ITI's Light Emitting Diodes

Unlike other manufacturers who purchase LEDs for their products, we at ITI Group USA uniquely design and package our own LEDs for use in our products. Our LED Lamps feature our leading ITI LED technology.

ITI Advantage
For most indoor LED lighting, ITI uses its proprietary ITI low-power LED (looks like the traditional 5mm LED, however it’s performance is technologically superior). The distinguishing factors for ITI's improved performance are:

1. LED Packing - Not all LEDs are packed the same. ITI's unique packing of the 5 mm LED overcomes its traditional shortcoming of high lumen depreciation. Please view the graphs below.
2. Unique Design - ITI's products have a greater refraction index, helping to capture all emitted light and to shine that light outwards
3. Less Heat Generation - The amount of current passed through a 5mm LED chip is around 1/16 to 1/20 the amount passed through a high-power 1 watt LED chip. As less current is passed through the 5mm LED chip and the resistive joint pass*, each LED generates less heat, resulting in a cooler system.
   
   *At each electrical connection there is a amount of resistance against the current, which results in heat generation. Therefore, if less current is passed through each connection then less heat will be generated.
   
   
4. Greater Heat Dissipation - As it takes 16 to 20 5mm LED chips to equal 1 watt of power, the multiple chips have a greater surface area than a single chip 1 watt high-power LED, allowing for greater heat dissipation. Also, each LEDs cooler operation temperature helps to extend its lifespan and minimize lumen depreciation.
5. Greater Light Distribution - Each 5mm LED has a greater proportional optical surface area compared to a high power LED to allow for increased external light extraction per chip.
   

Lumen Depreciation

 

Smooth Dimming

ITI LED's are capable of dimming smoothing on standard household triac dimmers. Full range dimming from 1% to 100% brightness is achieved with no flicker or extra equipment.

Competitors

Many current LED lamps on the market now use high powered LEDs (HPLEDs) to provide enough lumens. However these HPLEDs are prone to overheating - which is destructive towards the HPLEDs - and requires the LED bulb to include heavy heat sinks which drive up their cost. Other competitors forgo the use of HPLEDs and use a larger number of traditional 20mA LEDs in their bulbs. The advantage is lowest cost and reduced heat, which eliminates the need for unsightly heat sinks. The problem with these bulbs is that the traditional 20mA LED has high lumen depreciation.

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source: Lighting Research Center NLPIP Lighting Answers: LEDs

LED lamps using the 20mA white LEDs are often advertised to last 50,000 hours. This can be misleading, as when only 8,000 hours has passed, the LED is only giving off 60% less light than it initially provided. Click to learn more about LED life.