Solar LED Street Lighting is certain to save any city hundreds and thousands of dollars on the expenses required for street, highway, and roadway lighting. Solar LED street lights combine an unlimited, renewable, and 100% natural energy source with the most progressive and power saving lighting source on the planet. LED solar street lighting will produce no greenhouse gases, utilize no toxic substances that will later require expensive and complicated disposal procedures, and provides lighting levels that rival other forms of roadway lighting. Any city seeking to be more Earth conscious will probably want to take a close look at advantages these lighting fixtures and poles offer them both in terms of slashing costs and improving public awareness of “green” technology and sustainable energy sources. If you have a client that is planning to launch a new public relations campaign focused on green technology and sustainable energy, proposing solar LED street lights can tip the balance in your favor and win you not only a bid, but perhaps a favored position as a repeat contract vendor servicing any number of organizations and businesses connected to that municipalities extended infrastructure.

Solar LED street lighting poles are completely self-contained outdoor security lighting sources that need no unsightly solar sails or fins and do not require cumbersome external batteries to power the lamps. Instead, the batteries are contained in the sturdy concrete bases of the poles themselves, hidden from view. Solar power is collected through a photovoltaic film that wraps around the light pole and gathers light from the environment (regardless of whether or not the sun is visible or hidden behind clouds). The light pole contains a photocell that knows when twilight comes and gradually turns on the LED lamp a little at a time, increasing its power as ambient lighting around the pole fades and bringing it to 100% intensity when total darkness finally falls. If ambient light levels from surrounding sources are high enough, the lamp will not need to output 100% of its light, and the system automatically adjusts to produce the required vertical and horizontal foot candle density for the surrounding area while simultaneously saving battery life by auto-adjusting itself to its specific surroundings.

If something happens to the battery in a solar led street light, or if the power levels significantly fall below acceptable operating levels, a signal is send via the Internet to maintenance personnel on duty. This gives immediate notice to dispatchers so they can then send repair crews on site to correct the problem. LED solar street lights are thus far more reliable and safer than traditional street lights that can fail without anyone knowing it and create dangerous areas of darkness along the road that present a safety hazard to pedestrians and motorists. Maintenance like this is rare, however, because LED lights use only 20% of the battery power that HID and other light sources require, so these street lights almost never lose their charge and can be relied upon for steady performance for many years.

LED solar powered street lights offer a number of other benefits to cities as well. Because LED lamps conserve so much battery power, these commercial street lighting poles more often than not have an excess charge remaining within them on the dawn of the following morning. Municipal entities can actually sell this energy back to the power company, or trade excess electricity for energy credits on other lighting and power costs associated with municipal government and operations. LED solar street lights located near schools, public parks, national guard facilities, and government buildings can also be used as a form of security lighting, as the photocell sensor in each light also contains an optional motion detector that, when activated, will bring the light to full power for 5 minutes if an possible intruder is detected.

Also, at no additional cost to you, RLLD will provide your municipal clients with a free photometric assessment of lighting parking lots, area lighting and lighting requirements so you can show them on paper the power and reliability of this revolutionary new form of roadway lighting. We will also provide detailed information on customizing the power saving features of these lights, such as motion controlled dimming, full power on for emergency lighting, and manually triggered blackout for police and security investigations.

If you have any questions about any of the Focus products we offer, do not hesitate to give us a call at 1-800-239-2939. Our experienced lighting experts are happy to answer any questions you may have, and help you choose the right products for your application.

At Residential Landscape Lighting & Design, we have access to a full range of commercial lighting options suited to the many needs and concerns facing business owners today. Our design center is located in Downtown Houston with hubs 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., El Paso, Texas, Dallas TX, San Antonio, TX, Austin, TX, Boise ID, Atlanta GA, Albuquerque NM, Raleigh-Durham NC, Washington DC, Albuquerque NM, Huntsville AL, Fayetteville AR, Norfolk VA , Madison WI., Corpus Christi, TX, Plano, Texas, Garland, TX, Laredo, Texas, Lubbock, Texas.

Induction lights are engineered around an energy efficient, environmentally friendly technology that is rapidly emerging in commercial and residential lighting projects all over the country. Many induction lighting fixtures now house lamps of up to 400W in power. Smaller, self-ballasted induction lamps, wireless/remote controlled dimmer operable, compatibility with motion sensor devices, and a wide array of customizable fixtures represent RLLD Commercial Lighting's growing and diversified selection of this remarkable technology.

BENEFITS
Induction lighting offers benefits to clients of any type or size and is equally viable in commercial and residential marketplaces. With the longest rated lamp life of outside commercial lighting sources, induction lamps provide an ideal source of illumination in places where replacements must be minimized due to limited budgets or where routine maintenance represents a major inconvenience. Sites such as tunnels, bridges, rail yards, and airports can easily recoup initial investment dollars by reducing equipment replacement costs and labor hours billed to maintenance crews. In fact, a good number of municipalities are now turning to induction lights for these reasons. Many small towns lack funding for new street and highway lights, so any new lighting purchases they make have to last as long as possible. The ability of induction fixtures to interface with motion detection sensors, combined with the short ignition times characteristic of induction lights, also make them ideal for security lighting systems around offices and homes. Because of their high color rendering capabilities, they are also well-suited to high-end commercial lighting and custom home lighting. Contractors are installing more and more of these lamps in conference rooms, hotel lobbies, banquet rooms, custom kitchens, home entertainment rooms, and special event facilities.

TECHNOLOGY
Induction lighting uses magnetism to produce light. A current travels through a primary coil and creates a magnetic field. This, in turn, induces a secondary current in the mercury vapor within the lamp. Free electrons begin to accelerate, colliding with mercury atoms and creating excited electron orbits. When these electrons subsequently settle back into their normal orbits, they give off UV radiation that strikes a fluorescent powder coating within the induction lamp, creating visible light in the process.

FEATURES
Many features characterize induction lights as a unilateral improvement over HID and incandescent light sources. Induction lighting fixtures do not require electrodes or filaments to operate, and they can last for up to 100,000 hours. They are resistant to vibration and they do not flicker when they power on. Induction light sources produce a bright, white light that ranges between 4,000-5,000K Kelvin with a CRI of 82. Induction lighting fixtures are also highly resistant to cold, having been known to operate reliably at temperatures as low as -40C.

More than anything, the energy saving capacities of induction lights makes this technology a milestone in the ongoing quest to produce ever increasingly bright light with less electricity. LPW efficiency ranges from 70-90W, even in larger fixtures operating at 200W and 400W. Smaller induction lights are also dimmable, making them ideal for indoor commercial and residential lighting where additional energy savings through lighting control may be required.

ADVANTAGES OF INDUCTION
Induction lights feature LPW efficiency approximately 5 times greater than incandescent and mercury vapor lamps, and they are nearly equivalent to Metal Halide fixtures in efficiency. Despite this near equivalency in efficiency, however, induction lighting fixtures can last up to 10 times longer than Metal Halide lights, something that contractors should not hesitate to emphasize to any academic, municipal, or non-profit client on a fixed procurement budget. Their initially high front end cost well pays for itself in power savings and equipment replacement savings.

TYPES OF INDUCTION LIGHTING LAMPS
There are three types of induction lighting lamps most commonly used in commercial lighting: globe type induction lamps (40W~ 250W), circular type induction lamps (40W~300W) and rectangular type induction lamps (70W~400W). Actual fixture types vary per application and include all the major architectural area, site lighting, outdoor lighting, and street lighting fixtures types. Ask an RLLD Commercial Lighting Consultant about Cobra-head commercial street lights and Shoebox roadway lights, post-top mounted street lights, lights for tunnels, canopy lights for gas stations, wall mounted architectural site lighting fixtures, high bay/low bay lights, office lights, and many more.

If you have any questions about any of the Focus products we offer, do not hesitate to give us a call at 1-800-239-2939. Our experienced lighting experts are happy to answer any questions you may have, and help you choose the right products for your application.

At Residential Landscape Lighting & Design, we have access to a full range of commercial lighting options suited to the many needs and concerns facing business owners today. Our design center is located in Downtown Houston with hubs 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., El Paso, Texas, Dallas TX, San Antonio, TX, Austin, TX, Boise ID, Atlanta GA, Albuquerque NM, Raleigh-Durham NC, Washington DC, Albuquerque NM, Huntsville AL, Fayetteville AR, Norfolk VA , Madison WI., Corpus Christi, TX, Plano, Texas, Garland, TX, Laredo, Texas, Lubbock, Texas.

LED lighting has seen some significant and impressive advances in design, performance, and commercial application over the past few y ears. For most of their history, LEDs have been used primarily in display and specialty lighting. Now, they have emerged as a legitimate alternative to traditional general indoor lighting fixtures, commercial outdoor sign lights and commercial outdoor site lighting luminaires. This change has resulted from technological developments that made it possible to produce white light using LED chips. These energy-efficient, environmentally-friendly lamps are now competing directly with every traditional form of fixture and lamp. Some experts even believe that LED lights will one day be the dominant—if not exclusive—light source on the planet. It is too soon to tell if this will actually prove true. Only time will tell. In the meantime, led lighting will continue to both improve and penetrate new markets as concerns over lighting pollution, energy savings, and environmental quality continue to mount worldwide.

HOW LED's WORK
The word “LED” comes from “Light Emitting Diode”— a solid state semiconductor that radiates light when agitated by voltage. While diodes have been around for several decades, they did not find their way into general lighting applications until very recently. This is because the LED lights of the past were incapable of producing the type of white light the human eye requires for the safe performance of tasks and the proper differentiation of colors. Early LEDs also did not produce enough lumens per watt to make them powerful enough for general under cabinet LED lighting applications and outdoor site lighting needs. All of this changed, however, when engineers created white light using ingenious modifications and combinations of previous LED lamping technology.

LEDs can now create white light through one of two methods. The first of these is known as “phosphor conversion.” A diode that emits blue or near ultraviolet light is coated with phosphor. When the UV light strikes the coating, it creates white light in a manner similar to that produced by a fluorescent light bulbs. Not only is the light output white, it is also characterized by high LPW efficiency and tends to be very bright.

The second method used in creating white light is known as RGB. Light from red, blue, and green LED lamps is mixed together in various combinations to form white light. This is the same way Nature mixes colors in the natural spectrum, so the light can be varied to a wide range of color temperatures and also “fine tuned” the light toward one or more primary colors if certain effects require doing so. This is highly useful in decorative and display lighting, commercial and retail interiors, commercial LED Christmas lighting and believe it or not, LED street lighting.

BENEFITS OF LED LIGHTS
The numerous benefits of commercial led lighting are too voluminous to discuss here with any amount of detail. Suffice to say that this new technology represents an energy saving solution to mounting concerns about power consumption. They are also dimmable and compatible with lighting control systems, making them even more energy efficient upon command. Diodes are environmentally friendly as well containing no toxic gas, such as mercury, which is already illegal in some states like NJ and AZ. They are consequently safer and less expensive to dispose of when they finally do fade out. Any numbers of color temperatures are now available for both indoor and outdoor decorative lighting and architectural lighting.

OBJECTIONS CONTRACTORS FREQUENTLY HEAR
Misconceptions abound about led lighting and led track lighting that many times have to be cleared up first whenever you are proposing them to a client. The most damaging of these false beliefs is that LED lighting generates too much heat to be efficient in high-end or site lighting applications. This misconception actually arose from past, failed attempts to retrofit LED lamps to traditional fixture housings. Because filament-based and gas-based lighting technology differs greatly from solid state lighting technology, thermal management problems always from attempts to hybridize the two.

However, led lights and fixtures that are specifically designed for solid state lamps and light bars will perform exceptionally well in the arena of thermal management, which is one of the many reasons that commercial LEDs last for up to 100,000 hours.

Another false belief that many your clients may possess is that LED lights simply are not as bright as HID lights, such as metal halide light bulbs, and cannot be used to illuminate areas such as parking garages, streets, roadways, outdoor landscapes, buildings, and security perimeters. Again, this is a misconception based on stereotype, not on fact. While it is indeed the case that LEDs have been heavily utilized in the past for special effects, display case lighting, and accent lighting for mood, theme, and effect, new phosphor conversion technology now makes it possible for LEDs to rival even the most powerful HID fixtures with less energy consumption and longer lamp life. For clients looking to recession proof their businesses in uncertain times, the ability to cut power costs by as much as 70% can only make your proposal look more attractive and recession proof at the end of the day.

ASK AN EXPERT FOR COMPLIMENTARY HELP DEVELOPING YOUR PROPOSAL
Knowledge is power only when it is based on reality, not speculation or hearsay. RLLD Commercial Lighting experts know the facts about LED and will share them freely with all clients and serious inquirers. Detailed information can always be obtained by calling an RLLD Commercial Lighting expert for free technical documentation on any type of LED lighting fixture or lamp you might be considering as a line item to your proposal.

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