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When you upgrade your commercial lighting to LED, you can enjoy a variety of cost-saving and light-enhancing benefits. Even so, not all LED lights are the same, so here are a few things to keep in mind and consider while you're shopping. Consider Which Areas Need the Most Light As you start shopping for new LED tube lights and other bulbs, keep in mind this will be a cost- and energy-saving investment. While LED lights have become incredibly more affordable over the last few years, if you change all of the light bulbs in your business at once it can be a considerable up-front investment. If you’re not ready to go all-in on LEDs just yet, consider the areas where you use your lights the most and start there. Since these are the areas that have the lights on most often, you’ll see an impact on your energy bills after the switch and you can put those savings toward investing in LED lights for other areas of your business.  Pay Attention to Lumens When shopp...

Lighting in your store serves many purposes beyond providing a way for customers to see. The right lighting setup can help your customers feel more at home in your store and encourage them to spend more time wandering the aisles or looking at displays. Also, through lighting, you can highlight specific products and displays to draw customers in naturally and make your products look most appealing. Whether you're opening a new store or are looking to upgrade your current lighting setup, you can't go wrong with LED lights. They are more energy efficient, more reliable, and the cost savings in maintenance alone makes the investment well worth it. Here are a few of the common LED lights that retail owners should consider upgrading or adding to their location. Track Lights Accent lighting is an essential component as it will highlight specific areas such as item display shelves or your décor. For this purpose, you’ll find that track lights are incredibly usefu...

Along with a security alarm and a security crew, lighting is a crucial element to keeping your warehouse, your employees, and your inventory safe. While having LED security lights installed is a crucial piece, placing these lights in the right areas and investing in the correct fixtures can make a world of difference. Here are a few tips to ensure you’re maximizing your LED security lighting infrastructure.  Placement Tips Your security lighting strategy should be comprehensive, with multiple types of fixtures for different areas of your facility. For outdoor areas, durable, all-weather motion sensor security lights are the best option. Look for ones with a wide detection area and install them above the entrance of the facility as well as along the perimeter, so any nighttime visitors are quickly spotted. Inside the facility, you can again use specialized indoor motion sensor LEDs directed toward walkways and entrances to detect if anyone enters its path. As we...

When fluorescent tube lighting was introduced it represented a series of significant technological advantages over the incandescent lights of the time. In fact, they must have seemed like a virtually perfect solution. When the fluorescent tube light was developed in the mid-1930s, despite representing a significant scientific innovation in providing light by an entirely different mechanism than incandescent bulbs, they were less expensive than the incandescents. On top of which, they were more energy-efficient, boasted a far longer lifespan, and stayed far cooler than incandescent lamps and bulbs, decreasing fire risk. A similar sort of fundamental shift in lighting technology has taken place recently with the rise in LED lighting. As great as fluorescents were in the early and mid-20th century, there were a number of drawbacks. Fluorescents could take a while to “warm up,” tended to flicker distractingly, and shattered easily, an issue made more troubling due to th...

Ask anyone who makes the financial, practical decisions about a business’s finances and they’ll tell you that the key to a business’s success (or failure) often relies on the details. While the focus is often (understandably) firmly fixed on the big decisions and their repercussions, the little things can also make or break a company. Cumulatively, those little details a manager or owner may have hardly considered, if at all, can lead to a slow, steady leakage of capital or worse over time. Lighting can be overlooked as a potential for cost-cutting, largely because we tend to get used to the lights we have. The emergence of light-emitting diode (LED) lighting, however, has changed that.And far from the modest screen-lighting LEDs of the recent past, today’s LEDs cover virtually every lighting niche. For instance, an LED floodlight indoor model produces at least as much light as earlier lighting technologies, while requiring less energy. The following covers are some...

While you may have never heard of high-intensity discharge (HID) lighting,there’s virtually no doubt you’re familiar with the concept. First discovered in 1705, HID technology operates by means of electricity arcing between electrodes within a transparent glass or fused quart housing filled with a noble gas. The electrical arc, hence “arc light,” heats and then vaporizes a metal, producing the light.HID lighting includes mercury-vapor, metal-halide, ceramic MH, xenon short-arc, and the most common arc lighting by a wide margin, sodium-vapor lamps. HID lighting was something of a revelation in its heyday. Sodium-vapor lights lasted around twice as long as incandescent bulbs and produced light in a visual range the eye is well-suited to pick up on. That means less power to produce more light for much longer, and all inexpensively. Before LED wall packs, HIDs made sense as a cheap, efficient, long-lasting way to viably illuminate large areas. That’s why their orangey g...