Antique Retail Shop
Customer
A retail shop selling antiques, ranging from sculptures to statues to antique furniture and antique telephones, uses many spotlights to highlight its products. The spotlights are mounted on tracks. The tracks, together with the spotlight holders, make it easy to adjust and focus the lights on the antiques. Antiques are expensive and it is important for them to be displayed in the best possible light. Unfortunately, traditional spotlights are yellow in color and some products, especially the dark-toned products, do not appear as attractive in yellow light as compared to white light.
The antique shop owner approached Huge Inventions with his problems and Huge Inventions readily met the challenge and delivered the solution.
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Lamps used
The retail shop used 12V 20W Gu5.3 halogen lamps. The halogen lamps produce yellow light, consume a lot of energy, are hot and do not last long. Huge Inventions proposed to the company to use imag Gu5.3-W03 LED lamps to replace the halogen lamps. They are of the same size and voltage and can use the back the same track light holder. The Gu5.3-W03 LED lamps are very versatile. The LED lamps can produce various colors of white, such as warm white, natural white and cool white. The lens of the LED lamps can also be customized, such as 10 degrees, 30 degrees or 60 degrees. Huge Inventions proposed Gu5.3-W03 LED lamps producing cool white and natural white and with 10-degree lens to the shop owner. The narrow angle lenses focus the light from the LEDs onto the subjects, which assist customers to appreciate the antiques better. The shop owner readily accepted the proposal as the LED lights will help him sell more of his products and save electricity at the same time.
Savings
The 20W Gu5.3 halogen lamp uses 20W. The imag Gu5.3-W03 LED lamp uses 3W. That works out to be a reduction of 17W (or 17/20 = 85%) in power consumption.
The retail shop operates for 12 hours a day and almost everyday in a year. The savings for 1 lamp works out to be 17 x 12 x 365 = 74,460 Wh (or 74 kWh). Taking the electricity tariff as SGD0.25 per kwh, the amounted 1 lamp saves for 1 year is SGD18.50. The shop uses about 50 lamps. That means a savings of SGD925.00 in electricity bills in 1 year or SGD2.53 per day.
Conclusion
LED lamps or LED lights can produce different colors of white. LED lamps or LED lights can have customized lens to focus the light. They also last much longer and consume up to 10 times less power than halogen lamps. The antique retail shop owner is happy to be able to highlight his antiques in white light, save significantly on his electricity bills and do his part for the environment.
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