Top 3 Reasons you want to replace your 1000W Metal Halide High Mast Lights with LED

There is a great opportunity to convert High Pressure Sodium and Metal Halide High Mast Lights over to LED, but what really are the true benefits? Is it worth all the hype and trouble?

Reduce your energy consumption by 60% or more

Converting to LED is a no brainer. You can easily replace a 1000W Metal Halide or HPS High mast light with a LED version that consumes between 350-400 Watts. When you take into account ballast draw of the old fixture, you are looking at an almost 66% reduction in energy consumption. But because LED’s allow for the addition of smart controls like motion sensors, turning off or turning down LEDs when no one is in the area can save you even more. LEDs are instant strike lights, that means, when you tell them to go, they go. Unlike metal halide and hps that take up to 30 minutes to restrike, LED’s are instant on and instant off, making them prime candidates for energy saving controls (read more below)

Create a brighter, safe environment

LEDs have a high “quality of light”, or better known as Color Rendering Index, or CRI for short. This is an index between 0 and 100, 0 being terrible, 100 being great. Sunlight is 100, being in a bat cave is 0. High Pressure Sodium is typically a 20-40 CRI and a color temperature of around 2700K. So very poor quality of light - that is why everything looks brown and yellow. Metal Halide is better, and some bulbs even rival that of LED, but typically they are around 60. LED is typically 70+, 80 is common. So the general rule we light to say is you need less quantity when you have better quality. And better quality makes it look brighter, and everything appears lit. Making your environment lit by LED High Mast Lights a safer working environment.

Control your lights with controls

Controls come in many forms. Some are simple fixture specific controls like motion sensors or photocells. Motion sensors turn on and off or on and dim a light, photocells turn on a light at dusk and off at dawn. But controls can be so much more. Think of LEDs as electronic lights, and add to it WIFI controls that allow you to control and monitor that light from within software. This allows you to schedule, control and monitor all your lights, turning off lights where you know no one will be around. Monitoring lights for faults - you know that a light is failing before it becomes an issue. And nothing is better than saving money than off. So embrace controls, because they will make a money saving experience even better.

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