The Lighting Efficiency Blog

  LED Lighting

Three Reasons to Upgrade Your Field with LED Sports Lighting

Facility managers at schools, municipalities, and sports clubs are faced with a wide set of challenges. Maintaining several properties, operating on a paper thin budget, and having enough time to get to each task are just a few. While LED sports field lighting might not solve all of your problems, it will go a long way towards improving your sports facilities, reducing your energy consumption and spend, and cutting considerable amounts of time and money from your maintenance budget. Below we present the benefits of LED sports lighting:

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  LED Lighting

LED High Mast Lights – Three Things to Consider

Outdoor LED lighting, such as LED high mast light fixtures, provide some excellent benefits for large areas or sites requiring illumination because of how they generate and distribute light. However, not all LED lighting is created equal, and as such, neither is every LED manufacturer and supplier. We’re not here to throw stones, but we hear a lot of promises about LED lighting and we think it’s important to be transparent about the benefits (and they are many) of LEDs. In this case, let’s talk about the potential LED high mast light benefits. 

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  Lighting Education

Three Benefits of LED Vapor Tight Lighting

Commonly referred to as “wet location” fixtures, vapor tight light fixtures are sealed and gasketed luminaires that provide general illumination for indoor and outdoor environments where exposure to water, humidity, and dust is likely to occur. These luminaires are usually mounted on ceilings, soffits, walls, or in any other commercial and industrial building or facility where exposure to water or dust (or other elements) is a concern.

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  LED Lighting

Five Locations Ideal for LED Vapor Tight Lighting

LED vapor tight fixtures are essential for industrial, commercial, and retail buildings and facilities where durable water-resistant lighting solutions are required.  Many locations, such as car washes, convenience stores, manufacturing facilities, and shopping centers need an indoor and outdoor lighting solutions that will operate for many years while withstanding the exposure to cold and wet environments that are prevalent in such applications.  Below we'll discuss five locations where LED vapor tight lighting would be ideal.

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  Lighting Education

Lighting Comparison: Foot-Candles vs Lumen Output

The modernization of lighting systems has generated a significant improvement in the energy efficiency and lighting performance of buildings and facilities. LED lighting is rapidly taking over the market for a variety of commercial, , industrial, retail, educational and municipal applications. Many building and facility managers who are new to LED lighting find themselves confused over the terminology that describes LED lighting performance, particularly with respect to the lumen output of LEDs. Before we get too in the weeds on the technical stuff, let’s quickly review some key terms we’ll be discussing through this post:

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  Industrial LED Lighting

The Importance of CRI and CCT in Industrial LED Lighting Applications

Thanks to advances in semiconductors, optics, materials, and manufacturing, LEDs have progressed in light output, energy efficiency, cost effectiveness, ruggedness, and color options. As a result, LED applications have grown exponentially, and fixtures are now available for industrial lighting applications, expediting the phase out of metal halide and high pressure sodium lamps. LED is quickly becoming the dominant technology for all kinds of industrial and commercial lighting applications. Several key factors have driven uptake in these environments.

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  Area Lighting

Benefits of Switching from HID to LED High Mast Lighting

In the past, high intensity discharge (HID) lamps were the standard used by companies that needed illumination over a wide target area. This type of lamp came with several drawbacks that were eventually addressed with the introduction of LEDs. The promise of clean, energy efficient illumination with minimal maintenance has forced some businesses to rethink their lighting technology of choice for industrial towers.

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  LED Lighting

Disrupting a Disruptive Technology – LED vs. CFL

It wasn’t that long ago that compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) were considered the future of both residential and commercial lighting. And for a little while that assumption held some water. They saved significant energy compared to incandescent lamps, they fit in many existing fixtures, and their longer life were all very strong points in their favor.

But times change and, when it comes to technology, change quickly. The fame and future of CFLs came quickly and left even quicker.

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  High Bay Lighting

Metal Halide Lights – In Memoriam

Metal halide lights have been the de facto standard for illumination of outdoor and large indoor spaces for more than fifty years. As that technology has aged, however, building owners and facility managers are seeing its drawbacks. An industry shift to LED lighting systems has increased in the last few years as an understanding that these systems provide more effective illumination, lower maintenance needs and costs, and smaller energy bills.

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  Outdoor Lighting

LED Sports Lighting is Changing the Way We See Games

Sports fans might notice some of the changes that are happening in the outdoor stadiums and fields where their favorite teams compete. Older metal halide and high-pressure sodium lighting fixtures in those facilities are being retired in favor of LED sports field lighting. Fans are even starting see LED lighting in the home stadiums of some NFL teams. While the NFL might be the highest-profile place you’ll find LEDs, universities, high schools, and many other public outdoor sports fields are jumping on the LED bandwagon. When the advantages of LEDs over traditional outdoor sports lighting are considered, it is easy to understand why LED sports lighting is the winner.

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