Trips to various poultry supply vendors and LED distributors revealed boxes and boxes of failed LED lamps (still under warranty) of various brands that had been returned by growers. ![]() Starting late last fall, we began getting an increase in calls from growers concerning strange dimming issues and premature LED lamp failures. However, during the transition from incandescent to LEDs, there have been some hiccups (Tabler et al., 2019). LEDs are roughly 80–85 percent more efficient than incandescent lamps. ![]() No other lighting source (incandescent, compact fluorescent, cold cathode, high pressure sodium, etc.) comes close to the energy efficiency of LEDs. ![]() LED lamps have changed the landscape for poultry growers in terms of energy savings related to poultry house lighting.
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