Led Replacement Bulbs For Metal Halide Lights

When replacing metal halide lights with led lighting what you should carefully look at are the lumens the leds produce.

Led replacement bulbs for metal halide lights.

Led lighting provides a long lasting. Watts are important but they measure energy consumption not light output. With led lighting no lumens are lost because of reflection you need fewer led lumens than metal halide lumens to get the same amount of light it s a matter of quality over quantity. When choosing the best led replacement for metal halide fixtures you will want to decide whether or not you want to remove the ballast and operate the bulb on direct line voltage 120 208 220 240 or 277v or if you want to operate the bulb directly on the existing metal halide ballast.

We carry options that include complete new fixtures such as led high bay lights and led parking lot lights to change out the whole unit. Led light is focused while metal halide light is not. The most commonly used type of light bulb base an e26 base has a 26mm diameter and screws into a compatible socket. Metal halide lights are very bright when new but lose their lumens very quickly.

Remember leds are more efficient than metal halide lamps so you cannot buy 20 1000 watt led bulbs to replace 20 1000 watt metal halide bulbs. Before led lighting became the powerhouse that it is today the most common form of commercial lighting was metal halide lights. We also carry retrofit options such as led corn light bulbs and led retrofit kits. These hid and led hid replacement light bulbs have a medium screw base also called an e26 base.