Even if you weren’t aware, you probably own many products already that use LED light bulbs. LED lights, formally called light-emitting diode lights, are long-lasting and energy-efficient lights. These lights can be found in a wide range of products, including digital clocks, traffic lights, microwave ovens, digital watches, big-screen televisions and many more items. LEDs are the lights of the future; they are helping phase out incandescent light bulbs. Incandescent bulbs get hot quickly and easily burn out. LEDs on the other hand, are fairly cool to the touch and take much longer to die. This is because LEDs have no filament like older incandescent bulbs do. Incandescent lights are much more likely to break, as they are glass. LED lights are plastic, so they are much more dependable.

In the past, LED lights were much more pricy than they are currently. Mainly, this was to do with the fact that semiconductors were much more expensive. More recently (over the past 10 years or so), semiconductor pricing has dropped, causing LED lights to become a lot more affordable to the average person. Although it seems that an LED light purchase is more expensive than buying an incandescent bulb, it really is cheaper over the span of the bulb. This reiterates that LEDs are cost-effective due to a longer bulb life.

A common variation of LED light is an IRED (infrared-emitting diode) light. Your television remote is likely to have IRED lights to transfer all of the information to the T.V. Flat-screen computer monitors are another frequent user of IREDs. The main difference between an LED and an IRED is the infrared diodes. LEDs simply don’t have them.

LEDs are a great way to conserve energy usage (save money!). It won’t be long before they are the only light choice for consumers due to their huge savings.

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