7 Types of Commercial LED Lighting
Defining Commercial Lighting
If you are interested in installing commercial lighting, LED lighting is your best bet. Commercial LED lighting is lighting employed in environments such as offices, retail stores, and restaurants. Due to its utility cost reduction potential and energy-saving capability, commercial LED lighting is used in a wide variety of both outdoor and indoor applications.
If you are not informed about the vast array of LED lighting and fixtures available in the market, you can become overwhelmed and confused. So, to start off, let us look at the various kinds in order to make you more informed when shopping.
1. Lay-in Fixtures
For those people who have been using recessed fluorescent lights, lay-in fixtures are the perfect replacement. They can be installed with your ceiling’s supporting flanges or hardware. Also, lay-in features boast enhanced features that are more efficient.
2. Recessed Troffer Lights
For the light to illuminate directly, recessed troffer lights are installed in a gap in the ceiling. These lights can replace compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) tubes, but unlike the tubes, the recessed troffer lights’ housing is usually hidden within the ceiling. Adding icing on the cake, the recessed troffer light gives low heat emission.
3. Track Lighting
Here, adjustable lighting fixtures are mounted on an electrical wiring track, removing the need to wire every single fixture directly. Track lighting is easily adjustable; thus, they are mostly mounted from ceilings or on walls in galleries or workplaces.
4. Task Lights
The name says it all, as these kinds of lights help workers in completing specific tasks. They are ideal for illuminating workspaces. One undeniable benefit of task lights is that installation is easy. They are great replacements to incandescent lamps, CFLs, High-Intensity Discharge (HID), High-Pressure Sodium (HPS), among others.
5. Outdoor Commercial Lights
Most people think that LED lighting is only utilized indoors. The fact is, they can also be installed outside to illuminate specific areas for decoration or security purposes. Excellent examples include shoebox lights, floodlights and LED wall packs.
LED Shoebox Lights-These are installed on a pole as street lights or parking lot lighting. To sweeten the deal, you can also incorporate motion sensors, photosensors, and timers on this kind of outdoor lighting.
LED Outdoor Flood Lights-These fixtures provide high-intensity lighting in a vast space. They are also used to illuminate pathways, breathtaking landscapes, or monuments. They are commonly used in sports venues to cover nighttime events . There are two kinds of floodlights:
Directional floodlights-These are widely used in façade lighting or architectural wall washing.
Area Floodlights-These are usually found in parking lots, outdoor stadiums, and warehouses.
LED-wall Pack Light-These are mounted on the building’s sides. They are instrumental in illuminating the exterior of the building and parking spaces.
6. Desk Lamps
LED desk lamps produce more light. This is especially helpful to people who would experience backaches and eyestrain from hunching over for extended periods to pick out the fine print.
7. LED Warehouse Lighting
These lights are specially made for warehouses. A good example is the High Bay Fixture or UFO, which is suitable for pendant mounting or even mounting with a hook and cord. These are an excellent replacement for 400W metal halide lights as they come in 100W or 150W that consume less energy while producing more light while reducing glare.
With the above options, installing commercial lighting has gotten much easier. Call LED Authority for more information, and we will be happy to assist!