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Friday, February 18, 2011

LED the High Efficiency Lighting Solutions

LED or the light emitting diode is a light source that operates at lower voltage and emits comparatively larger intensity light. When a number of of them are mounted to form a strip, it is called a LED strip. You get numerous kinds of LED strips that are used in various applications. Even though they appeared without colors at first soon the RGB colors appeared but now you have the ability to get LEDs of different colors in the LED shop.

You get two main varieties of LED strips one is the rigid strips while the other is the flexible strips. The rigid strips are just LEDs mounted on a plastic casing. Identified also as LED bars they sometimes come mounted on aluminium casing with water proofing. When it comes to flexible LED strips they are mounted on adhesive tape and could be formed into any shape.

In order to form a flexible LED strip, many LEDs are mounted on adhesive tape joined by flexible conductor. When power is applied to the conductor, the LEDs start glowing. As the base is made of flexible materials, these flexible strips could be formed into rolls and stored. There is possibility to cut them at particular lengths in order to connect them the way you want. Due to this reason, flexible LED strips could be employed in a variety of ways.

Connections to flexible strips could be made either by means of easy soldering or with connecting techniques provided in the strips. They are available in reels with soldering or connecting points provided at regular intervals. As such, you have the possibility of using them as outdoor LED strips also. Only you will need to find the water proof variety for this purpose.

Design options you have on LED strips and LEDs in general are countless as the technology also keeps on strengthening. They are developed to be used for numerous applications. There are thin strips that are as thin as five mm while the broader ones could be 8 or 12 mm. There could be the really wide ones that are being employed for particular applications that measure up to even 17 mm. As technology improves even more, you may get far more versions of these strips.

Previously LEDs have been utilised only as indicator lamps, as they emitted only very little light. The later ones came with sufficient lighting power that they could be utilised in lighting applications. Very first they were employed in the flash lights. Flash light producers gave attractive guarantees for their flash light "bulbs" that they will last for 10,000 hours. Naturally they could give the guarantee due to the fact a light emitting diode will not "burn" easily. LED lamp has now turn out to be a quite good cheap lighting option for almost all types of lighting.