WHY ENERGY EFFICIENT LED CHRISTMAS LIGHTS

You can make your Christmas traditions more environmentally friendly by switching to energy-saving LED Christmas lights. 
Usually, at Christmas people start to get rid of things that still work to replace them with more energy-efficient models.

This is because even simple products use a lot of electrical energy so it seems useful to get rid of the products. But the truth is that it is totally incorrect since to save money it is better to use the products until the end of their useful life and they cannot be repaired.

The energy efficiency of Christmas light

In the 19th century and before, the only way to light a Christmas tree was with candles, which probably caused quite a few fires in the houses. Fortunately, in 1882, Thomas Edison's friend and business partner, Edward H. Johnson, created the first chain of electric lights for Christmas trees, which were safer than candles, although at that time the electricity was not so safe. As it is today. As electrical safety improved and became more affordable, Christmas lights also became popular abroad.

Over the past hundred years, incandescent Christmas lights have undergone technical advances and design improvements. They provide a pleasant warm light, but also convert much of their energy into heat instead of light. You can still buy incandescent Christmas lights, but LED lights consume up to 80% less energy, do not generate heat and last approximately 25 times longer, which makes them an ecological option.

There is a wide variety of Christmas lights on the market today and making comparisons of apples with apples can be a bit complicated. For example, classic C9 incandescent bulb chains generally contain 25 bulbs, while most incandescent mini and LED light chains to contain 50 or 100 bulbs. The complicated thing is that there is no regulation for the type and amount of ropes that you can place in your home, a protocol for how many hours a day you can run your lights or an official definition of how many days constitute the holiday. season.

However, we can still make some comparisons that will illustrate why LEDs are by far the energy efficiency option.

Example case:

In the following scenario, our fictional family will decorate with six chains of Christmas lights (3 for your tree and 3 for your house) that will work for 5 hours a day, 7 days a week, for 21 days. Electric companies charge per kilowatt-hour (kWh), so that's what we'll use for our comparisons. Keep in mind that the average household consumes approximately 10,766 kWh of electricity per year, which is rounded to 897 kWh per month.

A 175-watt string of 25 multicolored C9 incandescent lights

175 watts per chain x 6 ropes = 1,050 watts x 5 hours / day x 7 days / week x 21 days = 771,750 watts / 1,000 = 771.8 kWh of electricity consumed over a period of 3 weeks.

Christmas light chain of 50 multi-colored incandescent mini bulbs

24-watt string of 50 multi-colored incandescent mini lights 
24 watts per string x 6 = 144 watts x 5 hours / day x 7 days / week x 21 days = 105,840 / 1,000 = 105.8 kWh of electricity consumed over a period of 3 weeks .

Christmas light chain of 50 multi-colored faceted C3 LED bulbs

4.2 watt string of 50 multicolored C3 LED lights 
4.2 watts per string x 6 = 25.2 watts x 5 hours / day x 7 days / week x 21 days = 18,522 / 1,000 = 18.5 kWh of electricity consumed over a period of 3 weeks.

Now, let's put this in perspective.

If you had to decorate with the C9 incandescent Christmas lights and use them for three weeks, your home would consume 86% of the total electricity that an average family uses in a month just to turn on their house and the Christmas tree. Incandescent mini lights would consume 11.8% and LED lights 2%.