Light Bulb Showdown: LED Filament vs. LED Bulb

Recently, industry insiders claim all the marketing campaign nowadays regarding filament bulb fail to provide convincing support for the prosperous market projection, and analyze the filament bulb in details as below, A. Structure, performance to be improved The luminous property of an LED lamp and an incandescent is extremely opposite from each other, so it is a bit of imposition for LED filament lamps to imitate their traditional counterparts in virtually identical look. If just for the luminous efficacy, there are already comparatively mature second light distribution method. Nevertheless the key of LED filament bulb lies in the filament, once it gives up the light distribution, all the simulation in appearance is but copycat mechanically. B. Poor heat dissipation is an obstacle The heat dissipation condition of LED filament decides that the number of filament couldn’t be reduced, meanwhile the LED filament couldn’t bend. That brings influences in 4 aspects: a. technology difficulty b. volume increase c. quality risk d. cost rise C. Small market for illusory consumer need obviously the bright 360-degree illumination of the incandescent is merely a coincidence rather than the need of human kind. Thus it is a switch of conception to force an LED bulb into providing 360 degrees flux geometry, and obtrude what they think on consumers. As LED filament lamps mimic the luminous property of incandescent lamps, the limitation it would endure is just as incandescent lamps. D. Difficult promotion, lack of new selling point It is apparent that LED filament lamps strive to replace the fully-scale eliminated incandescent lamp market, yet the deliberate mimicking ends up with embarrassment in marketing. The light bulb in Livermore’s fire department is now in its 114th year of illumination, how could LED filament lamps boast their long lifespan? When it comes to energy-saving and environmentally friendly, LED lamp has more to say. Not to mention the price, so their only focus left would be untenable vintage. E. Difficult process, poor heat output The problem of LED filament is underlying technical logics, and the issues get too interconnected to be solved thoroughly especially in heat dissipation, volume and power. The differences between LED Filament and LED Bulb as below infographic.