Euri Lighting Products: Energy Savings and Long Lifespan
Industrial and commercial buildings commonly use fluorescent, halogen, and HID lamps for wide-area illumination. High bays, warehouses, production floors, and aisles, as well as office spaces, are often lit with fluorescent tube lights, HID lamps, and even incandescent or halogen floodlights.
Fluorescent lamps, and to a lesser degree, HID lamps, offer much higher energy efficiencies than incandescent and halogen lights, but even these are limited when compared to LED technology.
One producer, Euri Lighting, has been driven by a focus on energy efficiency from its very beginnings. The following are the implications of energy-efficient LED lighting for businesses and to a lesser extent, homeowners or others that still use incandescent bulbs or even CFLs.
A Brief Background of EURI Lighting
Euri Lighting doesn’t boast the long and colorful history of Osram or even General Electric, but they offer significant value all the same.
Euri Lighting, which is a division of IRtronix, was established in 2000 and built itself around the goal of making highly energy-efficient lighting products available to all. They have been at the forefront of technology and innovation ever since.
They manufacture and supply energy-efficient LED lighting products for a wide range of applications, ranging from commercial fixtures even to residential applications.
As the industry’s leading force in LED solutions, Euri Lighting LED products confer significant advantages to those that use them to replace existing lighting infrastructure that is far less efficient.
LEDs and Electricity Consumption
Just exactly how much energy an LED can save over traditional lighting depends on the type of bulb and the wattage supplied, but regardless, LED lighting is the future. They are significantly more energy-efficient than incandescent, halogen, HID, and even fluorescent lamps.
The basic reason that LEDs are so energy efficient is that they don’t produce light in the same way that all other traditional forms of lighting do.
Incandescents and halogen lights produce light through electroluminescence, by running a current through a thin filament. HID lights release light by exciting a mixture of metal vapors (typically mercury) and halides, causing them to release energy in the form of light. They are very bright, relatively energy-efficient, and long-lived, but they also produce a lot of heat.
Previously, the standard of energy-efficient lighting was fluorescent lights. These types of lamps produce light by exciting mercury vapor through an electrical current, causing it to release UV radiation. This UV radiation strikes fluorescent compounds on the inside of the outer tube of the lamp (typically phosphor powder), which absorb the energy and then release some of it as visible light. Fluorescent lights are the longest-lived and most energy-efficient of non-solid-state-lights (SSLs), but they are still far inferior to LEDs.
LEDs such as those produced by Euri Lighting actually produce light through electroluminescence, the same as incandescent and halogen bulbs, but they do it in a much more energy-efficient manner.
Whereas incandescent and halogen bulbs run current through a filament in order to release light, LEDs consist of semiconductor material. When an electrical current passes over the semiconductor, the electrons release some of their potential energy in the form of photons - light.
This is far more efficient than running current over a filament until it gets so hot that it glows. It’s estimated that LEDs are as much as 75% more efficient than incandescent light bulbs. They’re a lot more efficient than HID lamps and even fluorescents, too. Figures vary, but LEDs are estimated to be sufficiently more energy efficient than both.
Because Euri Lighting LEDs are so much more efficient than all other forms of commercially available lighting, they can help businesses (and homeowners) save energy substantially when they are used to replace other conventional forms of lighting.
LEDs and Cooling Costs
This is because LEDs use so much less energy overall than HID, incandescent, and halogen lights. Not only do they require less line voltage, but more of that energy also gets converted into light and less wasted as heat. Some sources indicate that LEDs can be as much as 95% more efficient than incandescent lights at converting electrical energy into light without wasting as much heat.
This can result in significant cost savings for buildings that use HID or halogen lights for wide-area illumination. It can be very expensive to keep these buildings cool, especially in the summer. By switching to LED light bulbs and light fixtures, businesses can potentially save significantly on HVAC costs as well.
Installation, Maintenance, Labor, and Disposal Costs
Another huge benefit of LEDs is that they last significantly longer than all other forms of lighting, including fluorescents. Because they last so much longer, they need to be replaced less frequently, which can save businesses on installation, maintenance, and labor costs. Having to buy replacement bulbs less frequently is another potential cost saver.
Businesses also need to account for the costs associated with disposing of their current lighting. Fluorescent lamps and HID lamps often contain mercury and other toxic compounds, complicating disposal and incurring additional costs.
By contrast, Euri Lighting products are mercury-free, and like other LEDs, are much more eco-friendly than HID, fluorescent, incandescent, and halogen lamps.
What Euri Lighting Offers Industrial and Commercial Customers
Euri Lighting offers a wide range of LEDs and LED components, in both bright white, soft white, and warm white color temperatures.
Here at Products for Automation, we offer a wide variety of Euri Lighting products including but not limited to:
- Standard bulbs
- Floodlights
- Candelabra bulbs
- Ceiling lights
- Flat-panel lights
- Sconce lights
- Recessed lights and downlights
- Wall-packs and outdoor wall lights
Many of the Euri Lighting products on our website are dimmable and some are compatible with motion sensors. In addition, many fixtures are available with different trim options.
If you have any questions about Euri Lighting products, compatibility, and potential energy savings, please feel free to get in touch with us at 800-966-2345.
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