Why choose LED floodlight?

1 What is floodlight?

While the correct use of the term “floodlights” is only in a context where we refer to very strong beams of light, people also use the term nowadays to describe powerful outdoor fixtures they install.

Flood lights are the most popular type of lights that are used outdoors. Basically, flood lights are used to illuminate large areas. They are an artificial form of light with a broad beam. Floodlights are most commonly found in places where plenty of artificial light is needed. Some of these spaces include a large parking lot, places that host events such as concerts or theater halls, and outdoor playing fields.

There are even professional sports that require stadiums to have floodlights installed even if they want to host a game securing the day. Floodlights aren’t just used to give players better visibility, but they are also beneficial to television broadcasts. Even if most sports grounds have floodlights installed some of them also use portable temporary ones. What makes flood lights so popular is the large amount of lighting they can produce, which is perfect for illuminating large areas like stadiums.

2 The main types of floodlights:

A sodium-vapor lamp is a gas-discharge lamp that uses sodium in an excited state to produce light at a characteristic wavelength near 589 nm.

Two varieties of such lamps exist: low pressure and high pressure. Low-pressure sodium lamps are highly efficient electrical light sources, but their yellow light restricts applications to outdoor lighting, such as street lamps, where they are widely used. High-pressure sodium lamps emit a broader spectrum of light than the low-pressure lamps, but they still have poorer color rendering than other types of lamps. Low-pressure sodium lamps only give monochromatic yellow light and so inhibit color vision at night.

A halogen lamp, also known as a tungsten halogen, quartz-halogen or quartz iodine lamp, is an incandescent lamp consisting of a tungsten filament sealed into a compact transparent envelope that is filled with a mixture of an inert gas and a small amount of a halogen such as iodine or bromine. The combination of the halogen gas and the tungsten filament produces a halogen cycle chemical reaction which redeposits evaporated tungsten to the filament, increasing its life and maintaining the clarity of the envelope. This allows the filament to operate at a higher temperature than a standard incandescent lamp of similar power and operating life; this also produces light with higher luminous efficacy and color temperature.

High-intensity discharge lamps (HID lamps) are a type of electrical gas-discharge lamp which produces light by means of an electric arc between tungsten electrodes housed inside a translucent or transparent fused quartz or fused alumina arc tube. This tube is filled with noble gas and often also contains suitable metal or metal salts. The noble gas enables the arc’s initial strike. Once the arc is started, it heats and evaporates the metallic admixture. Its presence in the arc plasma greatly increases the intensity of visible light produced by the arc for a given power input, as the metals have many emission spectral lines in the visible part of the spectrum. High-intensity discharge lamps are a type of arc lamp.

An incandescent light bulb, incandescent lamp or incandescent light globe is an electric light with a wire filament heated until it glows. The filament is enclosed in a bulb to protect the filament from oxidation. Current is supplied to the filament by terminals or wires embedded in the glass. A bulb socket provides mechanical support and electrical connections

An LED lamp or LED light bulb is an electric light for use in light fixtures that produces light using one or more light-emitting diodes (LEDs). LED lamps have a lifespan many times longer than equivalent incandescent lamps, and are significantly more efficient than most fluorescent lamps.

3 Where to use floodlight?

Flood lights are mostly used outdoors, but you will also see flood lights being used in larger indoor places, like arenas. The most common place, where people use flood lights is around the house. Flood lights are great outdoor lighting source and come in all sorts of sizes, from few watts to couple hundred watts. Flood lights are great to illuminate dark areas around the house at night for comfort and security purposes. It is common to use flood lights to provide light for security cams in dark, or to scare unwanted persons and animals away from backyard. Many people use flood lights to illuminate doors at night. In this situation, flood lights with motion sensor are used. Besides individual usage around the house, flood lights are also used in much larger areas. Some of these areas are:

• Stadiums
• Sports fields
• Streets
• Driveways
• Parking lots
• Indoor and outdoor arenas
• Warehouses
• Many other large areas

4 Why choose LED floodlights?

Here are 5 benefits that users can reap with the installation of LED flood lights and flood light fixtures:

Energy Efficient

Energy efficiency is one of the primary benefits of using LED flood lights. LED is a lighting technology that has revolutionized the whole commercial lighting domain. According to experts, they are one of the most competent electrical appliances that encourage sustainability and savings simultaneously.

Better for eyes

Outdoor LED flood lights can produce a brighter white light that is comparable to the brightness of daylight.Therefore, it is even better than standard light bulbs and suitable for lowly lit places outdoors.This proper lighting helps to illuminate parking lots, streets, and sidewalks while making people around it feel safe.

In the same vein, an LED’s white beam of light gives the environment modern and inviting look which allows its best features to stand out even at night time.It’s even better to know that you can select between Cool White LED flood lights that are best suited to for work and sporting areas, and Warm White version that is better applied in recreation or relaxation facilities that softer ambiance is needed.

There’s the added advantage of being able to control the intensity of LED lights to meet the brightness you want. This ability is because LED flood lights can shift smoothly from 100% to a minimum of 10% since they are semi-conductor devices.

Long Lifespan

LED flood lights are strong, durable and long lasting. As per the top LED lighting manufacturers, LEDs last up to 10 times longer than other filament or gas-based lights and remain operational for almost 50,000 hours. This eliminates the hassle of replacing bulbs for an extended period of time which eventually reduces the overall maintenance costs.

Eco-friendly

LED flood lights are free from various toxic elements. Unlike traditional lighting solutions, LED floodlights do not contain mercury, lead, and other harmful substances that are both harmful to people and the environment.

Cost-Efficient

Lastly, LED flood lights are highly cost-efficient as compared to HID lamps or halogen lights. Lesser electricity consumption, low maintenance costs, longer life, etc. are some of the factors that help users to save a considerable amount of money in the long run. In addition, LED flood lights remain unaffected by weather changes and temperature fluctuations. They don’t emit heat, and thus, emerge as the safest lighting option.

5 How to choose a right LED floodlight?

While choosing the right floodlight rather depends on your needs, there are a few things that you should keep in mind while buying LED floodlights.

Lumens: How strong do you want your lights to be? Enough to help you navigate the space or super bright to keep intruders at bay? The brighter the light requirement, more the lumens required.

Location: Where is the floodlight to be placed? On the building, on the wall, from the ceiling or somewhere else altogether? Deciding on the location of the floodlight will help you move on to the next step in making a choice.

Beam angle: Do you want a focused light or something that covers the entirety of your lawn or any other space? For wider spaces you need an LED floodlight that has a wider beam angle. Usually a beam angle of 120 degrees is perfect for most needs.

How do you want it to work: Apart from the standard on/off switches, modern floodlights now offer a plethora of operating choices. You can choose LED floodlights that switch on when the sun sets and switches on with the break of dawn. Alternatively, you can choose a motion-sensor floodlight that switches on the moment it detects any movement.

Detection angle: If you wish to use motion detected LED floodlights then this is a crucial factor that you must consider. Standard LED sensor-based LED floodlights work only when a person or animal is directly in front of the light. The anti-creep floodlights on the other hand work even when the target is standing on the sides of the light.

6 Conclusion:

There are several benefits of outdoor LED flood lights which have brought about their popularity over the past few years. LED lights come with energy-saving advantages, cost-efficiency, eco-friendliness, while at the same time providing proper light to illuminate the space. These benefits make them ideal for outdoor usage, and the same can be said for indoors.