Tuesday, October 22, 2013

DOE Released LED Lights with High Pressure Sodium Comparison Report

From 2011, DOE Municipal Solid-State Street Light Consortium (MSSLC) conducted this experiment for the nine Kansas City, Missouri SSL lamps. The experiment shows that the performance of LED slightly better than high-pressure sodium lamp. U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced on its website on the news. These LED lights installed in February 2011, after more than two years of testing, reveals the LED lights, although not as high pressure sodium lamp lumen output or efficacy, the LED lights can output more lumens to the road surface and reduce light spill. Taking into account the technical level of these LED lights stay on in 2011, can be considered the current technology allows LED street performance is more prominent.


The project includes the installation ranges from 63W to 291W LED lights instead of 100W, 150W, 250W, 400W sodium lamp. Measurement results can be reduced 31-51% of energy, an average of approximately 39%, but the LED lights reduces the average of about 31% of the lumen. LED lights compared to high pressure sodium lamp efficacy average increase of about 15%, but there are two LED product efficacy low than high pressure sodium products. In addition, LED lights application effect is more accurate, delivered to the target area of the lumen increases. LED lights still has some significant advantages, for example, a 130W LED lamps replace 150W high pressure sodium lights, LED lights efficacy of 83 lumens / watt, while high pressure sodium lamp efficacy 45.1 lm / Watt. But they both have scattered light. 250W class LED lights compared to pressure sodium light is no excess light, LED lighting efficacy of 47 lumens / watt, high pressure sodium lamp of 33.6 lumens / watt.

Summing up the above results, LED lights slightly more effective than high pressure sodium. SSL alternative offers significant energy savings benefits, eliminating the light spill and to provide more effective and uniform illumination, but also save maintenance costs.

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