LED Light Bulbs

Light emitting diodes light bulbs or LED light bulbs are actually already present for several decades; it’s just that they aren’t actually used as house lighting materials. They are used in electronics. The very small bulb thing found on top of the TV remote control is LED. The red and green lights found in appliances like microwave oven, radio, and video players are also made of LED. The gigantic TV screens found in Broadway and other highly commercial cities are also made from a huge collection of LED bulbs.

LED light bulbs look like incandescent lamps, but they are very little and do not have filaments that burn out easily. In the recent years however, LED bulbs have been developed to become a good lighting material like compact fluorescent light bulbs. In fact, one of the predictions in the electronics world is that LED will become a very competitive rival of CFLs in terms of giving energy efficient lighting. A LED bulb poses energy consumption much lesser than that of a CFL bulb. A 60 watt yellow incandescent light, for instance, will be reduced by a CFL to just 9 watts, but a whopping 1.5 watt by a LED bulb. If CFLs can last for 16,000 hours, LED provides a more surprising figure—more than 100,000 hours of burn-out-free use.

LED light bulbs however are still not developed unlike CFL bulbs. Their bulb life makes them very expensive, but the quality of light that they produce is not yet good enough to channel a big investment in. LED light bulbs are definitely a sign of a bright future for our bulbs, but they really will still need a lot of time to be at par with the benefits that CFLs give.