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LED, Halogen and Compact Fluorescent Lamp- CFL technology energy saving light bulbs will not only save you a considerable amount in electricity costs over traditional incandescent light bulbs,
but in addition energy saving light bulbs help protect the environment for future generations. They can pay for themselves in a few months, making energy
saving light bulbs a sound investment.
Saving light Bulbs provide high quality energy saving bulbs for a wide range of home and commercial lightings applications.
The technologies offered include, energy saving CFL bulb which offers good savings at an economical price,
halogen bulbs which offer good aesthetics and the new LED bulb technology which offers higher savings but the LED bulbs are more expensive.
Through direct importing and on-line sales from quality LED, halogen and CFL bulb manufacturers, Saving Light Bulbs have minimal overheads and can pass
outstanding value to our customers.
Energy Saving Light Bulbs- CFL
Energy Saving Light Bulbs using the Compact Fluorescent Lamp- CFL technology provide a very cost efficient solution for lighting your home or commercial premises saving around 80% in energy in comparison to traditional filament light bulbs. Our CFL's are high quality light bulbs with a long life expectancy of around 10000 hours and the CFL's reach full brightness quickly making them the ideal choice for saving money and the environment.
Halogen Bulbs
Halogen light bulbs have good appearance and will give approximately a 30% energy saving from traditional filament bulbs with halogen bulbs having a life expectancy of around double. Saving Light Bulbs halogen bulbs are dimmable which means you can create your ideal lighting level and save additional energy by dimming your halogen light bulbs making a further contribution to saving the environment.
LED Bulbs
LED light bulbs offer the ultimate in energy saving light bulbs with LED bulbs giving a massive saving of around 90% in comparison to standard filament bulbs with a life expectancy for LED light bulbs of around 30 times greater. This means that by using LED light bulbs you will save a considerable amount in electricity costs, reduce fire risk as LED bulbs run cooler and make a significant contribution to environmental sustainability by reducing landfill due to LED light bulbs extremely long life.
Advice
With so many LED, Halogen and compact fluorescent lamp- CFL technology light bulb types on the market with different specifications and prices, the decision on which light bulb is best for your specific application can be daunting. So just get in touch with Saving Light Bulbs and we would be glad to help.
Click these links to see a history of how light bulb technology has advanced to meet the efficiency and environmental needs of today. Light Bulbs | Energy Saving Light Bulbs | CFL | Halogen Bulbs | LED Bulbs
The light bulb was invented by Thomas Alva Edison in 1879 and since this date the electric light bulb has revolutionised the illumination of homes and commercial buildings. Edison produced an incandescent light bulb and acquired a patent but it took a further year to perfect the light bulb as the bulb filaments kept burning out. He tried 6000 different light bulb filament materials before finding a carbonized filament solution which produces a light bulb with a life of 1500 hours. In contrast the filaments of later incandescent light bulbs were made from tungsten. The electric light bulb was a most significant invention which superseded gas lighting and candle lighting which is demonstrated by the fact that the incandescent light bulb lasted until recent times. It is only now that due to technological advancement and the environmental focus that the incandescent light bulb is now being replaced by energy saving light bulbs.
The light bulb has lit homes and commercial buildings for over 100 years and it is only in recent times that technological advancement and environmental pressure has led to the creation of energy saving light bulbs. The first technology for energy saving light bulbs was fluorescent which first appeared in strip lights known as fluorescent tubes. The technology has always been appropriate for energy saving light bulbs but the dimensions needed scaling to allow this to be made into units the size of the light bulb. This was achieved by using long thin tubes either in a linear loop design or more recently in a spiral shape to produce a long thin compact fluorescent tube which forms the basis for the energy saving light bulb. The other modification was to incorporate an integrated ballast into the energy saving light bulb to start the light bulb.
The compact fluorescent lamp ( CFL ) was the first energy saving bulb technology. Initial CFL bulbs saved a considerable amount of energy but suffered from rapid flickering and produced a dull light when first switched on. The CFL technology has now advanced and high quality CFL bulbs are now largely flicker free and reach a good level of brightness almost immediately. The other advancement in CFL bulbs has been with the CFL size. Early CFL bulbs were large and cumbersome but more recent spiral designs especially the full spiral design gives a compact CFL which is often a prerequisite for modern lighting fixtures. The other major advancement in the CFL bulb is to contain the fluorescent spiral tube within a glass globe which means that the CFL can have a very fine aesthetic appearance.
The first commercial halogen bulbs were launched to the market by GE in 1958 and were Quartz Iodine Lamps using elemental iodine. The term halogen is a classification in the periodic table with the iodine and bromide elements used as the halogen in halogen bulbs. It is the combination of the electrified tungsten filament and the iodine of bromide element which starts the “halogen cycle” which creates the light from halogen bulbs. Since the commercialisation of halogen bulbs, low voltage halogen bulbs have been used extensively in the automobile industry because they produce a very bright clear light which is ideal for vision. The emitted light from halogen bulbs has a higher colour temperature that the standard incandescent bulb which means the light from halogen bulbs is whiter. However, it is only more recently that the halogen technology has been advanced to allow the creation of commercial halogen bulbs for mains electricity voltages for use in homes and commercial buildings. Also technological advancement now means that energy saving halogen bulbs are readily available which will save approximately 30% in energy over the traditional incandescent light bulb.
The origin of LED bulbs is from the Light Emitting Diode (LED) which was introduced into semi-conductor technology in 1962. In its earliest form LED bulbs were low intensity red lights and as technology advanced the LED bulbs could emit light colours across the visible spectrum and in modern times with high intensity. The LED bulbs work by electrons combining with holes to release energy in the form of protons with different light colours dependent on the energy of the photons. It is only in very recent times that technology has advanced enough for LED bulbs to have high brightness. LED bulbs of high brightness were first demonstrated by Nakamura of the Nichia Corporation in the early 1990's and then the use of "YAG" phosphor coating was pioneered to produce white light LED bulbs. However the LED bulb technology was still prohibitively high until a team at Cambridge University reported a process for growing gallium nitride LEDs on silicon which reduced the production costs of LED bulbs by 90%. These technological advancements in LED bulbs now mean that highly efficient , environmental LED bulbs are commercially viable and represent the energy saving light bulb technology for the future.
