Phasing Out of Incandescent Bulbs: Part 2

With the recent move of U.S. manufacturers towards a phase out of incandescent bulbs soon beginning to take effect, many consumers will be left without a complete understanding of why this is happening and what other lighting options will be available.  This move away from incandescent technology is due to manufacturers complying with the Energy Bill, or federal Security Act of 2007, which mandates that household bulbs between 40 and 100 watts use 27% less energy by 2014.  Compact fluorescent light bulbs, otherwise known as CFL’s, are an alternate lighting solution; however, they are plagued with concerns of mercury contamination, flickering lights, safe recycling and incompatibility with dimmer circuits. 

This leaves LED lights poised to be the future of lighting.  Even so, some consumers may finding themselves asking, “Why is incandescent lighting not good enough?”  With incandescent bulbs, there is only a 10% performance ceiling, meaning that the incandescent bulb uses less that 10% of the electrical energy it uses to generate light and wastes the remaining 90% as heat.  This means that a good chunk of what you’re paying for on your electrical bill in terms of lighting is just wasted heat; not to mention that your air conditioning element has to pump this heat out, adding even more cost to your energy bill. 

Incandescent bulbs also have a short life span.  The high temperature that an incandescent light bulb works at means that the filament will expire quickly and cause consumers to frequently replace their lights.  This high heat operating temperature also carries a burn risk.  To put it in perspective, if you purchase a 6 watt LED bulb, it will produce as much light as a 50 watt incandescent bulb; this means a savings of 88% in energy bill lighting expenses, cutting several tons of mercury emissions from coal fired electrical plans, and saving millions of tons of carbon emissions.

Fortunately, New Tek Partners offers LED lighting solutions to counteract the negatives of owning incandescent bulbs.  Their LED bulbs offer up to 50,000 hours of energy efficient lighting.  New Tek Partners LED bulbs also give off virtually no heat, meaning no wasted energy or risk of accidental burns.  LED technology also does not utilize the wasteful filament that so often burns out in incandescent bulbs and causes frequent change outs.  In fact, New Tek Partners is so confident in their LED technology that they offer a 3 year warranty on all of their products.
 
When you make the switch to LED lighting, consider New Tek Partners to be your leader in LED technology.