W, and lighting more structured lighting experience more attractive.