Parking Garage Canopy Lighting is applied to depict exterior lighting and interior lighting that is usually suspension, recessed, or surface installed to a soffit, structural ceiling, overhang, etc. This kind of lighting is ordinarily used to offer illumination to outdoor areas for pedestrian and vehicle. There are extensive mounted types, fixture sizes and shapes, which can be classified as canopy lighting fixtures or parking garage lighting fixtures.
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Common wattages of HID lamps used in parking garage and canopy lighting applications range from 100w to 400w. The higher light output needs the higher wattages. A 175 watts or 1000 watts HID lamp (quite common wattages for parking garage and canopy lighting) costs up to $110 and $157 per lamp per year in electricity cost alone.
Maintenance costs are usually a great focus for exterior lighting, such as parking garage and canopy light fixtures. Besides the concerns of lamp lifetime, parking garage canopy lightings are usually installed over parked vehicles. It is difficult to enter and maintain during normal working hours. It can easily cost up to $32,671 in maintenance for three years if you use a standard size of HID parking garage lamps.
According to the kind of HID Lamps used in your facility, it can vary evidently in the performance characteristics of your parking garage canopy lighting fixtures. For instance, you can see the light that is "Whiter" when you use the Metal Halide lamp. However, these kinds of lights tend to accelerate lumen degradation, which means that the light output of the lights decreases rapidly after initial mounting, causing a decrease in the overall lifetime of the lamps (We've all seen those “pink” parking garage canopy lights, which are hard to offer any lighting on the ground). You can see the longer “useful” lifetime when you use High Pressure Sodium, because the lumen degradation of this type of lamp is less than metal halides’. However, it is with a very low Color Rendering Index (CRI) as its fuel structure provides a really “Orange” light. By and large, you trade your longer lifetime for poorer quality light from a visual point of view.
Parking garage led canopy lights, offer a few great advantages for parking lot and area applications due to the way they GENERATE and DISTRIBUTE light. Different with HID lamps that generate light via the consumption of a “fuel source” , Light Emitting Diodes (LED) do it through semi-conductor. With regard to " distributing " light, LED lighting fixtures usually use “Multi-Point” sources, which implies that LED lighting fixtures have multiple diodes and separate optical elements. If you compare the distributing light of HID lighting fixtures (there is a bulb and reflectors in the lamp), the consequence is that the light of LED is more equably “distributed’ on a surface.
Normally, the power of parking garage led canopy lighting ranges from 33w to 100w, which usually leads to 40% to 60% energy consumption reduction. This is the consequence of how light is generated (see above). It means that your facility can save up to $75 for one light each year in electricity bills.
Likewise, because of the way of LED’s generating light, it is quite different in the way that it progresses through its functional life. Despite the significant reduction in fuel source, LED (Light-Emitting Diode) fixtures degrade their light output really slowly over time rather than Stop working properly at once. Consequently, the lifetime of LED fixtures (usually more than 100,000 hours) can be evidently longer than that of HID fixtures... This in turn greatly reduces the bill of maintaining parking lots and area fixtures over a longer lifetime.
Moving on to how the LED lighting fixtures “Distribute” light: It is reason of multi point design that led parking garage canopy lighting applications usually offer a quite uniform distribution of light pattern. It means that, when the distance of the canopy fixture varies, there is less change in the light level across a given surface. HID lamps usually generate a "Bright Spot" under the lamps. With the increase of distance from the lamp, the brightness decreases sharply. This problem can be alleviated by uniform distribution of LEDs. As comparing to HID, the foot candle from LED conversion are more evenly distributed. Besides the uniform distribution of light, LEDs can be used at a range of color temperatures, thus offering a range of options to raise the visual perception of “BRIGHTNESS.”
The first is to communicate with manufacturers' neutral suppliers of LED lighting solutions provider. Why is this method opposite of the company you might have used in the past few years? Unless that company focuses on offering LED solutions, it is unlikely that they will have the performance-centric mentality needed to achieve the desired results of the lighting conversion in commercial lighting, industrial lighting, or retail lighting project for your parking garage canopy lights. A key step in any LED projects is to understand that LED technology is not a commodity. Previous decades included building facility managers and owners assessing product options purely based on cost, assuming that all options considered were of equal quality.
A supplier focusing on solution ought to inquire about your project objectives. Are there energy reduction targets, lighting performance requirements, and budget constraints, etc? The right partners will expect to know the results you want rather than just what specific products they could sell to you. It is unequal for all LED products. For different applications, different manufacturers have different value levels. You will finally get the best result through working with companies, who have the product expertise to recommend solutions that meet your project priorities.