Will cold weather affect outdoor LED lights? - Outdoor Lighting

RE: Affect the weather

parkar_daniel — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 10:44:48 +0000

The only thing that might be impact is the driver, but I think that would be fine.

RE: Affect the weather

harriet_paul — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 10:40:53 +0000

Correct, in fact LED flood lights thrive in cold weather. So no problem whatsoever.

RE: Affect the weather

john_margaret — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 10:36:07 +0000

LEDs are absolutely the perfect choice for cold weather because they operate optimally in the cold.

RE: Affect the weather

wright_henry — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 10:33:25 +0000

It is the other way - in fact HEAT is the problem for LEDs, not cold.

RE: Affect the weather

smith_eliza — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 10:31:45 +0000

For LEDs, 90 per cent of the energy is converted to light.

LEDs do get hot but they have a heat sink to draw away the heat - and of course, if i is cold, this heat becomes less of a problem, so cold does not impact them.

RE: Affect the weather

martin_white — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 10:30:05 +0000

Traditional incandescent lights work by heating up a filament (usually tungsten) to such a degree that it emits heat and light. Only about 5 or 10 per cent of the energy is actually converted into light however - most is heat. So the colder it is, the harder the light has to work, which is why cold was such a problem.

However LEDs don't use this mechanism, so cold is not a problem.

RE: Affect the weather

david_green — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 10:28:27 +0000

LEDs can actually perform better with colder weather, but definitely you won't have the same problems that sued to happen with other lights.

RE: Affect the weather

Hanry — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 10:27:41 +0000

LED lights have much longer lifespans than other lights, and that includes under cold weather - cold weather has negligible impact on LED lights.

Will cold weather affect outdoor LED lights?

Martha — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 10:24:04 +0000

How will cold weather affect LED lights operating outdoors?