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The Underwater LED Lighting Advantage

Graph showing longer lifetime for LEDs

With recent advances in brightness and efficiency, LED technology is now considered the only sensible choice for underwater lighting systems. The LED is resistant to shock and vibration and has unmatched power density across a wide range of wavelengths.

The inherent long life and low ownership cost provides significant efficiency, practicality and economy over its rivals.



Longer Life - 50,000 hour lifetime

Unlike Halogen, Xenon or HID, LED technology is 'solid-state' in other words there are no delicate filaments to break. The LED is resilient to shock and vibration, making them ideal for the harsh marine environment. In addition, the inherit long life of the LED means that they will last for over 50,000 hours. Halogen and Xenon will typically last up to 1,000 and 5,000 hours respectively, and usually considerably less.

Vibrant Colours or Instant Colour change

Halogen and Xenon are restricted to single colour white or blue light. By selecting various combinations of wavelengths, Lumishore can produce LED arrays that emit vibrant colours across a wide colour gamut from red through to blue and also offer the user a combined light unit that can produce up to 16million colour combinations from a single light source.

Maintenance Free  - no bulb changes or serviceable parts

Once installed the Lumishore LED units are fit and forget, there are no serviceable parts to worry about so continued access to the lights is no longer an issue. The units are permanently sealed at the manufacturing stage making them completely resistant to water penetration.

Higher Efficiency - More light for less power

Like a vessels fuel efficiency is measured in miles per gallon, a light source is measured in Lumens per watt the amount of light it produces for every watt of electricity consumed. The higher LED efficiency means that it produces more light with less drain on the vessels battery banks.

No Colour or Intensity drift

During general use, as a bulb ages it can subtly change colour and brightness, if a number of devices have been installed and a single bulb fails then the new replacement bulb will look noticeably different to the others. The long life of the Lumishore LED technology ensures that no bulb changes will be required. During the manufacturing process each device is carefully selected so that the colour and intensity falls within a predefined allowance. This ensures that each light looks identical in appearance to the next.

No Start up current

When switched on, Xenon and HID technologies consume very large amounts of current in order to provide sufficient power to arc the bulb thus putting huge strains on the battery. LED technology can be switched on or off instantly and repeatedly with no additional current draw required.