New York International Lighting Fair: LED into the most dazzling star

New York International Lighting Exhibition in the last week has just concluded, the light emitting diode (LED) lamp is the most dazzling exhibition project this year, almost all stalls are on display the latest products, this will become the mainstream of the market to highlight LED lighting.

Most people think that LED is only a small lamp in the electronic device, although its lighting is widely used, but few consumers will choose to buy LED lights. According to the information collected by the photoelectric news network, the United States will gradually ban the traditional light bulb in 2012, and switch to a new bulb with an efficiency of 30% higher than that of incandescent bulbs, but only about 78% of Americans do not know it.

Compact fluorescent lamp current market sales (compact fluorescent) to comply with the new standards, but manufacturers are actively promoting LED lighting, LED fluorescent lamp is not durable, low power consumption, but also can be made into various shapes and sizes. In addition, LED does not use mercury, can be operated at low temperatures, lighting quality is better than fluorescent lamps.

Manufacturers display all kinds of LED lights, can be used in large warehouses, garages, streets, kitchens and office lighting; as well as elastic LED band, and can replace halogen reflector LED.

SIEMENS's OSRAM Sylvania launched a strip of elastic LED lights, can be used for traditional lighting can not be installed. The company will also launch a 6 watt bulb for the first time this year, which will last for up to 15 hours to replace the incandescent light bulb, which is typically durable for up to 1500 hours.

Osram, lighting science company and PHILPS, will also launch the appearance of the same as traditional bulbs and LED bulbs, only 8 watts of electricity can reach the brightness of 40 watts of traditional bulbs.

The industry is committed to producing brightness equivalent to 60 or 75 watt incandescent bulb LED. LED, the leading manufacturer of CREE, has a new 6.5 watt light bulb this year, which is more energy efficient than last year's $11, and is capable of lighting up a standard 65 watt bulb.

However, despite the various types of LED products, compact fluorescent lamps will still be the first choice for consumers in the next few years, the main reason is the LED price is too high (equivalent brightness of traditional 40 watt bulb LED bulb price of more than $20), and the production of high brightness LED lamp is difficult.

Light bulb companies predict that the future price of LED bulbs will be much higher than the old bulb. Gela Beck, chief executive of Osram Sylvania, said: "the price of light bulbs will no longer be $1.25, but will increase from $10 to $20. With the gradual improvement of LED energy efficiency, he believes consumers will switch to low power consumption of LED lamps.