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Ever since Mr. Edison brought the magic of electric light to the world there have been thousands of different light fixtures designed. Green Miser lighting retrofits starts with the requirement of understanding your current fixtures, your usage and any changes to your lighting needs.
We have all been brought up in a world
where we associated the amount of light
to the power consumption of the
lamp in watts. In this new world of
Solid State LED Lighting we need to
change our thinking from watts to LUMENS (a measure of the total
"amount" of visible light emitted by a source.)
Looking back at the old 60 watt bulb, it delivered about 900 lumens of light with 2,000 hour life. Several years back it was replaced by the CFL lamp at 14 watts delivering the 900 lumens with a 10,000 hour life. Today we have the 10 watt LED lamp delivering the 900 lumens of light with a 50,000 life. So When You Think Lighting – Think Lumens
If you are replacing:
The above figures are based on current LED products. |
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Return on Investment
Today the return on your Green Miser LED lighting retrofit is basically a function of your power on hours. Normally, the longer the power on hours results into a shorter payback period.
All lighting has a useful life. Since we have grown up with the 60 watt incandescent bulb we tend to think of end-of-life as when the bulb burns out or stops producing light. In commercial applications end of life is normally defined as having the lumen output decay of 30%. So if you think back to those useful life numbers we referred to earlier. The bulb may still be producing light but the output has decayed by the 30%, and yes eventually it will go dark.
All lighting has a useful life. Since we have grown up with the 60 watt incandescent bulb we tend to think of end-of-life as when the bulb burns out or stops producing light. In commercial applications end of life is normally defined as having the lumen output decay of 30%. So if you think back to those useful life numbers we referred to earlier. The bulb may still be producing light but the output has decayed by the 30%, and yes eventually it will go dark.
