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How many high bay lights do you need for industrial lighting?

The following variables influence how many highbay lights are used in industrial lighting rooms:


1. Places. Highbay lights are often used in warehouses, factories, exhibition halls, etc. Various applications call for varying brightness.
2. Highbay lights' lamp power and luminous flux
3. The maintenance and space utilization coefficients

For an approximate computation, the following formula may often be used: Average luminance (Eav) is calculated as follows: floor area (length × breadth) × maintenance factor (K) × number of luminaires (N) × space usage factor (CU).

industrial lighting rooms with highbay lights

Choosing a power density: For conventional MH/HID lights, 10–30 watts per square meter is advised; for LED illumination, 3–12 watts per square meter is suitable. More than 300lx on the floor might be achieved using 3–7 watts per square meter of LED general office lighting. Additionally, it may be configured to use 5–12 watts per square meter in hotel retail malls when a brightness level of more than 500 lx is required.



Here's an illustration. The dimensions of a machining workshop are 60 m × 30 m — 8 m, with a 0.8 m work-plane height. The walls are painted white, while the ceiling is made of cement soil construction. After giving it careful thought, the owners choose to install a 400-lx work plane to improve worker safety and visibility. How many high bays should they subsequently have?



Consider a 150W LED high bay; at 160 lumens per watt, it produces 24,000 lumens of light. By default, the maintenance factor (K) is set to 0.8 and the coefficient of utilization (CU) to 0.7. Put all the data into the straightforward calculation EAV=( Φ×N×CU×K)/(A×B), which equals 400=24,000*N*0.7*0.8/(60*30). As a result, N=54 pieces of LED highbays should be the quantity ordered.



We may thus infer that 54 pieces of 150W LED High Bay Light with a 160lm/W output would be suitable for a 1,800 square meter industry. Additionally, we should use a computer simulation created by qualified lighting designers to determine the lighting effects with certainty.