UFO Style LED High Bay - UL Listed - DLC Qualified for rebates...

UFO Style LED High Bay - UL Listed - DLC Qualified for rebates from your utility company

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All the Major Reasons to Switch to LED Plant Lighting

The demand for lighting for indoor grow operations, LED technology has came in and made some major advancements that make it a near “no brainer” to use the technology over other grow light technologies.

As an indoor grower you need to make not only the best decision for your bottom line, but also for your plants quality and success rates. Both of these areas of concern for any grower can be address and even resolved with the technology we are going to be talking about in this post (LED). From using less wattage for the same amount of light outdoor to targeted wavelengths that allow for most optimal growing conditions for any plants indoors.

Now let’s start off with one of the biggest reasons LED plant light technology is so appealing to growers and why most will make the conversion away from other grow lights like HPS which consume too much energy, output too much heat, and a list of other cons.

Less energy used, yet same light is produced.

LED is infamously known for its ability to less energy all while outputting the same (if not more) amount of light. This is what we call efficiency and it’s making people from every industry consider LED seriously.

Imagine if you converted from HPS to LED, you could realize up to 50 to 75% reduction in energy usage in your plant lighting system alone. This would allow you to expand quicker, realize a greater net profit, and at the end of the day; bring more cash for you or your business. Sounds like a win-win with this benefit itself, but there are many more benefits like you are about to find out…

LED offers a longer lifespan.

How often do you find yourself switching our burnt out and / or no longer working lights? What if you could make the lifespan of your lighting system last 2-3 times longer?

Well, by upgrading to LED away from any other common grow light you can and will realize this increase in lifespan. Not only does this allow you to stop buying replacement lights so often, but it also reduces the amount of time you need to spend maintaining the lighting system which gives you more free time to do other important tasks.

Optimal growing conditions with targeted wavelengths.

LED grow lights offer more and overall better options for targeted wavelengths that match your needs for your growing environment. For any grower, this is highly important as different stages of a plant’s grow cycle call for different wavelengths to provide the most optimal crop. Full spectrum LED grow lights allow you to target very specific wavelengths which other technologies simply don’t and can’t offer. As any grower knows (or should know), this is simply something you cannot ignore if you want to be able to grow the best crop possible. Ignoring so may result in lower quality grows along with missing out on the other benefits LEDs offer (like listed in this post!).

Less heat is produced (near none).

Heat can be a huge issue for a grow operation, really at any scale. Take this for example: an incandescent grow light might produce 75 BTU’s per hour while the equivalent LED plant fixture might be producing only 2.5 BTU an hour. Since heat is often a very common issue for indoor growers, this can be one very highly effective way to reduce heat. In turn, you will also be able to reduce the amount of cooling you put into your operation, which will only reduce your overhead expenses even further.

Closing thoughts

Nearly every point we’ve made on this list has had a win-win situation by making the conversion over to LED plant lighting. The answer is near obvious on which is the superior technology for indoor growing environments.

The one con of LED is the initial cost investment. While they do cost more initially, they are slowly becoming cheaper and cheaper as technology gets more and more popular and advanced. On top of that, the energy saving benefits and quality benefits will produce a positive ROI, which will actually save you more money to go with LED overtime than it would have to choose other technologies

like HPS

. As a grower, you’ve got to always do what’s best for the bottom line all while maintaining the quality in your crop. Thus, LED is the perfect solution for your lighting issues in all aspects.

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Why are Stadiums Converting to an LED Lighting System?

The sports industry on both a national big league and local small high school team level are slowly starting to see the benefits that a lighting system full of LEd technology will bring some major benefit to their fields and place of game. Not only are they doing it for the energy savings, but also the benefits that include a better viewable game; which in turn allows the “fan” to have an overall much better experience at their game of choice.

Not only are stadiums and sport fields saving money by a reduction in energy consumption, but they are also realizing better quality of light benefits, along with a few others.

Let’s now discuss the benefits we talked about more in-depth, along with some of those other benefits that will seriously help you to making the decision on whether or not an upgrade to high mast LEDs is right for your field or not.

Reduces monthly overhead.

If you could reduce your stadiums overhead by up to 75% (associated with your lights), wouldn’t you at the very least look into it? What if LED could do that, and easily? Well, maybe not technically easy in regards to installation, but we are referring to “easy” meaning you can see these cost savings without much work, other than choosing LED in your stadium.

Older technologies which we commonly find in sports arenas include metal halide and high-pressure sodium. Since these are the most commonly found, we often talk about them when we talk about converting to LED at an arena. These are by far the most inefficient luminaires on the market, and by converting to LED high masts in your field, you will surely realize a (up to) 75% less energy usage in regards to your lights. For this reason alone is one of the main factors stadium managers look at and are attracted to when they discover this opportunity.

Lifespans are much longer.

Since high mast lights (the most common fixture at sport events) is so high in the air, it can get pricey to switch out just one burnt out light; let alone 20. Thus, by realizing a greater lifespan and less maintenance required lights by 2-3 or even 4 times longer; you can also realize a reduction in maintenance costs associated with lighting maintenance.

Not only will a longer lifespan reduce the amount of time you need to pay someone to switch out the burnt out bulbs, but it will also reduce the amount of time you need to buy replacement bulbs; which will too cost you most money overtime then it would of been to just invest in an LED sports lighting system to begin with.

Improve your fans experience through better quality illumination.

As a sports host, you must give the best experience to your guests as possible. And although lighting isn’t the only thing you can fix to make the experience that much better for visitors and fans, it surely can help you not only avoid complaints but also make visibility better.

Think, would you rather go to an underlit game where you can’t see as clearly? Or, would you rather for to a game that is bright and everything is visible as if it were day? We think the answer is obvious to that one.

On top of that, technologies such as metal halide (MH) and high-pressure sodium (HPS) are susceptible to flickering and / or buzzing throughout their lifespan. This as you may or may not know, can cause annoyance and even irritability. Flickering and buzzing lights have no place in any application, and especially not where you have a large amount of people gathering to enjoy a game; not experience lights that make the experience near unbearable for some. Thankfully by converting to LED technology you will never face this issue as LEDs are built in a different way which doesn’t allow them to ever flicker or buzz.

Final words

The benefits of creating not only a better experience for visitors but also the massive energy savings that come along with it make this decision a whole lot easier. And although an LED system may cost 50% more initially, it will pay itself back in longer lifespans, less maintenance costs and more importantly, lower energy usage.

Considering the conversion should always include all of the above listed content along with the goals of your organization. Because without fans that always come back for more, your field will be pretty boring.

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The Best Classroom Lighting System Starts with LED

Whether you are a grade school or college campus, the lighting in your buildings (and out) can make a serious effect on your students along with staff.

The effects of a low quality and bad lighting system (technologies like fluorescent, HPS, metal halide), can vary from high energy usage to lower concentration (which will reduce overall grade scores school-wide). These issues, as you can probably already imagine; have no place for a learning environment. This is exactly why an LED lighting system in schools in an absolute must if we want to achieve better efficiency in both energy usage as well as our students ability to learn.

Here are some of the main benefits that LED school lights will bring to your buildings by converting away from those other, lesser quality technologies:

• Reduce your energy consumption by 30% (or more)
• Receive rebates for lower a initial investment
• Indirectly improve concentration and attention
• Save more by retrofittings
• Lower maintenance costs through longer lifespans

Listing things above make the technology of LED seem like near the only lighting technology that you should install into your educational facilities. Although it may be one of those “too good to be true” type facts, it is all true. You can reduce costs related to your lighting system, all while improving your students learning environment.

One thing before we start going each thing a little more in-depth, realizing that while LED’s initial investment is a bit higher than other lighting system; you need to remember the keyword investment. Investing in LED, while it will cost a bit more initially, they will surely pay you back and then some. And will all these rebates and ever decreasing costs in the technology, LEDs are slowly producing even more and more higher ROIs.

Finally, let’s start off with the first one on the list, how LEDs will reduce energy consumption associated with your classroom and school lights...

Reduce your energy consumption by 30% (or more). The most common technology found within educational buildings will be fluorescent tubes. By converting to LED from fluorescent you will be able to realize a 30% reduction in energy consumption. For other lights that use metal halide or HPS technology (often found in gyms and outdoors in parking lots), you may realize up to a 75% reduction, which is some serious savings in energy usage.

This in and of itself is the major reason why businesses and schools are converting over to this technology. By using less energy by 30 to 75 percent, you will be able to realize a return on your investment within a few years, depending on how long each light fixture is on throughout the days.

Receive rebates for lower a initial investment. Receiving rebates on your investment will allow you to get money “off” on your lighting system. The only way to do this is by buying EnergyStar and / or DesignLights Consortium fixtures that have been qualified. This will bring opportunities available to you through your utility company called rebates, which will greatly reduce the costs related to initial investments of your lighting system upgrade.

Indirectly improve concentration and attention. If you’ve ever been around a flickering or buzzing light for even a few minutes, you know it can be extremely annoying.

By having flickering or buzzing lights in your building, your students will be dealing with this issue every single day that they are in school. Imagine what this is doing to your students and their grades?

Fluorescent, metal halide, HPS, and other similar technologies; they are all susceptible to flickering and buzzing. With LED, you will never experience this annoyance. In fact, not even near the end of an LEDs life span will they flicker or buzz. Don’t allow your students grades suffer from a bad lighting system!

Save more by retrofittings. Think about it, does it make more sense to replace an entirely fine light fixture? No it doesn’t, this is why retrofitting is highly popular. You can replace the light source within a perfectly fine light fixture, instead of paying to replace the entire fixture.

This is beneficial in two ways; a retrofit kit is cheaper than an entirely new fixture for starters. Secondly, it is cheaper to retrofit an existing fixture than it is to pay someone to fully replace one.

Thus, if you don’t need to fully replace a fixture; retrofitting will be a cheaper option overall.

Lower maintenance costs through longer lifespans. If you could pay your maintenance team 2-3 times less often to switch out burnt out bulbs, how much money would you save?

Well, you would reduce your maintenance costs associated with your lighting maintenance by 2-3 times, which for schools with a lot of lights (50+), this can prove to bring some major savings.

Since LEDs (on average) last 2-3 times longer, you can easily reduce maintenance costs by 2-3 times through their longer lifespans.

Conclusion

There are just a few of the main reasons that a LED lighting system in an educational environment makes perfect sense. From lower costs to operate and maintain to overall better lighting for learning.

Just remember that the initial investment cost will be a bit more, but the ROI is there and will easily pay itself back, and then some, within a few years.

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The Up Sides of Updating Your Educational Lights to LED

A school is the future in every way. People in school right now will be our future doctors, lawyers, and really every under job title you could possibly think of.

This is why it is crucial for every aspect of the learning environment to be near perfect, for the best possible results.

By converting to LED away from technologies such as fluorescent in our schools, we opt-in for higher grades, better concentration, and ever lower overhead. The types of benefits that we are going to list are beneficial in every aspect of an educational lighting system. If your facility is currently struggling with high overheads, low grades, or both; a conversion to LED technology may be of some great help to all of these issues that can come from our lighting system.

The main benefits we talk about when converting to LED, especially in schools and colleges, include the following:

• LED indirectly improves concentration / focus
• Reduce your energy usage by more than 30%
• Get rebates to reduce costs
• Retrofit vs fully replace
• Longer life spans = lower maintenance costs

The benefits as listed above, even without going over them (which we will do in a minute), prove to very intriguing for any manager of school operations to look into. The benefits seem too good to be true, but they are in fact; true.

Let’s now get into this list of benefits that an upgrade to your educational lighting system to LED could bring to your campus.

LED indirectly improves concentration / focus. Since fluorescent technology is susceptible to flickering and / or buzzing, that means you open up the opportunity for this annoyance to be in your classrooms.

If you’ve ever been under such conditions where the lights are flickering, buzzing, or even both; you know it can seriously take your attention away from tasks at hand.

This is exactly why we think it is unacceptable for fluorescent to be in schools, period. With LED, they will never flicker or buzz, not even near the end of their lifespan. This allows you to reduce the biggest factor of distraction when it comes to a lighting fixture within an educational environment.

Reduce your energy usage by more than 30% (to 75%). Since the most common technology used in schools these days is fluorescent, you will most likely be converting from that technology to LED. By doing so, you can reduce your lighting operation costs (energy usage) by up to 30%. This, although isn’t as much as 75%, can still prove to pay itself back and show an ROI for your investment in LED technology.

Where does “up to 75% reduction in energy usage” come from? From your parking lot and gymnasium. These lights typically use technologies such as metal halide or HPS, and are even MORE inefficient that fluorescent. By converting these types of fixtures over to LED, you can realize up to 75% reduction in energy usage associated with these lights directly.

Get rebates to reduce costs. Only qualified lights that have been tested and passed by Energy Star of DesignLights Consortium are (typically) eligible for rebates. For the most part, the DLC tests and qualifies commercial and industrial lights, where Energy Star focuses on practically everything else.

By getting lights that are qualified by either organization, you open yourself up to some pretty hefty rebates through your utility company. This will allow you to reduce your investment costs, which who wouldn’t like?

Retrofit vs fully replace. Think about this, does it make more sense to replace an entirely good fixture, or just replace the light source within that fixture? Its obvious, yet some people still look into a full replacement even when it is not needed whatsoever.

The only true reason you may want to fully replace your existing fixtures is if they are outdated or falling apart, otherwise retrofitting is the easier and cheaper way to go. By retrofitting vs fully replacing, you can save 50% in costs. This makes it an easy to choice to retrofit your fixtures over fully replacing them.

Longer life spans = lower maintenance costs. LED lights last longer, it’s a fact. Actually, a lot longer. They can last 2-3 times (or more) longer than other technologies.

This not only allows you to reduce costs associated with buying new lights more often, but also reduces the amount of time you must pay for someone to switch out those lights every time they burn out. Imagine a 2-3 time reduction in the amount of money it costs to switch out burnt out lights? This can be a lot, especially for large (or even small) schools with lots of lights.

Wrapping it up

There you have it, all of the major reasons why LED school lighting vs fluorescent school lighting is much smarter to choose LED. To recap, it will reduce overhead, maintenance costs; all while improving your school’s focus and (hopefully) grade improvements.

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What is 'Good' LED Hospital Lighting?

The way hospitals and healthcare facilities are, by nature, is very fragile. It’s a simple concept, and it can’t be ignored; it will always be a fragile environment in a hospital like environment in which patients need tending to.

The importance of the lighting system is often times overlooked as something that could produce not only unsafe environments if handled improperly; but also as a way to improve the bottom line. Both of these things can be addressed and even resolved with a quality hospital lighting system, key thing to remember there is quality.

In effort to help you identify what exactly a qualified LED lighting system is for healthcare facilities, we’ve outlined those identifiers below that you should always be on the lookout for when making a purchase of lighting fixtures for your facility…

Here is what defines a quality LED lighting system for healthcare facilities:

• Exact color temperatures based on a patient needs. With LED, you have a much broader and more exact choice of what color temperature you want to be installed. This gives you the option to meet certain scenarios and situations with the most optimal light for that room and / or area.
• LED technology will never flicker. A flickering light can cause some serious issues, especially in such fragile environments where you’ve got to watch your every move when it comes to your buildings operations. When you have flickering lights, they can cause eye stress, loss of attention, and overall discomfort. These can prove to be dangerous for not only patients directly, but also for doctors and staff. Since LED technology is built in a way that they will never flicker, they are the (for this reason alone) a winner when it comes to a good lighting system for your facilities.
• LED technology will never buzz. This point goes hand in hand with the point above. Buzzing causes people to be annoyed, lack of attention; all of which is no good for these types of environments. Opt-out for buzzing and flickering lights by switching away from technologies like fluorescent and HPS, and convert to LED for no more buzzing lights.
• They don’t contain toxic gases. Seriously, who in their right mind would put a toxic gas into their building in the first place; let alone a hospital? With fluorescent lights, you put your patients and staff at risk because they contain mercury. This is no place for mercury to get started, and it should not be anywhere near a fragile environment such as a hospital.
• Testing and approved by 3rd parties. Within the commercial lighting industry, we have one main organization that tests and either qualifies or doesn’t qualify fixtures based on their quality and efficiency. The DLC (or DesignLights Consortium) qualifies most commercial lights; and you should only be buying these fixtures that are qualified. Otherwise, you won’t truly know what you are in for when you buy and receive your new lights. On top of that, DLC qualified lights (either standard or premium) are typically eligible for rebates. This allows you to reduce your initial cost of investment, and produce a higher ROI

Things that all facilities should consider:

• Buy DLC qualified to get rebates. Like we just talked about, by buying DLC qualified you are eligible for more rebates; more often. This is a huge way to reduce your initial investment all while increasing long (and short) term ROIs.
• Never be cheap. Going cheap and trying to “save a buck” won’t be sustainable in the long run. By going with quality, you will run into a situation where you actually save a LOT more than if you were to cheap out every time it is time to switch out the luminaires in your building. It’s just not worth it.
• Lumens per watt is EVERYTHING. Lumens per watt is the pure definition of what efficiency is when it comes to any light; not just commercial lights. When you search for the higher lumen per watt luminaire, you will find yourself with the most (or close to most) efficient light fixture that you can find. This in turn, allows you to use less watts to produce the same amount of light as a competitive fixture would produce.
• Become educated, it will save you. Being aware of technology and industry terms, knowing what it what when it comes to types of fixtures, and knowing what to look for per se is highly important. Without being aware of what you should be looking for depending on the situation, you may just end up with the wrong fixture, for the wrong application.

Final Words

That about sums it up, we hope this post has brought some awareness to the issue’s that low quality and outdated lighting technology can cause in your buildings.

The simple answer to avoid it all is simple: choose LED. It’s the obvious and easy choice because it will save you money and increase safety for your patients and staff. How can you ask anymore from a lighting system?

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Another successful upgrade to LED High Bays

Another successful upgrade to LED High Bays

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What's the Best Area Lighting Technology?

Area lighting, most commonly used in parking lots for facilities and buildings, are a necessity to the lots safety, security, and even curb appeal. Finding a lighting technology that suits all of these needs and fulfills them is crucial to keeping visitors, staff, and property safe.

So… What exactly is the best area lighting that we can install or replace with our existing parking lot lights? We are going to compare LED vs metal halide technology, and show how LED is the clear winner when it comes to parking lights.

From energy efficiency to higher light quality, we are going to cover all the important aspects of LED and why exactly they are far superior to metal halide and other similar lighting technologies that are clearly outdated and no longer a “good” lighting choice for really any application.

Let’s start off with the first point on this list that is most often the most important point that makes people want to convert to LED from metal halide, HPS, and other luminaires.

Energy reduction through energy efficiency. Since LED technology outputs at more lumens per watt, this means LED can produce the same amount of light as a comparable metal halide fixture can measured in lumens, all with less watts. This is the single most important factor when measuring how efficient a lighting product is comparative to another. Whenever a fixture outputs at more lumens per watt, it is more efficient. And since LED technology is so efficient, it can actually reduce energy costs associated with your lighting system by 50% all the way up to 75% depending on which technology and products you convert away from.

With all of this efficiency that LED products will bring to your lighting system, you will be able to produce an ROI that is positive and pays back itself.

No flickering or buzzing. This annoyance that metal halide lights are susceptible can cause two issues: increased annoyance from visitors and employees and decreased security.

To address the first point, if you’ve ever been around a light that flickers or buzzes you know it can start to be frustrating, annoying, and even distracting after just a few minutes. This can reduce curb appeal and put people off in even the slightest way, which is never good for any business.

In regards to the security aspects, when a light flickers it is hard to detect human movement; especially when someone doesn’t want to be seen. This allows for greater risk of crime and a lessened ability to identify people when the area lights flicker.

A solution to this can be found through a replacement of metal halide with LED luminaires. How exactly? Simple, LED technology was just made in a way that it will never flicker or buzz, not even near the end of their lifespan; to say in simplest terms.

Rebates increase ROI. Imagine if next time you bought lighting to replace your shoe box lights (area lights), you could decrease your costs by achieving rebates? Well, with LED products that is completely possible as long as you buy the right products.

To be eligible for rebates through your utility company, you need to buy your commercial LED area lights that are DesignLights Consortium qualified. The DLC is an organization that qualifies commercial lights based on efficiency and quality, and only these types of lighting fixtures are eligible for rebates. So when you are on the lookout for new area lights for your lot, be sure to buy DLC qualified products!

Click here to visit the official DLC website to learn more.

Dimming capabilities. Sometimes we don’t want our parking lot lights to output at full capacity, for whatever reason that may be. With metal halide it can be both inefficient to do so, and in worse cases it can reduce the lifespan of the light source. LEDs are easily dimmable, are more efficient when you do dim them (they consume less energy because they output less light), and dimming an LED just doesn’t reduce its lifespan whatsoever. So if you have a need to install dimmer for your area lights, you can see many more benefits of doing it with LED luminaires installed over metal halide.

Conclusion

Convinced yet on the benefits of LED area lights over metal halide and really any other lighting technology? Hopefully, because these benefits of LED far surpass the non-existent benefits that metal halide bring to your lot.

To recap, making the switch and converting to LED from metal halide in your parking lot will allow you to realize lower energy costs associated with your area lights, no more buzzing or flickering which decrease both focus, curb appeal and security, eligibility for rebates more often than not, and dimming capabilities that prove to be effective.

Consider making the switch to LED from metal halide (or any other technology you may have in place currently) and gain all of these benefits and more by converting.

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Improve Your Parking Lot Safety With LED Area Lighting

Whether your facility, building, or lot is for public access or just employees; security and safety is paramount to all of those who have access to the parking lot. For this sole reason, along with just being and looking professional to the public eye, a proper lighting system is a must for your lot.

By having an under lit and overall low quality lot full of bad area lights, you increase the chance for crime in your lot to both people and property. This post is all about how we can greatly deter and thus reduce or eliminate any type of mischievous activity from entering the property’s parking lot. On top of the added benefit that quality parking lot LED fixtures will bring in regards to safety, we will also discuss cost saving benefits that will make the reasoning behind the upgrade even more feasible. This will allow for greater approval if you are simply just a property or facility manager. If you are a building owner on the other hand, it will just that much more improve the likelihood of you looking into this highly viable option and possibly even making the switch as soon as possible. Because not only with LED technology in your lot improve safety, but it will also improve your bottom line believe it or not!

What is “Parking Lot Lighting?”

Before we can explain why LED is superior to other outdated lighting technologies commonly used in the parking lot (like high pressure sodium and metal halide), we need to define what parking lot lighting consists of.

Typically we refer to it as “area lighting” for the more “official” term. On top of that, these area lights typically sit in a shoebox fixture, which is what you typically find in parking lots.

Now we list multiple ways that area lighting LEDs will improve safety, reduce costs, and create a better appeal to your business from a customer point of view.

No more underlit areas. By switching to LED from these other outdated technologies, you opt-out for the high lumen depreciation that metal halide and similar technologies are susceptible to. With lumen depreciation, you lights slowly becoming dimmer and dimmer overtime by the loss of lumen output they supply. All lighting technologies do this, but with LED it is at a much slower rate and overall much less than other lighting products. And with a proper lighting system design, this can be avoided entirely with LED.

No flickering or buzzing. Not only are flickering and buzzing lights annoying in any situation, in a security aspect they take away security efforts. How so? Well, flickering lights take away from the ability to detect movement, which allows for harder to notice unwanted presence and easy to escape and evade security persons. By having steady light, you take away from this vulnerability that flickering lights bring. Since LED technology is any application will never face this issue (even nearing the end of its life), you take away this issue entirely.

Higher Color Rendering Index ratings. The Color Rendering Index (or CRI) is a scale of 0 to 100 that defines the ability to output at different color renderings. With LED being able to be higher up on the scale, this proves for LED fixtures to output better and higher quality light.

More lumens per watt = energy saving benefits. When it comes to efficiency, the more lumens per watt a given luminaire outputs is how you define whether that fixture is efficient or not. So a metal halide that outputs at 50 lumens per watt is highly inefficient to an LED that outputs at 150 lumens / watt. Remember this: never buy your shoebox parking lot lights off of watts, but rather lumens per watt. And always go with the highest lumen per watt fixture that you can find, it will pay itself off the fastest!

Note: Don’t know what a “lumen” is? Look at this discussion for a better idea and understanding of the lighting term.

Lowered maintenance costs through longer lifespan. The fact that LED has a lifespan of 2-3 times longer than other luminaire technologies allows for reduced maintenance costs associated with changing out deadlights. And since parking lot fixtures are high, the costs can seriously start to add up after changing out all of those light boxes. By switching over to LED parking lot lights you allow for a reduction in maintenance costs by 2-3 times through a longer lifespan..

Conclusion and Final Words

Not convinced that LED is a proper option for your parking lot and area lighting needs? Well, you might need to go re-read, visit the links to other resources that we’ve included in this article, and do more research because all of that will truly get your eyes open to the issue of parking lot security efforts and protect your employees and highly valued customers. Don’t put your customers or employees at risk any more and properly illuminate your lot!, you’ll even save money by doing it!

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Making Your Factory Lighting System Quality with LED

As a facility manager or building owner of a factory (of any kind) we know that lighting can be a big issue that is brought up time and time again. But yet the fact of a seemingly “large investment” comes up and it’s put off. It’s time to put that aside and listen to the facts about LED technology and what a proper factory lighting design can bring to your facility when it is done right.

No more flickering, buzzing, high electricity bills, and low quality lighting output. These are just a few benefits that can be literally gone away with when implementing LED products into your factory, inside and out, that will surely stun all of those overlooking the facility along with those working directly in the factories conditions.

We mentioned flickering, buzzing, high electricity bills, and low quality light. Can LED really fix these things? The answer is a big yes, they can and they will as soon as you make the decision to upgrade your current inefficient lighting system and move on over to a better technology, LED.

Let’s discuss each of these points that I’ve mentioned, and how exactly LED products can remove all of these troubles and more.

Flickering. Technologies like high pressure sodium, metal halide, and related are all susceptible to flickering. With LED, even near the end of their lifespan, they will literally never flicker. Flickering can cause stress and less-than-optimal focus and precision. In a factory environment, consistency is key to the manufacturing process and thus cannot be put “on the line” by having lighting fixtures that affect humans and their ability to work at full capacity. Although this sounds like a small issue and it may sound like we are blowing it out of proportion, if you do the research you will find that this is a big issue and can cause major issues in your factory.

Buzzing. This one goes hand in hand with flickering luminaires. While LED is not susceptible to buzzing either, other technologies like MH and HPS are. By replacing metal halide with LED you allow yourself to eliminate both buzzing and flickering from ever occurring in any of your lighting fixtures ever again.

High electricity bills. Factories that have metal halide or HPS fixtures installed are consuming 2, 3, or even 4 times more energy than they would be if they had LED fixtures installed. By making the switch away from these technologies over to LED, you will be able to realize a decrease in energy usage associated with your lights by 2-4 times. This is a great way to improve your factories bottom line, remain within budgets, all while getting the other amazing benefits that LED has to offer (all of which are listed here, and more…).

Low quality of light. LED is known for offering not only the best quality of light, but also it depreciates much slower. When we talk about depreciation with lighting, we are talking about lumen depreciation. In short terms, this is something that happens to all light fixtures. What it does is reduces the amount of actual light output that a given fixture gives out overtime. So while a metal halide at the beginning of it’s life might output at 15,000 lumens, give it a few years and it will be down at 11,000. This makes areas underlit, and again that can cause major safety issue to employees and visitors. With LED, although they too depreciate in lumens, it is a much slower pace and overall much lower than metal halide and HPS light sources. This can allow you to never face an issue of under lighting, or over lighting. Because facilities often over overlight in the start to account for this; which over lighting is no good either. It increases costs associated with buying more fixtures initially, all for what? Nothing, because less fixtures and less energy with LED will produce the same amount of light that more fixtures and more watts metal halide will output.

What Type of Fixtures are Found in Factories?

This question can vary from place to place, but here are the most common lighting fixtures that can be found in both typical and nontypical factories:

- High Bays

- Aisle High Bays

- Hallway Lights (panels & tubes)

- Outdoor lighting (wall packs, parking lot lights, flood lights)

- Vapor proofs and / or tights (used for food factories or factories with dusty / dirty environments)

Conclusion

If the goal in your facility is to improve quality of work for employees while decreasing costs, a LED factory lighting system will do all of that and more.

From no more buzzing to reduced costs; this can all be brought to your facility through an upgrade to LED technology. On top of that, by upgrading you will be able to realize a ROI with LED, which metal halide or HPS will never provide. This is a great way to gain approval for an upgrade and start making the switch sooner than later. LED is the future, hop on board!

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MyLEDLightingGuide Releases New Ultra High Lumen Output LED Retrofit Kits

MyLEDLightingGuide Releases New Ultra High Lumen Output LED Retrofit Kits

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Sport Stadiums Are Converting to LED: But Why?

All across the world company’s, governments, and even sports teams are making the switch to more energy conscious lighting that reduces energy usage and in return; reduces operating costs. For this reason alone is one of the biggest reasons seemingly everyone is converting over to LED products over competing technologies like metal halide (MH).

But, is that the only reason why? There must be other reasons people are making the switch, right? The answer to that is yes! There are many highly valid reasons companies and teams are making the conversion over to LED technology away from less efficient and generally lower quality luminaire sources.

Here are the following main reasons that sport stadiums specifically are moving over to LED sport lighting fixtures.

Reduces operating costs.

This is probably the majorities reason to making the switch to LED from other lighting sources. Depending on whom  you buy your LED fixtures from and which technology you are converting away from, you could realize energy costs related to your lighting by up to 75%. Imagine a 75% reduction in lighting costs in your sports arena or stadium, your bottom line would look so much better. Especially when it comes to the profession sports industry where lighting it in the utmost importance for quality viewing, a lot of light fixtures are needed. With all of these running, a switch to LED in all of those fixtures will prove to be a great investment and highly reduce those costs associated with physically running those high mast and other lights you have in your area.

They last a lot longer.

LED lights are known, especially when bought by a reputable and qualified company, to last 2, 3 or sometimes even 4 times longer than luminaires like metal halide or HPS.

This can allow you to stop buying lighting as often, and cut down light purchases by 2,3 or 4 times. On top of that cost saving benefit, consider your maintenance costs that you encounter when you need to switch out a light source. How much does it cost, on average, to pay someone to switch out a single light? And if you have high mast lights, which most stadiums do, you will be paying a lot more than other types of light fixtures. Why is this? Because they are typically VERY high in the air to get the full benefit of the fixture. This makes it take longer to switch out each individual bulb and thus, higher costs to maintain. Do yourself and your sports facility a favor and make the switch to LED and you can reduce the amount of times you need to pay someone to maintain your lights by 2-4 times!

LED is the future, not metal halide.

Over the years LED has done nothing but grow in market size, improve in quality and efficiency, and become adopted by more and more people, companies, and government entities. LED market size has been estimated to continue it’s growth for many years. And with more and more company’s entering this market, especially selling commercial lighting products, the prices continue to drop and become a more affordable investment for facility managers (or stadium managers in this case) to make.

LED will improve your stadiums appearance.

A good appeal to both visitors to the stadium along with anyone watching from home is vital for keeping people’s attention along with creating a near-perfect lighting situation for those who are watching the game play out. Low quality lighting will put visitors off and even worse, annoy them. While LED lights will never buzz or flicker, that doesn’t mean that metal halide or HPS lights don’t. They are susceptible to this, and having this in your stadium can really annoy visitors, and even start to distract from the players. As with any business, curb appeal is vital to keeping your business alive; especially in this environment in which you have lots of visitors relying on having an exception experience.

Conclusion

From energy savings to improved appearance, you can see the major reasons on why LED is becoming the norm in the lighting industry and is the future of lighting in almost every application.

LED is the future of facilities of all types, including sport stadiums, arenas, and areas. Are you going to be apart of it? With knowing all of these reasons on why sport stadiums are converting to LED, it just makes sense!

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Commercial LED vs Fluorescent Fluorescent Tubes: The Winner

Typically in lower level ceilings in places like offices, hallways, and lobby rooms we find tube lights installed in the ceiling. Two of the most popular technologies that are found in their fixtures include fluorescent and LED. But while fluorescents were the winner for the longest time; LED is quickly catching up in popularity and becoming the “go to” lighting technology for office buildings and the like. Why exactly? Well this post will probably shed some insight on that point as well.

But when you come up with the decision of choosing either LED or fluorescent tubes, which should you choose? And better yet, why should you choose one over the other?

To let you in on the “winner” of the obvious winner, it’s the commercial LED tubes and the fluorescent ones are on the losing end of the battle. For reasons from more efficient to higher quality, we are going share and explain why LED products simply win in almost every (if not every) aspect of commercial lighting and it’s requirements.

Defining Your Lighting Needs

Before we start talking about why LED is the clear winner in virtually every aspect, we need to discuss the topic of defining your lighting needs.

What type of building are you in (or just area you need light in)? Here are some common areas / applications you made encounter:

• Office Floor Area
• Private Office Rooms
• Hallways
• Lobby
• Meeting Rooms
• And so on…

Basically anywhere that the ceiling is low will typically involve a commercial tube to be the lighting source.

If no areas like such exist in your building (rare) then tubes probably aren’t for you. This is common in industrial sized warehouses and factories where ceiling are very high.

Why LED is the winner:

Now that we’ve identified who the winner is of LED vs fluorescent tubes, we can now discuss why exactly LED systems simply win over the competitions products.

As you can tell from each winning benefit, the reasons LED wins will only get more and more obvious, Let’s start off with the first major reason that wins 90% of people over to making the switch from fluorescent to LED tubes.

More efficiency with LED:

LED is known to reduce energy consumption by upwards of 50% or more when replacing fluorescent lighting. This can allow you to actually see a ROI for your investment of a LED lighting system.

Save more with qualifying rebates:

Utility company’s like to “reward” those who install qualified efficient lighting systems into their buildings. By installing commercial tubes that are qualified (typically by DesignLights Consortium), you open your business up to rebate opportunities that may of not been available previously with fluorescent technology installed in your building. Rebates will allow you to generate a larger and quicker ROI for your investment in new lights, which is huge for any business’s bottom line.

Less heat generated:

A common problem with lower ceiling lights (like tubes) is the heat that they generate. Especially with fluorescent fixtures which generate excess heat; it can cause for increased cooling costs by having to offset the heat generated by your lights. This is yet another way to lower your operating costs by allowing you to turn down the air control and use less of it. With LED compared to fluorescent; LED generates very little and virtually no heat compared to any other competing technologies.

Quality light:

Believe it or not; LED also offers higher quality of light and better options. Certain color temperatures allow for higher productivity in the workplace; which can again decrease costs and even increase revenue. Quality light has been proven to decrease stress while increasing productivity, and this is a major benefit of LED lighting; especially in a office like environment.

Another note is this: LED will never flicker nor buzz. If you’ve experienced this type of issue: LED will solve this issue. They never flicker nor buzz not even when they are nearing the end of their lifespan. Flickering / buzzing lights goes back to the higher productivity. From experience you probably know that just a few minutes under such lights can prove to become irritable and decrease your attention on your work and more on the low quality lighting.

Notes:

The benefits of LED tube lighting system are obvious over the competing fluorescent technology. Have any other benefits that LED or fluorescent may have that we missed? Let us know in the comments below!

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How LED Food Grade Lighting Will Improve Your Facility

With any type of facility we talk about, LED lighting seemingly always improves the environment and facility in so many ways that just beats all other technologies. Lighting within a food production environment is even more critical to get right otherwise it could lead to some issues.

If you are a facility manager, building owner, or just a general manger for a facility or building that deals with food production you probably know the requirements for your lighting system. They’ve got to be washed down, and be able to withstand that. They must be food safe, and if broken be able to clean up safely, and so on.

Common technologies in food production building consist of metal halide, HPS, and more and more often we are seeing LED technology being installed. Here we are going to discuss the added benefits that LED can bring to your lighting system within your facility and how much they can improve your buildings standards.

LED reduces costs. It’s practically a known fact that LED can save you money when it comes to your energy bill. But how much exactly people often don’t really know. So, how much can LED fixtures save you vs metal halide or HPS fixtures? The savings can be up to 50% or more! That’s a surprising and staggering number to any building; small or large. If you run your lights 12 hours a day, imagine the savings you could realize by making the switch away from older technologies to LED.

They last longer. Food grade lighting can be a pain to change out when they burn out and no longer work. You often have to be very careful as to not break the light which could force you to stop your production line which costs you money. Since LEDs can last 2-3 times longer; it will require less changing of bulbs and more production time on the line. The added benefit to longer fixture life food grade LED lights can bring is a reduced maintenance cost. We all know changing lights high up can be costly; especially when your lights burn out quickly. If you can increase your lights life span by 2-3 times; this incurs a 2-3 times decrease in maintenance cost related to the switching of your bulbs. This alone can be a huge cost saving benefit that appeals to any facility manager or building owner that is cost-saving oriented.

High quality light is produced. LEDs not only offer higher quality of light but also a wider range of light too. This creates a safer environment for everyone within the facility; which is especially important to your line workers or any guests that you may have. Liabilities in the workplace can cost you bigtime and it’s almost paramount to such fragile and dangerous environments to put safety first. On top of the quality of light LED offers; the lumen depreciation is much slower and less overall. This allows for you to buy less lights initially to avoid overcompensation for your lumen degradation of 1, 5, and 10 years. This can prove to be a great way to ensure your lighting doesn’t become useless after just a few years due to high depreciation in lumens. This high lumen depreciation we talk about is very popular in regards to HPS and MH technology; which depreciate at much higher rates than LED products do.

They meet food code standards. As long as you ensure to buy fixtures specifically qualified for food grade environments; LEDs can prove to be an approved lighting fixture that meets food code standards. Only thing we warn is to always question and ask your supplier that they meet food standards in your state and country. Any reputable company will be able to answer these questions, but you should also be prepared to educate yourself to avoid not-to-code light fixtures.

Conclusion

There you have some reasons that LED food grade systems will greatly improve your food production building.

Always remember these few key points and you’ll be much more likely to gain approval of an upgrade to LED products from those above you:

●     They save lighting energy costs by 50% or more

●     They offer quality lighting that increases safety and consistency in your products

●     They can meet food code standards (just be sure to educate yourself and ask questions!)

There you go, keep all of these things in mind next time you run into issues with your lighting. Have questions? Ask them in the comments!

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4 Reasons to Invest in Indoor LED Grow Lights

The grow light market is growing, and growing fast. With the uptick in demand and competition,  better and higher standards of grow lighting systems have increased in efficiency and overall quality. This is why it’s paramount to understand the importance of LED grow technology versus other less efficient and simply outdated grow technologies.

If you’ve been considering an investment in indoor grow lights; don’t get caught up in buying technologies like HPS or metal halide simply because they are initially cheaper. Overtime, you will have wished you invested in indoor LED grow lighting systems for all of the following 4 reasons and benefits they offer. As with anything, cheaping out is seemingly better option initially but overtime you will realize lower margins on your crops and higher expenses and ongoing costs associated with outdated grow technology. The following 4 reasons shouldn’t be ignored and should be looked into and researched more to get a true overview of the best option to go with when it comes to grow lights. Here they are…

1) LED offers longer life span.

Believe it or not the life span of your lighting can make or break your growing venture. Consider this: would you rather spend 1.5 times more but get a fixture that will last twice as long? Or would you rather cheap out and get something that will need replacing far before LED technology would and have to buy new lights more often? The answer is obvious: the first option. Because although it’s cheaper initially to go with outdated products like HPS, it will cost you more when it comes to the end of the life for your lights. You’ll wish you had invested in LED, trust me on that one!

2) Targeted  wavelengths for optimal growing conditions.

LED plant lights offer more options for targeted wavelengths that match your need for grow light conditions. Depending on the stage of your plants; this is a highly important option to have available to you as a grower. Full spectrum LED grow lights allow you to target very specific wavelengths which other technologies simply don’t typically offer. As any professional (or even beginners know) this is highly invaluable when it comes to the quality of your crop and grow setup.

3) Less heat generated.

All LED technology produce virtually no heat compared to other heat exhaustive technologies. LED’s can reduce your lighting heat generation by unprecedented numbers. An incandescent grow light could produce 80 BTU’s per hour while the comparable LED grow light would be producing only 2.5 BTU / hour. If heat is an issue (and it typically is for indoor growers), you can greatly and virtually get rid of that issue by buying, switching, or upgrading to grow light LED products.

4) Less watts, same light.

LED lights in all markets are known for their energy saving benefits, and it’s often the biggest reason people make the switch over to them. Grow lighting LEDs can offer you energy reduction by up to 50% or more which can seriously increase your bottom line. Being an indoor grower, you know that energy costs are one of your biggest expenses and a savings in 50% of energy costs can be huge for any grower (small, medium, or large scale in size).

Conclusion

That about wraps it up for the 4 biggest reasons to invest in high end indoor grow lighting systems. The benefits are obvious overall in just about every single aspect when it comes to grow lighting. The only downside is that LEDs are typically a little bit higher in initial investment. But with all these benefits, the higher initial investment will pay back itself and then some. Don’t be put off by the higher initial costs because if you are a serious grower and in it for the long run; a smart decision is to invest in quality grow lighting systems. This isn’t something you want to cheap out on!

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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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Top 5 Reasons you want to replace your 1000W Metal Halide High...

Top 5 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.

Dramatically reduce your maintenance costs

LEDs will last you a long time. But what does this really mean? There seems to be two definitive ways of defining the life of an LED fixture, the LEDs themselves and everything else.

The life of an LED is usually a measurement of L70, or how long will it take the LEDs themselves to deteriorate to 70% of initial lumen output. It doesn’t mean that LEDs are dead at that point, it means they have lost 30% of their initial output. The second measurement is typically how long will the LED system work before something fails. And typically this is a measurement of how long the LED driver will last.

Some L70’s are well past 100,000 hours, and very few are rated below 50,000 hours. It can be expected that a good high quality external LED driver should last 50,000 hours. So at a bare minimum, you should expect 50,000 hours out of your LED fixture. If your high mast lights run 12 hours a night, 365 days a year, that’s 4380 hours. That means 12+ years of maintenance free life. Compare that with the life of a metal halide or high pressure sodium bulb. And keep in mind, these bulbs lose their lumens quickly. Most replace them only when they completely fail, however, most should have been replaced many months before complete failure. So if you are not replacing bulbs and ballasts, then you are saving money!

New or retrofit - you decide

There are 2 options, replace the fixtures or retrofit the fixtures. To replace a 1000W Metal Halide, figure on 44,000-52,000 of LED Lumens to do the job. And MyLEDLightingGuide can supply LED Retrofit Kits up to 47,000+ lumens. But we also carry an amazing 400 Watt LED High Mast that produces 52,000 lumens that is the perfect high mast replacement fixture. Customers who purchase this light rave at its performance and adjust-ability. It just doesn’t point down, you can adjust the lighting angle to optimize distribution. But our retrofit kits are high performance units that are DLC Premium Listed. What option would we choose? That’s a tough question. Both options are great.

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Buying LED - Some Thoughts

It isn’t news in saving cash in your lights bill that LED is becoming the new standard. But with every new technology, the choices are occasionally smart and rich, and endless promotion conceals what actually is significant. Its simple if you comprehend the technology. If your new to the technology, you’ve got to try to discover what is or isn’t unimportant. Which makes the purchase choice even harder for those attempting to navigate this labyrinth of specifications and merchandise availability. And to confound the consumer more, there’s lots of data being presented that isn’t created based on any consented to standard. Read 10 distinct product booklets on what the marketers consider is the appropriate alternative to replace 1000W Metal-Halide and everything will be read by you Or what one producer calls day white is than what another maker believes day white is complete different. The best guidance is walk through exactly the same procedure when we choose our products to sell we do. We look for great engineering, functionality, efficacy and quality. Let us break that down to what that means.
The LED Litmus Test

Are the LED Lamps UL or ETL Qualified. This can be the security evaluation. No one desires an unsafe product. The merchandise must not be unable to perform with no possibility of danger. Are Energy Star or the bulbs DLC Rated? DLC (DLC) is a performance standard which makes sure the lamps are efficient and perform at a high standard. Recently the standard was expanded to include lights controls, although it generally employs just to LED lamps. Energy Star is a consumer standard that applies to many products including little LED screw in light bulbs. DLC didn’t have a provision for screw in light bulbs, but has lately shifted to permit some screw in LED light bulbs although up until lately.

Are the factories ISO Competent? A lot are not, a lot say they’re but are not. Some will say they abide by the ISO standards. What does that mean? Some will think of their own marketing buzz words that seem are extremely smart and great on paper, but are not ISO certified. To us, we are given the reassurance the products we provide our customers are constructed and analyzed within an exacting and consistent way with minimal number of danger of failure by ISO certificate.

The LED Efficiency Standard

What exactly is this? Well it really is efficacy, and the measurement, or a discussion of LED Effectiveness is called lumens/watt. Or how many lumens is it possible to create from 1 watt of power. A lumen is a measurement of lighting fixture that’s standard across all lighting fixture sources. With LED, efficiency is all over the graphs. The technology has been around for quite a long time, and you are able to locate efficacies including under 100 lumens per watt, if you take a look at the option of merchandise. The efficiency merchandise that is lower is often more value. But when you are doing the mathematics on how much is being spent on process over the life of the LED fixture, the savings in decreased energy spend immediately overshadow the savings at purchase time. The difference in LED efficiency is growing so extreme it is sensible to do payback evaluation between LED products. Case in point, our new efficient LED Retrofit Kits are actually available up to 165 lumens/watt. Two of our principal competitors are selling merchandise watt and 110 lumens/watt. The amount of cash you’ll save in decreased energy consumption over the life of the merchandise is staggering. And we’re of the belief that you’re converting over from Metal-Halide to conserve cash. Why not save all the money you can by getting the merchandise that is most effective?

So just how can you begin to identify the merchandise that is most effective? Two manners.

DLC Qualified Product. But merely seeing DLC isn’t enough. DLC is a standard of efficacy and performance. But there are DLC Standard 2 degrees and DLC Premium Premium. The DLC Premium Standard is the more efficient of the 2 standards. Products in DLC Premium are 20% more efficient than DLC Standard. In the example above, our retrofit kits at 165 lumens per watt are 40% more efficient. Look for these two symbols and more to the point, search for the DLC Premium Symbol. All our LED Retrofit Kits are DLC Premium Qualified.

2 Computing lumens per watt. Some sellers, and yet its simple will not furnish this info. If you need to compute lumens/watt, take the number of lumens they record and divide it by the number of watts it uses up. So if 10,000 is produced by a LED Lighting Fixture lumens and uses up 100 watts Recall, anything in the 80-110 lumens per watt range is usually technology that is old
Color Temperature

One of many other difficulties we see is customers do not comprehend color temperature. Its not untypical for a homeowner to visit a Home Depot store and buy a LED light bulb only find it it and to bring it home blue or too yellow. And if you have a look at the packaging, it is all confusing. You hear terms like Day White, or Natural White or Cool White as an alternative to talk in the universal language of color temperature. What all does this mean?

Here is an easy guide about what you should decide for what program

2800-3500K is a superb alternative for a property program.

4000-4600K is a superb option for an office surroundings

5000-5500K is an excellent option for a factory warehouse, health club or airport airport hangar

6000K + is a superb option for a jewelry store or in some lab surroundings.

The Guarantee - Read the small print

Another bit of advertising is the theory of merchandise guarantee. Once more, you’re able to use DLC as your guideline. Being a DLC Capable Merchandise, they’re required to come with a 5 year guarantee. Obviously, it’d be excellent of the guarantee fine print was all no nonsense, as they'ren’t consistently the situation. We’ve discovered the actual narratives of 5 and 10 year guarantees that never get implemented because somehow there’s always a claim that the mistake was due to installation error. Or the guarantees that assert which you must send the merchandise in if the problem is really a guarantee issue and it’ll be established. We call the “10 year hope guarantee” because you need to trust they’ll process the guarantee claim. With our retrofit kits, follow the directions, keep them dry, and that is about it. You’re covered.

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