Best Sports Lighting

Sports lighting is the name type of light that is used to illuminate large areas for sporting events - from kids practices to world championships. Sports Lighting which is grouped with artificial light, is needed when a game is being played indoors or in an outdoor environment after sunset.  Sports lighting is used to provide ample illumination on the playing arena to ensure great visibility for both the players and the audience. A good artificial lighting provides comfortable viewing environment to the players, referees, media crews, spectators as well as those enjoying the event telecast. Sport lights are mounted at tall heights with small beam angles, usually ranging from 12-60 degrees. With these smaller beam angles, there is higher light intensity within that angle that allows bright light to reach the ground from elevated heights. Sport light may be mounted at different heights depending on the venue. Beam angles will vary depending on the height. Some may be mounted as low as 25 feet, but a typical height will be between 20 for tennis and pickleball and 80 feet plus for stadium lighting. 

Football Light

A majority of the football stadiums are outdoors. To ensure the fun of the game does not end at sunset, lights are crucial. Installing football lights in a field offers many benefits to the fans, players and administration. They include flexibility of planning the matches, security of people in the stadium, and enhancement of the fans’ experience. Good football lighting should have a proper beam angle to create a balance in the stadium. Usually, they are installed at 70ft. high, but in professional stadiums, they can go as high as 250ft above the field. LED lights used have narrow beams optics that project light to the ground without producing glare.

 

Cricket Field Lights

Proper lighting is key in any sporting activity irrespective of whether the sport is played outside or indoor. Cricket fields need to have an evenly spread illumination for players, referees and the spectators to watch the movements of the ball and puck as they move fast in random directions. The appropriate brightness level for players and spectators in professional matches range from 1500 to 2500 lux, for live broadcasting. The lighting design of a cricket field have lights designed on long poles or way up. This is because the ball can sometimes travel too high when hit and the high lights are key in keeping the ball in sight for everyone involved.

Basketball Court Lighting

If you love to play basketball after a long stressful day, all you need is a great court in the backyard with some quality basketball court lighting. It is important to consider factors that could affect visibility when choosing basketball court lights. This comprises of court spacing, the landscaping of the court, the colors for the walls and the floor, and the placement of the lights. This will ensure all the safety aspects are taken care of.

Golf Course Lighting

While it’s okay to play golf in the day, playing it under the lights after darkness has always been a novelty especially in areas where climate tends to be cooler at night. The main objective when doing golf course or driving range lights is to make it as comfortable as possible for the players and the spectators. The recommended brightness for golf course lights ranges between 80 and 200 lux. Keeping in mind that the flight path of the ball can go fairy high, there should be a vertical brightness ranging between 100 and 150 lux. This vertical brightness gives both the players and the spectators the chance to sufficiently see the entire flight of the ball all the way until it drops even if it’s running at a speed of 200mph.

Tennis Court Lighting

Tennis court lighting is key to meet people’s desire of playing any time of the day or night, indoor or outside. Poor lighting of the tennis court even in the day time have a bad influence on the visual effect and may affect the players’ mood, and that is why good lighting is key. Good visibility of the court enables the players and the spectators to follow the progress of the game. When designing the outdoor tennis court lights installation, it is important to consider the potential impact on the environment of light spill.

a) Stadium pro 3

Stadium pro 3 is a range of LED floodlights designed to meet the highest standards and lighting performance for installations hosting professional competitions, that offers excellent distribution of light both horizontally and vertically, such that competition can take place while ensuring perfect visibility for referees, players and cameras and maximum comfort for spectators.

Stadium pro 3 uses the latest technologies and the design of precise and modular optics, designed to meet the needs of high level sports activities and offer perfect control of both light and luminance. Its design allows it to communicate with interactive systems to ensure maximum flexibility and control of all functions for the sports facilities.   Stadium pro 3 is the best solution for both outdoor and indoor sports areas like baseball, football, soccer or tennis with taller poles, thanks to the wide range of asymmetrical and wide beam optics that allow perfect lighting of the area and excellent overall uniformity.

a)The 500 watt NextGen 3

The wide angle of the NextGen Series make sit the light of choice when under 25feet from the surface area.     Tennis courts at about 22feet are its sweet spot with bright clean light the dissaptes well form a high end lens.   

The go to for Pickleball lights, tennis court lights and basketball court lights  

a) Icon Pro 3 -  2 Lens Choices & 2 Mount Choices

Icon pro 3 combines high end light features with the most versatile options in mounting and beam angles.  It includes 2 types of mounts; flood and slip fit. For the light you get 3030 LEDS driving 140 lumens to watt and multiple lens options to get the light where you want it. The Icon Pro 3 has an innovative dual lens options;  40+ 90 options. It is the best lighting option for most of the sports lighting dues its ability to adjust the light lenses where you need it. The 40 °+ 90 ° angles can fit any application and that makes them convenient for use in all sports lighting.

a) 1400 Watt Stadium Pro 3  RD Series

For adequate lighting of the field and ensuring that the audience at a certain sporting event can see everything go down on the field, 1400W LED stadium light has got you covered. These eco-friendly, mercury-free lights are easy to install and operate with a lengthy lifespan for maximum energy savings. They are designed for higher installations above 60 feet, they push more light to the ground. High quality 1400W LED sport lights provide bright and uniform lighting for the entire stadium. They emit 155,100 lumens and can replace 2qty 1500 watt metal halide. The color temperatures of these lights is 5000K, which is closer to natural sunlight, and is key for color reproduction and motion capture, these greatly improves the viewing for competitive sports.  The uniform high illumination and high color rendering ensure that the players and the ball are clearly visible on the field, restore the real beauty of the court, and meet the professional field lighting needs.    

They come in a 15 degree beam angle making these sport spotlights the narrowest of lights.   With flashlights around 4-10 degree, you get the idea, but at 80feet high, they will still have a 70 foot circle on the ground.

Note that RD series means Remote Driver.   This allows you to place the driver in a box at the base of the pole for easier maintenance.   That reduces weight at the top as well.  Pro tip - custom order these with preset drivers for the pole height you need.   using a 40 foot cord on a driver programmed to 80 feet will cause issues

a) 300 watts XT2 

The 300 watt XT2 sports light use lumileds 5050 LED modules that produce up to 170 lumens per watt and maintain it. They save more energy by using a lower watt unit and still offer the light needed. 300V watt LED puts out 50, 000Lumens and can replace a 1000 watt metal halide. This lighting ensures a bright clear light for sports court. 

Besides, 300 watts XT2 lights uses 0- 10v dimming technology to dim the light smoothly down to 25% for better lighting control and to save money. These lights have optional photocell included, which sets lights to work only wen required. They also come in easily adjustable slip mount designed to fit on standard circular poles. Inner diameter is 2.5 inches, so pole can be 2-2.4 inches. With slip mount the LED sports lights can be angled down or up depending on whether you are mounting vertical or horizontal.