Monday, December 7, 2009

Industrial Lights & Industrial Lighting

Why should a company work with someone like RLLD to get a photometric design? RLLD Commercial Lighting offers a combination of retail, design, and lighting photometric services.

We have a seasoned design team with over 50 combined years of experience. All of our support staff is domestically based, and all of our products are American made. We have access to the very best industrial light equipment. We can configure an entire system with a firm, total cost and handle shipment to your location as well.

When the equipment arrives, we can also partner and consult with your electrical contractor if any assistance is needed with the installation of our equipment.

What steps are involved in configuring an outdoor lighting system?
Outdoor industrial light must generate adequate lighting levels for safety and perimeter security. It must also be of an appropriate color to respect building architecture.

What steps are involved in configuring an indoor lighting system?
To create an appropriate level of indoor industrial light, we have to do several things. First, we have to determine the type of facility we are lighting. If it is a new facility, we need to get an idea of what the tenants will be using the facility for. If they will be incorporating skylights, we have to make adjustments for a certain amount of natural lighting in the building.

If the client is looking for lighting control, we need to know if they have already hired someone to install the commercial lighting controls, and it helps us to know what types of controls they will be using. If the client is looking to buy equipment first and then look to have industrial light controls installed with the new fixtures, we will help them find a contractor who specializes in this service.

If this is an older facility, then the project is technically classified as a retrofit. Our client will need to supply us with information on their current industrial light levels. A basic light meter can do this, and any local lighting or electrical contractor should be able to come out and provide this reading.

What other materials do you need?
Blueprints of the building are always helpful. If any overhead plans or AutoCAD drawings of the original lighting system are available, those should be sent to us as well.

What features should clients be looking for in terms of light output and energy efficiency?
Indoor industrial commercial light should provide your employees with a feeling of safety in all parts of the building. There should be no dark corridors or corners where a person may feel uncomfortable walking—particularly after sunset. In offices and cubicles, lighting should also be optimized for comfort so employees can perform their tasks without annoyance or eye strain.

For energy efficient lighting, always buy American made products and spend a little more on the newest technology. New technology, although sometimes more costly on the front end of a purchase, is designed to reduce a building’s carbon footprint by using less power consistently over a period of time. This reduction in power consumption means savings that go back into your operations budget.

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. We welcome will work hard to educate you, provide a design, establish a budget and provide the lighting goods to do the job!

Our photometric lighting design office is located in Houston, Texas with 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.

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Thursday, October 22, 2009

Industrial Commercial Lighting Fixtures

Many industries need commercial industrial lighting. Factories need special types of commercial industrial lighting for illuminating both their exterior grounds, their indoor shipping and receiving bays, production areas. Warehouses need reliable, efficient fixtures that feature an ease of maintenance and long life.

Retail centers and outdoor malls must have the very best parking lot lights, mounts, and poles to maintain customer safety and to remain in compliance with government regulations that regulate foot candle levels and wind resistance. Parking garages have to have specialized outdoor light systems that will evenly illuminate winding aisles of up and down drive ramps without creating glare that will blind the eyes of motorists.

Roadways require street lights that produce similar levels of glare free light so people can safely drive at night. These roadways can be city streets, county highways, or private drives that runs through a office parks, municipal districts, or college campuses.

Commercial industrial lighting fixtures come in all types of intensity levels and configurations. Their designs are based upon where they are used. High bay and low bay lighting is prevalent in factories and warehouses and illuminates manufacturing and storage areas. High bays and low bays have also made considerable inroads into sports lighting with new metal halide technology that makes them ideal for lighting gymnasiums.

Any number of wall mounted fixtures can be used for outdoor building lighting and security lighting. These commercial light fixtures can be as decorative and highly energy efficient as they are practical—provided that are made by American companies that stand behind their work and who offer more than just a few size, trim, and color options so that fixtures can be matched to building architecture and intended use.

Floodlights are crucial to commercial industrial lighting for security. A number of new reflectors and lamps have emerged with the advent of pulse start MH technology. These new lights can be operated by either timers or motion sensors.

Parking lot lights rank among the most important types of outdoor architectural lights. Trusted US Manufacturers create a multitude of intensities and reflector types that can distribute foot candles in many different patterns and levels of intensity appropriate to location and size of the parking lot. Commercial lighting poles, particularly galvanized steel lighting poles, are often critical to the optimal performance of these fixtures and should also be purchased from American manufacturers through a design-vendor firm such as RLLD Commercial Lighting.

In order to be effective, commercial industrial lighting has to be approached from the standpoint of building a system that will address several major concerns at once. First, the system must produce a desired amount of light to evenly illuminate a facility and create working conditions that are optimal for safety and production. Ideally this system should be an energy efficient light and use as little power as possible in the production of this light, so this balance between luminance and power consumed is called the lumens per watt ratio.

The best commercial industrial lighting jobs, then, are naturally those with higher lumens per watt ratio. Such fixtures can be trusted to use only so much power in the performance of their task. They should be manufactured in the United States as well in order to obtain superior warranty and replacement parts in the event of accidental breakage.

RLLD Commercial Lighting offers parking lot lighting, tennis court lighting, energy efficient indoor and outdoor architectural lighting fixtures, photometric lighting design, supplies and sales of sports field, landscape, security, and area parking lot lighting products.

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. We welcome will work hard to educate youm provide a design, establish a budget and provide the lighting goods to do the job!

Our photometric lighting design office is located in Houston, Texas with 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.

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