How to choose LED Street Lights?

The use of flexible LED Street Lights are more and more in now lighting design all around the world. There are many options on the market for LED Street Lights and there is no clear-cut standard for how to choose LED Street Lights.  

1. Brightness

Lumen is the measurement of brightness as perceived to the human eye. Because of incandescent lighting, we are all accustomed to using watts to measure the brightness of light. Today, we use lumen. Lumen is the most important variable when choosing which LED street light you need to look at. When comparing lumen output from street to street, note that there are different ways of saying the same thing.

2. Compare LED street size and number of LEDs on the street

Traditionally, LED street lights are packaged on a reel (spool) of 5 meters, or 16' 5''. The machines used to "pick and place" the LEDs and resistors on the flexible circuit board are typically 3' 2'' in length, so individual sections are soldered together to complete a whole reel. If purchasing, make sure you are purchasing by the foot or by the reel. Confirm length before checking out.