The Lighting Efficiency Blog

  Fluorescent Lighting

Guide to Indoor LED Lighting

Indoor LED lighting provides a clear advantage over conventional lighting solutions and can free up significant time and resources for building owners, facility managers, and other stakeholders by requiring less maintenance time and materials. LEDs also benefit occupants of the building by providing higher quality lighting, and they help to drive down a building or facility’s overhead costs.

In this post, we’ll be looking at three types of indoor LED lighting that your company should consider retrofitting.

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  Fluorescent Replacement Lighting

3 Questions to Ask When Considering Commercial LED Lighting

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  LED Retrofit

Everything You Need To Know About LED Lighting

LEDs are a simple invention with huge potential to change the lighting industry for the better. Don’t know much about them? Here are three big things you need to know to get your feet under you:

1. What Does LED Stand For?

LED stands for light-emitting diode.

A diode is an electrical device or component with two electrodes (an anode and a cathode) through which electricity flows - characteristically in only one direction (in through the anode and out through the cathode). Diodes are generally made from semiconductive materials such as silicon or selenium - substances that conduct electricity in some circumstances and not in others (e.g. at certain voltages, current levels, or light intensities).

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  Fluorescent Replacement Lighting

Three Common Problems with Fluorescent Troffer Lighting

Before we describe the issues with fluorescent troffer lighting, we should first define what it is. The term troffer refers to indoor lighting fixtures that are mounted within a ceiling or ceiling grid. Troffer lights are usually installed in the following types of locations: commercial lighting, industrial lighting, retail lighting, warehouse lighting, office lighting, and classroom lighting applications. Below we will explore three common problems with troffer lighting, including high energy costs, high maintenance costs, and poor lighting performance.

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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

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

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

Do These Lighting Problems Sound Familiar? LED lighting might be the answer

LED lighting technology is fast replacing conventional lighting solutions, and for good reason, too. LEDs produce higher quality light, are more cost- and energy-efficient, and require far less maintenance than their conventional lighting counterparts (but more on all these benefits later). Like many things in life, the first step to solving a lighting problem is to acknowledge that there IS one. With that in mind, do any of these lighting problems sound familiar to you?

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  LED Lighting

The Benefits of Indoor LED Lighting

If you own or manage a building, warehouse, or other large facility, you really need to understand the benefits of retrofitting to indoor LED lighting. We’ve previously discussed the benefits of LED parking lot lighting and outdoor LED lighting, but here we’ll focus on interior lighting for large facilities. Let’s get started!

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