Led Lighting
Overview
There are many ways everyone is looking to go green, and Christmas displays are a innovative way of doing just that. The possibilities are endless with all the
new offerings from companies on led light strings and led retrofitting to even custom built led lighting.
Led lighting has many advantages such as:
- Energy Efficiency
- Long Life
- No color fading
- Bulbs are cool to the touch
- Immune to shock or vibration
What does Half Wave or Full Wave Mean
Because light emitting diodes are essentially a diode they only conduct one way and alternating current changes phase 60 Cycles per second in the United States and 50 Cycles per second in Europe and other parts of the World.
Store bought Led Lighting that states that's its half-wave is that the Leds only conduct(Light) on one half oc an AC Cycle> With a keen eye you might even be
able to spot this as a flicker especially if you move your eyes across the led bulbs
Full-Wave first uses a bridge rectifier to make dc before it goes to the Leds themselves, This creates a DC pulse of 120Hz or 100Hz depending where you are located at. this higher frequency usually is not as noticeable to the human eyes.
Because Leds are solid state devices they can react much faster to changes in voltage. This has always been going on with incandescent lighting but the filament cannot react to the fast changes or cycles so that is why we always see it as a steady burning light bulb.
Led Lighting Options
MR-16 Led Flood Lighting Low Voltage Led lighting to throw color onto displays or other objects such as a wall of a house.
Super Strip Custom RGB LED wall wash (designed by Frank Kostyun)
500w Portable Floodlight Low Voltage Led Modification to allow Red / Green / Blue or a mix of any color to create 16 million color probabilities. (designed by Matt Edward withpcb help from John Wilson)
Mighty Mini RGB+W LED floodlight in a halogen light fixture (designed by Frank Kostyun)
FAST Snowfall Tube A snowfall tube (designed by Cory Helmuth)
DIYC Flood A RGB+W flood light that can fit in a halogen light fixture (designed by Brian Ullmark)