Buyers' Guide

• 5 Things You MUST Know Before Buying LED Light Bulbs

  2011-6-29
  You may have heard that LED light bulbs are the future of lighting. You may also have heard that they're ready to replace all types of lighting in your house from Incandescent to Compact Fluorescents. I'm going to save you the hype and tell you what many sellers don't want you to know about LED Ligh...

• LED Light Characteristics

  2011-6-29
  Luminous Flux Currently available LED light bulbs produce a luminous flux of between 1 and 120 lumens. This corresponds to an input power of 50-100 mW and 5W. Colour and Colour Temperature White LED light bulbs emit a neutral white light which looks to our eyes as cold. The colour temperature of col...

• LED Light Bulbs – All You Need to Know About Them

  2011-6-29
  Life Span In the early days of LEDs, manufacturers would often claim that they had life spans of up to 100,000 hours or more. Of course, that simply isn’t true, and any claim without sufficient evidence would be, simply put, a fat lie. Manufacturers have now dialed down things down a bit, ...

• Guide to Buying LEDs

  2011-6-29
  Light-emitting diodes, or LEDs for short, have increasingly become more common in the electronic items we use on a daily basis. From small indicator lights on most of our appliances, flashlights, to lighting our computer screens, traffic lights, and even giant video billboards, LEDs are now more wi...

• LED Bulb Buying Guide

  2011-6-29
  What is an LED? LED bulbs are semiconductors, just like a computer chip. When electricity is passed through them, they emit energy in the form of light. They are "doped" or injected with certain chemicals, that determine their light color. LEDs convert the majority of energy passed through...