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LED Floodlights – Energy Efficient High Output Lighting
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Wide open spaces like stadiums and school fields need a lot of lighting at night. The large size of stadiums demands extremely bright light sources. During any football match, it is important that each area of the field is illuminated and clearly visible to the players and even the crowds who are watching the game. What’s more, since matches and practice games take place regularly in these stadiums, the lights that are used are expected to last for long durations without burning out in the middle of a match.
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Traditional halogen and metal halide stadium lighting can exceed 1000W per lamp, and has a limited lifetime. Most stadiums and parks have dozens of such light fixtures for lighting up large open areas, which results in very large electric bills and ongoing maintenance costs (since floodlights tend to be in difficult to service areas). Additionally, these lamps emit an enormous amount of heat which makes them energy inefficient, and poses a fire risk.
To avoid the downsides of halogen and metal halide flood lighting, it is best to use LED Floodlights for all your outdoor lighting requirements. These lights do not contain any harmful chemicals like lead and mercury. Thus, they are environmentally safe, and because they are extremely energy efficient, they do not emit much heat even if used for a long duration. Their intelligent multi-core LED technology delivers a great deal of light from just small amounts of electricity, thereby reducing your energy bills by up to 90%. A 1000W halogen can be replaced by a 100-200W LED flood. LED floods also have long rated lifetimes of up to 50,000hours, which means that ongoing cost of ownership is low in terms of re-lamping and maintenance of difficult to reach floods.
Novel Energy Lighting supplies a wide range of high powered LED Floodlights, which are strong enough to light up Olympic-sized stadiums, outdoor municipal projects, manufacturing plants, large exhibition centers etc. What’s more, these lights require no warm up time, but emit light instantly when switched on. They even have a beam angle of 100 Deg, allowing them to disperse maximum amount of light all over a given place. And since they are eco-friendly, the do not emit harmful UV or IR light.
Additionally, all the IP65 versions of LED Floodlights available with us have an incredible lifespan of 50,000 hours and come with a warranty of 3 years. And along with these regular floodlights which deliver a cool white and warm white light with color temperatures of 6000K and 3000K respectively, we also have the Slimline range of floodlights, which are designed for commercial and showcase lighting purposes.
Lighting.co.uk reported – 50,000 LED luminaires have been installed by National Car Parks (NCP) since January, almost bringing phase one of the multi-million pound project to a close.
Phase one of the £10 million project includes the installation of over 60,000 LED luminaires across 149 multi-storey car parks throughout the UK – from Scotland to the South Coast. NCP is effectively relighting 45,000 car parking spaces. The retrofit is expected to save 11,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions a year and slash energy consumption on car park lighting by 65 per cent.
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The fittings are being supplied and installed by Future Energy Solutions (FES). Phase two of the project is expected to take another two or three years. The contract is funded by FES in partnership with the Green Investment Bank, eliminating the need for any up-front capital from NCP. Instead, NCP will pay out of the energy cost savings over time.
All the installations are maintained for the life of the contract at no extra cost to NCP. FES is installing around 22 types of LED fitting across NCP’s car park stock. One example of the retrofit underway includes the swap out of single 50W T8 fluorescent tubes for 29W LED alternatives.
FES commercial director Marcus Brodin told Lighting: “NCP’s CO2 emissions will be reduced by 11,000 tonnes per annum and mono-nitrogen oxide will be lowered by 248lbs over the same period. This is the equivalent of 10,924 trees being saved or filling up 321,695 fuel tanks every year.”
This is the first transport infrastructure project to qualify for the Government’s UK Guarantee scheme, which was launched in 2013 and which NCP says was vital to the success of this opportunity. NCP manages more than 150,000 car parking spaces across more than 500 car parks up and down the country, and expects the LED retrofit to lead to multi-million pound savings on energy over the lifetime of the new luminaires.
FES has is using a variety of controls across the NCP car parks, depending on the needs of individual spaces. “We have site-specific controls, it depends on the nature of the car park,” explained Brodin. “Strictly speaking we have a load of PIR controls in over half of the luminaires, along with daylight harvesting; the rest are standard or emergency fittings.”
Bodin said the contract does not have a clear end date, as NCP is constantly growing. “Every year NCP wins new contracts with councils or builds new car parks, so it’ll be on going. It’s a moving feast constantly.”
Novel Energy Lighting supplies a wide range of high quality LED lighting products. We stock the entire Philips Master LED and Megaman LED range of lamps, bulbs, and tubes. We can supply a large range of LED fittings range, including the best-selling Philips Coreline recess downlights, and FYT ceiling panels. Most of our products come with 3-5 year guarantee and a 30 day satisfaction guarantee. Energy saving is up to 90% and up to 50,000 hours rated lifetime.
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LUX magazine reports that like most people in the lighting business, I’m often asked by acquaintances for advice. Usually, my friend’s building project has come to a crucial stage. I receive an email with the subject line ‘Urgent lighting advice’, links to the John Lewis website and the comment, ‘What do you think of these???’
Needless to say, at this stage no one wants to hear me spouting off about design concepts or reinterpretations of the architecture. They want me to endorse their tasteful choice of luminaires from John bloody Lewis. My brother and his wife once proudly showed me their £4,000 installation of Chinese LED downlights which put splodgy pools of light on the carpet and nowhere else. ‘Very contemporary,’ I said.
No one, as far as I know, has ever acted on my advice. So I thought I’d compile a list of some general principles of lighting for my acquaintances to ignore. These are not all mine; most are accepted orthodoxies. And they’re general principles – for each a professional could come up with a further list of caveats and addendums. But if you follow them, I believe you’ll create a far better scheme than the average. And if it stops someone spending £4,000 on downlights, I’ll have done my job.
1 Use a professional lighting consultant if the budget permits.
2 Think first about the lighting you want to achieve rather than the technology.
3 Maximise daylight if you can.
4 Light for the people who’ll use the space and their tasks.
5 Invest in the interior: the secret of good lighting is having good stuff to light.
6 Layer the light: ambient, then accent and task.
7 Light the walls rather than the floor.
8 Light the ceiling rather than the floor.
9 Don’t be afraid of darkness (at least pools of relative darkness).
10 Never ‘floodlight’ a building – you’ll flatten it.
11 For exteriors, pick out architectural details unseen in the day.
12 Be brave enough to use colour in any scheme, but only as an element.
13 Don’t obsess about uniformity; it’s overrated.
14 Follow the codes and regs, but they’re no substitute for common sense.
15 The most efficient light is the one you’re not using – use design to reduce energy use.
16 It’s better to use lots of low-output lights rather than a few higher-powered ones.
17 Conceal or integrate the majority of light sources.
18 For groups of pendants or wall lights, use odd numbers of fittings such as three, five or seven to achieve the ‘harmony of repetition’. It works!
19 It’s better to use pendants decoratively rather than as the workhorses of a scheme.
20 Consider control at the outset – different tasks and times of day need different light levels and even colour temperatures.
21 If the controls aren’t simple to use, they won’t be used. Give users four labelled buttons (‘meeting’, ‘presentations’, ‘lunch’, for example, and an ‘off’).
22 Don’t assume compatibility between lamps, drivers and dimming controllers: test them.
23 Buy lamps (and even LED luminaires) in batches to ensure they match in colour and output.
24 Don’t assume a high CRI number will ensure good colour rendering (it doesn’t include strong reds, for instance). Find out the product’s R9 value.
25 Buy from reputable manufacturers – otherwise it’s a false economy.
26 Don’t be missold by optimistic maintenance factors. You don’t want a dim space in three
years’ time.
27 Know what warranty you’re getting by reading the small print. Better still, write your own.
28 Futureproof your project: Make sure you can replace failed lights with matching kit.
29 If there’s no maintenance plan, assume the scheme won’t be maintained.
30 Finally, if you can’t find all the numbers you need on a spec sheet, don’t buy the product.
Novel Energy Lighting supplies a wide range of cost-effective LED lamps and fixtures. These are cost-effective and deliver paybacks of less than 1 year, while lasting over 10 years. We provide full LED range at competitive prices. Most of our LED lights have up to 5 years warranty and 30 days satisfaction guaranteed. Moreover, these lights offer lifetime cost benefits with up to 90% energy savings and up to 50,000 hours of operational lighting. LED Lighting is recommended for cost efficiency and energy savings.
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Megaman LED Lighting – Brighten Your Life with Quality LEDs
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Lighting enhances our ability to see things and our surroundings. Natural light may not reach closed areas of the home at all times, so we rely on, artificial lighting. Poor lighting in the home may affect eyesight, and can ruin the ambience of our living spaces. Moreover, frequent replacement of lighting tends to burn a hole in the pocket. So, why not invest in quality lighting? LED lamps, bulbs, and tubes are the best lighting solution when it comes to saving energy and usage costs. Megaman is a reputable lighting company that manufactures quality LEDs.
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Megaman has been in the lighting industry since the year 1994. It started off with CFLs, but soon moved to manufacturing LEDs. In 2009, it released its first range of LED reflectors with TCH technology. Since then, it has continuously strived to manufacture and upgrade its LED lighting range. It aims at making low-energy and eco-friendly lighting products. Its LED products are sustainable and provide a high degree of flexibility and design. These LEDs come in a wide range of colour temperatures and output options. These lights produce long life up to 40,000 hours with a high luminous maintenance.
Novel Energy Lighting sells the whole range of Megaman’s quality LED lighting at competitive prices, some of which include the 8.5W LED GLS Opal dimmable bulb, 4W LED MR11 non-dimmable lamp, and the 4W, 6W, and 7W LED PAR16 (GU10) Spotlights.
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Time to take Stock – LED Lighting in Retail
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Lux Magazine reports:
Time to take STOCK
Retail lighting has come a long way in the last couple of years: LED payback time has shortened and expectations have risen, but end users still have to check for dodgy specs. Kathrine Anker reports:
Every time Lux brings together manufacturers, designers and end users to discuss retail lighting, things have changed dramatically since the last time. It’s not long ago that LED was a prohibitively expensive technology for some, and not good enough for others, but things have moved on pretty far since then.
Our latest retail lighting forum, in association with Microlights, got off to an optimistic start, acknowledging that a lot of education has happened. ‘I think all clients have become discerning,’ said Theo Paradise-Hirst, head of lighting design at NDYLight. ‘They’ve realised that lighting is the absolute key driver to making retail work. There is more knowledge and appreciation of colour rendering and you can have conversations with clients that you’d never have had 10 years ago about the exact colour temperature and materials.’
Adding to the optimism was a consensus that payback time for LED lighting has come down to a level that will please most finance directors. Leases can be short in retail, so a quick return on investment is more important than it is in other sectors. Three to five years appeared to be the accepted threshold for most end users around the table, including those responsible for lighting in Sainsbury’s, Harrods and John Lewis, and they all agreed that we are getting there.
From the suppliers’ perspective, the maturity of the UK lighting market is to blame for the slow climb toward the tipping point. ‘Retailers in the UK have been very switched on for a long time and market prices for conventional technology are very low,’ said John Chamberlin, sales director at Microlights. ‘Because the price point is so low in the traditional lighting market and you’re starting from a very low price point, it’s taken this long for LED solutions to pay back. But that tipping point is gone now – we’re getting under two-year paybacks in some cases.’
Hitting the tipping point where cost is no longer prohibitive means some end users can start to think about using LED luminaires not just as a secondary light source but as the main one, said lighting designer Keith Ware: ‘We’re starting to see more use of LED as the primary light. For the first time, it feels like LED is actually a credible technology, that we can start to talk to our clients about full LED schemes. Retailers are willing to go with it because they are starting to look at the whole life cycle and the payback.’Tipping point aside, payback time still depends on what you’re replacing. Alan Patton, M&E manager at B&Q, said: ‘If you’re replacing T5, they are very good already so the payback time of a retrofit will be five to seven years. You can still get your energy consumption down by switching from T5 to LED, but it’s at a cost.’
Horses for courses
Despite the LED hype, retail estates are still predominantly lit by fluorescent T8 – LEDs make up less than five per cent of fittings in retail stores, according to a recent survey conducted by BRE. And ultimately, as Phil Caton, director of PJC Light Studio, pointed out, the best system is the one that delivers. ‘If you’ve got a high ceiling you’ll struggle to get the same punch from an LED fitting as you’ll get from a metal halide, unless you significantly increase the size of the fitting – and nobody wants to see big, clunky fittings in high-end retail stores,’ Caton said.
He added: ‘We get the feedback that LED doesn’t give the same depth – the quality of light is much flatter, even when you play with contrast ratios. When there are multiple LED sources in a fitting we have the problem of fringing and shadows around the product, and dimming still gives problems with modulations, so LED won’t be the total solution for the foreseeable future.’
Theo Paradise-Hirst added: ‘Over time some LEDs don’t render colours as well. It’s not just the output, sometimes you have to be aware that there might be colour changes. If you go to galleries that are lit with LED, they look great on day one but after a while something
MANAGING PERCEPTIONS
Light levels can get shamefully high in retail and it often falls to designers to argue for a more restrained approach. ‘Competing shops in a beauty hall don’t look at the relative brightness in the room, they just want to have the brightest shop. So light levels go up and up, completely unnecessarily and the products end up looking all bleached out,’ said Maida Hot, managing director of lighting design company GIA Equation. ‘Trying to find a balance that creates a luxurious feel is quite a challenge. Everyone puts in more, just in case.’
Most of the designers taking part in our retail lighting forum had encountered clients with excessive and unnecessary light level demands. ‘It’s all about perception,’ said Keith Ware. ‘When a client says ‘I want 1,000 lx’, that’s not a lighting brief – that’s just a statement. You need to ask, what is the lit effect you’re trying to create?’ Ware told the roundtable that his company, Dalziel and Pow, successfully convinced Primark to bring down the light level in its shops to below 1,000 lx. ‘We arranged a test with a lighting consultant to prove to Primark that they didn’t need 1,500 lx everywhere. You could bring the level down to 800-900 as a general average – of course with higher contrast on the walls and better vertical on the fixtures off the aisles. But we cheated a little bit – when we did the test we reduced the light to the level we wanted before the test started. When they arrived they said: “This level is great, now we need to reduce it.” That nailed it completely, because it made them realise that there are better ways of designing a lighting scheme to a lower lux level if you get the contrast right.’
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All about the
IMAGE
Retail lighting isn’t just about meeting standards and keeping costs down – it’s about reinforcing your brand image.
Retail is one area where you can’t afford to get lighting wrong. Done well, it can boost sales, set the right tone and even save the retailer some cash. Done badly, it can waste money, scare away customers and create an uncomfortable environment. Shop owners need to consider the top line when it comes to installing a new lighting system, not just the bottom.
But it’s easier said than done. Retail lighting designers have a lot of things to think through and balance with each other.
It’s pretty well established that investing in a new interior design will impact sales. So how do you make lighting help? At the most basic level, it’s about ensuring merchandise is lit. ‘When you step up your lighting design, you create points of interest within the retail space,’ says James Bedell of Stan Deutsche Associates in New York. You want your features to pop against the background.’ This is done through contrast and good colour rendering.
Contrast is a powerful tool in a retail setting. It draws attention to where you want it, be it along a certain path or toward a certain product; it sets a mood or ambience when combined with colour temperature. One retailer that really rolls with this idea is
Abercrombie & Fitch. The store uses high contrast to link back to its young and sexy branding. All A&F stores are lit in the same way, keeping the branding consistent.
Mel Stears, director at Candra Lighting, says ‘your gut instinct would say no’ to Hollister’s approach, ‘but it does work’. She says it ‘gives the brand that look and that feel. It’s not just about how much light is on a product. It’s who your customer is.’
Light and brands
When it comes to branding, the fixtures, the levels, the contrast, all work towards the brand image. If you want to be seen as a classy boutique, but you’ve got cheap lighting, you’ll be sending the wrong signal; and if you’re going for the cheap and cheerful look, you don’t want lighting to scream excess. Good branding will gain the confidence and loyalty of a strong customer base. It allows shoppers to feel as though they know a brand or retailer, to be able to identify one over the other. A consistent brand image communicates messages to the customer about values and quality. ‘Lighting becomes a critical asset as its role becomes strategic,’ explains Xicato’s Steve Landau. ‘Lighting draws attention and can signal the importance of an area or display. It can establish an emotional perspective. With good design and the right light, retailers can shape and drive a shopper’s path through a store.’ ‘Lighting is an incredibly powerful influence on human behaviour,’ agrees Nualight’s vice president of retail lighting, Siobhan O’Dwyer. ‘We are quite literally programmed to respond to light,’ she says. Your gut instinct would say no to to Hollister’s approach. But it does work” Mel Stears, Candra Lighting In the Middle East, hypermarket chain Nesto is upgrading its lighting to impact the customer experience. Ovais Hashmi, Nesto senior project architect, says: ‘The most important thing is lighting’s impact on the space it’s used in.’ Nesto saw huge improvements visually and in terms of cost when it introduced LED high bays. Hashimi says: ‘Light has a tremendous effect, not only in sales but in overall store growth and on the people working within. It determines the way a customer thinks and interprets the space around them and the way they move forward and explore products.’ Lighting allows retailers to direct the customer towards certain products, or along paticular paths. Good lighting puts you in control of the shopping experience, and maximises your success rate. Hashmi reckons lighting ‘entices shoppers to consider items that they would not necessarily have purchased’. Former retail fashion buyer Yvonne van den Broek says she is all ‘too aware of how many factors influence customer buying decisions.’ Broek, now of Amsterdam-based View On Light, says: ‘To bring lighting to the forefront of retailers’ minds we need to design concepts targeting increased sales and ways of attracting and guiding shoppers,’ she says.
How not to do it
BAD CHANGING ROOMSOne downlight in the middle of the ceiling is all you sometimes get, and it doesn’t tend to be very flattering. Think carefully about vertical illuminance and colour rendering.
WRONG COLOUR TEMPERATUREThis is a particular problem with LEDs, which can sometimes be bluish in colour, especially if they’re cheap. The wrong colour temperature can wreck the atmosphere in a shop.
MISH-MASH OF COLOURSThe only thing worse than picking the wrong colour temperature is picking a bunch of different ones, or a mix of lamps with a pink or green tinge. A common mistake.
POOR UNIFORMITYLighting your star products brightly is all well and good, but what about those dark spots to either side, or below the shelves? Don’t forget uniformity.
DODGY COLOUR RENDERINGNot only will poor colour rendering not do justice to your produce, but if you’re in the fashion business your customers may find their new clothes aren’t the colour they thought.
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Lux Magazine reports: Buildings research body BRE says LED products still only account for a tiny proportion of lighting in retail.
Despite high profile projects from some of the biggest names in the retail business, including all four of the UK’s top supermarkets, a BRE survey estimated that LED products make up less than five per cent of lighting in the sector.
Gareth Howlett, a researcher at the Building Technology Group, part of the BRE Trust, said the results suggested that around 10 per cent of retailers are using LEDs, but that less than five per cent of lamp stock is LED.
T8 is believed to still be the most commonly used lighting technology in retail, making up for around 40 per cent of lighting in the sector, followed by T5 and CFL.
At a recent conference, Bill Wright of the Retail Energy Forum said: ‘LEDs are still at the beginning of the revolution. There’s a lot more to come.’
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