How Much Power Savings using LED's?
Just purchased 4 warm white LED panels with 20 5050 LED's. Wanted to experiment with these on my TT before purchasing more. Anyhow, one 20 5050 LED panel wasn't nearly as bright as the original 92...
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Almot wrote:
Even if you compare AH energy savings of LED to your old incandescent - it will not be impressive unless you burn it a lot. 2 incandescent bubs 2 hours a day will burn 7 AH, and 2 LED of the same lumens will burn 2-3 AH.
Must be a wide variation in LEDs. The ones I mentioned in my earlier post are rated at 252 to 288 lumens vs. 264 for the 921 incandescent. So I can have more than four times the light for the same power or twice the light for less than half the power. Considering that for many folks, light power use is second only to furnace power use, it's a very significant power savings.
I was a little generous to the 921 incandescent in my previous post. The 36 1210 SMD LED uses only about 21% the power of the 921 instead of 25%.
