21 Nov LED Chips – Choosing Quality LED Lighting, Part 1

If you look for LED lighting for a commercial or residential project, you will discover that the market is saturated with a bewildering array of options at different price points. It can be tempting to choose the LED fixture with the lowest price.  However, because the quality of LED lighting varies drastically across manufacturers, the cheapest LED fixture is not always the best deal. A cheap LED fixture can wind up with a higher price tag in the long run when energy savings, performance, maintenance, and in some cases, replacement cost are factored in. For a successful LED lighting project, it is important to carefully evaluate and compare the specifications of the LED fixtures you are considering, to ensure that you are truly getting good value for the money. In this blog series, we will discuss what to look for when selecting LED lighting, and the differences between high-quality and low-quality fixtures.

We will begin by examining LED chips and their effect on the performance of a LED light.

Responsible for converting electrical energy into light, LED chips determine both the color and the quality of the light produced by a LED fixture. Though there are many manufacturers of LED chips worldwide, not all LED chips are created equal, and there is a wide range in quality and performance across the market. The best LED chips are produced by prominent companies in the United States and Japan, as well as certain reputable manufacturers in China and South Korea.

Why is it important to choose LED fixtures that use high quality LED chips? During the manufacturing process, there are natural variations in light color, brightness, and voltage, even among LED chips from the same batch. Because of this, manufacturers sort LED chips into groups called “bins” based on their characteristics. The highest quality LED chips are placed in the tightest “bins”, ensuring that any differences between chips are so minimal as to be imperceptible. By choosing LED fixtures utilizing high quality LED chips, you ensure consistent LED performance across your LED lighting project, regardless of the project size.

In addition, high quality LED chips feature much better durability than their cheap counterparts. All LED chips experience some form of degradation in performance over time. In high quality LED chips, this decrease is so small as to be negligible, however, cheap LED chips can have degradation so extreme that the entire fixture needs to be replaced. Make sure to select fixtures with high quality LED chips to minimize the chance of additional costs being incurred down the line.

GKOLED LED lighting uses high quality LED chips from top-tier chip manufacturers Lumileds, Osram, and Cree. By sourcing LED chips from these reputable manufacturers, we ensure consistent, reliable color, performance, and durability in our products.

We are proud of the quality of our LED lighting and we want to give you the chance to test our product first-hand. This is why we offer a risk-free 30-day trial on any of our LED fixtures, no commitment required. Contact our Chicago-based sales team at 630-793-9449 or at info@gkoled.com for more details!