However, this certainty is not enough to answer two of the most frequently asked questions, namely: how long and how long do LED strips wear? To answer, we must first make a brief overview of the products on the market and the meaning of some values. Let's start by saying that if the LED strips of reliable manufacturers range from class A to A ++, compact fluorescent bulbs (Compact Fluorescent Lamp or CFL) are instead in class B or A, while halogen bulbs (or "improved incandescent") , are in last place, that is to say in class D or C. After the gradual ban by the European Union of incandescent bulbs, these three technologies (fluorescent, halogen and LED) represent the main solutions available for the consumer.

We must also underline the further difference between LEDs in general and LED strips. In this second case we are talking about an even more advanced technology, which in the face of reduced consumption offers enormous freedom of installation, high standards of brightness and resistance to atmospheric agents and dust, but above all very long life. Let's go back to the first question: how much do LED strips wear? The reference value to estimate (attention: estimate) the consumption of an LED strip is the power in Watts, or rather: the power in Watts per meter. This coil of 5 meters of high color rendering LED strips for example, they have a power of 77 Watts (already very low since a single Philips halogen bulb has an effective power of 92 Watts!), which drops to just 15.4 W / m if we take the power per meter. Furthermore, there are also lots of options such as P4 Outdoor Video Led Screen. 

As we have seen, the consumption of a 5-meter LED strip of the Premium category of our ecommerce is lower than that of a Philips halogen bulb, with the difference that with 5 meters of coil the luminous efficiency is greater and therefore allows us to illuminate a larger area, for example a living room while with a halogen bulb we can give maximum light to a corner of the room. And what about the duration? Here the discussion is complicated because each company performs independent tests, with different number of ignitions, models and rents. As for our products, the tests carried out in LM80 laboratories have established an average life of the LED strips of 100,000 hours. The same halogen lamp as before lasts 2,000, exactly 50 times less! In practice, with a use of 4 hours a day the LED strip should be enough for about 68 years.