Victorian Government FREE LED Downlights Replacement Scheme

Government Free LED Downlights Replacement Scheme for Households & Businesses in Victoria

Reasons for the popularity of LED downlights can be attributed to better functionality, high energy efficiency, and a variety of designs than halogen and incandescent lamps. Halogen and incandescent lights are very costly, mostly because they need more bulbs or globes. For example, a typical GU10 halogen is about 50W. It takes at least 10 globes to adequately illuminate an average-sized room. Do the math, that’s 500W worth of electricity to light one room. With LEDs, this number is reduced by almost 80%.

LED downlights or ceiling downlights are the perfect lighting solutions for hollow ceiling openings. They appear like a torchlight directing light from the ceiling hole. LED downlights are popular in the hospitality and retail sectors because their design blends perfectly with the architecture of the building.

What to Know Before Replacing Halogen Downlights with LED Downlights?

Beam Angle

The bulb’s beam angle means the width or narrowness of the light source. Narrow beam lights are used to illuminate small areas, whereas wider beams are ideal for broad lighting. Choose a larger beam ranging between 100 and 120 degrees for broad lighting purposes.

Colour Temperature

LED lights come in a wide range of colours. You should choose the light of a certain colour temperature based on the functionality of the space. Warm white light is considered good for relaxing, whereas cool white is considered good for reading.

Colour temperature indicates whether your light source will emit rather “warm” or “cold” light. The lower the number, the “warmer” the colour. 2700K can be described as warm white and 5000K may be considered cool white.

If you are buying a recessed LED downlight for your bedrooms or living rooms, the best colour temperature range would be from 2700K to 3200K. For bathrooms and kitchen lights, downlights with colour temperatures between 4000K to 4500K work fine. Spotlights and downlights are perfect for task lighting, which makes them an ideal choice for kitchens and bathrooms.

Power and Lumens

Earlier, wattage was used to measure the brightness of lamps. Today lumens are a globally accepted way of calculating brightness.

The higher the lumens, the brighter the light is. Equivalent wattage is always mentioned on all LED product pages. Lumens are used to approximate what the equivalent incandescent wattage will be.

If there is no comparable wattage/lumen on the product page, simply delete the last digit from the LED light’s lumen value.

The result would be a wattage equal to incandescent.

An 8 watt LED light-emitting 400 lumens, for example, is approximately as bright as a 40 Watt incandescent globes.

Originally published at https://www.ecofinsolution.com.au.