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A little more about RWN Trading and energy saving lights.

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

 

Our Goal is to promote the best lamp for our clients requirements.

We have a extensive range of lighting products to provide the best solution. Primarily, we look to LED energy bulbs and direct replacements products but each project has its own merits and some times alternative lamps are best suited.

LED –Offers the most efficient lighting solution in terms of energy                  consumption with savings up to 80%.

Lifespan approx 50,000 hours CFL – smaller version of full fluorescent lamps and consisting of a glass tube coated with phosphor, filled with gas and a small amount of mercury.

CFL’s are 80% cooler than incandescent and 4 times more efficient. Not as energy saving as LED but great improvement on incandescent. Lifespan approx 20,000 hours

To find out more about ENERGY SAVING LED email carol@rwntrading.com

LED light advantages

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

  • Environmentally friendly, free of harmful chemicals.

 • They last much longer then conventional lighting.  approx .50,000 hours

• Utilize energy more efficiently.

 • Reduced maintenance cost.

• Start instantly.

• Emit less heat resulting in less demand on AC

• 2 Year Guarantee!

  Infinitely dimmable -

•Many LED products are direct replacement

LED Purple snowflake heatsink & heat transferral interface

Why LED?

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

LED lighting helps protect the planet

It is really very simple.

Increase use of LED energy saving light bulbs over the next 5 years will:

SAVE ENERGY

SAVE MONEY

HELP PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT

LED  lighting can reduce electricity needs by more than 60%.

Simple Car Park illustration to show LED light savings

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

The Car Park illustration below shows very clearly the huge savings by swapping from the standard 40watt lamp to 18 watt LED. This car park has 900 incandescent 4 foot tubes which are on 24/7. Most last maximum one year, some last no more than 6 months. When we did the survey 30 % had blown and had yet to be changed.

1200mm (4 foot) LED Fluorescent
wattage 18W 40W
Lifespan 75,000 hrs (10 yr+) 6,000 hrs (1 – 1.5 years)
     
Brightness Device n/a required
Power Consumption 18W 44W due to ballast
Power usage at 168 hours per week (7 x 24 hours) 3 KWHrs 7.39 KWHrs
Power usage at 168 hours per week, for 1 year 156 KWHrs 384.4 KWHrs
Running cost per year (AED 0.33 per KWH) AED 51.50 AED 126.85
     
     
Illustration – Total costs    
Total bulbs installed 900  
Approximate cost of replacement AED 226,800.00  
     
Total savings in running costs 1 year 5 years
Assuming 168 hours per week AED 67,815.00 AED 339,075.00
     

The key to switching to LED lighting is reduced power consumption

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

 

The key to switching to LED lighting is reduced power consumption. With correct design, an LED circuit will realise approximately 80% efficiency, in a nutshell this means 80% of the electrical energy is converted to light energy. The remaining 20% is lost through heat energy. When you compare this with incandescent lamps which operate at about 20% efficiency with a staggering 80% of the electrical energy being lost as heat.  Furthermore, LED do not cause heat build-up, producing only 3.4btu’s per hour, compared to up to 88btu’s for incandescent.

If we translate LED vs. incandescent in to a financial example, a 100 Watt incandescent is used for 12 months, with electrical cost at 33fils/kilowatt per hour, in total AED 290 will be spent on electricity costs. Out of that AED290 cost, used to heat the room, not lighting the room. The same example for LED with 80% efficiency being used, the electricity cost would be AED 44  per 12 months – This would give a saving of AED 246  over the 12 months.

The true savings are actually much higher, when you take into account that traditional lamps need to be replaced more frequently, usually within a year, and this involves man power and maintenance costs. Added to the time element that an area will not be lit due to contractual obligations. For example, many buildings do not allow repairs to be carried out when public areas are open so maintenance carried out in limited quiet period or closed period.

FM managers need to be looking at the bigger picture when analysing the true cost of energy saving with LED, the obvious figures start with the lights themselves but take that further and calculate the saving for the Cooling and Chilling Systems installed, with LED less heat is generated which naturally results in less power having to work the cooling appliances.
Companies have a responsibility to reduce their energy consumption and carbon footprint. This can be achieved in various ways but RWN promotes LED lighting as a start. By taking minor steps such as swapping from traditional incandescent to LED up to 80% of your light energy costs could be saved.