LED lighting understands that consumption is not easy

Energy-saving and emission reduction has always been the direction advocated by the country. In home products, such ideas are also common. In the past two years, an upsurge of LED energy saving has arisen. However, at the end of 2012, the National Bureau of Quality Supervision, the State Administration of Quality Supervision, and the Bureau of Industry and Commerce investigated the LED lighting products, energy-saving lamps, road lighting, fire emergency lighting, and electric light sources throughout the country. The results showed that the LED lighting product pass rate was only 51%. .

Where is the price difference expensive?

The reporter took a walk in the market as a consumer. Basically, each merchant had sales of different brands of LED lighting products. The price difference between different products was huge. Taking a 4-watt LED spotlight as an example, the price ranges from about 15 yuan to more than 100 yuan. The price of small factories in Guangdong is basically about 15-40 yuan, and the price of famous domestic brands is about 70 yuan, while the prices of foreign brands such as Philips and Osram exceed 100 yuan.

When a reporter asks a business about the reason why the price difference is so great, the merchant simply says that "quality is not the same." A merchant took out a 15 yuan and a 30 yuan LED spotlight to demonstrate to reporters. After power on, the merchant pointed to one of them and said: "The light is much brighter, and the quality is definitely better." And at another merchant, the same phenomenon, the merchant pointed at the slightly darker LED light and said: "The light is soft "It is not harsh and the quality is obviously better", and it shows that the bright one will become very dark after six months, and it will not reach the lighting needs...

The completely different view of the two businesses made the reporter confused. For the service life of the products, most of the merchants in the lamp market advertise that “the time limit for use is more than 10,000 hours, and the family’s service life should be more than 8 years”, but correspondingly, the warranty period provided is generally only 1- 2 years, so to speak, the service life seems to have become a "theoretical concept."

Quality is hard to distinguish between ordinary consumers

With many doubts about LED lighting products, the reporter interviewed Mr. Luo who has been engaged in sales of LED products for many years. He told reporters that from the practical use point of view, the quality of LED lamps can be evaluated from color temperature, power, and life. Some of the LED lights used in the display cases have relatively high color temperature requirements. To ensure that the colors of the exhibits do not appear distorted under the illumination of the LED lights, the household use is more important in terms of power and service life. These indicators only use professional instruments. In order to determine, it is very difficult for ordinary consumers to identify the quality of a product by simply comparing it. “

The LED market is so messy that sometimes we can't figure out which one is a good product and which one is a bad product. Manufacturers have different opinions, our dealers can only make small profits with the flow. "Mr. Luo reluctantly said. Indeed, from the current market situation, the price confusion of LED lighting products and product quality has become the biggest factor hindering consumer choice.

Subsequently, the reporter interviewed IKEA who is fully promoting LED lighting products. Its responsible person stated that IKEA plans to replace all lighting products with LED lights by 2016. From a professional point of view, LED lights do have many advantages, because compared with ordinary incandescent lamps, LED lamps can save 85% energy and increase their service life by 20 years. But the person in charge also said that because the consumer market for domestic household LED lighting products is still not very mature, how to let more consumers understand and accept LED lighting products, and learn to choose mature and standardized LED products, there is still a long way to go To go, we need the joint efforts of the entire industry.