LED Lighting Conversions
LED Lighting Conversions
Are you still on the fence about whether to convert your existing neon or fluorescent-lit sign to LED lighting? Let’s shine a light on the benefits of LEDs versus traditional components in your signage.
Your Bottom Line
As a business owner, everything comes down to dollars and cents. Fluorescents once dominated sign illumination. So, how do fluorescents compare to LED? Making the switch can result in significant savings. In fact, most businesses can expect to see a return on investment within one to two years; long-term savings are even more substantial.
Sign Conversions
LED lighting can be used for channel letters, monument signs, box signs – any sign that was previously lit with halogen, incandescent, fluorescent, or neon. You will find converting to LED lighting creates a more inviting setting, offers architecturally appealing highlights, and offers reliability like nothing else. The immediate financial savings can’t be ignored and the benefits to your business are undeniable.
We recommend upgrading your existing neon or other lighted signs to LED by contacting City Sign Services today. We offer full-service conversion with licensed in-house technicians.
Retrofits: The Process
As a leader in signage lighting technology, we have over 65 years of experience with signs and retrofitting existing traditionally lit signage to LEDs.
Retrofits are most often completed in cabinet signs and channel letters, though any illuminated signage can be converted to LEDs. Prior to converting, our experts will determine factors like the sizes needed, configuration as it relates to the design, level of brightness, and colors and create a game plan for your retrofit. Our teams can replace the older components with newer LEDs to have your sign up and shining with the least amount of disruption.
- Custom Business Signs
- Neon Signs
- Modern Business sign
- Exterior Signs
- Monument Signs
- LED Signs
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Outdoor Lighting Conversions
LED lighting in a new technology that offers more benefits over traditional lighting for your business interior and exterior needs. Parking lot lighting and building lighting helps create a sense of safety and security while minimizing maintenance and energy costs.
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LED Lighting Conversions
The Benefits of LED Signs
Older channel letter signs used neon lighting because it was the only option and the least expensive choice at the time. Due to high maintenance and lack of cold weather reliability, neon offers inferior performance to the newer technology of LED. At City Sign Services, we have been switching our sign and parking lot lighting customers over to LED. And, of course, all new lighted signage is made with LED lamps. See for yourself the benefits of making the switch:
- Plastic instead of glass for improved performance in extreme temperature fluctuations
- Improvements in technology have lowered the price of LEDs
- LEDs require much less maintenance
- They use 1/20th the electricity of neon
- Reduce energy costs by up to 94%
- Long life – 30,000-50,000 hours (approximately 10-12 years of nightly use)
- Less risk of fire means lower insurance costs
- They do not attract bugs as there is no heat emitted
- Fewer required primary electrical circuits
- The power supply units are much less expensive than neon transformers
- LED is a low-voltage system of 12-volts (as opposed to neon, which is high 120-volt) which means the illumination is just as vivid yet less invasive
Breaking It Down:
- Fluorescent lamps are less efficient than LED lighting. In fact, LED’s consume up to 90% less energy than traditional fluorescents. That represents more dollars in your pocket.
- The average life span of fluorescent components is 7,000 to15,000 hours. That means you may need to replace your fluorescent lamps as much as once a year. LED lighting lasts 50,000 to 100,00 hours which translates to years of worry-free lighting.
- LED lighting is more durable and does not require as frequent maintenance as fluorescent lamps or neon tubes. Less service calls means you’re spending less to keep your sign working optimally.
- LED’s do not need to acclimate to the weather – even in colder temperatures. LEDs shine brightly in an instant!
- The flexibility of LEDs means more design options.
- LED’s operate at a lower voltage than fluorescents which makes them a safer choice.
- Due to gases and chemicals like mercury, neon and fluorescent lights are considered hazardous and are a greater liability when it comes to breakage and disposal.
- Finally, LED technology is greener and more ecologically friendly than traditional lighting – from energy savings to the actual products, LED’s are better for the environment.
Convert For These LED Benefits
LED lighting in a new technology that offers more benefits over traditional lighting for your business interior and exterior needs. Parking lot lighting and building lighting helps create a sense of safety and security while minimizing maintenance and energy costs.
- Brighter, cleaner light
- Lights can last up to 100,000 hours
- Cost savings on electricity
- Lower energy consumption
- Instant on, no wait time
- Better light spread
- Reduced maintenance