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LED's
are currently experiencing an explosion of sorts with
various cost savings, rebates, and phase outs occurring in
the lighting market but one segment of the market is ideally
suited for LED lights and that's industrial lighting.
Beyond the cost savings aspect, there are other strong
benefits to LED's in an industrial space pertaining to its
color quality and brightness. Let's take a look at the
benefits to industrial work sites.
First,
there's the little bit about power savings for an business
that's inherently power intensive. Electricity drives most
industrial spaces and since we usually cuts the power use
for lighting between 50-90% depending on the types of
existing lights, this is the primary push. The actual LED
light bulbs are more expensive up front but industrial
businesses are typically the recipient of extensive
government rebates. These rebates are usually per lamp, per
watt saved, and even based on square footage. The
industrial business does not need to pick...you get all
three if available in your State. These rebates can offset
the initial light bulb purchase and installation by 50% or
more.
The
wattage savings is extensive in spite of typically lower
power costs from the utilities for industrial businesses.
If you're replacing fluorescents, the wattage is typically
half with LED's worst case. For other types of lighting
based on incandescent, especially the super bright, high
intensity spots required for work spaces, the savings are
much greater as incandescent lights lose 90% of their energy
in the form of heat. Fluorescents will also have ballast
which draw power and fail with time. The actual LED bulbs
lifetime is much longer than incandescent or fluorescent by
a factor of 20 and 10 respectively. Not only does this save
you on the cost of replacement bulbs, it will save on the
labor costs to continuously replace failing bulbs.
Replacement of bulbs tend to be more expensive in industrial
spaces due to height of rooms and difficulty in access
lighting. So we'll save money over a 5 year window with LED
lights but there's another big benefit with LED lights...the
quality of light.
If
you're using fluorescents, LED light color and quality is a
much more true light. Fluorescents also change during the
life of the bulb as they suffer a death by a thousand
cycles. You'll notice the slow change to a purplish hue
long before the actual bulb fails. We use bright white or
daylight color tuning for industrial spaces and the first
remark we get is how much better the light quality is and
without all the associated heat of incandescents. Even with
a much lower wattage bulb, we can generally provide brighter
light to any industrial space with out the buzz, flicker,
and slow-motion death of fluorescents or heat, yellowish
quality of incandescents. Industrial spaces also receive
the benefit of lower wattage LED bulbs in that they tend to
be on more than other types of business. You have
industrial spaces that at a minimum, are running 10 hours a
day and sometimes 24/7. Heavy usage of lighting affects all
the different facets of LED savings from wattage cost, bulb
replacement, and labor costs.
The fact
that we can light an industrial space for cheaper is
obviously the immediate draw to LED lighting the fact that
we can light it BETTER seals the deal. We're happy to run
your LED light quote to see what type of savings might be
available to you.
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