Fluorescent Wall Pack Lighting

I’m a building manager. Why have I never even heard of wall packs until now?
Fluorescent wall packs are the most common types of exterior wall lights now. People see them so much they basically don’t even notice them. They also don’t draw much attention to themselves because they are so easy to install and require only infrequent replacement in most cases.

Is fluorescent light good enough for this type of lighting?
Yes. Any industrial lighting designer will testify to the fact that fluorescent can output all the light you need for building lighting at even lower energy saving costs than the best metal halides. Not only that, but if there is a power outage in your area, fluorescent wall packs will come right back on without the startup time required by halide outdoor commercial lights.

Will they cost me a lot of money to install?
No, because fluorescent wall pack fixtures are engineered for convenience. Most are single unit builds that only need to be wired to a power source. They cast an even distribution of light around their immediate area which combines the luminance of other wall packs. The fluorescent lamps are very energy efficient and can provide lighting of this type for both safety and security without costing a business an arm and a leg.

Is there a cheap, one-size fits all fluorescent wall pack fixture?
No. Not every single wall pack light is right for your particular building. That is why we recommend that you talk about the much different wattage, intensities, and physical sizes of these lights in order to determine which one will best meet your needs.

Why should I spend money on a lighting designer when the fixtures are already going to cost me money?
Because it will cost you much more if you purchase the wrong fixtures or if you buy too many fixtures. There is never any obligation to buy professional lighting supplies from us. You have the choice to simply buy the design and give it to your local electrical contractor.

Another reason to invest in a photometric plan is to make sure you comply with lighting ordinances in your area. Some of these requirements may look impossible to meet at face value. For example, some cities mandate that fluorescent wall packs around a building be mounted in such a way that their light is never seen above the roof line. This seems impossible to the lay person, but it is not to lighting designers.

All an expert has to do is find fixtures that will point downward and still produce the desired foot candle distribution patter.

How can I get a photometric plan?
Just to call our office and speak to our fluorescent lighting design team. We will normally request schematics, CAD drawings, photographs, measurements, or other documents determined to be relevant to our design process. We will then input this data into advanced photometric software that will allow us to design a 3D model of your proposed lighting system.

Can I get the design for free?
If you buy the equipment from us, you will get your money invested in the plan deducted off the total amount of the final invoice. Costs for photometric "point by point" layouts are reasonable priced and well worth the investment. What other website can provide this type of scientific information prior to investing in commercial lighting equipment? Only RLLD offers photometric lighting designs directly to engineers, builders, developers, owners or other decision makers responsible for spending money wisely.

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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 Indoor Lighting Solutions

Most clients you propose services to will be very concerned about the recession. They are going to want reassurance from the get go that the lights they buy today will last a long time to come and help them either save money, make money, or both. If you can prepare a proposal in advance that quantifies specific channels of ROI, you can give yourself a competitive advantage over almost any rival you are up against. Many commercial environments in and of themselves are defined by the type and quality of indoor lighting. Some depend on the lighting itself as a contributing factor that directly impacts the generation of capital. Others experience the benefits of indoor commercial lights on a more indirect, somewhat intangible level. The quality and nature of an organizationʼs commercial indoor architectural lighting system has a direct impact on its morale, production time, and generative financial power. Understanding the type of business you are looking to help will in turn help you very quickly what types of commercial indoor lights to order to best meet the requirements of your clientʼs environment, activities, and fiscal overhead.

Industrial Organizations
Industrial clients receive the greatest benefits from indoor commercial lights that cut power costs and provide superior supportive task lighting. They seldom take the time to focus on decorative concerns, choosing instead to give top priority to the utilitarian and functional requirements of task-supportive lighting. This is both a matter of focus and a matter of safety in industrial environments. Shadows constitute trip hazards in warehouses and factories, and glare can create an equally hazardous environment. For shipping/receiving, manufacturing, and material handling facilities, it is imperative to think SAFETY and CONSERVATION with every fixture you install. Keep in mind that industry is very heavily related in these areas, just as commercial indoor and outdoor commercial lighting are becoming increasingly regulated.

Service Based Organizations
Office personnel in service industries work best in an environment under commercial indoor light that is both task and decoratively oriented. Usually this involves multiple layers of light, and it almost always requires more than one lamping option. Commercial lighting controls help to control both indoor lighting levels and the consumption of electricity. Lighting control is especially vital to specialty rooms, such as conference rooms, that function in a multi-dimensional capacity. The ability to both control the overall level of light and directly manipulate layers and colors of light is vital to effective presentation and maximizing the potential of any environment used for presentations, audio-visuals, and teleconferencing.

Retailers
Retailers need commercial indoor building lights with the very best CRI to light products on shelves and to showcase anything of importance that has been placed in its own display. They also need multiple layers of light, normally at least two to effectively showcase both their floor space and specific products that are intended to be differentiated from general product selection. It is paramount to do this as cost effectively as possible. Retail profit margins are normally rather slim, so the more you trim a storeʼs overhead on power bills, the more readily they will embrace both the technology and the design you propose.

Hospitality Clients
Hotels, country clubs, restaurants, and resorts require a very specialized approach to commercial indoor lighting. Each location features a variety of buildings whose interior architecture varies on a room per room basis. So many special events occur within each room of every facility that commercial indoor lighting fixtures and lamps have to provide everything from task and general lighting to special decorative and associative aesthetic themes that support the brand of the organization, the activities that normally occur with each area, and a general sense of removal from mundane reality to a higher, superior, and more eclectic realm of activity.

Clients Interested in LEED Certification
You may find a client in any of the four industry classifications above could possibly be looking to obtain LEED certification. Installing the appropriate specification grade indoor fluorescent commercial lights be a major factor in earning points toward such an accreditation. Because high electric bills are very often the result of high temperature created by outdated lighting fixtures, very often the first step in lowering the power costs for these clients is to replace indoor lights that are burning too hot with cooler burning equivalents. Hand in glove with this methodology is also replacing lights with lower LPW with superior LPW efficiency ratings. New commercial fluorescent lighting, induction lighting, and most especially, LED commercial light fixtures and lamps all offer new options never before available to lower overall electric consumption and qualify for points in environmental friendliness and innovation and design as well.

Lighting Design Services from RLLD Commercial Lighting
Our clients range from general contractors and architects to property developers and commercial lighting design firms who range in size from the sole proprietor to the multi-site corporate level. To accommodate this broad spectrum of clientele, and to ensure that everyone has the ability to save time on proposal development and develop superior, energy efficient solutions in full compliance with all governing regulations, we have investing in state of the art point by point lighting design software which we will use to help you develop your clientʼs system at no additional charge provided you purchase your commercial indoor or commercial outdoor lighting fixtures from us. Smaller companies can appear equivalent to large ones through this partnership, and large companies can save money on training and staff development by outsourcing schematic design to our experts.

RLLD Commercial Lighting carries a wide variety of industrial light poles, industrial lighting fixtures and sports athletic field lighting fixtures. 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. You can contact us at our home office is located in Houston, Texas and we have warehouses located throughout the United States that enable us to service all 50 states including San Juan, PR (SJU), Isla De Vieques, PR (VQS), Fajardo, PR (X95), Erie, PA (ERI), Killeen, TX (ILE), Sheridan, WY (SHR), Casper, WY (CPR), Parkersburg, WV (PKB), and Escanaba, MI (ESC). We also service clients internationally, with lighting manufacturer representatives working out of Canada, Mexico, Central America, and South America. 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.