
How to choose really good quality LED lights?
How to choose really good quality LED lights?
As eco-friendly products, LED lighting products have many advantages comparing to traditional incandescent, fluorescent or halogen lamps or tubes, such as high maintenance of lumens,less electrical consumption,more energy saving, extremely long life,low heat,no UV radiation,safe and stable,etc.. Thanks to the rapid developping technology, these advantages have become more and more visible and realistic which has led to an enormous market for the years to come. Accordingly, there’re many newly established LED lighting suppliers in China, Korea or South East Asia. Some of these new companies are supplying really nice LED lights with reliable quality while some guys just focus on cheap staff to get orders with really nasty quality (sorry!) . Therefore, it is very important for the consumers to distinguish and select the good quality LED lights from numerous and colorful LED products.
There’re many factors which can affect the actual performance and life time of the LED lights, such as LEDs, electrical structures, lamp body design, the IP degree for waterproof applications, etc.. Among these factors, obviously the quality of LEDs is the most decisive factor. We would like to share our ideas on this part with any people intend to purchase LED lights:
When talking about LEDs, actually there are two vital factors to decide the quality of LED: the LED chip itself and the LED packaging (to fix LED chip onto the special LED holder). The packaging will affect the light emission and heat dissipation which is very key factor to affect the lifetime of the LED lights. Currently,there're three levels of LED available in the market:
1. Cree,Nichia or LumiLED are the top class LED maker in the world. Usually, for high end customers we use CREE LED originally from USA: LED chip from USA and packaged in USA, which is the best in light illumination and durability based on our experience. If you are targeting at high end users who requires the best quality light effect and don't care too much on cost, this should be your best choice.
2. LED from Taiwan such as Epistar,Everlight or Edison. These LEDs are mostly packaged in China due to the cost, but the quality are different between different suppliers. Some guys claim their LEDs are from the LED makers, yes it maybe but actually the quality of LED packaging is no good at all. So it's important which supplier you buy from. The Taiwan LED that we use are almost same durability as Cree while the light effect is good enough for normal application although it is not so good as Cree USA of course, but the cost is more economical.
3. LED from China: cheaper than Taiwan LED, light effect not bad, but not sure on the light decay.
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http://www.haichanglight.com dated Sep.30, 2010