Saturday, April 26, 2008

Commercial Lighting Fixtures

Outdoor parking lot lighting and warehouse commercial HID lighting should be durable, long-lasting and efficient. While the purpose of commercial lighting tends to be more utilitarian than aesthetic, it is nonetheless important to choose the type of bulb that is appropriate to your task. Even with commercial warehouse lighting applications, it is often important for handlers and receivers to inspect the products that enter and leave the warehouse. If color rendering is an important consideration, for example, then metal halide would be a good choice due to its ability to render colors as they would appear in daylight. If, on the other hand, you are exploring a commercial outdoor lighting application where sheer efficiency is most important, you might consider a high pressure sodium bulb. While the light tends to be orange gold in color, high pressure sodium bulbs tend to be more efficient and therefore longer lasting than metal halide.

No matter what the commercial application, the lighting products that are most appropriate to your needs are certain to be found among our exhaustive selection. We carry both high bay and low bay commercial lighting fixtures, which are designed to provide optimal illumination for any size warehouses or commercial buildings. Easy Rack warehouse bay fixtures are available in 16” or 22” sized options. Our acrylic commercial warehouse lighting fixtures are supplied with coated metal halide lamps, which are designed to reduce glare and increase light distribution. Fitted with highly efficient refractors, these fixtures only emit 10-20% up light. Hook, cord and twist lock plug mounting options are available, as well as sliding mounting plate assemblies which allow for balancing of the fixture as well as easy access to the wiring chamber.

These commercial lighting fixtures are also available with pulse start option, which includes a dedicated ballast and igniter, and eliminates the need for the starting probe and bi-metal switch in the lamp. Pulse start commercial lighting fixtures offer a longer lamp life, improved lamp-to-lamp color consistency, faster warm-up time, faster re-strike time, and colder starting temperatures.

For hallways, utility rooms, gymnasiums, outdoor covered areas, or other applications where security is a concern, we offer vandalproof commercial lighting fixtures available in die cast aluminum housing with super-tough refractor lens. Available in high, medium or low-wattage options, these virtually unbreakable fixtures come housed in either die cast aluminum or heavy gauge steel, and a polycarbonate refractor lens. You may also choose from fluorescent, high pressure sodium, or metal halide lamp options.

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. If you still have questions about what to choose for your residential or commercial lighting project, ask an expert or give us a contact us toll free at 1-800-239-2939 and we will try to find an answer to your question.

Our headquarters is located in Downtown Houston with additional 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., 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.

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Thursday, September 06, 2007

Commercial Lighting Pole Mounting Adapters

Residential Landscape Lighting and Design offers two specific types of mounting adapters for commercial lighting poles: round mounting arms and square mounting arms.

Round mounting arm adapters for commercial light poles support any number of halide security floodlights and will also dual function as mounts for security cameras on shorter poles when fitted to the pole with slip adapters. This allows the camera to be vertically positioned at the exact height desired.

RLLD offers an impressive selection of round mounting arms that feature heavy-duty polyester powder coated steel tubing. They are highly resistant to the corroding influences of bad weather. Double reinforced weld joints hold them securely to any steel or wooden lighting pole and offer 90 degree, 120 degree, and 180-degree angles. Adjacent commercial light poles with mounting adapters can then be equipped with heavy duty bullhorns and floodlights, such as RLLD Floodinator, Megaflood, Floodzilla, and Flex flood models.

Square adapter mounting arms work extremely well with TV, TH, and RV series brackets and work well will RLLD’s RTB series tenons. Slip fitters can also be fitted to these adapters to allow for precise vertical positioning.

For larger parking lot lighting and commercial light pole mounting adapters, RLLD inventories a selection of square mounting arms that feature 4” bases and tenons engineered for heavy-duty support of metal halide and parking lot lights.

Very often, corporations and municipalities can save a great deal of money by investing in adapters and fixtures and simply fitting them to existing lighting poles. This is much more cost effective than replacing an entire parking lot lighting system when one may only need to replace fixtures, or add additional fixtures at different angles on tenons that create a more evenly distributed pattern of lighting.

Choosing from all these many options may seem a daunting task to procurement managers and even contractors at times. That is why RLLD provides free consultation services to help clients select the best commercial lighting adapters, mounts, and poles either through our “Ask an Expert” online forum or through a phone consultation during business hours.

It is vitally important to explore all of ones options before investing in any type of major parking lot lighting upgrade, new parking lot light installation, or commercial security lighting and security camera equipment.

With the help of an RLLD expert, it becomes a simple matter of finding all the equipment you require in one simple, user friendly online supply-house vendor with world class commercial grade manufacture, convenient drop shipping straight to install location, and all the help you need to make the best decisions and receive maximum return on safety, security, and investment.

A great way to begin dialogue with our team of experts is to click here to first study some of the many models we carry, then use our Ask and Expert forum to field specific inquiries on which adapter mounts will work best for your particular commercial lighting requirements. Or call us at 800-239-2939.

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Thursday, August 30, 2007

Commercial Pole Lighting Hardware and Accessories

Mounts and bases are among the more important hardware elements of any commercial light pole.
The base of any pole has to be firmly bracketed to the concrete so that it maintains a 90° angle to the surface of the earth at all times. Unfortunately, most pole bases don’t look all that appealing. With the addition of a simple accessory found in our online inventory—a square pole base cover—the pole appears more seamlessly attached to the earth and also more aesthetically appealing as a result.

Tenon arm mounts make an even more important impact on aesthetics for a number of reasons.
First, tenon arm mounts maintain the fixture in place and must hold that position firmly in spite of problematics such as wind velocity, accidental impacts, and the force of gravity. Secondly, the mount itself must be attractive enough to blend into the piece but “low profile” nonetheless in that it does not dominate the landscape.

Mounting brackets function are essential commercial pole lighting hardware accessories that come in many sizes and builds to fit the circular and square pole builds we supply.
They can both cap the top of a pole to add a decorative touch and horizontally extend fixtures outward from the sides of the pole. For certain designs, be sure to look carefully as well at our horizontal wall mounts and glare reducing shields for fixtures as well. These highly effective commercial pole lighting hardware accessories prove highly useful to custom architectural and landscape lighting design themes.

RLLD also has over 20 specific models of tenon adapters that both vertically and horizontally mount a number of fixtures. These tenons work well with an enormous range of commercial grade light poles, among which are certain low voltage security lights.
Choosing the right hardware requires knowledge of how angles and mounting bracket spread affect the distribution of light, and often this can be challenging even for a professional lighting design contractor working on a tight schedule. Residential Landscape Lighting and Design staffs a team of specialists highly skilled in recommending application and installation methods that can both customize commercial pole lighting hardware and accessories to any lighting array, and that can also save a client tremendous time and money wasted on trial and error, or on ordering the wrong part and discovering after the fact that something else in our inventory would have more adequately accomplished the task.

We will be happy to do the math and recommend design strategies for any commercial contractor or client interested in our products and who uses our forum or toll free number to request our help. RLLD’s growing selection features commercial lighting poles and accessory hardware options finishes to weather many years of problematic weather, so they work throughout the nation regardless of specific seasonal changes and climate conditions.

Click here to see our selection, and read the full article on hardware and accessories here to learn more specifics. You can also contact us online or call toll free at 800-239-2939.

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RLLD Delivers Commercial Parking Lot Light and Pole Packages

Why should I order parking lot lights and poles in a package?

Ordering parking lot poles and lights either as upgrades or emergency replacements is not an easy task, nor does it leave little, if any, margin for error. Because commercial parking lot lighting is to security, it must not only meet regulatory standards for illumination, but also strength, resistance, and light distribution requirements as well. Customers often feel overwhelmed when it comes to choosing specific luminaries, determining pole height, and matching fixture and pole EPA value to wind velocities in the area. Residential Landscape Lighting and Design offers less stress to the client and the help of a professional designer in working out the math by packaging commercial parking lot lights and poles with calculations and combinations worked out in advance. RLLD also provides complimentary detailed, technical information and consultation services that further customize every commercial parking lot pole lighting package we sell the to client’s precise location and industry requirements.

What advantage does a package offer?

The most important factor to take into account when configuring any commercial parking lot lighting layout is EPA compliance. The Environmental Protection Agency regulates both light placement and distribution of commercial parking lot lighting fixtures and pole heights. Fixture values regulate the angles at which the lights themselves distributes the illumination, and pole EPA value directly references the ability of a commercial parking lot light pole to withstand specific wind velocities already determined meteorologically to be standard for a given region. Many clients prefer to have an RLLD expert design a commercial pole and lighting package for them because it is more time-saving and efficient to allow an expert in lighting already familiar with EPA values to help them select the right package for their needs, then further recommend any necessary customizations required by circumstance and law.

What are the poles and lights themselves like?

Several important features of our packaged commercial parking lot lights bear contribute to these key benefits. For winds of 80-100 miles an hour that often gust from the Dakotas to Texas and Florida, it is wise to utilize commercial parking lot light poles made with one-piece construction out of a shaft of carbon steel. These poles are square in design to remain firmly fixed in the pavement, but they have rounded corners to better enable wind to pass around them. Every one of these packages proportionally matches specific EPA pole values to EPA fixture values, offering a number of mounting arms and tilting angles that help meet the exact requirements of the region, This makes one parking lot lighting package a commercial value to any one of the many different parts of the country.

Read more here about commercial parking lot light pole packages and how they add value by saving time and getting all the measurements and math right the first time…

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Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Commercial High Pressure Sodium Pole Decorative Lighting Packages

Businesses and municipalities can benefit from combined functionality and attractiveness by investing now in RLLD Commercial High Pressure Sodium Pole Decorative Lighting Packages. High pressure sodium poles lighting packages equipped with powerful halide bulbs can make any public walkway safer, more aesthetically pleasing, and more marketable with a newly upgraded, upscale facade that looks and feels like modernity and good tastes. Both parking lot boundaries adjacent to greenery and park facilities along with parking lots themselves can always look better with an even better face to the world. Residential Landscape Lighting and Design helps companies, city governments, schools, and churches dispel shadows from sidewalks and clearly light designated parking areas so motorists can see better and park more. Longer lamp life also comes with every decorative package, as high pressure sodium light poles uphold the very best halide lamps optimized with commercial grade ballasts that regulate energy consumption and help create a more sustained, evenly distributed field of illumination. Retail strip centers and high end department stores both benefit from safer parking conditions, and even when the occasional car does back into a decorative pole, the impact resistance of high-pressure sodium casting normally minimizes damage to a visually minimal, if not negligible, proportion.

This durability directly results from a A-quality engineering and a commercial grade manufacturing process that we invite all readers to carefully study in the specification sheets we provide for each commercial high-pressure sodium pole and decorative lighting package we inventory. A number of features our decorative poles and lighting packages offer warrant even closer inspection because they directly contribute to the blend of practical solution and aesthetic upgrade each decorative lighting package offers to commercial and municipal clientele. To begin with, as foot-candle requirements for lighting vary so greatly in the many environments that incorporate these higher-end products into their outdoor lighting design, RLLD offers all commercial lighting packages in a height range of 15-30 feet. Various lighting packages offer a number of specific features that offer a wide range of creative design options for parking lot lighting upgrades. Some models feature pole tops that affix to over 5 distinct lamp mounts, allowing any organization or city council to choose both the specific number of lights desired on each pole and where each lamp will be positioned for maximum, evenly distributed illumination. Additionally, a good number of our commercial high pressure sodium decorative lighting packages house 175 Watt Metal Halide bulbs, which in spite of their high wattage nevertheless offer very cost effective power savings through multi tap RLLD ballasts that maximize bulb light by strictly regulating current flow. Lights can stay on from dusk until sunrise without burning themselves out prematurely.

Read more here about the many features and benefits of our commercial decorative lighting packages can help any business, and be sure to pull up our diagrams and detailed spec sheets to look at as you speak with a specialist over the phone who can help you customize any package to your specific outdoor lighting requirements. Call 800-239-2939 to learn more about our commercial lighting products.

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Wednesday, May 11, 2005

Commercial Outdoor Lighting, Exterior Light Wall Mount, Commercial Lighting & Dock Light

I own a medium sized strip center in a very dark area of town. Right now I only have a couple of halogen floods lighting the loading area. My tennants are complaining they need more light to feel safe at night. What do you have that is wall mounted and cost efficent to operate?

We have COMMERCIAL OUTDOOR LIGHTING that are wall mounted and will do a great job of lighting the loading dock. They come in 175-WATT WALL PACKS, 250-WATT WALL PACKS, and 400-WATT WALL PACK models.

If you decide to redo the OUTDOOR PARKING LOT LIGHTING we have a great selection of POLES, FITTERS, and CUT OFF FIXTURES.

We also have some very attractive DECORATIVE OUTDOOR LIGHTING FIXTURES.

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