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For the past few years now many boat owners have been on the fence regarding LEDs. Sure there's been a lot of hype. There's also been a lot of fellow boaters making the switch and singing the praises of LEDs företagsskyltar  to anyone who will listen afterwards. Still, there are many boat owners who simply are not convinced that the extra expense of switching or upgrading to LEDs is worth the effort or costs. After all, their current lighting setup works just fine and really isn't providing many reasons to abandon it. Or is it?

One of the big problems that many boat owners have with installing LEDs företagsskyltar  on their vessels is their higher costs. Let's face it; you can't get much simpler in design or construction than a basic light bulb. A glass globe with a wire strung across two electrodes is about as straightforward as it gets, and as a result, producing such a design is cheap indeed. So why in the world would someone want to switch to lamps that can cost significantly more money? Well, the reasons are numerous and have a great deal to do with the cheap construction of incandescent bulbs as well.

While the traditional light bulb is cheap to produce, its simple construction and design was never conceived with durability and efficiency in mind. The goal was to produce a simple and easy form of lighting that could make use of the then emerging technology of electricity production. No one was worried about the costs of producing electrical power, and there certainly were no worries with how long the fossil fuels needed to produce it would last. Electricity företagsskyltar  was cheap, and expanding electrical power into every segment of society was seen as a huge area of potential profit. So, with Edison's' perfecting of the incandescent bulb into an effective light source, the only real concern was making them last long enough to be practical and producing them in mass quantities. The result was a cheap to manufacture light source that consumed a lot of electrical power compared to the amount of light it produced. By the late 1970's, with the rising cost of energy spurring interest in energy efficiency, incandescent light bulbs were quickly targeted as a big source of energy waste.

The oil crisis of the 1970's helped to spur development of more efficient lighting technologies. Fluorescent lamps quickly gained popularity in commercial sectors due to their good efficiency, but failed to garner much interest in the private sector because of their impractical design and unappealing light quality. Good for large scale illumination in commercial and industrial settings, the large size of fluorescent lights didn't led themselves well to installation in the home table lamp. Additionally, although manufacturers managed to produce innovative scaled down fluorescent designs capable of being installed in everyday household fixtures, problems with light quality, noisy operation, slow startup times, ballast failures and high costs reduced the practicality of installing fluorescent lights for everyday users.

By the 1980's new forms of lighting were being considered and developed. It is here we see the emergence of interest in LEDs as a viable general use light source. Up until this time, LEDs företagsskyltar  were low powered and not practically available in the white coloring needed for general use. They appeared in high end electronics and by the 80's were used in small and low powered applications like pocket calculators and as indicator lights in stereo equipment. By the late 80's and early 90's however, big strides in LED development were occurring and the first attempts at creating an LED powerful enough to use as general illumination yet affordable enough for practical use were being made. LEDs began appearing in flashlights and special purpose fixtures, but their great efficiency could not overcome their higher costs, poor construction and poor light quality and so they remained impractical for everyday use. By 2005, however, all this was changed.

2000 saw a virtual explosion in LED företagsskyltar  development and by 2005 LEDs began appearing that were now able to surpass fluorescent lights in light quality while matching them for efficiency. Now, in 2011, LEDs are available that surpass all forms of lighting except HID in terms of efficiency, light quality and total output. Additionally, LEDs now far surpass all forms of lighting in terms of operational lifetimes and durability. And while all this growth in development of the practical LED was taking place, the natural efficiency of the LED continued to steadily improve as well until it is now at the point where no other form of lighting is as, or more, efficient save HID lamps. The only real caveat now is the cost of LEDs. LEDs  företagsskyltar   are far more durable, more versatile, last far longer and are far more efficient than traditional forms of lighting. They do however require a lot more design and construction complexity to achieve this. The result is higher manufacturing costs and higher costs to the end users. This has served to put off consumers such as boaters from fully embracing the LED as a viable alternative.

The reality though is that LEDs företagsskyltar  , despite their higher initial costs, are far more cost efficient than traditional light sources. When we consider for instance the high failure rate of lighting equipment used in marine environments and the acutely felt costs in electrical power generation, LEDs offer savings that far outweigh their initial expense. Boat owners who switch all of their incandescent lighting over to LEDs see an up to 80% reduction in onboard electrical use from lighting, and the costs of maintaining lighting systems drops significantly as well. LEDs operate up to 90% more efficiently than incandescent bulbs and can last for over ten years, meaning many boaters will never change another light bulb for as long as they own the boat. Everything from marine spreader lights to interior cabin lighting can be easily replaced with LEDs, and the huge drop in energy consumption that results means less fuel is needed to run generators and engines. Additionally, alternative energy sources popular with boaters such as wind and solar generators become far more effective when combined with LED företagsskyltar  lighting, further reducing the consumption of expensive fuel.

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