With the increasing awareness of environmental protection and energy saving, the cost of LED panel lights in nigeria has been continuously reduced. In Nigeria, more and more offices, commercial supermarkets, and other commercial places use LED panel lights to replace traditional grille tubes. There are price differences between panel LED lights from different merchants on the market. Today, let’s analyze the price of LED panel lights in the Nigerian market.
How much is the led panel lights in Nigeria?
In whole markets, the LED panel lights are including 300x300mm, 600x600mm, 1200x300mm, and 1200x600mm in size, however, the 600x600mm panel led lights is the most popular and request. So today, we just take LED panel light 600×600mm as the case for anlyse the cost difference.
We have collected some quotes from Nigerian LED panel light suppliers on the Internet and classified them into the following table.
| Size | 600x600mm ( 595x595mm) | |||
| Type | Edge lit | back lit | Edge lit | Back lit |
| Wattages | 40w | 40 | 36w | 36W |
| Brand | AKT | jiji | Newton | Philips |
| Unit cost(₦) | ₦26,500.00 | ₦15,500.00 | ₦22,000.00 | ₦49,000.00 |
From above table, it is clear the price of led panel lights from different supplier is very big difference. Some even much lower than above.
Why like this? mostly it is decided by the quality of raw materials. Quality is often proportional to price
In order to know details about reason, You need to know following things about LED Panel lights.
What is LED Panel Light? and types?
LED panel lights are flat lighting fixtures with aluminum alloy as the outer frame material and LED as the light source. Its design features are that the light passes through the light guide plate or backlit emmision without LGP to form a uniform luminous surface, with uniform and soft illumination, which can relieve visual fatigue. The main technical parameters include light efficiency (80-100lm/W), color temperature (3000-6500K).
The type of LED Panel lights are including edgelit emission type, and backlit panel lights. Their price is big difference. Mostly edgelit type will be with LGP, in this case, its cost is much higher than backlit panel lights. Right now, in whole market, the backlit panel lights is the most popular.
Structure and materials
Frame: usually made of AL6063 aluminum extrusion, taking into account both heat dissipation and aesthetics.
| Frame type | Aluminum | Metal | Plastic |
| Cost | highest | cheap | much cheaper |
| Quality | Good | so so | bad |
Optical components:
For edgelit panel lights, it is including diffuser (acrylic or PC), light guide plate (dot design affects light effect), reflective paper (such as RW250), etc., to achieve uniform light output. Light source: mostly use 4014 or 2835 SMD chips. The key part is the LGP:
| LGP type | Description |
| PMMA | Good quality, there is also including different thickness, such as 2.0mm, 3.0mm, the more thickness, the higher cost, and the higher quality. |
| PS | Easy to be yellowing change for some months. All yellowing change’s edgelit panel lights is with this PS LGP. You need to be careful when the supplier provide the edgelit panel light with cheap price. |
For backlit panel lights, it is only consist of metal bottom, aluminum frame, PCB and diffuser plate PS cover. For backlit panel lights, there are also many different standard for raw materials causing the big difference in price.
| Component | Description |
| Frame | There are including different process and material for frame, aluminum, metal, and plastic frame options. And There are two types of outer frames: welding and splicing. The welding outer frame will be very firm, while the spliced outer frame will be easy to loosen. |
| PS cover | The difference is mainly thickness, the standard is >1.0mm at least, but for some cheap type, the supplier mostly use 0.5mm-0.6mm thickness which will be easier fragile. |
| Metal bottom | The thickness of the chassis is divided into 0.3mm, 0.25mm, 0.2mm, and 0.1mm. The thinner it is, the cheaper the price is, but the worse the quality is. At the same time, the surface process of the chassis is divided into painting and lamination. The painting has the best texture, is more resistant to high temperatures, and has a longer lifespan. Cheap panel lights often use lamination technology, which is easy to fall off. |
LED Driver: The led driver is the key part for a led panel lights. To a certain extent, it determines the actual life of a lamp.High-end LED panel lights often use high-quality, well-known LED drivers, such as Philips drivers, LiFud, Eagleries brand, etc.