Commercial Fluorescent Lights

Guidelines for Contractors Installing Fluorescent Floodlights-
If you want to use fluorescent floodlights to light your client’s building with a uniform beam spread, RLLD Commercial Lighting recommends that you go by the following guidelines in this blog. If you have to vary the lighting levels, you can do this by changing lamp wattage without changing out the fixtures.

Establish the Proper Aiming Points
To get a uniform distribution of light from top to bottom, aim fluorescent floodlights two thirds up the vertical surface. For instance, if the wall is 25 feet high, aim your fixtures 17 feet up from the ground.

What to do with limited setback.
Setback is often encountered. Work with what space you have. The minimum acceptable setback distance is one-quarter the height of the wall. If you have more space, install the fixtures at the same distance from the wall as your aiming point is from the ground. For example, going by our example above, that would be 17 feet back from the building.

Regardless of setback, the spacing between should be twice the setback.
To get optimum uniformity of luminance, space fluorescent floodlights at a distance two times the distance of setback. In our current example, fixtures setback 17 feet from the wall must be spaced 34 feet apart. This causes the light beams to overlap one another, resulting in a uniform spread. If a client is more concerned with cost than with uniformity, however, you may purchase fewer commercial lighting fixtures and vary spacing up to five times the setback distance.

Tell your client about the advantages that fluorescent floodlights offer over inground uplights.
There are times when facilities managers request uplights because they are so easy to conceal and do not intrude into the scene. Nevertheless, they are better used as sign lights, monument lights, or decorative landscape lights. When they are mounted close to a large surface like a building wall, they cast a near vertical beam upward. You cannot achieve uniformity with this type of beam spread.

Get a photometric design from RLLD Commercial Lighting.
The example we provided assumes there is a more or less symmetrical building to light and sufficient acreage to give your team the necessary amount of setback. This ideal scenario is not always found in the real world, however. Real world scenarios are much more complex and demanding, and they often call for more architectural lighting design and installation strategies that take too many billable hours to compute.

It is so much better to have our lighting design team calculate setback and spacing for you. This will also help us recommend the best fixtures to use. This saves time and money for both you and your client, and is sometimes the only way to avoid error if you are installing fluorescent floodlights at a multi-building location.

A 3D photometric lighting design will ensure you will create the appropriate foot candle measurements regardless of the symmetry of the individual buildings, their relationship to each another, and the amount of available setback.

This 3D model is also that you can show to our client that will show them the location and beam spreads of the fluorescent lighting fixtures we recommend. The cost of this photometric design will be deducted from your final invoice total if and when you buy the equipment from us.

If you buy your industrial outdoor products from us, we will refund the value of the photometric design by deducting it from your equipment purchase invoice. This will also save you money on service charges.

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Fluorescent Lighting Fixtures

Fluorescent light fixtures offer your clients both a front-end savings and a back-end return on investment. They are far less expensive than LED, Induction, and MH luminaires, and their energy efficiency lighting, lamp life, and performance level is undisputed. As 2010 is just around the corner, all of us are faced with the impending need to replace all incandescent lamps with newer, more energy saving, and more environmentally friendly luminaires. In spite of the fear and uncertainty we face in this recession, putting it off for too long will only result in more complications down the line, because parts shortages are almost sure to come when everyone scrambles at the last minute for replacements and retrofits.

In actuality, now is the best time to propose to fluorescent lighting fixtures to clients whose genuine need and limited budget make them ideal candidates for an affordable purchase that compounds a savings/reinvestment return that will wind paying for the equipment anyway.

You really won’t be able to offer your client a better deal than this. When funds are limited, fluorescent light fixtures are the perfect replacement for incandescent sources because they come in so many shapes and sizes, and they are equally viable for indoor and outdoor lighting applications.

Any client you encounter can utilize compact fluorescent light fixtures to generate a better quality of light and a lower monthly electric bill. Schools, churches, warehouses, corporate office parks, retail establishments, libraries, non-profit headquarters, and government buildings are just of few of the many organizations that will benefit from specification grade, American made fluorescent lighting fixtures, ballasts, and lamps.

It is important for you to help your clients understand the differences between commercial fluorescent lights and incandescent lights. A fluorescent light fixture is designed to be fundamentally different from an incandescent light. The core operative in an incandescent is a filament that produces a bright, white light when current passes through it. When Thomas Edison first invented the incandescent lamp, it revolutionized the world.

However, as world population has grown, the demand for fuel needed to produce electricity has exponentially increased. Limitations unforeseen by Edison have now made incandescent lamps inefficient and obsolete. They waste too much power, generate too much heat, often create blinding glare, and they burn out way too fast. They also produce greenhouse gasses that are released into the atmosphere if a bulb gets broken.

Fluorescent light fixtures were the first luminaires that required no filament to produce light. Instead, they pass an electric arc between tungsten cathodes in a tube filled with low pressure mercury vapor mixed with other trace gasses. This arc excites the mercury vapor, producing radiant ultraviolet energy. This ultraviolet light strikes a phosphor coating on the inside of the tube and causes it to “fluoresce” into visible light. A ballast, either magnetic or electronic, controls the electron flow to prevent the lamp from pulling too much current and burning itself out.

You will no doubt encounter many clients who already have such fluorescent fixtures already in place and who feel they are fine with what they have. Please point out that many foreign made and retail fluorescent fixtures have magnetic ballasts that cannot regulate electron flow as efficiently as commercial grade electronic ballasts can. Consequently, they tend to have lower Lumens per Watt efficiency and won’t do your client as much good in the long run.

If you are proposing fluorescent light fixtures for any type of landscape or outdoor site lighting system, you really have no option but to go with the highest LPW possible. Regulations on power consumption are only going to get tougher in the years to come, so it this is one area where costs effectiveness means buying the best, not the most convenient or expedient, ballast technology.

Because fluorescent lighting fixtures use electricity to agitate gases rather than heating a filament, they operate at much cooler temperatures than incandescent lights. This results in two benefits you can pass directly on to your clients. For one thing, the cooler temperatures in the office, warehouse, or factory will less electricity for the HVAC system to cool the building to cool the building. Secondly, the fluorescent fixture itself will last longer, as prolonged exposure to heat will cause virtually any substance to deteriorate.

A long lasting fixture like a fluorescent light will not need to be replaced as often. Your clients will avoid wasting money on buying new induction lighting equipment, and they will save money on the labor associated with installing them as well.

RLLD Commercial Lighting is a Design Services and Domestic Lighting Equipment Source committed to providing contractors with the very best American made products and lighting design support services. By placing an order with us, you can obtain a free photometric analysis of your client’s site generated by means of our sophisticate lighting design software. Any information you require on new technology that will help you win a bid to your client can also be obtained simply by calling a specialist now.

RLLD Commercial Lighting carries a wide variety of industrial & commercial lighting supplies. If you can not find what you are looking for call us toll free at 1-866-654-3961 and we will find it for you.

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Commercial Recessed Lights & Lighting Fixtures

Enhanced illumination helps create a more positive and focused work environment in the office. It also improves employee morale, and contributes to increased productivity which can be vital to recession proofing a business in todayʼs unstable economy. Of course, many businesses may feel that now is not the best time to invest in a comprehensive overhaul of their interior lighting system. For such companies, commercial recessed lights offer an affordable enhancement to the existing general lighting system that represents a safe-bet investment in a sluggish market place and also helps to reduce liability and improve general safety.

A certain number of foot-candles are required for clear visibility and safe mobility within a building. Pockets of shadow or low levels of light represent areas where employees can injure themselves or suffer from eye strain due to insufficient light. Commercial electric recessed lights are ideal for improving illumination in these areas and increasing visibility so employees can more easily perform tasks and move between stations when necessary. Reducing the risk of injury or work-related physical stress helps decrease the potential liability for an organization with substandard levels of lighting. Something as simple as installing a few commercial recessed electric lights could potentially qualify a company for reduced commercial liability insurance rates, provided the contractor who installs the recessed lights provide the organization with a photometric analysis that details the improved quality of interior lighting and shows where newly installed recessed light fixtures work provide new directional lighting for important tasks in key areas of human traffic and activity.

Recessed electric light fixtures are also an important source of accent lighting in commercial interiors. Meeting rooms and foyers are two very important rooms that every company should spend the money to literally put in the best possible light. Recessed electric lighting fixtures in these rooms can be wired to dimmer controls that allow for the light to be set to appropriate levels for different events. Speakers, sales presentations, private meetings, and even video conferencing can all benefit from the flexible and controlled illumination produced by commercial recessed electric lighting fixtures.

To determine specifics such as housings, trims, and lamp types, it is necessary to quantify floor and vertical cube space, and to spend as much time as necessary to interface with clients to learn the key activities that represent their business model and what type of light fixtures will best support those activities. This information can then be passed on to us so that we may process this data using sophisticated lighting design software that generates a comprehensive photometric analysis of the clientʼs interior office space. This photometric assessment depicts a point by point, room by room breakdown of required levels of lighting and optimal locations for fixture placement. Knowing these two details helps the contractor determine exactly how many recessed electric lighting fixtures are actually needed, and which housings, trims, and lamp types will best meet the requirements of the proposed installation.

For ceilings that cannot be cut due to restrictions in the commercial lease, retrofit recessed lighting fixtures may be the best way to go. Smaller companies who feel the pain of investing even in a few new ceiling lights can be reassured with the promise of lowering power bills with low voltage models. Unique interior architecture such as sloped ceilings can also be accommodated with special recessed electrical commercial light fixtures made just for such interiors.

These are just a few examples of the range of options available through RLLD Commercial Lighting. We supply contractors with an enormous diversity of commercial recessed electrical lighting lamps, housings, and trims that combine unobtrusiveness with flexibility. All equipment is American made here in the United States and drop shipped directly to the clientʼs location unless otherwise requested. Photometric lighting analysis and adjunct consultation services are free to clients and serious inquirers, and consultations services are available for a reasonable fee for contractors seeking expert advice on an as-need basis.

RLLD Commercial Lighting carries a wide variety of industrial & commercial lighting fixtures. If you can not find what you are looking for contact us toll free at 1-866-654-3961 and we will find it for you. Our home office is located in Houston, Texas with warehouses located throughout the United States that enable us to service all 50 states including like Ft. Lauderdale, FL (FLL), Orlando, Florida (MCO), Santa Monica, CA, (LAX) Columbus, Ohio (CMH) (LGA) New York, NY, (JKF), St. Louis, MO, Detroit, Michigan (DTW), Madison, WI (MSN), San Francisco, California (SFO), and Omaha, Nebraska (OMA).

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Industrial Fluorescent Lighting Fixtures

Recent laws now require all incandescent lights to be replaced no later than 2010. Consequently, industrial fluorescent lights will play an increasingly vital role in future lighting design. Almost every factory, warehouse, and office park will need new architectural area lights, if not a completely new lighting system. We strongly recommend that you urge your clients now to invest now rather than later, because part shortages will most likely arise when many companies wait until the last minute. RLLD Commercial Lighting anticipates and understands that your clients may not want to spend money until we know how long this recession we are facing is going to last. You will overcome their fears when you show them the many benefits that industrial fluorescent light fixtures will provide for their business. By explaining how this evolving technology can actually help them recession-proof their business, you can gain a strong competitive advantage over other contractors. Who out there doesnʼt want to invest in longer-lasting, energy efficient equipment whose reduced power consumption and lower maintenance cost will compound savings that pay back the value of the purchase order and potentially generates a revenue surplus?

Industrial fluorescent lights last longer than other luminaires.
We personally have never encountered a client who enjoys wasting money on equipment replacements. We strongly suspect as well that such clients do not exist. The people we know expect their moneyʼs worth anytime they spend it, and they expect the things they buy to last. Industrial fluorescent lights will prove their value to these cautious clients the minute the lights power on. With superior and more reliable performance than luminaires, these clients will experience a light that is more comfortable to the eyes (generally industrial fluorescent lighting lamps create significantly less glare), and lower electric bills. This is going to be a major turning point for contractors in cities such as Houston, TX. Our city government has recently tightened the belt on LPW codes. Come August 1st when the new law goes into effect, no more than.05 watt will be permitted for every lumen produced. With these changes on the near horizon, it is essential for contractors in Houston and other major cities to propose lamps that will generate more light with less electricity. As a general rule, industrial fluorescent light fixtures feature a LPW and offer the additional benefit of cooler operating temperatures. For warehouses and shipping/receiving centers that are using currently using HID high bay and low bay lights, replacing existing fixtures with fluorescent industrial bay lights can lower the temperature within the building and generate further savings on HVAC cooling costs.

Fluorescent lights are found almost everywhere in the world of industry and distribution.
Fluorescent industrial lights represent some of the worldʼs most diversified sources of illumination. You see industrial fluorescent light sources in virtually every indoor and outdoor lighting system. This is especially true in material handling, manufacturing, and shipping receiving companies who have to squeeze every penny on overhead to turn a profit. Because industrial fluorescent lamps render color at only 8 points less than that of natural light, fluorescent low bays are an excellent line item to offer any client that needs a better light source over an assembly line or work area characterized by highly detailed or potentially dangerous tasks. For industrial site lighting, they perform competitively against a large percentage of HID area lights. In our energy and environmentally conscious marketplace, you find everything from industrial fluorescent bollards and decorative landscape lights to powerful fluorescent floodlights linked to motion detectors and advanced alarms. Warehouses commonly use fluorescent wall packs as glare free, economic lighting sources around building perimeters and loading docks. Canopy lights with fluorescent lamps also serve as highly efficient and vandal-proof fixtures for industrial walkway lighting and parking garage lighting.

Todayʼs industrial fluorescent lights feature electronic ballasts that create a quality of light that is higher than ever before.
The stereotype many people have of industrial fluorescent lights as headache generators has long since been disproven and overcome and by newer, electronic ballasts that have freed fluorescent light from the flickering and yellowing effects produced by the inferior ballasts of the past. Todayʼs fluorescents generate a comfortable, white, glare free luminance that is easy on the eyes and fits hand in glove with glare and light pollution regulations. It is important to inform clients about the difference between retail fluorescents that use cheap, magnetic ballasts and more advanced specification grade industrial fluorescent lights with electronic ballasts. The all-American-made, specification quality fixtures we supply to contractors feature only the very best electronic ballasts in a variety of voltages engineered for superior electron flow, power management, exceptional CRI, and photometric delivery power. This represents the highest level of manufacturing and engineering quality in our industry; which is why so many general contractors and builders rely upon RLLD Commercial as their exclusive vendor and source for commercial lighting information.

Lighting Package Quotes
The quote you receive from us will always represent a fair, cost-effective, and accurate estimation of multiple values. First, we build upon your idea in a technically sound manner, researching and detailing all of the technology involved to ensure its longevity, legality, and viability. Secondly, by calculating exactly how much LIGHT you need, we can show you exactly how many commercial poles and fixtures you need without wasting money or time. Consider how much more value you will gain when you receive design, research, technical calculations, equipment, and installation all from the same source. Single source means less wasted time, lower margin for error, and greater opportunity for long term return on investment.

RLLD Commercial Lighting carries a wide variety of industrial & commercial lighting fixtures. If you can not find what you are looking for contact us toll free at 1-866-654-3961 and we will find it for you.

Our commercial lighting design studio and lighting supply house is located in Houston, Texas with warehouses located throughout the United States that enable us to service all 50 states including New York NY, Los Angeles CA, Miami, FL. Chicago, IL. Denver CO., New Orleans, La., Cleveland, Ohio, Kansas City, Mo., Mesa, Arizona, Virginia Beach, Va., Omaha, Nebraska, Oakland, California, Miami, Florida, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Colorado Springs, Colorado, Arlington, Texas, Beaumont, Texas, Denton, TX, McKinney, Texas, Midland, TX, Killeen, Texas, Dallas TX, San Antonio, TX, Austin, TX, ALBQ, NYC, LA, MPLS.

Commercial Fluorescent Lighting

Because recent legislation has mandated that all incandescent lights be replaced by 2010 at the latest, commercial fluorescent lights are going to play a major role in future lighting design for businesses, non-profits, schools, and municipalities. We recommend you encourage your clients to invest now rather than later, as parts shortages are sure to follow on the heels of procrastination and last minute decisions. RLLD Commercial Lighting understands that many of your clients will be very hesitant to spend money in a time of recession. However, this hesitancy can be overcome by pointing out the many advantages and benefits that commercial fluorescent light fixtures deliver consistently across the board. Recession proofing your client with an investment that will represent a long-term solution and a return on investment will be pivotal in your negotiations. Equally pivotal will be the ability to systematically calculate the precise number of decorative commercial fixtures your client’s site will need and determine at the scientific level the optical photometric levels you will need to create for truly superior solution.

LONGER LAMP LIFE
You will never meet a client who enjoys spending money on replacements. When people buy things, they expect those things to last. In light of this fact, the greatest benefit commercial lighting packages will bring to any client is lamp life that is much longer and more reliable than incandescent luminaires. Furthermore, as cities such as Houston tighten their restrictions on LPW (it is now 1 lumen per .05 watt here), it is crucial as well to use lamps that will generate more light with less electricity. As a general rule, fluorescent lights feature both superior LPW and operate at cooler temperatures. For indoor environments such as warehouses, workshops, factories, and call centers, using cooler burning lamps will reduce the power used by the HVAC system and bring additional return on investment through overhead reduction. Over time, your clients will recover the dollars they invested in the commercial fluorescent lighting system you encouraged them to wisely invest in now rather than later.

WIDESPREAD APPLICABILITY
Parking Lot fluorescent lights and indoor commercial fluorescent lights occupy a unique position in the world of luminaires. They rank among the most versatile and diversified light sources in the world. You will find commercial fluorescent light fixtures in a wide range of designs engineered for specific interior and exterior business lighting applications. In the realm of indoor lighting, fluorescent can be everything from recessed lights and panel lights to intentionally decorative fixtures. Because of their superior energy efficiency, they are superb general purpose lights in commercial warehouse areas and are commonly used in high bay and low bay fixtures over assembly lines. In the outdoor arena, you see everything from commercial fluorescent bollards and decorative landscape lights to powerful floodlights controlled by motion detectors linked to security alarm systems. They are also the favored lamping option by many wall pack manufacturers because of their power saving abilities and low operating temperatures.

EFFICIENCY AND QUALITY OF LIGHT
The stereotypes of fluorescent lights as headache producers have long since been overcome and disproved by newer, superior ballast technology frees fluorescent lights from all flickering or yellowing effects such as those produced by their primitive ancestors in the 70ʼs. Today’s energy efficient fluorescent commercial lights produce a comfortable, white, glare free light that is easy on the eyes and fits hand in glove with glare and light pollution regulations. The specification grade fixtures we furnish to contractors feature the very best electronic ballasts in a variety of voltages engineered for superior electron flow, power management, exceptional CRI, and photometric delivery power.

This represents the highest level of manufacturing and engineering quality in our industry; (we only use US manufacturers as sources) which is why so many industrial lighting designers prefer to use us as a vendor.

LIGHTING DESIGN SERVICES
RLLD Commercial Lighting has spent a great deal of money to obtain some of the world’s most advanced lighting design software that we will freely employ on your behalf to propose a winning bid. This software enables us to take basic raw data about your client’s site, put that data into our system, and create a point-by-point photometric schematic of an entire indoor and outdoor lighting design system. This plan will fully anticipate the many dynamics of LPW and light pollution requirements, client equipment budget, estimated maintenance costs (if any), and lamp life requirements. For clients who wish to invest cautiously in commercial outdoor security lights, building lights, or sign lights, knowing the exact number and type of fluorescent fixtures necessary to fulfill luminance requirements can avert over purchasing and present a more streamlined proposal for you to bring to the table.

WHERE ARE YOU LOCATED?
RLLD Commercial Lighting carries a wide variety of industrial & commercial lighting fixtures. If you can not find what you are looking for contact us toll free at 1-866-654-3961 and we will find it for you. Our home office is located in Houston, Texas with sites mapped throughout the United States that enable us to service all 50 states including New York NY, Los Angeles CA, Miami, FL. Chicago, IL. Denver CO., New Orleans, La., Cleveland, Ohio, Kansas City, Mo., Mesa, Arizona, Virginia Beach, Va., Omaha, Nebraska, Oakland, California, Miami, Florida, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Colorado Springs, Colorado, Arlington, Texas, Beaumont, Texas, Denton, TX, McKinney, Texas, Midland, TX, Killeen, Texas, Dallas TX, San Antonio, TX, Austin, TX, ALBQ, NYC, LA, MPLS.