LED PANEL LIGHTS: MYTHS VS. REALITY

Emerging demands for Led panel lights is booming in Indian market. Every professionals or dumb peoples are asking for LED panel lights. In this myth debunking article, we will evaluate the led panel light and check whether it is worth to buy or not.

We have purchased a brand new LED panel light costing around Rs. 1000/- for 12w. Cheaper are also available in market, but we chose to evaluate premium product.

Branded LED Panel light Box

After opening the attractive box, we found slim, lightweight and elegant LED panel light which was square shaped (rounds are also available). It looks good enough to convince any customer from design point of view.

Myth: Only Panel light gives you even light distribution.

Reality: Properly designed downlight can also provide good light distribution.

However we will give more marks to the panel light. Because, when you look at them, it seems smooth in appearance. But that look is useless due to loss of efficiency. It also burns more power because of low power factor. We will compare power factor later in this test.

Myth: LED panel lights are power saving

Reality: Panel lights are not power saving, because it outputs only 60-80 Lm/watt which are very near to fluorescent tube light. LED panel light gives all the lights in one direction so, the light output will be double compared to fluorescent, but much lower compared to LED down-light which are 100-120 Lm/watt.

Led panel light used cheap dotted diffuser which is very low in efficiency. We are using more efficient high quality diffuser.

Now choice is of customer: Choose high quality long life LED downlight or just ask for what you have heard by word of mouth. We bet 90% customer don’t know these facts.