LED lighting is a good environmental choice because it does not contain mercury or lead
and does not need special disposal methods to meet legal requirements. Pixi Lighting’s flat
panel lights are only
3⁄
8 inch deep and are designed with the same proprietary technology
used in parent company Westinghouse Digital’s LED televisions.
HID lighting sources are negatively affected by repeated ramping-on cycles.)
Roque, Pixi Lighting. Color-critical
Disposal Costs Eliminated. Using
LED lighting eliminates the disposal
costs associated with fluorescent, metal
halide, and HPS lamps [see Figure 7].
Barna, RAB Lighting. Best applications include building perimeter and
security lighting, parking lot lighting,
sprinkler standpipe indicators, interior
task lighting in manufacturing cells, cold-environment lighting (way better than all
other alternatives), areas with significant vibration ... the list goes on and on.
Martin, Precison-Paragon. Any application that takes advantage of
LED lighting’s unique benefits is worth
considering.
On/Off Switching. One benefit of
LED is its excellent compatibility with
automatic switching, especially in cold
environments. In food manufacturing fa-
cilities with subzero freezer storage, flu-
orescent fixtures take a few minutes to
reach their full brightness. This means
that a fluorescent lighting system would
have to be turned on at the beginning
of a work shift, and left on throughout
the entire shift. In contrast, LED-based
fixtures reach full brightness instantly,
even in extremely cold temperatures.
“We now supply a version of the same LED high-bay
fixture from 2009 at the same wattage with almost
3. What are realistic expectations for plant owners installing
LED lighting in terms of energy
consumption and cost?
double the light output, delivering 90-plus lumens per
watt. This goes to show how far the technology has
come in a short amount of time.”
— Michael Schratz, Dialight
Jantzi, New-Form Tools. Up to 12
Times Energy Use Reduction. It
has been our experience that replacing
sodium and metal halide fixtures with
LEDs has reduced energy costs by up
to 12 times. Incandescent lighting en-
