Led Replacement Bulbs For Metal Halide Lights

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Led replacement bulbs for metal halide lights.

Before led lighting became the powerhouse that it is today the most common form of commercial lighting was metal halide lights. With the impressive technology advances of led there are now lots of great options for 400 watt metal halide led replacement. Watts are important but they measure energy consumption not light output. These hid and led hid replacement light bulbs have a medium screw base also called an e26 base.

When replacing metal halide lights with led lighting what you should carefully look at are the lumens the leds produce. Remember leds are more efficient than metal halide lamps so you cannot buy 20 1000 watt led bulbs to replace 20 1000 watt metal halide bulbs. When choosing the best led replacement for metal halide fixtures you will want to decide whether or not you want to remove the ballast and operate the bulb on direct line voltage 120 208 220 240 or 277v or if you want to operate the bulb directly on the existing metal halide ballast. E26 medium screw base hid and led hid replacement bulbs are commonly used in post tops and bollards.

Metal halide lights are very bright when new but lose their lumens very quickly. Nowadays however metal halide lights are at best outdated. With led lighting no lumens are lost because of reflection you need fewer led lumens than metal halide lumens to get the same amount of light it s a matter of quality over quantity. Led lighting provides a long lasting.