Thursday, November 13, 2008

LED prelit Christmas trees

The LED prelit Christmas trees are the best ones in today’s world of low energy costs and cost consciousness.

That said there are the traditional Christmas lights which are the mini lights, icicle, net, rice or twinkle ones but then there are the LED Christmas lights which can be more useful with energy saving and can save up to 90% of the energy as opposed to the usual lights. They also are rated for being lighted up to 200000 hours of light.

Talking of about the type of lights there are C7 and C9 LED Christmas tree lights and also now there are the LED rope lights as well as the LED garland which are now available.

Now when you order the LED prelit Christmas trees make sure that the manufacture includes the spare bulbs as well as fuses.

The LED in a simple explanation is the light emitting diode and it has a semiconductor material inside it which causes the light to emit and the type of semiconductor material causes the different color of light to glow up when used.

The LED prelit Christmas trees used on slim trees or the usual trees emit more light per watt than the normal incandescent bulbs.

The best advantage of the Christmas trees with the LED lights is that these stay lit even when the wires are broken or they are twisted or loose and of course they do not flame out that easily and they go dim over time.

Each bulb usually consumes less light and which is about .04 watts per bulb which is definitely significantly less than normal classic light. So here is where the energy saving kicks in with the fact that if you are talking about 1500 bulbs or so in normal prelit Christmas tree. This as compares to the normal bulbs is significantly less as well as it means that you have a longer life as opposed to classic bulbs which have about 3000 hours of life only.