LED Lighting DIY

by Wayne
(Canada)

LED lighting is fast becoming the green choice to replace both incandescent and florescent lighting. The advantages of LED lighting include efficiency, variety and durability. LED lights are very, very efficient using a fraction of the energy required by other lights for the same brightness (lumen). The variety available is astounding with new LED product introduced almost daily and design options for DIY are limitless. LED bulbs last virtually forever with usage ratings of over 100,000 hours (thats over 20 years of typical use) compared to 1000 to 2000 hours of the typical incandescent. There are still a few disadvantages with LED lighting including price and performance. Off the shelf LED pot lights are very expensive ($100+) and for applications that require flood lighting LEDs just do not perform as well as incandescent.


While off the shelf products are expensive, individual components are relatively cheap. Add to this fact that LED lighting has a huge advantage when used with alternative power sources and you have a perfect environment for the Do It Yourself enthusiest. Simple and inexpensive DIY LED lighting projects such as this LED Desk Lamp conversion at www.greenledlamp.info can be completed in a few hours and incorporated into an inexpensive alternative energy lighting system.

Most experts agree that as LED manufacturing technology advances LED lighting will almost totally replace incandescent and florescent lighting. For the DIYer current LED lighting technology offers and endless variety of green lighting projects.