Despite their widespread use, HID lamps utilize antiquated technology that costs building managers both directly and indirectly. Specifically, using HID lamps will result in: higher than necessary energy costs, frequently maintenance costs and poor lighting performance. These issues can all be addressed by converting your existing lighting to LED.
Energy Savings
Energy savings is a primary driver behind why you should evaluate LED lighting for your building or facility. Common wattages for LED high bay fixtures can range from 40 Watts to 800 Watts. If we compare this wattage to a typical HID high bay fixture that same range is about 120 watts vs 40 watts for LED and 1000 watts vs 400 Watts for LED
So by switching to LED lighting you are immediately reducing your energy consumption by 40%-60%. To put this in cost that you would be saving, RM 1,200~2,500 per fixture per year in electricity costs if you made the switch to LED lighting. Depending on the size of your facility this can really affect the operational balance sheet.
Maintenance Cost Reduction
By converting to LED’s you will also see a dramatic reduction in the maintenance of your high bay light fixtures. This is due to the way LEDs generate light, and the way they progress through their functional life. Instead of ceasing to function properly once a fuel source is significantly reduced, LED generated light output degrades very slowly over time. As a result the functional life of an LED product can be significantly longer than that of an HID Lamp, therefore drastically reducing the maintenance load required.
Lighting Performance
Finally, lighting performance is a critical factor in evaluating the move to a different type of lighting. From a performance standpoint, LED’s are a head-and-shoulders above their HID counterparts.
LED’s utilize a multi-point design, meaning they distributed light on the intended surface very evenly. Meaning that light levels across a given surface will vary less between fixture mounting locations. In addition to the even distribution of light, LEDs are available in a range of CCT’s (Correlated Color Temperatures), and as a result provide a range of options to increase the visual perception of “brightness”.
In contrast HID fixtures produce a “bright spot” directly underneath the fixture with light levels decreasing drastically as the distance between fixtures increases.