Top Five Reasons To Switch To LED High-Bay Fixtures

它们的数量以百万计, lighting everything from our indoor gymnasiums, swimming pools 和 basketball courts to our supermarkets, 制造工厂, industrial complexes 和 subway concourses. They are the high-bay 夹具s, mounted 15 feet or higher above the floor.

High-Bay Fixtures May Be Everywhere, But They Aren't All The Same

Consider this: if you convert a 400-watt metal halide to a 324-watt fluorescent high-bay 夹具, it produces energy savings of about 19%. Converting the same metal halide 夹具 to an LED high-bay 夹具 can generate energy savings of 65% or more, while also giving you vastly better lighting quality 和 control.

So why would anyone waste significant dollars 和 accept sub-optimal lighting instead of switching to LED high-bay 夹具s?  这是个好问题.

Metal halide 夹具s have been the mainstay of high-bay lighting. They cost less 和 produce a bright, white light with fairly good color rendering.  但是它们的使用寿命, light output 和 efficacy severely degrade over time, making them much less economical than today’s best LED alternatives.

Fluorescent high-bay 夹具s have also become popular in recent decades, providing good color rendering 和 much better lifetime lumen maintenance than metal halide 夹具s.  But even the best offer only modest improvements. 

然后是LED. On appearance only, LED high-bay 夹具s may not look like a 50-year leap in technology. Many have the same familiar inverted cup shape 和 hang overhead, making light.

That’s where the resemblance ends. 

Why Switch To 商业 High-Bay Led Lighting?

LEDs use much less power to create a lumen of light, 和 that light is more easily controlled. Their useful life is measured in decades 和y require little if any maintenance. +, like the smartphone in your pocket, an LED chip provides a ready-made platform for any number of environmental sensors, as well as Wi-Fi 和 networking capabilities.

Sounds undeniably better, right?  Sounds undeniably expensive too你可能会想. 但是再想想.

The last decade has seen phenomenal advances in LED high-bay energy efficiency, while LED high-bay 夹具 prices have dropped drastically.

克里族照明’s high-bay portfolio offers many examples of the tremendous difference LED high-bay 夹具s can make to your lighting performance — 和 to your bottom line.  We’ve summarized the five top reasons you should switch to LED high-bay 夹具s sooner rather than later:

1. They deliver dramatically better energy savings. 

Even before any lighting controls are applied, savings average from 25% to 70%. 

2. 公用事业公司 will pay you to buy them. 

Many utilities offer hefty rebates on 夹具s that show a significant energy usage reduction or qualify under the DesignLights Consortium’s (DLC®) certification program.

3. 它们的寿命要长得多. 

Cree high-bay luminaires have a useful life of more than 100,000 hours — five to 10 times the life of the typical metal halide 和 fluorescent. A child entering the first grade on the day you install your Cree high-bay 夹具 will start her first job after college before you need to think about a replacement.

4. They’re low maintenance 和 no drama. 

There are no bulbs or ballasts to replace, no pressurized gas lamps or tubes to shatter, 和 no heavy metals requiring regulated disposal. You can also cycle them without worrying about temperamental lamps 和 ballasts, 冷却期, 罢工时间, warm-ups or slow climbs to maximum output. Just instant ON 和 OFF, whenever you want.

5. They’re a natural for lighting controls. 

All Cree high-bay 夹具s can be dimmed down to 10% in small increments, 和 advanced lighting controls can be embedded right on the LED chip to save you even more on energy with occupancy sensors, dimming 和 response to ambient daylight.

To recap: LED high-bay 夹具s use a fraction of the energy of metal halide 和 fluorescent 夹具s. They are virtually maintenance-free, last for generations 和 every LED chip is a ready-made platform for the Internet of Things. They also produce better light.

Do you see a reason to wait any longer?

需要更多信息? 下载 this 工业 Application Guide to learn more about lighting for industrial applications, both indoors 和 out.

克里族照明 High-Bay 夹具s include the KBL系列, HXB系列, LXB线性级数 和 C-Lite™高低湾 夹具. Visit the product pages for more information.