Incandescent Light Bulbs: A Thing of the Past

Sometime in 2012, the incandescent light bulb, which many consumers use, will become a thing of the past.  These bulbs are being phased out as part of the federal Security Act of 2007, otherwise known as the Energy Bill.  Consumers should not worry though.  There will be more options than ever, with LED lighting leading the way.  The aim of the Energy Bill is to encourage the use and technological development of more energy-efficient lighting alternatives.  Common household bulbs that use between 40 and 100 watts will be mandated to use at least 27% less energy by 2014.  Since incandescent technology is not energy efficient enough to do this, manufacturers will be looking to new alternatives, such as LED lighting, to become the common household bulb of the future.

LED lighting is up to 75% more energy efficient, longer lasting and safer than traditional incandescent bulbs.  Compact fluorescent light bulbs are also another alternative that is available to consumers.  CFL’s are a type of bulb that is comparable to a more efficient incandescent bulb and a cheap alternative to incandescent lighting; however they contain a small amount of mercury and need to be recycled.  Over time, it is feasible that consumers will save thousands of dollars due to the switch from incandescent lighting.  Energy efficient LED bulbs not only last longer and require less changing out, their energy efficient technology also means that you will notice a drop in your energy bill.
 
New Tek Partners can help you join the millions of consumers that will help the country cut back on emissions output.  They carry a variety of LED products for all types of uses; LED tubes for your office, street lighting/flood and wall packs for outdoors, decorative lighting for special occasions and plenty of screw-in bulbs for your indoor use.  Not lacking in features, their LED lights are able to respond instantly to manual or sensor modes.  They are also 100% recyclable and transfer more energy into light, giving you 50% - 90% savings while reducing HVAC costs.  So when the Energy Bill takes effect next year, turn to New Tek Partners’ expertise in LED lighting and let them help you light the way towards greater savings and a more energy efficient lifestyle.

Where have you already started phasing out your traditional incandescent light bulbs for LED lighting?

Benefits of LED Lighting in Your Home

In order to get a feel for how your home can benefit from LED lighting, start small.  Try swapping a regular bulb on your porch and enjoying a nice evening outside to really see the difference in brightness.  Next, try switching out an incandescent bulb in a ceiling fan, accent light, or lamp.  Chances are you’ll first notice a change in your environment and then your electric bill.  A regular 40 Watt bulb, for example, burns through a lot more energy than it needs to produce the light you use.  A large percentage of the energy that goes into a 40 Watt bulb is wasted as heat; making them poor tools when it comes to conserving electricity and saving money.  LED bulbs, generate very little heat when they glow, instead transferring most of their energy directly into light.

LED light bulbs bring a white light into a room. Unlike the yellow light we're so used to seeing from incandescent bulbs, the white light cast by LEDs is closer to the color temperature of daylight.  The white light of LEDs is easier on your eyes and also provides the added benefit of lifting your mood in the summer and winter time.  There are many uses for LED lights in your home.  Use an LED light bulb in a task or reading light, and you'll have a bright, white light to work by.  LEDs not only produce light more efficiently, they have a tiny mirror that reflects light in one direction.  A directed light means less wasted light.  LEDs don’t waste light on areas you don’t need illuminated, which is why they are perfect lights for tasks.  Ceiling cans (or recessed lighting) have become one of the most common styles of lighting for homes in the U.S.  They are typically installed in groups simply for symmetry.  Ceiling cans are an ideal place for LED light bulbs.

New Tek Partners’ versatile LED lights can be used for your in-home needs.  Their line of screw-in LED bulbs is best suited for your home usage and can provide you with 50% - 90% energy savings.  They also utilize the highest grade components and are designed to last 50,000+ hours.  What this means to homeowners is less changing of bulbs, less energy wasted, and an increase in money saved.  Next time you walk around your home, take notice of your lighting environment and consider how New Tek Partners can help you with all of your in-home lighting needs.

Which room in your home will you start changing to LED lighting?

LED Lighting: Positively Impacting Your Child’s Education

The first thing that comes to mind when thinking of your child’s education is the quality of teaching.  But what about the environment your child learns in?  It is just as important as a good school or a good teacher.  Incandescent lighting is known to produce chalkboard glare and flickering strobe-like effects, which negatively impact your child’s ability to learn.  Children with learning disabilities, especially autism spectrum disorder (ASD), can be even more affected by these lighting issues.  For children with ASD, controlling the learning environment and keeping it consistent is important to promoting their development.

Those with ASD are prone to visual and auditory sensitivities which cause them to be hyper-reactive to environmental cues, such as lighting and sound.  Perceiving fluorescent lighting cycles as having a strobe-like effect can also trigger an increase in seizure activity from children with ASD.  Both for children with ASD and without, focus is an important factor in learning retention.  Incandescent lighting, with its harsh glare, can cause headaches and even migraines.  This adverse effect can lead to agitation; especially in those with ASD, who can often have a lack of skill in interacting with others and who are sensitive to environmental triggers which detract from managing learning disabilities. 

New Tek Partners offers an alternative to the strobe-like effect of fluorescent lights in the LED GREEN light tube.  Casting a calm, natural light, this LED light tube eliminates the inconvenient and potentially harmful flickering.  Conventional fluorescent lights utilize a ballast to create the voltage and current necessary to start and illuminate the light.  The “humming” sound so often associated with fluorescent lights is caused by this ballast.  Fortunately, New Tek Partner’s LED GREEN light tube has no need for ballasts, thus eliminating noise interference and keeping the environment in your children’s classroom free of noisy lighting.  When exploring your child’s classroom for the first time, be sure to notice the lighting and consider what effects it can have on your children’s health and learning ability.

Listen to a teacher explain the benefit LED lighting has had in her classroom:

Have Fun With LED Lighting, Think Colors!

It’s true that LED light bulbs provide 50% - 90% energy savings, last up to 60,000 hours and do not give off any harmful mercury or other gases.  It’s also true that when a homeowner seriously considers lowering their electric bill, LED lighting should one of the first considerations that come to mind because they save time, money and the environment.  However, if homeowners take a closer look at the lighting in their home, they will realize that it is the most important aspect of any room.  It can provide atmosphere, highlight art or even provide light to work by. 

Fortunately, LED lights are used for both general and specialty-purpose lighting.  They are very flexible and can be used in any area of your home.  LEDs come in multiple colors, so when colored light is needed they can be used in place of conventional lights, which have a need for filters.  For larger or commercial buildings, high powered LED wall washers can be used to provide decorative lighting and highlight, or “wash” walls.
 
A variety of LED lighting solutions can be found at New Tek Partners.  In addition to tube and screw-in lighting replacements for traditional incandescent lights, colored lights in the Floodlights series and Wallwasher series can be used for bars, clubs, stages, parks or even a party at your home.  RGB LED wall washers can change their colors while projecting.  They can also project 16.7 million colors and change color by programming the LED wall washer.  All products come with a three-year warranty and full product replacements within two weeks of receiving your order. 

LED Neon/Strip lights are also available from New Tek Partners and provide a soft and even light with no visible LED dots.  These LED lights are perfect for providing your room or bar with ambiance.  Additional accessories are included, such as a power cord, PVC wire chase (used for installation) and connection cap.  These strips are flexible and easy to install.  There is no need to worry about using a great deal of electricity as they are highly efficient and long lasting.
 
So when decorating your home or apartment, keep in mind the variety of unique lighting ideas that can be accomplished with the help of New Tek Partners.

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LED Lighting – Outdoor Lighting Solutions

When considering energy saving solutions, most consumers first consider options inside their home.  Replacing standard incandescent lights with LED tube lights, track lights, bulbs and other decorative lights might be the first energy saving solutions that a consumer considers.  However, outside of the home is of equal importance.  Numerous consumers choose to install high-powered flood lights, or street lighting, around their home for additional night-time security.  As with LED bulb and tube lighting, outdoor LED lights use much less energy and have longer-lasting life than traditional incandescent outdoor lights; they do this while still providing powerful and ample illumination. 

By using LED flood/street lights in addition to indoor LED lighting, consumers will not only cut down on their energy bill, but also won’t find themselves crawling to the top of a precarious ladder outside their homes multiple times a year to change out the lights around their home; on average one LED light is equivalent to five, or even six, standard incandescent lights.  LED bulbs also emit a much brighter and whiter light and can cover a larger area than typical incandescent lights.  Rather than installing a high number of flood/street lights around their home, consumers can simply use fewer numbers of LED lights and cover just as much area, or more.

New Tek Partners carries a variety of LED flood lights; all of which are free of ultraviolet and infrared beams.  Many shapes and sizes of LED street lights are also available from New Tek Partners.  All are equipped with a 5 year free replacement warranty; guaranteeing that there is never a lapse in the safety and energy savings of your home.  In addition to the clear, white LED flood lights, New Tek Partners also carries multi-colored flood lights for your entertainment or decoration purposes.  New Tek Partners’ LED Street Lights are an ideal replacement for high pressure sodium lamps.  While your children are outside playing at dusk, add to their safety and enjoyment by getting rid of the flickering or buzzing lamps that so often are found to be unreliable and unsafe.

Next time you are outside, keep in mind how many lights surround your home and how New Tek Partners can assist you with all of your outdoor lighting solutions. 
View the difference between an LED Street Light and High Pressure Sodium Lamp here:



How many outside lights could you change to LED's to save energy and cut down on your electric bill?

The Advantages of Going LED GREEN

The first image that comes to mind when thinking of fluorescent lighting is one of a dimly lit hallway with endless rows of humming, flickering tube lights.  Is this what you use to light your home or business?  New Tek Partners offers a viable alternative to the inevitable strobe-like effect of fluorescent lights: The LED GREEN LED light tube.  You can use this solid state lighting product to replace conventional fluorescent light, while utilizing your existing fixtures.  It is available in 2’, 4’, 5’, 6’, 8’ UL Classified Retrofit Conversion Kits.  This robust alternative to wasteful tube lighting boasts up to 75% reduction in power consumed and achieves 93.7 lm/watt; an efficiency greater than that of fluorescent lights. 

The last thing you want to do when at work is constantly change out the numerous tube lights around the office.  The LED GREEN LED light tube gives up to 50,000 hours of typical use, a number that dwarfs the average 10,000 hour lifespan of a conventional fluorescent light.  Eventually, when it comes time to dispose of your LED light tube, you can dispose of them worry-free because they contain no dangerous chemicals, mercury or phosphorus powders.  Conventional fluorescent lights have ballasts, which are used to create the voltage and current necessary to start and illuminate the fluorescent light.  Ballasts also create that annoying “humming” sound that you so often hear.  After a period of time, these ballasts need to be replaced.  New Tek’s LED GREEN LED light tube eliminates this noise interference and ballast replacement issue because they have no need for ballasts, keeping your schedule free of lighting maintenance. 

Another advantage to an LED light tube is the soft, yet bright, lighting they provide.  Get out from under the harsh, unpleasant glare of fluorescents lights and make it easier on your eyes with LED tube lighting.  New Tek’s LED GREEN LED light tube is available in a variety of temperatures to provide your home or office with optimal, glare free lighting.  Next time you shield your eyes against the strain of fluorescent lights, consider New Tek’s LED GREEN LED light tube, an energy saving alternative to your lighting needs.

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New Tek Partners LED Lighting: Reducing Your Electricity Bill and Helping the Environment

Whether you’re a home owner or simply renting, your energy consumption is always at the forefront of your mind when it comes time to pay your electricity bill.  LED lighting is a solution that any consumer should consider when thinking of ways to become more efficient.  Not only do they save more energy, last up to 50,000+ hours, and are more durable than common lighting solutions, but they also lessen your carbon footprint and help fight global warming.  To put the overall benefit of LED lights in perspective, by the time you use 1 LED light bulb you would have gone through 50-60 standard bulbs.  Even better is that you don’t need to redo your electrical system to use this cost effective solution.  Simply remove your standard bulb and replace it with an LED light.  Household safety is another concern that LED lights can help alleviate.  Unlike ordinary incandescent bulbs, LED lights do not have a filament that will burn out and do not get overly hot, and thus significantly lessening the chances of your lighting acting as a potential safety hazard.
 
New Tek Partners is a company that not only offers LED lighting solutions that are cost effective, but they are also known for their durability and long life.  Their bulbs are designed to withstand even the harshest environment.  Commercial consumers, like restaurants for example, can also benefit by using their lighting solutions in their coldest freezers and hottest kitchens without worrying about dependability.  They are also ideal for residential kitchens, dens, offices, or anywhere else that you might use a standard light bulb.  After reading the benefits of LED lighting, if you’re still thinking to yourself, “How much can LED lighting really help me?” New Tek Partners can help assess your needs by offering a promotional, and free, lighting audit to show you exactly how much money you can save by switching to LED lighting.  They offer solutions that not only ultimately lessen your electricity bill; they also offer solutions that reduce your carbon footprint.  Their lights are 100% recyclable and use no mercury or other harmful gases.  So when considering that switch to keep your electricity bill down, think about New Tek Partners and what they can offer for your lighting solutions.

Now that you have a better understanding of how LED lighting can reduce your energy consumption and save money on your electric bill, where will you replace incandescent bulbs with LED lighting?