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Types of energy saving lamps:

A low consumption lamp is a lamp that saves you money and helps the environment. These lamps consume 80% less energy. If you care about tackling global warming, bulbs like this one are a great place to start. During its lifetime, an energy-saving light bulb stops about one ton of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere. In general, there are two different types of lamps: CFL lamps (low consumption fluorescent lamps) and LED lights.

What is the structure of the energy saving lamp?

In general, energy-saving lights save energy by creating heat-free light using a completely different process called fluorescence. It's inspired by creatures like fireflies and glowworms, whose bodies contain chemicals that create "cool light" without any heat. The general name of the light produced in this way is luminescence.

The structure of the energy-saving lamp is standard. In general, getting to know the structure of these lamps helps us to get to know more about the characteristics and application of these lamps. There are also 11 watt, 18 watt, 25 watt and more energy efficient bulbs. Here's how they all work:

You plug the base of the energy-saving lamp into the electrical outlet.

Just inside the base, where the case protrudes, is a small electronic circuit, containing a transformer, which steps up the input voltage. This means the lamp can produce more light and also helps reduce vibration.

The circuit will be connected to several electrical plates called electrodes.

When electricity flows through the electrodes, electrons boil off their surface and extinguish the thin white tubes, which contain mercury gas.

As the electrons descend, they collide with mercury atoms. This collision gives energy to the mercury atoms so that their electrons jump to a higher energy level. But this makes the mercury atoms unstable, so the electrons quickly bounce back. When they do, they emit photons of invisible ultraviolet light (a frequency slightly higher than the blue light we see), shown here as a purple wiggly line.

If fluorescent light bulbs produce invisible light, how do they glow white? This is the clever part. Thin glass tubes of a fluorescent light are coated in a white chemical called phosphor. When UV light hits phosphor atoms, they excite their electrons in the same way that mercury atoms are excited. This makes the phosphorus atoms unstable, so they lose their excess energy as photons—which, this time, appear to be white light.

Energy-efficient light bulbs last 8 times longer than incandescent bulbs. Regardless of the technology used in it, these lamps can produce up to hundreds of thousands of hours of light and can be repaired quickly in case of failure. Another advantage of energy-saving lamps is to avoid wasting energy in the form of heat. Conventional lights convert a large amount of electrical energy into heat, and this practically causes the environment to heat up unnecessarily, but by optimizing this process, energy-efficient lamps can produce much less heat, and this also leads to saving electricity.

These types of lights are made with different technologies. Fluorescent and LED lights are the most common methods of producing energy-efficient lamps. Types of energy-efficient lamps have come to the aid of mankind in order to control electricity consumption and its cost, and to do less harm to the environment. Energy-saving lamps may have a higher price compared to old lights, but their long life and very low consumption justify the purchase of these lamps. Do not forget to pay attention to the standard mark when choosing a low consumption lamp

Disadvantages of CFL lamps:

Fluorescent CFLs are much better energy savers than incandescents , but they still have some drawbacks, they have a lot of electronic circuitry inside them and are hard to recycle at the end of their life, so most bulbs like this are on-site. End of landfills. The mercury in them is toxic, so if you break a light bulb inside your home, there's little risk to your health (and the mercury also pollutes the landfill).