How to replace your low energy lights with LED's?

How to replace your low energy lights with LEDs?

This article is meant to be a practical and easy guide to comparing lighting technologies and their respective powers. Sometimes it is difficult to choose the correct equivalence between our old and new lamps, concretely when we try to change a low energy light for an LED light. We hope this guide will help you. You will find below several tables that group the equivalences between the various technologies. We obviously compare LED technology, the latter being the most current. At the end of this article, you will find a table comparing all existing technologies. Do these tables mean that you cannot choose a Watt above or below? Not. These tables are examples that allow you to understand the equivalences between technologies, but you are free to choose the Watts you want.

Low Consumption Light (CFL) vs. LED Light

The equivalence between different lighting technologies is often complicated to understand because it is not indicated on the packaging. The low energy light has made its way into the market and has led to considerable energy savings. However, the era of LED has arrived, this technology allows even more savings and does not contain toxic substances. LED offers up to 40% energy savings compared to low energy light lights.

Wattage low energy light	Wattage equivalent LED
22 W	12 W
15 W	9 W
9 W	5.5 W
5 W	2 W

All technologies vs. LED

Since we have indicated the equivalences between CFL lights and LEDs, we thought that it would also be useful to explain equivalences with other technologies. Thus, we hope you can easily see the possible energy savings with LED. This technology saves the most energy and money in your home, office or warehouse.

Wattage incandescent light	Wattage halogen light	Wattage low consumption light (CFL)	Wattage Sodium light	Wattage fluorescent tube	Wattage LED
-	-	-	-	-	200 Watt
-	-	-	200 Watt	-	100 Watt
-	-	-	-	-	80 Watt
-	-	-	150 Watt	-	60 Watt
-	-	-	70 Watt	-	30 Watt
-	-	-	-	70 Watt	24 Watt
150 Watt	-	33 Watt	-	58 Watt	22 Watt
-	100 Watt	28 Watt	-	36 Watt	18 Watt
-	-	25 Watt	-	-	13 Watt
100 Watt	-	22 Watt	-	-	12 Watt
-	75 Watt	18 Watt	-	-	11 Watt
-	60 Watt	16 Watt	-	-	10 Watt
75 Watt	50 Watt	15 Watt	-	20 Watt	9 Watt
-	40 Watt	-	-	-	8 Watt
60 Watt	-	13 Watt	-	-	7.5 Watt
50 Watt	30 Watt	11 Watt	-	-	6 Watt
40 Watt	-	9 Watt	-	-	5.5 Watt
-	-	-	-	-	5 Watt
30 Watt	-	8 Watt	-	-	4 Watt
25 Watt	-	7 Watt	-	-	3 Watt
-	-	5 Watt	-	-	2 Watt
9 Watt	-	-	-	-	1 Watt

We hope this table is clear enough!

Here are two examples to understand the use of this table:

For example, if the light you need to replace is a 75W incandescent lamp and you replace it with halogen light, you will have to choose a 50W light (or the one that comes closest to it). However, if the light to be replaced is a 25W CFL and you want to replace it with an LED, you can simply choose a 12W LED light and you're done.

Note that this chart is a guide to better understand the equivalences but it do not mean that you cannot choose a lamp with a Watt more or less.

Please also note that in this article we only mention the power of Light, not the cap or the colors to which you should also pay attention when choosing a new light.