Purpose-built LED lighting fixtures have several advantages over purpose-built fluorescent lighting fixtures for home use.
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LED lights are less toxic than fluorescent lights: LEDs don’t contain mercury, unlike fluorescent bulbs.
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LED lights don’t require ballasts that may make buzzing noises like fluorescent lights.
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LEDs never have a flickering problem when they age, unlike fluorescent bulbs.
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Expensive LEDs can produce higher quality light than fluorescent lights.
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LEDs last longer and require less maintenance than fluorescent lights.
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LEDs are more energy efficient than fluorescent lights.
If there are so many advantages to LED lights, are there and disadvantages? Yes, but the reasons are few and far between.
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High quality LED lighting can be quite expensive: the economics could easily work out such that a homeowner only planning to be resident for 5-10 years in the area would save money if they chose fluorescent lighting fixtures over LED lighting fixtures.
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Cheap LED lighting can be provide worse quality light than cheap fluorescent lighting.