Lighting Technology | Application | Advantages | Disadvantages |
Standard Incandescent | - Domestic use
- Localized decorative lighting
| - Direct connection without intermediate Switchgear.
- Reasonable purchase price.
- Compact size
- Instantaneous lighting
- Good colour rendering
| - Low luminous efficiency and high electricity consumption.
- Significant heat dissipation.
- Short service life.
|
Halogen Incandescent | - Spot lighting.
- Intense lighting
| - Direct connection
- Instantaneous efficiency
- Excellent colour rendering
| - Average luminous efficiency
|
Fluorescent tube | - Shops, offices, workshop.
- Outdoors
| - High luminous efficiency.
- Average colour rendering
| - Low light intensity of single unit.
- Sensitive to extreme temperatures
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Compact fluorescent lamp | - Domestic use.
- offices.
- Replacement of incandescent lamps
| - Good luminous efficiency.
- Good colour rendering
| High initial investment compared to incandescent lamps |
HP Mercury Vapor | - Workshops, halls, hangars.
- Factory floors
| - Good luminous efficiency.
- Acceptable colour rendering.
- Compact size
- Long service life
| - Lighting and relighting time of a few minutes
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High-Pressure Sodium | | - Very good luminous efficiency
| - Lighting and relighting time of a few minutes
|
Low-Pressure Sodium | - Outdoors
- Emergency lighting
| - Good visibility in foggy weather
- Economical to use
| - Long lighting time (5 mins).
- Mediocre colour rendering.
|
Metal halide | - Large areas
- Halls with high ceilings
| - Good luminous efficiency.
- Good colour rendering.
- Long service life.
| - Lighting and relighting of a few minutes
|
LED | - Signaling (3-colour traffic lights, exit signs and emergency lighting
| - Insensitive to the number of switching operation.
- Low energy consumption.
- Low temperature
| - Limited number of colors.
- Low brightness of single unit
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