Metal Halide High Bay Lighting Fixtures

Metal halide high bay lighting continues to be popular form of high bay lighting in factories, warehouses, public halls, gymnasiums, transportation stations, and hangars. This comes as no surprise, because metal halide high bays were designed originally to provide bright white general lighting for industrial areas where visibility is essential to safety and production.

Metal halide high bay lights are a form of High Intensity Discharge Light fixtures. High Intensity Discharge Lights (HID) are lights with long lamp life, excellent energy efficiency, and exceptional color rendering abilities. Metal halide high bays perform very well as factory lights, where color differentiation plays an important role in general assembly work and safety. Any operation that constantly struggles to maintain higher profits against the overhead needed for production tends to lean heavily in favor of metal halide high bays for two very important reasons. For one thing, metal halide high bay lamps offer a very long lamp life that minimizes the need for continual replacement fixtures. Companies save money when they buy lamps they can be certain will last for a long period of time. This makes it possible not only to save money, but to more accurately predict quarterly and annual budgets related to equipment and labor costs. Contractors who are aware of these benefits can only serve themselves and their clients for the better by discussing in detail the many advantages that metal halide light fixtures offer to the industrial facility as a long term on investment that is both reliable and robust.

The light that metal halide high bays produce is very white and renders color anywhere from 65 on up to 90 on the CRI. The actual CRI rating of a given lamp depends on its wattage, manufacture, intended purpose, ballast control, and level of optical engineering. Generally speaking, MH high bays do much better than high pressure sodium high bays and low bays both because of the true white light they emit and the superior color rendering you can expect from them. If your client is uncertain as to whether the higher cost of metal halide is justifiable on the basis of color rendering alone, there are some other considerations you might want to discuss with the decision maker before finalizing the proposal.

The power savings generated by new pulse start metal halide high bays is indisputable (see our correlating lighting article on pulse start technology to learn more about this). Improved engineering and ballast controls within the fixtures allow the new metal halides to reach full restrike luminance as little as 2 minutes after a shutdown or temporary power failure. Because of the much better lumens per watt rating this new lighting technology offers, clients can save money on two levels. Lower wattage high bays can be used to produce the same level of light as probe start metal halide high bays. Similarly, a lower actual number of higher wattage fixtures can be used to again produce the same amount of illumination throughout the facility. The choice to go with either lower wattage or higher wattage and fewer fixtures should be made by assessing the overall thermal output of the high bay lighting system in the building. Whichever option will place less strain on the HVAC system should be chosen, provided the system delivers a satisfactory level of commercial lighting that is evenly distributed throughout the facility.

Optical control in MH high bay lighting fixtures made in the US tends to be the best of its kind. Glare shields and reflectors on most fixtures today are designed to produce a bright light that is still ergonomic to employee eyesight. RLLD Commercial Lighting metal halide high bays almost always exceed client expectations in this respect because we insist only on supplying our contractor clients with fixtures and lamps made domestically in the U.S.A. Our HID fixtures come with full written manufacturerʼs warranties and feature specification grade engineering designed to deliver optimal results over an extended period of time. They are made with the best wiring designs, optical controls, reflectors, lamps, and lenses to ensure a luminance that is robust, reliable, cost effective, and contributive to the momentum of your clientʼs process flow.

RLLD Commercial lighting will help you find the very best possible metal halide high bays for your client by performing a systematic photometric analysis of the facility prior to finalizing any equipment orders. This diagram, produced with sophisticated lighting design software, can show us how much light must be produced in the room, how best to distribute that in terms of both horizontal and vertical foot candles, how many fixtures we need to supply you with, and where to best install those fixtures to maximize light distribution and long lamp life.

Check out some of the many articles and product categories of metal halide commercial lighting fixtures we can ship directly to your office, warehouse or project:

Decorative Commercial Lighting
Commercial Landscape Lighting
Commercial Parking Lot Lighting
Commercial Warehouse Lighting
Commercial Fluorescent Lighting
Commercial Exterior Lighting
Commercial Gooseneck Lights
Commercial Electric Lighting
Commercial Lighting Fixtures
Commercial Sign Lighting
Commercial Indoor Lighting
Commercial Lighting Pole Installation
Commercial Lighting Systems
Dark Sky Lighting Regulations
High Bay Lighting

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