UK's first LED street lights

liam8282

Fred_Bear wrote: »

The article says 8 years to pay for themselves.

Yes I missed that, all in all then a good idea.

As I said, just about all of the lights in my area have already been changed and personally I think they are much better.

MFW_10YRS_4

We have had solar powered LED street lights in a park near us for years now, they work pretty well but the panels are a bit unsightly.

Ben84

I remember going to France many years ago and driving through Calais, where they had bright white road lighting. Maybe halogen, I don't know. I really liked it though, everything seemed brighter and I could see much better. The yellow sodium lights can make depth perception worse and I feel they make me more tired.

tori.k

we have had these fitted and its a nightmare we live in a rural location with the white light you can no longer see the car lights on the road coming around corners, it wont be long before these cause an accident.

suekimmy

This is brilliant! What a great idea. I hope more countries would follow this.

LolaLemon

We have them, one right outside my front door. As much as I am grateful for the council to give me a security light to see the keyhole when drunk, but they are far to bright. It is constant daylight outside. I can't sleep at night.

liam8282

LolaLemon wrote: »

We have them, one right outside my front door. As much as I am grateful for the council to give me a security light to see the keyhole when drunk, but they are far to bright. It is constant daylight outside. I can't sleep at night.

You should contact the council, they can put deflectors on them to make sure the light is not directed at your windows.

malc_b

I suspect the saving is more to do with not replacing the bulbs. Sodium, high pressure sodium (yellow white), or metal halide mercury (white) lamps are reasonably efficient see

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminous_efficacy

Which reckons small LED lamps are less efficient. Of course it might help that LEDs are naturally one direction rather than 360 of a bulb. And being white probably helps too, less light needed to see.