A LED itself is only a few tenths of a millimeter and it consists of tiny crystals which are the heart of the component. LEDs work by the electrical current moving from one type of semi-conducting crystal to another type of crystal. Along with the reflection of the currents, LED’s lenses forms the emitted light that you see and give you the desired beam wanted. 

When you have multiple LEDs you can create LED lighting to specified wants in design and emission. LEDs can produce any color in the visual spectrum and also in different whites. LEDs can also perform dimming functions that are integrated to other lighting systems such as Lutron. With different profiles and lenses you can also control how the light actually looks in different environments.

Yes. ILC has engineered its components to integrate into lighting systems to perform this function. Although not all LED lights are dimmable, we do offer certain ones that can dim.

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LED lighting can emit any color within a 6.7 million hue palette and different whites ranging from warm white to cool white. With design options you can create different color scenes or specified white scenes.

White lights are typically categorized into three groups: cool white, neutral white and warm white. All whites are measured by a scale in Kelvin.

• Cool white: 6000-8000K – Typically used for manufacturing and high brightness environments because of its bluish tone.

• Neutral white: 4000-5000K – Typically used for retail or office environments because of its bright white without yellow tone.

• Warm white: 2700-3500K – Typically used in homes or warm atmosphere because of its underlying yellow tone. This type of light is nearest in match to ordinary incandescent lights.

About 21% of electrical consumption in the United States is used on lighting alone and a substantial amount of energy can be saved by converting to LED lighting. Energy is produced by the burning of fossil fuels which emits CO2 into the air. With every kilowatt in use, CO2 pollutes and destroys the ozone layer. By switching to LED lighting, the earth can be relieved of tons of CO2 emissions. Also, landfills can benefit by the physical waste of bulbs. One LED light bulb has a life span that can last as long as 40 or more conventional light bulbs.

How much an end-user will save all depends on the components they are using: how big the environment is, current cost of electricity, wattage of bulbs currently in use, how many lights in use, how many hours lights are in use. But ordinarily a LED uses about 10% of energy that an incandescent uses. Over time LED lights pay for themselves and your energy consumption declines. LED lighting can save end-users hundreds of dollars. Please see the chart below to see the difference in Watt usage and what it can save you.

Any component that titles RGB means color; Red, Green, and Blue. With these three basic colors, RGB produces a palette of 16.1 million colors.

 A watt is a unit of measure that determines the amount of electricity a light fixture uses. With incandescent bulbs wattage is commonly referred to as brightness, but LED lights use wattage to describe the amount of power being used. When you compare an incandescent light bulb to a LED bulb, you can see that a common bulb uses 40W and an LED light uses 4-5W.

Lumens are a unit of measure that determines the brightness of a light. Incandescent bulbs use the verbiage of lumen and wattage interchangeably, but for LED lights you don’t want to interchange them because wattage and lumens ratio is different. As an example you can have an incandescent soft white light bulb that uses 60 watts and produces 780 lumens and in contrast you can have a LED soft white light bulb that uses 12.5 watts and produces 800 lumens.

Color temperature is determined by Kelvin’s (K) which is a unit of measure of how much yellow or blue is in white lights. All white lights fall into a scale of about 2700K – 8000K. Lower Kelvin means more yellow tone lighting such as a candle light while higher Kelvin means more blue tone lighting such as a CFL light bulb.

White lights are typically categorized into three groups: cool white, neutral white and warm white. All whites are measured by a scale in Kelvin.

• Cool white: 6000-8000K – Typically used for manufacturing and high brightness environments because of its bluish tone.

• Neutral white: 4000-5000K – Typically used for retail or office environments because of its bright white without yellow tone.

• Warm white: 2700-3500K – Typically used in homes or warm atmosphere because of its underlying yellow tone. This type of light is nearest in match to ordinary incandescent lights.

Solid state lighting is referred to how an LED produces its light. Because LEDs use semiconductors to produce lights, there are no moving or vibrating parts. Incandescent bulbs use a filament that vibrates to produce light and mercury vapor bulbs use mercury gas to produce light; neither of these lights can be said to perform in solid state process. Solid state lighting is more durable and has an increased life expectancy because there is less stress on the fixture.