Choosing the Right Lights for Your Pool

There are three common types of pool lights, halogen, incandescent, and, more recently, LED pool lights. Choosing the right light for your swimming pool ultimately comes down to your budget, the importance of efficiency, and how important a feature is to you.

These are the oldest lamps. This is basically just your regular light bulb that produces light by passing a current through the filament until it glows. If you think this is very inefficient, you are right, they are the least efficient type of pool lighting. 

In addition to being inefficient, incandescent pool lights also have the lowest rated life. The heat generated by the bulb takes an average of 1,000 hours of use before it burns out. A thousand hours doesn't sound like a lot, because it's not. If you love swimming at night and assume you only use your pool lights 4 hours a day, you're going to have to replace your lights before the end of the year. But don't count incandescent lamps,

Halogen pool lights are currently the standard for pool lights but are gradually being replaced by LED lights. Halogens are basically like your incandescent bulbs, but they have a small amount of halogen gas inside the bulb. In doing so, it allows the filament to operate at a higher temperature, which translates into brighter light with lower power consumption and a long lifespan. Halogen lamps generally have a longer lifespan than incandescent pool lights, ranging from 2,000 to 2,500 hours.

LED pool lights are fairly new, but they are gradually replacing halogen pool lights as the lighting standard. The function of an LED is to pass current through a very efficient and bright light-emitting diode (hence the name LED). Not only that, but depending on the model of the lamp, you can switch colors with the click of a button! Many LED pool lights are rated for 50,000 hours of usage, but even if we conservatively consider 25,000 hours, that's still 10 times that of halogen lights or 25 times that of traditional incandescent pool lights.

If you are on a budget, LED pool lights are the right lights for your pool. Upfront costs aside, they last much longer than traditional incandescent or halogen pool lights, and they come in more styles. Not only that, but with the rising cost of electricity in Australia, an efficient pool lighting solution seems like the obvious choice. We mentioned that LED lights use 90% less energy than incandescent or halogen bulbs, but how does this translate into numbers? In short, if you use $400 a year in electricity to light your pool with traditional bulbs, the cost of using LED pool lights is about $40.

In power saving alone, LED lights pay for themselves! So which light is right for your pool? If you're like us and want to get the most out of your pool, LED pool lights are the way to go. MAYGO POOL is a professional custom pool accessories manufacturer, our main products are pool lights, pool pumps, pool filters, etc. We specialize in professional technical solutions for residential and commercial swimming pools. At present, we have provided swimming pool solutions to thousands of customers in North America, South America, Europe, Australia, etc.