{"id":286,"date":"2013-05-08T16:31:03","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T16:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.klusdesign.com\/blog\/?p=286"},"modified":"2019-10-21T20:38:23","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T20:38:23","slug":"light-emitting-diodes-led","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.klusdesign.com\/blog\/light-emitting-diodes-led\/","title":{"rendered":"Light Emitting Diodes (LED)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-287\" alt=\"Light Emitting Diode - LED\" src=\"http:\/\/www.klusdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/LED-300x240.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.klusdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/LED-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.klusdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/LED-375x300.jpg 375w, https:\/\/www.klusdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/LED.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Light emitting diodes (LEDs) have become one of the biggest heroes in the world of electronics.\u00a0 They do many jobs and may be found in many different types of devices.\u00a0 Your alarm clock probably uses LEDs to form the numbers that tell the time.\u00a0 Your remote control may depend on an LED to work correctly.\u00a0 An LED may let you know if you left the oven on.\u00a0 Several LEDs may work together to provide LED home lighting in your living room at a fraction of the cost of an incandescent bulb.<\/p>\n<p>LED home lighting offers several advantages over standard incandescent bulbs.\u00a0 They do not have a filament that eventually burns out, so they offer a longer life.\u00a0 They plastic bulb is more durable than glass.\u00a0 They can provide the same amount of light in a device that is much smaller than the traditional light bulb.\u00a0 They are far more energy efficient that a traditional lamp.<\/p>\n<p>The main advantage of<a title=\"LED Home Lighting\" href=\"http:\/\/www.klusdesign.com\/blog\/led-home-lighting\/\"> LED home lighting <\/a>is energy efficiency.\u00a0 As anyone who has ever touched an illuminate standard light bulb can testify, these devices produce a lot of heat.\u00a0 In order to produce light, the filament in the standard bulb is heated to the white-hot stage.\u00a0 The heat that is produced is wasted energy unless you are depending on the lamp as a heater.\u00a0 Most of the energy is wasted as heat and not used to produce visible light.\u00a0 In comparison, LEDs produce little heat.\u00a0 More of the electricity is used in the production of visible light and the energy use is cut dramatically.\u00a0\u00a0 An LED lamp can produce almost eight times the amount of light using the same amount of energy.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, LEDs cost too much to be used in the home.\u00a0 However, in the last decade the cost of materials for semiconductors used in their production has dropped, making the LED much more cost effective for many applications.\u00a0 Although the initial investment is more, their long life and energy savings make them a cost-effective option for lighting the home.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, many homeowners have made the switch to compact florescent bulbs in the home.\u00a0 These compact bulbs save energy and produce the same amount of light using about 25% of the energy required for an incandescent lamp.\u00a0 However, florescent lamps contain mercury, which is poisonous and makes it difficult to dispose of these lights.\u00a0 Florescent lamps produce less heat, use less energy and have a longer lifespan, but cannot match the energy savings and lifetime of an LED lamp.<\/p>\n<p>LED home lighting provides energy saving and safe way for consumers to save energy in the home.\u00a0 While they require a larger initial investment, these lamps offer a long life and many years of energy saving lighting for the home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Light emitting diodes (LEDs) have become one of the biggest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-led-lighting","category-led-home-lighting"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Light Emitting Diodes (LED)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Light emitting diodes (LEDs) have become one of the biggest heroes in the world of electronics. 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