More Energy Efficient-Be the Environmental Solution
LUXEON power light sources are more efficient than incandescent and most halogen light sources. White LUXEON today delivers more than 20 lumens per Watt, and is predicted to achieve greater than 50 lumens per Watt by 2005. When viewing solid state lighting as an alternative, it is important to consider the total system level benefits. For example, due to the decrease in energy used for the lighting of a building, air handling costs drop, generating both additional initial and ongoing investment savings. Additional benefits such as the directionality of light for general lighting and vivid true colors without the need for filters in signaling applications add to the energy efficiency on a system level.
Design Flexibility and Unobtrusive Hidden Light
LEDs are typically much smaller than conventional light sources, allowing for dramatically different lighting designs capitalizing on the unobtrusiveness of the source. Designing with LUXEON, for example, can enable completely hidden sources of light, eliminating large visual luminaries, and creating a magical effect when illuminated. Light emitting diodes provide the lighting designer with additional options and choices compared to conventional technologies. Instead of taking one very bright source and mounting it in a reflector optic to distribute light, LEDs can enable alternative lighting concepts where the light source can be divided into multiple points of light, distributed across a surface, or placed in multiple planes. SnapLED technology allows for complex three_dimensional lighting solutions. The flexibility of LEDs allows for new, playful, and innovative lighting solutions, allowing for never before possible designs.
Vivid Saturated Colors-Without Filters
Light Emitting Diodes require no filters to create colored light, resulting in deeper saturated colors without wasted light. Deep reds, greens, blues and other colors can be produced in monochromatic form directly form the solid state element. Many lighting applications, such as signs, signals, and warning lights, are colored. Usually this light is created through filtering a broad band white light to the desired hue. These filters block the undesirable portions of the white light and let only the desired wavelengths through. The blocked light that is not of the correct color is therefore lost energy. Philips Lumileds produces devices in a spectrum of colors from red to blue and white. Therefore, to make a red sign, one can use a monochromatic LED that generates only red light and therefore does not require an additional color filter. There is no need for expensive filters, and there is no wasted energy. It is common for a 12W LUXEON array to fully replace a 150W bulb used in red traffic signals, resulting in dramatic power savings due to the higher efficiency ofcolored light generation.