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  LED News & Entertainment

How LED Lights Can Simplify Your Commercial Holiday Decorating

Is it part of your job description to decorate for the holidays? If you’re a facility or building manager, or if you’re involved in public works, you might dread the holidays. While people enjoy the decorations, they probably don’t realize the hard labor your team endured to beautify your shopping center, school, borough, mall, etc. Did you know that LED holiday lights could make your job easier? Let’s consider the following points about LED holiday lights.

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  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 Retrofit

Everything You Need to Know About Wall Pack Lighting

What is a wall pack light, and what applications benefit from it?

Wall pack lights or exterior building lights are terms that describe the outdoor lighting that is commonly mounted on the outside facing walls of buildings. This type of exterior lighting is generally used to provide illumination to ground areas frequented by vehicles and pedestrians. They also function well as an added layer of security for property owners. It is not uncommon to see multiple fixtures mounted on a single building or wall, with the fixture spacing designed to provide even lighting around the grounds. Below are a few image examples of conventional wall pack lighting mounted on an exterior wall. 

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  LED Retrofit

Three Benefits of LED Parking Lot Lighting

When we discuss parking lot lighting, we referencing the pole mounted lights frequently seen in parking lots around the country. These outdoor light fixtures, if converted to light emitting diodes (LED) can provide excellent benefits to both building owners and facility managers alike.

Below we'll discuss three benefits of led parking lot lighting over old parking lot lights. 

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  LED Retrofit

Three Common Issues with HID Parking Lot Lights

 

Parking lot lighting is a term used to describe the outdoor lighting that is commonly mounted on poles and located in parking lots, pathways, and driveways. This type of exterior lighting is generally used to provide illumination for vehicles and pedestrian to use.

Below we will explore three common issues with HID parking lot lights.

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  LED Retrofit

Three Benefits of LED High Bay Lighting

 

In the world of lighting, the high bay is a fixture that you would find in a warehouse, a factory, a gymnasium, or any large open area with relatively high ceilings. Many existing high bay lighting and low bay lighting applications utilize high intensity discharge (HID) lamps such as metal halide or high pressure sodium lamps.

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  LED Retrofit

Three Common Problems with High Bay Lights

First, what is high bay lighting?

High bay and low bay lighting are terms used to describe the indoor lighting that is commonly mounted via a pendant or chain, or directly to a ceiling or ceiling girder. These types of lights are often mounted higher than recessed troffer or fluorescent lights.

Common uses for this type of lighting are: warehouses, industrial facilities, commercial lighting spaces, retail areas, and gymnasiums.

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  LED Retrofit

Three Benefits of LED for Fluorescent Lamps

 

Benefits of LED Lighting vs Fluorescent Tubes:

LED fluorescent tube replacements provide a range of cost, maintenance, and performance benefits to facilities utilizing fluorescent light fixtures. Managers often ask how they can integrate LED lighting into their existing fixtures. Meaning do they use LED tubes in their current lighting configuration, or instead do they replace the entire fixture? We’ll look at the primary drivers to migrate your current lighting to T8 LED bulbs.

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  LED Retrofit

Three Common Problems with Fluorescent Lighting

 

Fluorescent lighting is a technology that is commonly used to provide illumination for settings such as commercial lighting, industrial lighting, classroom lighting, and retail lighting. The sizes, light colors, and wattage of fluorescent tubes vary significantly. An attribute of fluorescent lighting is that the lamps themselves are mounted within a fixture (for example, a recessed troffer), often containing between 1-8 lamps, with the fixtures themselves mounted in, directly on, or hanging from a building’s ceiling. Below are three common problems with fluorescent lighting that are often overlooked.

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  LED Retrofit

Three Benefits of LED Wall Pack Lighting

 

Conventional wall pack lighting suffers from high energy costs, frequent maintenance costs, and overall lighting performance issues. LED lighting can help mitigate all three of these issues. Read below to understand three benefits of LED wall pack lighting, including energy savings, maintenance cost reduction and lighting performance improvements. 

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