LED Lighting for the Holidays

The holiday season is fast approaching and this means that decorating your home will finally make it on your “to do” list.  LED lights are not just for regular use around your home or office.  They can also be used in a creative manner to spruce up your home around the holidays; and with the extra lighting strung up around your home, it is important to use an efficient solution to minimize the impact on your electricity bill, while still increasing the quality of your lighting.  

LED strip lights and neon lights are extremely versatile and can be used to outline a doorway or even drape over a Halloween decoration, such as a skeleton.  They even come in a variety of colors to match the holiday you are decorating for.  Strip lights from New Tek Partners are backed with adhesive tape to make enhancing decorations even easier.  With Christmas coming up in December, lighting decorations become an even bigger focus; from wrapping lights around your house or adorning Christmas trees, wreaths, centerpieces, garlands and lawn decorations, lights can play a huge part in how noticeable and festive your home is during the decorating holiday of the year. 

Think about swapping out your old Christmas lights with newer LED lights to reduce the impact lighting will have on your electric bill throughout the holiday season.  Since LED lights are cool to the touch, there is no concern with using them outdoors and having them come in contact with your house or shrubbery.  If you even wanted to keep your colorful decorations confined to certain times of the night or weekends, you can purchase dimmable and sensor activated lights to give you the extra flexibility.
New Tek Partners carries a variety of LED lights for your indoor and outdoor home decorating needs.  Their inventory includes everything from screw-in bulbs to neon lights and strip lights.  New Tek Partners carries flood lights that can be used for not only producing a bright, white light to keep the outside of your home well-lit, but they also come in a variety of colors for producing a holiday atmosphere.  They are perfect for supplementing your existing holiday decorations or even used by themselves to provide a subtle holiday warmth.  With the holidays around the corner, let New Tek Partners light the way towards saving money.

Have you switched out your old Christmas lights for LED lights yet?

New Tek Partners is an LED technology based company and our mission is to develop and produce high quality LED lighting products and provide alternative lighting solutions to our clients.  Please don't hesitate to contact us with questions about how we can help you reduce your electric costs, as well as reduce your effect on the environment.  Also connect with us on our Facebook Page.

Outfitting Your Home with LED Lighting

Using LED lighting to make your home energy-efficient is one of the main reasons to explore this new technology; however, LED technology is not limited to just saving money on your electric bill.  You can also use it to decorate your home for a more convenient, stylish look without the constant changing of old lights.  Updating or replacing your old lighting fixtures with LED lights is easy and sure to impress your guests.

You should start with the basic and practical option: replacing your screw-in bulbs with LED bulbs.  This can cover a wide range of areas, such as wall fixtures, table/stand-up lamps, kitchen lighting and bathroom lighting.  Next, get creative with it.  If you entertain guests frequently, consider installing track lighting strategically along your ceiling to highlight different areas of your home.  You can also install neon lighting to give your home a festive feel.

The best part about neon lighting is that you can go with a classic white light to leave in your home all year round and accentuate paintings, tables, or other areas of focus, or go with colored lighting to put up for parties or around the holidays.  New Tek Partners offers waterproof strip lights so you can even decorate your tub and sink in your bathroom to make sure every area of your home is lit to its optimum potential.

New Tek Partners provides affordable LED lighting solutions for your home.  From screw-in bulbs to colored, decorative lighting, there is a solution to fit all of your lighting needs.  New Tek Partners LED neon lights come in a variety of colors, including yellow, green and red, and are flexible for easy installation and application all over your home.  There are no LED dots visible, so you get a soft and easy light without it looking tacky. 

Additional accessories, like a power cord, retaining clip, and connection cap are included to help mount and power your lights.  Waterproof LED strip lights are also available for even more flexibility; they are ultrathin, cuttable and come with adhesive backing.  If you are looking to outfit your home with contemporary lighting solutions, turn to New Tek Partners to help provide you with all of your lighting needs.

Where are you going to switch to LED lighting in your home?

New Tek Partners is an LED technology based company and our mission is to develop and produce high quality LED lighting products and provide alternative lighting solutions to our clients.  Please don't hesitate to contact us with questions about how we can help you reduce your electric costs, as well as reduce your effect on the environment.  Also connect with us on our Facebook Page.

LED Lighting Tips and Tricks Part 2

As LED technology use continues to grow, so does it’s everyday use for consumers.  Though some of the more popular facts are well-known to consumers, such as the energy savings, ease of use, and great lighting quality, it’s important to continue to keep up-to-date on the latest trends of this growing technology to make sure you can make the best of all the benefits.   Here are a couple of lesser known items for you to note as you consider LED technology as part of your daily life.
• LED lighting technology continues to evolve with the addition of Hybrid Capacitors.  LED’s are already a much improved technology over incandescent and even CFL lighting.  New, recent advances in technology, called hybrid capacitors, increase the already limitless benefits of LED lighting.   A hybrid capacitor is the combination of an ultracapacitor and a lithium-ion battery and is replaceable and rechargeable.  They provide higher power and longer life beyond what current LED powering solutions, such as nickel cadmium or lithium-ion batteries, can provide. 
• LED lighting retrofits can offer benefits to businesses.  It is important for businesses to consider retrofitting to add new technology to older systems.  It is possible to gain up to 85% energy savings with the right fixtures.  LED tube lighting is also known to last up to 50,000 hours and significantly reduce the amount of maintenance needed.  A business should always evaluate their current wiring and circuitry before deciding on the proper retrofit fixture.  Checking with local utility companies for energy-efficient rebates and/or tax deductions is also advisable.  Their pointers can help guide your business in the right direction for lowering your energy bill.
• Consider energy audits to evaluate potential savings.  Determine what areas your business feels it needs to advance in energy efficiency and select an auditor to provide your business with a prioritized list of recommendations.  Aside from lighting, your business could benefit from knowing its shortcomings with heating and cooling systems, appliances and security systems.  Possible lighting suggestions could include swapping out incandescent screw-in bulbs with longer-lasting LED’s, using retrofit lighting fixtures to update old fluorescent tubes, and replacing outdated flood lights with more efficient LED lights.
New Tek Partners provides LED lighting solutions to benefit both residential homes and commercial businesses.  Prior to jumping into the world of LED technology, you can take advantage of their free lighting audit to evaluate where you can save in your home or business.  Their UL classified fluorescent retrofit conversion kits in particular can offer businesses a large amount of savings over traditional fluorescent tube lighting.  When thinking of ways you can save money on energy, turn to New Tek Partners for expert advice and solutions.

What questions do you have about switching to LED lighting?

New Tek Partners is an LED technology based company and our mission is to develop and produce high quality LED lighting products and provide alternative lighting solutions to our clients.  Please don't hesitate to contact us with questions about how we can help you reduce your electric costs, as well as reduce your effect on the environment.  Also connect with us on our Facebook Page.

LED Lighting Tips and Tricks

Part of the reason the LED technology is becoming so popular is because of its versatile nature.  With incandescent bulbs and fluorescent lighting, most consumers feel like they know the typical behaviors: you can set them on a dimmable switch, you know when they burn out because they “pop”, they give off large amounts of heat and they are typically inexpensive.  Consumers should get to know LED lighting the same way and realize that they have features that go beyond benefitting the “green” community and lowering your electric bill.

• LED’s give instant light and are dimmable.  Notice that when turning on a fluorescent bulb, or CFL, that there’s a slight hesitation and flicker before the light achieves its full brightness.  LED’s reach their full brightness potential as soon as the switch is flicked and maintain a steady light which does not flicker.  Today’s LED bulbs can also be hooked up to a dimmable switch to provide mood lighting throughout your home or office.  Unlike incandescent bulbs, which burn out and pop when their life is over, LED’s simply become dimmer over time.

• LED bulbs do not contribute to heat buildup in your home.  This is especially important for consumers who are living in the South and recently experienced one of the hottest summers on record.  During some of these humid and muggy nights, you’ll find that the incandescent lights in your home are contributing to the heat buildup and are actually causing you to run your air conditioning at lower than normal temperatures.  Incandescent bulbs generally have a low lighting coverage area, thus requiring more of them to be used.  LED bulbs, however, produce an ideal amount of light over a wide area and remain cool to the touch.  High power LEDs in particular are designed with heat sinks, which keep operating temperatures low.

• Choose your LED bulbs wisely.  You should always look at the package when purchasing any lighting solution.  Soon, all new LED packages with contain the new unit of measurement: lumens, making it easier to compare to old-fashioned lighting solutions and see the benefits of LED lighting more clearly.  You should also be sure to choose LED bulbs that are “UL Listed” or “UL Classified”, and not “UL Compliant”.  “UL Compliant” bulbs have not been tested or approved by the Underwriters Laboratory to show that the bulbs have passed stringent tests.

New Tek Partners offers LED lights that you can tailor for your home or office needs.  In addition to high quality screw-in LED bulbs, they manufacture “UL Classified” Fluorescent Retrofit Conversion Kits using LED Green technology.  All of these products carry a minimum 3 year warranty to prove just how long lasting they are.  The above tips can be applied to New Tek Partners lighting solutions because they provide a wide variety of high quality products, which meet and exceed the industry standard.

What questions do you have about switching to LED lighting?

New Tek Partners is an LED technology based company and our mission is to develop and produce high quality LED lighting products and provide alternative lighting solutions to our clients.  Please don't hesitate to contact us with questions about how we can help you reduce your electric costs, as well as reduce your effect on the environment.  Also connect with us on our Facebook Page.

LED Lighting Prevents Mercury Emissions

There are many reasons to switch from incandescent lighting to LED lighting: lowering your energy bill, less maintenance, more lighting coverage with less expense.  Recently documented use of LED’s by hospitals in the UK has led people to notice another health-related benefit of LED bulbs: lack of mercury emissions.  LED bulbs do offer many other health benefits as well, such as reducing eye strain, headaches and irritability; however, a readily quantifiable benefit is that LED bulbs have 0% mercury emissions because no mercury is used in the manufacturing of the bulbs. 

Even competitors to LED technology, such as Compact Fluorescent Lamps, have to be disposed of in the proper manner to prevent from poisoning the environment and negatively impacting your health.
Mercury itself is a well known neuro-toxicant that slows neurological developments and impacts your cardiovascular system.  A CFL, for example, contains 4-5mg of mercury.  Most pundits will argue that a miniscule amount such as that will not harm anyone.  Realize though, that over a billion CFL’s are disposed of every year.  When you add it all up, mercury emissions do become a problem.  

Incandescent bulbs contain an even higher amount of mercury and are more widely used than CFL’s.   Factor in that CFL bulbs and incandescent bulbs last less than half as long as LED bulbs and you have an ongoing disposal and mercury emission issue.  With LED bulbs, there is no special disposal procedure and no worry of lingering after effects on the environment from transport and use.

In a world where environmental safety and greenhouse effects are a priority, it is essential that you equip your home or business with the latest in energy-saving technology.  New Tek Partners offers industry standard mercury-free lights for safe use in your home or business.  Our focus is on providing technologically advanced and environmentally safe products that make for a more sustainable Earth.

We have various products, sizes, configurations, lumens and color temperatures to equip your home or office with.  If you are looking to provide your family with safely disposable, high quality lights, turn to New Tek Partners to provide you with all of your lighting needs.

Where in your home or office will you start making the switch to LED lighting?

New Tek Partners is an LED technology based company and our mission is to develop and produce high quality LED lighting products and provide alternative lighting solutions to our clients.  Please don't hesitate to contact us with questions about how we can help you reduce your electric costs, as well as reduce your effect on the environment.

LED Lighting – Busting Electricity Myths

Whenever exploring new technology it’s common to hear many different arguments which blur the line between fact and fiction, making it hard for the average consumer to make an educated choice.  Here are a few myth-busting facts to help clear up any misconceptions you might have had about LED lighting:

• Myth:  An LED bulb is more expensive than an incandescent bulb.  Truth:  Although the one-time cost of an LED may be slightly higher than an incandescent bulb, it lasts up to 10 times longer and uses a much as 80% less energy than a standard incandescent.  Factor in the decreasing prices of LED bulbs due to the phasing out of incandescent bulbs and you have superior technology for a considerable increase in long term savings.
• Myth:  It is better to wait on LED technology and use my existing incandescent bulbs until they burn out.  Truth:  Every hour an old incandescent bulb is used, they more money is added to your electricity bill.  Incandescent bulbs burn more energy than they give out; thus there is no benefit for waiting for them to burn out, even if it does only take a few short months for them to do so.  Replacing them immediately with energy saving LED bulbs will prevent wasted electricity, possible safety hazards from the bulb popping and radiating intense heat, and provide an immediate return on savings.

• Myth:  Installing CFL lights will help me cut my electricity bill more than LED lights.  Truth:  Compared to LED lights, CFL lights consume twice as much energy to produce the same amount of light.  LED lights also last up to 5 times longer than CFL’s.  Additionally, CFL lights contain mercury and have to be safely disposed off to prevent this hazardous material from harming the environment.
Energy efficient, myth-busting LED lights are a must have technology for your home or office.  New Tek Partners provides the latest in LED technology, helping you fight against increasing electricity bills and environmental issues.  These cost effective solutions from New Tek Partners can save you a bundle when paired with energy consumption reducing techniques such as switching off lights when not in use. 

However, replacing your 50-watt bulb with a 6-watt LED light from New Tek Partners, for example, will give you the same amount and quality of light and use a fraction of electricity.  Through offering proven solutions in the LED lighting world, New Tek Partners can help bring your household into the emerging world of LED technology.

New Tek Partners is an LED technology based company and our mission is to develop and produce high quality LED lighting products and provide alternative lighting solutions to our clients.  Please don't hesitate to contact us with questions about how we can help you reduce your electric costs, as well as reduce your effect on the environment.

Health Benefits of Switching to LED Lighting

LED lighting has been praised for its numerous benefits: they help you save money on your energy bill, have a long lifespan and use a fraction of the electricity that traditional incandescent bulbs use.  It also turns out that LED lighting not only helps you save money; they are also a healthier option over traditional lighting solutions.

Consider that general lighting features such as flicker, hum, burnout, wasted heat and mercury, can be harmful to your health.  We’ve all seen these features and experienced their negative effects, which range from headaches, eye strain, and irritability to hyperactivity, fatigue and attention deficit.  Fortunately, using LED lights can eliminate these ailments, especially for those who already experience health problems and need to limit any potential negative effects the environment can cause.

LED lights are typically powered by DC voltage, which does not cause flickering.  Additionally, the humming sound associated with fluorescent lights, commonly used in hospitals, is also eliminated because LED’s use no filaments or extraneous moving parts.  Other common negative effects such as heat, burnout and mercury emissions are eliminated due to the long-lasting, environmentally safe way these next generation lights are constructed.

Even hospitals are realizing the positive health effects of LED lighting.  Recently, select hospitals in the UK started using a sealed LED lighting unit to protect patients from harmful bacteria, while also providing an evenly lit and relaxed environment.  Hospitals are also one such place where the need for quality and cost-effective lighting is paramount.  Using LED lighting and being able to reduce AC costs, eliminate mercury emissions and cut down on general maintenance costs are just a few ways that hospitals can redistribute their funds to the needs and comfort of patients.

New Tek Partners is a company that focuses on designing and manufacturing quality LED lighting products.  This means that issues, such as health and environment, shape the way they make their products.  From tube lights to screw-in bulbs, New Tek Partner’s LED products are cost effective, carbon-reducing and mercury-free.  If you are looking for a proven solution for safely lighting your home, street or place of business, turn to New Tek Partners for the latest in LED technology.

Where else are you seeing the switch from traditional lighting to LED lighting?