Why Adopt LED Lighting?
Let’s bring your home or office lighting into the 21st century with an LED retrofit. JML Electric can reduce your energy costs, and your maintenance costs with regards to lighting, by up to 70%, and such an upgrade always yields noticeable increases in lighting quality. In our experience, an LED Retrofit to your home or office lighting will pay for itself in under two years.
LED – Light Emitting Diodes shaped as light bulbs have become even brighter in the last ten years. LED bulbs offer similar light quality to traditional incandescent bulbs, but they last 25 times longer and use even less energy than CFLs. They power-up instantly and are dimmable. They can operate in all weather conditions and are extremely durable, requiring almost no maintenance for the entirety of their decade’s long lifespan.
CFL – Compact Fluorescent Lamp, also called compact fluorescent light, is an energy-saving light source. A compact fluorescent tube is a fluorescent lamp designed to replace an incandescent light bulb; some types fit into light fixtures designed for incandescent bulbs. The lamps use a tube that is curved or folded to fit into the space of an incandescent bulb, and a compact electronic ballast in the base of the lamp.
What is an LED Retrofit?
With the increasing efficiency of Light Emitting Diodes, or LEDs, it’s now smarter than ever to replace older tungsten incandescent and fluorescent bulbs to increase luminance, reduce maintenance and save money on electrical fees. In most cases, an upgrade to your lighting system will pay for itself within two or three years which makes it a great investment.
As a business owner, you should consider switching to LEDs if your property has old fluorescent, halogen, or high-intensity discharge (metal halide, mercury-vapor, sodium-vapor) lamps. For every second your old lights are turned on, you are paying 4 times more than what you would be paying if you just retrofitted to LEDs!
LED Lighting Retrofit Benefits
- Energy savings: reduce your energy bill, the portion which powers your lighting, by up to 70%.
- Low maintenance: newly installed LED lamps will require almost no maintenance for decades.
- Improve lighting quality: LEDs are four times brighter than most traditional lighting sources.
- Low upfront costs: A retrofit job on average costs two years of your annual electrical bill.
- Return on Investment: An LED lighting retrofit will pay for itself in under three years.
LED Lighting Retrofit Cost
Most commercial property managers will pay between $10K to $20K for a lighting retrofit of their parking lots, garages, their office space and factory floors, depending on the size of the project and the ease of installation. A small residential project upgrading ten or more fixtures would cost approximately five thousand dollars.
Cost-determining factors include the size of your space, the ease of installation, and your lighting objectives. For the most part, these price estimates include the cost of new infrastructure including dimmers and hardware associated with LED lighting systems.
Frequently Asked Questions – FAQs
A light-emitting diode (LED) is a semiconductor device with electroluminescence properties; it’s an optical phenomenon, and electrical phenomenon where a material emits light in response to an electric current passed through it.
LEDs have a wide range of applications ranging from your mobile phone to large advertising billboards. They have replaced tungsten incandescent bulbs and fluorescent bulbs in most public buildings, office towers and assembly plants.
LEDs work on the principle of Electroluminescence. On passing a current through the diode, minority charge carriers and majority charge carriers recombine at the junction. On recombination, energy is released in the form of photons. As the forward voltage increases, the intensity of the light increases and reaches a maximum.
LEDs consume less power as they require a lower operational voltage. No warm-up time is needed for LED light bulbs, and they generate less heat. LED lighting systems require less maintenance. LEDs are brighter than other bulbs and can make a clean white light. They save money while doing a better job.
