Use bright, durable, and energy-saving LED walkway lighting to illuminate indoor staircases, garden paths, office hallways, and other dimly lit traffic areas. In your home or office, having illuminated stairs is a dramatic aesthetic improvement that will also increase safety, especially for seniors and small children. Despite its benefits, this improvement has traditionally been overlooked due to concerns about increased energy consumption and difficult installation. LED walkway lighting can be used to illuminate your staircase while avoiding these concerns – Flexfire’s UL Listed LED strip lights use 75% less energy than standard incandescent bulbs, generate virtually no heat, and are easy to install with versatile products such as UltraBright™ and ColorBright™ series LED strip lights. Further, high quality LED lights last up to 50,000 hours, meaning they’ll brighten your day for more than a decade. These benefits apply when using LEDs in other sorts of high traffic areas as well. LED walkway lighting can be used to beautifully accentuate home garden paths, office hallways and outdoor corporate plazas, with multiple color and brightness options to choose from. Wherever you go, use LEDs to light the way. Choose one of our convenient Flexfire LEDs strip light kits to suit the appropriate brightness, length and color of your LED walkway lighting project: ...
Avoid Cheap LED Strip Lights...
posted by Flexfire LEDs
We are often asked about the difference between Flexfire LED strip lights and those found on discount or auction sites such as Amazon and Ebay. To illustrate the many differences, we purchased LED strip lights from Ebay to compare them with the premium LED strips from Flexfire LEDs. The video below reviews some of the key reasons why we think you should avoid cheap LED strip lights. To summarize, here are a few of the key factors to look for when shopping for LED strip lights: Lumens – This is a measurement of the brightness each strip emits. If lumen level is not mentioned, it is best to call and ask, or avoid the seller altogether. Safety Certifications – It is difficult to verify a seller’s safety claims using Amazon or Ebay alone. Check the UL Listing or RoHS registry to make sure the LEDs are safe and do not contain lead or other hazardous materials. Material Quality – Product performance and longevity is determined not just by the quality of the LED chips, but the thickness and materials used in the PCB board, resistors, wires, and soldering. Test Reports – Ask for test reports to verify claims of brightness and longevity. These may include LM-79 testing, IES reports, etc. Warranty, Customer Service, and Installation/Design Assistance – We are here to help design your project, no matter what the size. Our LED strip lights represent the highest quality found on the market today, and will be lighting your project area for many years to...
Video: LED Amplifier Installation...
posted by Flexfire LEDs
If you want to run LED strip lights in a long, continuous section, you will need to use amplifiers. Fortunately, LED amplifier installation is a simple, do-it-yourself installation that is explained in the video...
LED Strip Light Thermal Management...
posted by Flexfire LEDs
Thanks to falling prices and greater product diversity, LED lighting continues to gain in popularity for all sorts of residential, commercial, and industrial applications. LED strip lights are certainly benefitting from this – in addition to lower energy consumption, they are extremely versatile thanks to 90 degree flexibility and a smaller physical footprint. But before you decide to use them in your next project, be sure you’ve considered the important role of LED strip light thermal management, which is essentially temperature control. LED lights are of course known for producing higher lumens per watt over an exceptionally long lifetime – many products claim 50,000 hours of use before falling below 70 percent lumen maintenance levels. But this lifetime is dramatically reduced when LEDs are exposed to elevated temperatures. The Lighting Research Center tested two identical LEDs for 10,000 hours, each driven at the same current but with an 11°C difference in junction temperature. Extrapolating the data out to 70,000 hours, they found that the higher temperature reduced estimated useful life by more than 50%. It’s therefore important to consider all sources of excess heat in any LED lighting application – not just the environmental temperature, but the quality of components used in the LED product itself. This is especially important when using LED strip lights, as multiple independent factors along the strip can affect operating temperature and resulting longevity. Perhaps most important is the product’s thermal path, which is the combination of components specifically designed to remove excess heat. In measuring one product’s thermal path against another’s, this means evaluating the quality of the heat sinks, overall chip design, and even thickness of the strip’s circuit board. Thankfully, there are testing agencies and certifications you can look for to ensure product quality. UL and...
New Lutron C.L Dimmers...
posted by Flexfire LEDs
Consumers now have an expanded set of lighting options thanks to new Lutron C.L dimmers. Lutron is an industry-leading manufacturer of high quality dimmers for all kinds of lighting systems, and these are designed to control bulbs and fixtures that employ either compact fluorescent, LED, or halogen lighting technologies. Lutron’s C.L dimmers are UL Listed, and provide full-range dimming for virtually any lighting application. After extensive testing, we are happy to report that the company’s Diva C.L, Skylark Contour C.L, and Maestro C.L dimmers are all fully compatible with LED strip lights from Flexfire...