How LED Strip Lights Are Being Used to Enhance Business - By: Kathryn Dawson

As much as lighting can create mood and illuminate work areas, there is also a need for the subtle lights that can create a simple visual effect. This is particularly true for places where the principal light requirement is low, but some items need to be highlighted, like in a bar or restaurant or even showroom. In such cases, simplicity, not brightness, is desired, and led strip lights are amongst the favoured options to accomplish that job.

There are others, of course, such as floodlights, but they are used outside a building to illuminate the exterior or facade, and are rarely, if ever, moved indoors. In a showroom, where a company wants a product be stand out, or where there are aspects of a product that it wants to highlight, fluorescent lighting can be very effective, but its chief drawback is its size. Fluorescent tubes are generally long and thick in size, with even the shorter ones are thick in circumference. This essentially reduces the number of items it can be attached to.

There are other drawbacks too, with the clasp in which the tube must sit to allow it to work being rather bulky too. They are ideal to be placed under cabinets that are at eye level, such as those above work tops in the kitchen. But, their large size means they are not ideal for placing close to the ground or high up, near the ceiling.

However, led lights are far more suitable. Led stands for light emitting diodes, and while they are technically lights they are generally not strong enough to light an entire room, as a common light bulb might. They have been around for about 50 years but were confined to the small roles of standby and power on lights in electronic devices, like stereos, video players and recorders, computers and, more recently, in DVD and PSP units.

However, they gradually developed to take on bigger roles and as the technology involved has improved, the strength of the lights has increased and, accordingly, their range of uses has expanded. The diodes themselves are small and shallow, which makes them ideal for a strip lighting device that might be attached to narrow surfaces. For that reason, strip lighting using led lights is commonly being used on a multitude of items, electrical or otherwise, where the larger alternatives simply too big to fit.

Of course, size is just one of the advantages that they have. The second, which is generally thought to be principal advantage, is the savings in costs that can be made. Studies have proven that this type of light emits more light per electrical watt than an incandescent bulb, and regardless of size or shape their efficiency remains high. It means that less energy is consumed to produce the same quality of light, which obviously means a lower electricity bill.

Studies have also estimated that a typical diode will emit light at its strongest for up to 50,000 hours before the quality of light gradually reduce until finally dying away. That is about 50 times longer than an incandescent light, and about 5 times longer that a fluorescent light.

There can be little surprise then that these led lights are preferred as strip lights used around the bar in hotels and restaurants, or along the underside of cabinet doors in restaurant kitchens or even kitchen showrooms.

The discreet shape of the thin strip means it is much better for those narrow spaces. Generally, the strips come in lengths of 30cms with 10 or 12 diodes on them. To create longer lines of light, as many as 10 strips can be clipped together. A limit exists because the power for these diodes comes, not directly from the mains electricity, but through a power supply unit, making it difficult to illuminate many more strips effectively.

Companies like to use underlining lights in their showrooms to highlight products and some of their specifics. However, clearly not any old light will do. While floodlights are suitable only for illuminating outdoors, and fluorescent lighting is limited in the items it can add light to, strip lighting that is bright, narrow, linkable and energy efficient, is perfect.

Thanks to the development of led strip lights it is possible to subtly light up narrow areas, with slimline strips of diodes that last long and saves money.

About the Author

Kathryn Dawson writes about Litecraft Commercial, a store for all your commercial lighting needs. Contact the commercial lighting experts at Litecraft Commercial for information floodlights, led strip lights, fluorescent lighting and more today.

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