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The LED Half-Watt State Series

LEDs are a constantly evolving and progressing technology, and LED*Waves is pleased to announce an advance in linear lighting: The LED Half-Watt State Series. Combining the utility of our classic Broadway Cuttable Light Bar with New Half-Watt SMD LEDs, these new light bars stand as an excitingly new stroke of genius in the lighting world. In honor of the upcoming Presidential election, the first model in this series is named after the state with the first-in-the-nation primary and whose motto is “Live Free Or Die” – New Hampshire. The LED New Hampshire Half-Watt Light Bar is the latest and brightest idea from the linear lighting experts at LED*Waves.

Knowledge Is Power

We were recently contacted by a client about his bicycle shop. He wanted to replace the T5 fluorescent lights in his display cases with an LED alternative, which he thought would in turn both save his company money as well as render his products more attractive to customers. By comparing the up-front costs and energy consumption of T5s manufactured by Techno-Lite™ to both our classic Broadway LED Cuttable Light Bar and our new LED New Hampshire Half-Watt Light Bar, we assembled a thorough energy savings analysis for the client and even we were surprised at the numbers. By using the Broadway in his displays, he would save 82% annually; by using the New Hampshire, he would save 46%. The precise numbers run something like this:

Option	Annual Material Cost	Annual Electric Cost	Annual Total Cost	Annual Savings	Material First Cost	Material Payback In Years
Techno-Lite T5 28W	$3,022.20 to $21,759.84	$3,458.45 to $24,900.83	$6,480.65 to $46,660.67	X	$6,900 to $49,680	X
LED*Waves Broadway	$635.98 to $3,746.48	$617.58 to $4,446.58	$1,253.56 to $8,193.05	$5,227.09 to $38,467.61 (82%)	$7,260 to $42,768	1.4 to 1.1
LED*Waves NH	$2,023.56 to $11,920.61	$1,852.74 to $13,339.73	$3,876.30 to $25,260.34	$2,604.35 to $21,400.3 (46%)	$23,100 to $136,080	8.9 to 6.4

“This is all well and good, but what about brightness and lumen output? The T5 must be dramatically brighter.”

In terms of brightness, a single T5 is indeed much brighter than a single light bar of either the Broadway or New Hampshire variety. However, the above calculations include a 1:2 replacement ratio, so brightness is actually already accounted for in these calculations. So, even when the brightness disparity is compensated for, our LED light bars will still save you 46-82% of your annual lighting costs.

Switching to a green lighting scheme at this stage may seem like a no-brainer to many of us, but the common reserves about switching are real; higher up-front costs, an expected reduction in brightness, and overall skepticism towards new technology tend to dissuade otherwise highly economical business- and homeowners alike from upgrading to an LED-based system. However, as the above analysis shows, these reserves are outdated and do not take the state of the art into consideration. As Joel Slavis, the President of LED*Waves, explains, “There are many cheap, useless LED lights on the market to watch out for. In fact, they probably outnumber the quality products. That’s why we work hard to do the research you would like to do but don’t have the time to do. I’ve been doing lighting now for over 40 years, and I’ve never been as excited by a new technology as I am by LEDs. Their tremendously long life and low energy consumption are something the entire world from first- to third- can embrace. This is why we do what we do.”

LED*Waves – Saving the world, one bulb at a time.