What advantages can LED sports lighting offer?
Due to how they GENERATE light and DISTRIBUTE light, LED sports field lighting offers tremendous advantages for big areas or places needing illumination. Unlike HID lights, which need a "fuel source," light emitting diodes create light using a semiconductor.
LED sport light fixtures often use "multi-point" sources, which means that they contain numerous diodes with different optics, to "distribute" light. This results in light that is more EVENLY "spread" throughout a given area as compared to how conventional HID lights disperse light (with a single bulb and reflectors within the fixture).
The Three Main Advantages of LED Field Lighting for Sports
Power Savings
Common LED sports field light fixture wattages typically vary from 209 watts to 750 watts, which often results in a decrease in energy usage of 50% to 80%. This may save up to $8,000 per fixture each year on power costs and can be explained by the GENERATION remarks above.
Reduced Maintenance Costs
Again, because of the way LEDs produce light, their useful lives are quite different from one another. When a fuel supply is greatly depleted, LED-generated light output declines VERY SLOWLY over time rather than stopping to work correctly. Because of this, an LED fixture's useful life (sometimes exceeding 100,000 hours) may be substantially longer than that of a HID lamp, which greatly lowers the expenses of servicing outdoor lighting fixtures over time.
Luminous Efficiency
Moving on to how LED lights DISTRIBUTE light, sports field lamps for outdoor areas often provide a highly EVENLY spread light pattern due to their multi-point construction. This implies that when the distance from the pole or fixture varies, the variation in light levels over a given area will be reduced. Compared to HID lamps, which often generate a "bright spot" immediately under the bulb, the amount of light diminishes dramatically the farther away from the pole. The consequence of the LED conversion is a more uniform foot candle distribution as compared to HID. LEDs give a variety of alternatives to boost the visual experience of "brightness" in addition to the equal dispersion of light and a variety of color temperatures.
What should I do to enhance my sports lighting application going forward?
The first step is to consult with a manufacturer-neutral vendor of LED lighting systems. Why choose this strategy over the business you may have been working with for the previous several years? It is improbable that a firm won't have the performance-focused mindset necessary to achieve the desired outcomes of an LED lighting project for your sports field lighting applications unless the company focuses on offering LED solutions.
Realizing that LED lighting is NOT a commodity is a key step in every LED project.
Building facility managers and building owners used to compare product alternatives only based on price, supposing that all of the solutions under consideration were of comparable quality. The situation is different with external LED lighting.
