Main Factors Affecting Street Light Prices

As cities develop and urban-rural construction advances, streetlights are vital to road infrastructure. Key factors in selection include appearance, lighting effect, quality and price. Prices generally range from 30 to 200 and tie closely to power, influenced by components like lamp housings, LED drivers, chips and functional requirements. We choose cost-effective, quality options for different countries' economies. This article focuses on streetlight prices to explore road lighting design key points. Paying attention to prices is subconscious, like when buying clothes or phones. Each project has a budget; end customers only consider options within it, comparing manufacturers to pick quality at acceptable prices. Projects also have standards, varying by country or set by customers-some focus on functions, others design. Within their price range, customers naturally seek better-configured, more functional products.

Main factors affecting street light prices

1. Street light housing

Lamp housing is an important part of the street lamp ( Explore more ZGSM LED street light fixtures ), which can be said to directly affect the service life of the lamp. Due to the improvement of modern technology, we generally use die-cast aluminum shells. For example, our K, Rifle, and Falcon series street lamps all use die-cast aluminum materials. This generally affects the price of street lamps due to different appearance designs and requirements. In addition, depending on the design, some die-cast aluminum and some aluminum profiles may be used, such as our H series and H EVO series street lamps ( Details of H EVO modular design road lamp ). Different designs have different street light prices due to different material usage.

Model	Nova series street light	Rifle series street light
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Power range	20-40W
Types of lamp housing	Die-casting aluminium + unadjustable fitter	Die-casting aluminium + adjustable fitter
Price of housing	Nova series is about 20USD lower than Rifle series

LED driver

LED driver is also an indispensable part of street lamp products, and it is also the key to the lighting of lamps. The quality of LED driver directly affects the service life and use effect of lamps. There are many types of drivers. According to whether there is a driver or not, they can be divided into lamps with driver and lamps without driver. According to the brand, there are many kinds. The more common and used driver brands are: Inventronics, Mean Well, Done, Sosen, Philips, etc. According to different functions, they are divided into 0-10v, 1-10V, drivers with DALI, drivers with DALI2 and D4i functions ( Find more about D4i ). According to different customer requirements, there will be solutions with corresponding LED drivers.

Street Light Price

Types of LED Drivers

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Parameters	50W, Lumileds 3030
Price (Inventronics VS Mean well)	Inventronics is 1USD higher than Mean well
Price (Inventronics VS Done)	Inventronics is 13USD higher than Done

2. LED chips

The quality of the LED chips directly affects the luminous efficiency and service life of the lamp. Generally speaking, the life of the LED chips is very long (unless it is an unreasonable design). As long as there is no quality problem, we don't have to worry. Luminous efficiency refers to the photoelectric conversion efficiency of LED chips (in lm/W). The higher the luminous efficiency, the more electrical energy the LED chips can convert into light energy, thereby improving the luminous efficiency of the lamp. Different types of LED chips have different luminous efficiencies, which also means that the prices are different. Generally speaking, the same brand, the price of LED chips with high luminous efficiency will be higher.

According to the type of LED chips, LED chips can be divided into 3030, 5050, 2835, 3535, 5730 and other LED chips (where 3030 represents the size of the LED chips, which is 30mm×30mm×1.5mm). According to different brands, they can be divided into: Lumileds LED chips, Philips LED chips, Bridge LED chips, Crescent LED chips, Ledestar LED chips, etc. Our company's street lamp products usually use Lumileds LED and Bridgelux LED or other LED chips. The following is a price comparison of Falcon series street lamp ( Details of Falcon series street light ) products using the same LED driver, the same power, the same function, but using different types and different efficiency LED chips:

Model	Falcon series street light
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Parameters	50W, Inventronics EUM-DG LED driver
Price	Lumileds 3030 is 10USD higher than Bridgelux 3030

3.Other functions

Because of the different economic development of different countries and regions, different countries may have different requirements for the functions of street lights. The following are the most common ones:

1. Street lamps with photocell (generally use 1-10V drivers or no dimming driver, with 3pin, 5pin, 7pin NEMA base + photocell) ( Watch the video of the Leaf Series streetlights featuring NEMA street light controller ) : can realize the function of automatic shutdown of lamps during the day and automatic lighting at night;

2. Street lamps with motion sensor functions, generally use 0-10v drivers ( What's 0-10V dimming of LED driver? ), with special motion sensors, can realize that when people come or vehicles pass, the lamps light up, and after people leave, the lamps automatically turn off within a certain period of time;

3. Another is street lamps with Zigbee or LoRa systems, which can detect the status of street lamps in real time, set street lamp brightness, fault reminder and other functions.