For years, the standard in industrial and warehouse lighting has been the Metal Halide High Bay.
Advancements in ballast development have led to many new lighting solutions for these applications.
Hi-BEAM HB series, a F-bay have helped many to kill kilowatts today. Turning company greener in that sense.
To help you understand further how is this possible, let’s look in details on why are people switching from existing High-bays out with the Hi-BEAM HB.
Hi-BEAM HB fixtures use less energy
A 400 Watt Metal Halide fixture uses 430 - 470 Watts.
A Replacement to Hi-BEAM can use as low as 195 Watts.
Fewer Watts = Fewer Kilowatts reducing a facilities overall cost of operating the facility.
Energy Costs are going up, never coming down
A key factor on why the exercise was done to change out there lighting is the T5’s ability to not only produce better light (illuminance & CRI), but also to do it while consuming lesser energy.
We use a T5HO fixture that consumes 195 watts compared to the 430 watts that a normal 400W High Bay consumes.
For all the sites that we’ve retrofitted, the new lux readings surpass those of the old lighting.
A T5 bulb maintains 95% of its initial brightness
Have experience that your working environment is getting darker by the day? Metal Halide lamps can lose as much as 40% of their light output.
In comparison, T5 only lose 5% over it’s lifetime.
Not to mention, the percentage of loss only gets worse as the bulb ages, all while still consuming the same 430 watts of electricity. Ouch.
T5 creates better light (CRI)
CRI is the measure of lights ability to reproduce what a color would look like in natural daylight.
The Metal Halide lighting has a CRI index between 65-70.
New T5 HO lighting has a CRI index of 85.
Lower CRI affects the eye’s ability to see contrast, detail, and can also cause eye strain.
T5 fixtures come on instantly, on and off
All conventional high bay lamps need time to warm up and reach full brightness. Not to mention when you have power trip, it’s a pain to wait for it to light up back. Have that experience?
T5HO fixtures are instant on off. And this allows the use of motion sensors to even further your energy savings.
Longer lifetime
T5 electronic control gear (we do not call it ballast anymore), usually have a lifetime of 100,000 hours. The T5 tubes usually range from 24,000-36,000 hours. Conventional high bay lamps will only have about 12,000 hours of lifetime. Not to mention the useable brightness could be less than that lifetime. So to be on a safe and comfortable working environment, you could actually work out that you may change your high bay lamps at least twice before you actually change your T5.
Act now, Go green…Save more with Hi-BEAM
In today’s world electricity costs are only rising, upgrading your lighting system is one of the most straightforward and best business investments you can make into your company.
The return on investment is relatively short, usually within a year or two – before the warranty expires. With the said benefits on top, you will continue to reap the benefits year after year.
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