Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Decorative Commercial Sign Lighting

Many contractors and business owners fail to include sign lights in their commercial lighting systems because they mistakenly view them as an unnecessary expense. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Commercial sign lights will proudly advertise and organization or companyʼs logo throughout the night and make a strong impression on the minds of passing motorists and pedestrians that view it from the road. In some industries such as retail and hospitality, a sign is an absolute must-have because it serves not only as a brand, but also as a magnet that draws people in. Commercial sign lights in these environments must be very energy efficient because they stay on for at least 6-8 hours on the average every night. They must also be able to weather the elements without degradation of light quality. It is also best to install fixtures that not only compliment the size of the sign, but also compliment its color scheme and position in order to create a truly seamless fit. This is because, after all, the whole purpose of sign lighting is to highlight the colors and lettering without drawing attention to lighting equipment.

Commercial sign lighting fixtures by RLL Design feature a number of competitive advantages that can help you achieve the three musts of decorative commercial sign lighting: appropriate distance, angle of incidence, and lighting intensity. This offers a great deal of choice for both the do-it-yourselfer and the seasoned veteran of lighting design. Many signs sit atop buildings on strut supports similar to billboards. Others mount high on poles, while others still look like monuments in the ground that mark the entrance to a government office, restaurant, hotel, commercial headquarters, or industrial warehouse. Many industrial companies will brand their warehouses factories with lettering on the sides of the buildings themselves, turning their structures into commercial signs. Lighting fixtures here must produce exceptional vertical down light and up light without consuming too much power. Having a variety of RLL Design commercial sign light fixtures to choose from helps tremendously, because it allows for fixtures to be matched to specific building features and sign types quickly and efficiently. Angled reflectors and gooseneck style fixtures feature specially sealed lenses that protect lamps from water and dirt intrusion. They also feature a multitude of optional accessory mounts so they can be custom mounted to virtually any surface at optimal distance to produce optimal foot-candle levels for clear visibility from roadways and parking lots.

In order to make commercial electric sign lights not only brand competitive, but also cost competitive in terms of a return on investment, it is necessary to calculate just how much voltage and wattage you actually need to light your commercial sign. Most do it yourselfers, regardless of expertise, tend to overestimate these numbers to make certain they have adequate levels of light. This often runs up the bill and frequently leads to a service call a professional that has to retrofit fixtures with a higher energy rating. With RLLD, this is never a worry. One of the many benefits both professionals and end users can expect from us is energy consciousness across the board. For commercial sign lights or commercial landscape lighting requiring incandescent based lamps, we offer fixtures in low voltage models that are designed to minimize power consumption during extended hours of use. Whenever possible, our experts recommend alternative, comparable energy efficient lighting options in fluorescent and LED gooseneck and angled reflector commercial sign lights.

Although many commercial sign lighting fixtures are comparatively small and feature sophisticated lamping and wiring technology, precision o-ring sealed lenses protect lamps from dust and water ingress. Both our commercial gooseneck sign lights and angled reflector models are protected by a chromate conversion process and polyester powder coat finish that makes them super corrosion resistant. Commercial designers working in salt air environments, humid climates, and heavily polluted areas can assure their clients that a one time investment in gooseneck or angled reflector sign lights can keep their brand clearly visible and economically lit for many years to come.

RLLD Commercial Lighting supplies a wide variety of sport athletic field, industrial and commercial lighting fixtures. If you can not find what you are looking for in our lighting case studies, lighting blog or on our RLLD Commercial Lighting Website call 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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Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Commercial Parking Lot Lighting

Commercial Parking Lot lights have become increasingly more regulated over the years and require expert knowledge beyond electrical expertise to properly configure and install. For many years, the bulk of regulatory codes mandated foot candle minimums for commercial parking lots lights to produce in order to make certain that parked cars were not obscured in shadows and to provide motorists with enough light to see. Over time, however, more laws were passed to minimize glare that can distract drivers and cause accidents. Then, the most recent round of legislation has now swept the nation from coast to coast, not only mandating that all commercial outdoor parking lot lights not only to produce a certain number of footcandles and a minimum amount of glare, but also more tightly regulating the direction of light itself so as to it to parking areas only without spilling into neighboring streets, homes, and businesses.

To light a commercial parking lot effectively, even with standard luminaires and light poles, often requires the contractor to precisely match features and optics to mandated parameters of a given environment. Additional factors like wind load capacities of poles and the various methods of plotting optimal footcandle levels either require a great deal of time doing math or the assistance of a vendor with access to special charts and software. By coming to us, the designer, builder, or DIY electrical contractor has the ability to save multiple steps and to obtain whatever is necessary to get the job done safely, legally, and effectively.

Expeditious Lead Time on Basic Lighting Fixtures
RLLD Commercial lighting offers over s dozens of competitively priced, standard model commercial parking lot lights. Basic designs for commercial parking lot light fixtures range from cutoff, flood, parabolic design, and aerodynamic models. Standard parking lot lights offer a very no-nonsense, straightforward approach to lighting retail parking lots, industrial sites, small office parks, commercial driveways, and strip center parking areas. RLLD Commercial Lighting adds value to competitive price by providing the fastest lead time in the industry on shipping and delivery of standard commercial parking lot lighting equipment. This further saves time and labor costs by allowing for a quick, seamless installation of all commercial parking lot lighting equipment.

Although standard commercial parking lot lighting case studies represent the mid-range of the price spectrum, they are made with a number of optical advantages that generate precise directional lighting control. This is becoming increasingly important throughout the country as more and more municipalities pass tougher dark sky laws to prevent light pollution in parking lots and commercial centers from spilling into roadways and neighboring homes. By working with a vendor such as RLLD Commercial Lighting architects, designers, builders, and electricians obtain the additional benefit of complimentary, expert knowledge on whether or not a particular luminaire will prove compliant to the standards of the proposed location in any given community.

Specification Grade Commercial Parking Lot Lights
Because so many large corporations, hotels, country clubs, resorts, and exclusive neighborhoods prefer to take a more sophisticated approach to site lighting design, RLLD Commercial also provides is many clients with an enormous range of specification grade parking luminaires engineered specifically for the professional bidding high-end jobs. Architects, city planners, general contractors, and commercial developers are just a few of the industries representative of our expanding client base that needs the highest rating in commercial grade parking lot lighting equipment and the most reliable performance simultaneously concomitant to aesthetics and function. Our selection features over 100 designs that range in lamp wattages from 70-400W, and eight distinctive styles that allow for a diversity of lighting commercial parking lot designs and applications. With both horizontal and vertical lamps to choose from, and a total of seven light distributions in both sharp cutoff and wide angle design, these fixtures can be used for much more than commercial parking lot lighting. Because they represent the finest grade materials and most sophisticated engineering, they can also be used to light roadways, corporate plazas, parks, and large commercial centers.

RLLD Commercial Lighting company carries a wide variety of industrial & commercial parking lot 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. Our home office is located in Houston, Texas with warehouses located throughout the United States that enable us to service all 50 states including Sault Ste Marie, MI (CIU), Cleveland, OH, (CLE), College Station, TX (CLL), Port Angeles, WA (CLM), Charlotte, NC (CLT), Columbus, OH (CMH), Champaign, IL (CMI), Hancock, MI (CMX), Cody, WY (COD) and Colorado Springs, CO (COS).

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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Business Building Lighting

RLLD Commercial Outdoor Lighting knows that Building Lighting contractors are facing some hard times ahead. With the recession getting worsening every month, there is talk of a depression going on everywhere from You Tube to the mainstream media. RLLD Commercial Lighting wishes to remind Building Lighting designers that even during the Great Depression of the 20th Century, many millionaires were made in spite of a worldwide economic crisis and a pending World War. We believe that American entrepreneurs, in the long run, will still have a very bright future, and we believe that our support of the Building Lighting manufacture and the business lighting designer can play a pivotal role in sustaining and moving prosperity forward even in the darkest of times.

That being said, we would like to discuss today the exact role we play in the business lighting world. To start with, we work in two directions to support the American lighting industry on an exclusive basis. As a distributor and vendor, we work only with manufacturers who are American owned and located within the United States. We hold to this policy both out of loyalty to our own country and domestic business partners and out of a sure belief that American made Building Lighting fixtures is still the very best in the world. Working in close partnership with American manufacturers affords us more ready access to thousands of fixtures, mounts, lamps, and accessories that can equip any lighting designer in the country with the exact model, size, and type light needed to fulfill the needs of a municipal, government, military, academic, or commercial client. It also allows us to expedite timely drop shipping of Building Lighting fixtures anywhere in the nation on the turn of dime, eliminating the problematic of foreign invoicing and time delays involved in overseas shipping and warehousing.

When it comes to the relationships we hold with our contractors in the world of Building Lighting, our position stands unique among our competitors. We are the only virtual lighting design agency that is able to work so closely with commercial lighting design firms in order to help them develop customized commercial lighting systems and expedite proposals that are both cost sensitive and technologically superior to those of their competitors. We are able to do this because we have invested heavily in training our staff extensively in the many sub disciplines inherent to both indoor and outdoor business lighting. Our sales personnel are also design personnel, and they can answer any question that you as a contractor bring to the table both from a technical standpoint and an aesthetic standpoint.

Furthermore, we have invested heavily in some of the most advanced photometric analysis software available to Building Lighting firms. This suite of programs enables us to take basic data regarding your client’s site and facility and generates from it a sophisticated, detailed, and visually compelling photometric analysis that you can both use to design your clients system on a point-by-point basis and then later lay alongside your proposal on your client’s table. These photometric analyses make fixture selection more precise and cost-effective for Building Lighting contractors. They detail all necessary foot candle levels mandated by local lighting laws (which research for you), document where fixtures need to be placed, and recommend optimal mounts to best control the direction of lighting and the minimization of light pollution.

These Building Lighting design services are free to any client or serious inquirers, and they can be obtained on an as need basis by others for a reasonable fee. We will also help recession proof your clients with the latest and most sophisticated energy saving outdoor lighting fixtures. We carry an enormous selection of high-tech energy efficient commercial lights designed for maximum power conservation, including the very latest in electronically ballasted commercial fluorescent lights, LED lighting, and induction lights.

By working in close partnership with you on your proposal, we will help you work wonders for your client’s operations budget, cutting costs without sacrificing the quality of amount of illumination in the process. Check out our Commercial lighting blog for helpful information on all types of parking lot lighting, athletic sport field lights, car dealership lighting systems, office lighting fixtures, outdoor security lighting and many other commercial 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. Our headquarters is located in Houston, Texas with facilities positioned 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

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