Choosing The Best LED Lighting For Your Home
February 17, 2021
Energy-efficient LED lighting has changed the lighting industry. Here’s what you need to know about buying home LED lighting fixtures.
How Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) Work
Standing for light-emitting diodes, LEDs use less energy, last longer, and are now available in a variety of types suitable for your home, car, the outdoors and even your workplace. But how exactly do they work inside your home? Are they really beneficial?
LEDs do a wide variety of jobs in all kinds of devices, from forming numbers on digital clocks to notify you when certain appliances at home are turned on, just to name a few. Basically, light-emitting diodes are small bulbs that can fit easily into an electrical circuit.
Unlike incandescent bulbs, they don’t have filaments that burn out and they use less energy/electricity. Hence, they don’t get hot.
Moreover, LEDs emit visible light when an electric current passes through it. This type of lighting fixture is essentially the opposite of a photovoltaic cell, a device that converts the visible light into electrical current.
A diode, on the other hand, is a semiconductor device that is typically made out of aluminium-gallium-arsenide (AlGaAs). This component has two electrodes, anode and cathode, through which electricity flows in only one direction—in through the anode and out through the cathode.
The Technical Details
LEDs are composed of two types of semiconducting materials, and these are p-type and n-type. Also called astringent materials, both materials have been doped and created by introducing the original material to atoms of another element.
Doped is the process of dipping the said materials into a substance called a “doping agent.” Meanwhile, the new atoms replace some of the previously existing atoms, altering the physical and chemical structure.
LED Lights
Since LEDs don’t use much electricity, estimating their brightness through their watts is no use. Instead, consider the lumens, which is a more direct measurement of brightness.
Around 800 lumens is equivalent to a 60-watt incandescent bulb, while 1600 lumens is about as bright as a 100-watt incandescent bulb.
Choosing the Best HOME LED Lighting for Your Home
According to EarthLED, light bulbs work in a similar way to the sunlight, giving us energy. Blue light-emitting bulbs produce serotonin, which helps us feel focused, awake, and alert. While melatonin producing light bulbs, those who don’t emit blue light waves, helps us feel relaxed, drowsy, and ready for a good nights sleep.
We’ve listed below the ideal home LED lighting for every room below, courtesy of EarthLED.
LED Lighting for Bedrooms
A bedroom is intended primarily for sleeping. Generally, the atmosphere there should be relaxed, calm, and peaceful—and your choice of lighting fixture will make a difference.
When it comes to choosing the LED light for bedrooms, avoiding blue light waves help your brain produce the melatonin needed for a comfortable sleep. If you like to read at night, it’s best to opt for a soft blue or neutral tones for your bedside reading lamp for a better reading experience.
LED Lighting for Home Office
Creating a space that promotes efficiency and productivity in a non-traditional work environment is crucial in every home office. So when lighting your home office, make sure the lights are maximising your ability to be efficient in the space provided.
Cool-white lights can mimic daylight, hence installing them in your home office will help increase your serotonin production, keeping you focused, alert, and energised. You also might want to consider investing in an LED desk lamp as they offer great task lighting.
Here, we have the Desktop Magnifying Lamp (JQM3552) that is perfect for compact workspaces. As the name implies, this LED light lamp features a large 100mm 3-dioptre glass lens that provides powerful magnification.
The desktop stand also includes two knuckles so you can adjust the lens to where you need it. Mains powered, adaptor included.
LED Lighting for Lounge Room
The lounge room is the popular area in the house to entertain, kick back and relax. Whether you’re watching a movie or chatting with friends, having a mix of light sources that can adapt to whatever the occasion will be a plus.
Just like in bedrooms, it’s good to avoid bright, blue-light emitting lamps that create serotonin. To create a more cosy space, warm white lighting fixtures can do the trick.
If you want to reduce glare on your television or illuminate artwork or family photos, you can point adjustable spotlight lamps at the walls, or ceilings to eliminate unwanted shadows.
LED Lighting for Dining Room
Overly bright and obnoxious lighting is not ideal in the dining room, and we certainly don’t want it to be dim when eating a nice meal with the family or guests. Dimmable overhead fixtures can provide you with the perfect brightness at any time of the day.
Experts also recommend soft to neutral tones to create a perfect ambiance. LED bulbs for a chandelier are ideal too as they now offer beautiful colour and light output.
LED Lighting for Kitchen
A kitchen is a place where most of us start our morning, even some consider it as an essential workspace. Adding blue-light emitting bulbs over the counters will help you stay alert and awake while cooking and preparing breakfast.
If you want to have a specific lighting fixture over the table in your kitchen, we suggest a warmer colour temperature to create a nice ambience while balancing out the brighter blue lights over the kitchen counters.
LED Lighting for Bathroom
Using bright lights in the bathroom, ideally coming around from the mirror rather than the ceiling, guarantees that we don’t miss any spots while shaving or mess up makeup. We suggest using globe style bulbs to illuminate common fixtures places above and or around the mirror.
Putting a LED retrofit (soft-white) in the shower fixture is also a great way to boost up your energy before tackling the day ahead.
Wiltronics Home LED Lighting
We hope these tips will help you identify the best-LED lighting fixtures for each room of your house. Now, if you’re looking for LEDs, you also might want to check our great range of LED lighting below.
Here at Wiltronics, we have a great range of indoor, light strips, work lights and LED power supplies available in our store and on our website.
Indoor LED Lighting
Here, we offer a stylish and compact LED Cabinet Light – no longer available (JST3915) that is ideal for wide use, from household applications like kitchen cabinets to domestic applications, auto and more. Featuring a touch sensor, simply touch the aluminium casing to turn on/off the light.
Screw mounting holes in the base hidden behind the removable aluminium trim for neat and easy installation. Uses 36pcs of 3528 SMD LEDs. 90 degree light output.
LED Light Strips
Perfect for window displays, in showrooms, hotels, caravans and much more, this quick and easy LED Strip Light- no longer available (JST3930) comes pre-assembled with a frosted white diffuser, in an attractive aluminium case.
It also features a generous beam angle with on/off switch. With easy to install instructions, you will have this strip light up and working in no time.
We also offer LED Light Strip Kits – no longer available, linkable and supplied with connectors! These kits are great for easy installation for bathroom or accents or cove lighting in the kitchen.
Buy two or more of these stylish aluminium light strips and join them together with the supplied straight and right-angle connectors, mounting screws and power connector cables. This kit is available in 324mm with 48 LEDs or in a longer 524mm with 84 LEDs.
LED Light Strips – Flexible
This type of LED light strips is a flexible circuit board that can be stuck almost anywhere you want to add accents or powerful lighting in a variety of colours and brightnesses. Since they’re flexible, they can be bent vertically up to 90 degrees, allowing you to add light to places previously thought impossible.
Here we have a collection of LED flexible strip lights in rolls of 5 metres. These cost-effective strip lights are available in a range of bright colours, with adhesive backing for easy application.
RGB LED Light Strips are also available, which provide a multitude of colour and effects options. Wiltronics has sourced Crimp Leads to suit our LED Strip Lights. Planning on cutting the LED strips into smaller lengths? These handy crimp leads will save you the hassle of soldering a section of cut strip lighting.
Check out our range of LED Strip Lights here.
LED Work Lights
Brighten up your workspace with this portable LED Work Light (JSL2869). An ultra-rugged and huge 5W COB LED designed for your workshop space, even for camping, emergency, and general lighting applications.
It provides amazing light output with low heat. Convenient fold-out stand. With high/low light modes to suit your requirements.
It also features the following:
- High & Low Brightness
- 180° Adjustable Bracket
- Ultra-Bright Cool White LEDs
- Weatherproof Design
LED Power Supplies
Planning to build your own LED fixtures? Perhaps you plan to fix and retrofit existing fixtures, or wish to purchase new LED lights? Then you’ll be needing a correct power source.
You will need a constant LED driver or a constant voltage power supply (or a combination of both) to make your LEDs work properly. You can check our LED Power Supplies below to suit your needs.
© Wiltronics Research Pty Ltd 2021
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