Price factors hinder the promotion of home LED lighting is still difficult to spread

Last week at the Pazhou Convention and Exhibition Center held in Guangzhou lighting, LED lighting has become the focus of all exhibitors force object. In the street lights, billboards, office lighting, window lighting and other commercial areas, LED lighting products have been popular, but the price of hundreds of dollars a LED bulb but let LED lighting is difficult to enter the homes of ordinary people.

In this exhibition, PHILPS lighting for outdoor lighting, office, shops and other commercial areas launched different LED lighting solutions, LED lighting solutions CosmoPolis warm white road lighting system, LuxSpacELED downlight, AmbiScene scene lighting system is very mature. And for the home environment, PHILPS also launched the magic lamp, the use of LED to achieve 16 million kinds of color light color effect, but the magic lamp price is more than a thousand dollars. According to reports, PHILPS lighting in recent years through the acquisition of Lumileds, TIR, ColorKinetics, Genlyte, IltiLuce and a series of LED companies, has built a complete LED lighting industry chain.

According to exhibitors, LED lighting due to the price of more expensive, less price sensitive commercial users for energy saving and environmental protection and other factors will be easier to accept, but the general home users are mostly not willing to spend hundreds of dollars to buy a LED bulb. It is understood that the current average price of home LED bulbs are more than one hundred dollars, more than ten times the price of the same energy-saving bulbs and several times more expensive.

The exhibitors have told reporters that the high cost of LED lighting is mainly from three aspects: one is a high power LED light source, although the cost of LED light source of a 0.05W as long as a few cents, but the LED light source of a 10W cost to hundreds of yuan, so many manufacturers will use a combination of LED light source package a number of small power in a LED bulb, in order to reduce the cost; two is the control chip LED, the general solution of the three control chip to control a LED light source; three is to make the LED light bulb has a good cooling effect, the lamp housing needs for manufacturing material cost Aluminum Alloy high etc.