Advantages Of Switching To Led Lighting With Recessed Led Ceiling Spotlights

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The main advantages to change a fluorescent luminaire or a halogen bulb for recessed LED spotlights also called portholes are that it allows you to install a bulb with LED technology with these benefits:

Led Ceiling Spotlights

Life:

One of the main advantages of LED is the service life. While in fluorescents the useful life is around 8000-13000 hours depending on the quality, in LED tubes this useful life can reach 30000h. Keep in mind that when talking about useful life and the number of hours given, these are conditioned to the number of hours used daily. That is, a light bulb that must be on 12 hours a day will not last the same as one that must be on 3-4 hours.

CRI:

Another advantage of LED is that higher color rendering rates (IRC or CRI) are achieved. This index is the measurement used in relation to a light source to measure its ability to display the colors of an object in a "real" way.

Instant power on:

LED tubes or bulbs turn on immediately, without flickering, and in full brightness, which avoids an extra expenditure of energy prior to their full operation, as is the case with fluorescent tubes or energy-saving bulbs.

Blinks:

Annoying intermittent flickers cease to occur. The luminous flux remains constant throughout life.

Lower consumption, greater savings:

If a 60 cm 10W LED tube replaces a 60 cm 18W fluorescent (which can consume up to twice that power due to reactance), the savings are evident: 10W of LEDs versus 18W of fluorescent.

The same happens with LED bulbs, a 40W bulb is replaced by a 3W bulb and a 60W bulb by a 6W bulb, which means considerable consumption savings.

Free of toxic substances:

LED lamps do not contain mercury or polluting gases (which is the case with fluorescents and energy-saving bulbs); they do not emit UV rays and reduce CO2 emissions by a high percentage.

There are two very frequent lighting systems in our lives, which still use inefficient technologies, such as recessed halogens and fluorescent tubes. If you want to go green and above all you want to save on your electricity bill, here we indicate how.

How To Install Recessed Led Ceiling Spotlights

Recessed ceiling LED spotlights are an economical decorative solution and very easy to install. They offer us the possibility of illuminating without conditioning our style of decoration. They are discreet and adapt to any environment. In addition, there are many colors and finishes It is a very useful option for areas of wardrobes or bed headboards in bedrooms, lighting in small bathrooms, widely used in corridors and even for the living room. You can get very interesting light effects too, orienting the beam of light towards a certain area, for example, a wall, a painting, or some other element to highlight.

Led bulbs can be changed every time they are melted, which is an advantage over LED downlights, which in case of need for replacement must change the entire part. If the bulb used is LED, they are low consumption, the high energy efficiency of type A + or A + +, instant ignition, and do not produce heat.

To install a porthole, follow these steps:

  • Mark the position of the recessed focus

  • With the drill make the hole in the false ceiling or plate

  • Place the porthole supports and fix the outside of the porthole in the hole

  • Connect the cables to the lamp holder through a tab, also called a power strip or a quick connector

  • Place the bulb in the lamp holder

  • Fit the bulb into the ring holder and rotate it so that it is anchored.

  • They are used for living room lighting with false ceiling or also for lighting without false ceiling.

  • They are used for living room lighting with a false ceiling or also for lighting without a false ceiling.

Led Ceiling Lamp Types

There are three types of led ceiling lamps:

  • Recessed, but fixed. The light is projected only downwards, there is no possibility to orient the bulb.

  • The tilting ones, allow the bulbs to be oriented in two directions. The ring can be rotated and oriented towards a wall or a specific area.

  • The adjustable ones, rotate in all directions. You can direct it to the place you need regardless of the angle at which it is located.

Replace Halogen Bulbs with LED Bulbs

Cap type MR16

If we buy MR16 LED bulbs, we can replace them directly. We will simply disconnect the old bulb and put the new one. The small drawback is that by keeping the transformer, it will consume a little more energy than an LED bulb without a transformer (GU10/GZ10). There are also some bulbs that don't work well when powered by a transformer.

Bushing type GU10/GZ10

This type of connection is on the rise because it saves energy, compared to the MR16 that tend to disappear. On the one hand, we eliminate the noise and consumption of the transformer and we also replace the halogen bulb with a much more efficient LED.

To perform this installation, you have to remove the transformer and place a GU10 led lamp holder, and then place the appropriate bulb. Currently, for GU10 bulbs there are more types of powers and a variety of color temperatures, ranging from 6400 degrees kelvin for cold white light to 2700K of warm light, passing through 4000K of natural white light.

Making the change from halogen bulbs to LED, is an investment that is worth it since it is recovered in 3 months. Especially considering that the duration of Led bulbs is 2 to 5 years, depending on the quality of it.

Downlight LED

These luminaires can be recessed or surface, come with the included LED chipsets and make up a single piece. Its installation is very simple, since you simply have to connect the cables to the power outlets. They are autonomous and compact and consume very little energy.