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Is Confusion over LED Lamps costing you money?
For quite some time now I have been having discussions with clients about the benefits of
LED lighting, the conversations usually, have themes like, LEDs are for toys you don’t get enough light from them or how can you justify telling me to pay £20 for a lamp (bulb) when I can buy a pack of 5 from my local DIY chain for a tenner.
I hope that the information in this short article will clear up some of the confusion / myths about LED lighting, don’t get me wrong in some cases LED may not be the right answer, but don’t let misinformation put you off if it is something that you were considering.
LED lamps will last and save you money
LED lamps use a fraction of the electricity required by standard halogen GU10 lamps, yet can give out just as much light. LED lamps from quality manufacturers will have an extremely long lumen maintenance period (life) of up to 50,000 hours. Over its lifetime, just one of these LED lamps replaces approximately 25 standard GU10 halogen spotlights, whilst saving as much as 2,450kWh of electricity - that's over £250 at a cost of 10.5p per kWh!
Lumen output, not Watts
LED spotlights are available in a range of lumen outputs equivalent to wattages from 20w to 50w or more with beam angles ranging from 25 degrees to 120 degrees to suit your requirements. You should always compare the brightness of LED GU10 spotli
