Anytime you have a warehouse environment that you are looking to convert to LED, there is a good chance the existing lighting is either a fluorescent highbay or HID highbay. In this situation shown in the picture above, there are 4′ 4-lamp 54W T5HO fixtures running on 480V. One thing that is consistent with fluorescent … Read more
Customer Profile: Bobby and Steve’s Auto World is dedicated to serving its guests with fast, friendly, and convenient service. They offer a variety of services including 24-hour convenience and gas, 24-hour towing, everything ‘under the hood’ automotive repair, restaurants, and a car wash to name a few. Please stay as long as you’d like and … Read more
Customer Profile: Based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Bookmobile began as a design and typesetting production house in 1982 and started offering print services in 1996. When your project comes to Bookmobile, it gets the benefit of thirty-two years of know-how. Goal: With lighting, sometimes you need to start over in a space. From a facility that … Read more
Customer Profile: A lot has changed since the summer of 1914. Richfield was little more than a farming area at the time. There were no sidewalks and no paved streets. The truck farmers who lived in the area raised garden vegetables. Wagons and horses created a pathway from farm to market. The little village of … Read more
These days in lighting there are all kinds of sophisticated control systems. From LiFi to BlueTooth Mesh, lights are now able to be controlled individually or as a group by the touch of a button or through a phone app. But there is also something to be said for simple lighting controls that save additional … Read more
If done correctly, there are few lighting applications that can meet the energy savings and overall benefits seen when retrofitting fluorescent stairwell lighting to LED. Consider the before/after picture above which speaks for itself in terms of the upgraded light levels. Stairways are seldom used yet often times traditional stairway lighting fixtures are on 24/7 … Read more
Customer Profile: AWARD-WINNING CARE FOR THE MINNESOTA RIVER VALLEY M Health Fairview Ridges Hospital provides outstanding care to the Twin Cities communities located south of the river. This includes providing emergency services for the entire family from pediatric emergency care for children to on-site access to heart and cancer care specialists. Goal: Fairview Ridges of … Read more
Sure energy savings matter, but when you create experiences for over 25,000 people weekly like Eagle Brook Church does you cannot sacrifice performance for savings. Eagle Brook Church is one church with multiple locations in the Midwest; empowered by God to Reach Others for Christ. Stepping into a church can sometimes feel overwhelming. Eagle Brook … Read more
Out with the old in with the new! We are seeing an influx of commercial real estate being remodeled when it becomes available with lighting of course being one integral aspect of the process. Why are commercial real estate companies investing in their lighting during turnover? The reasons are numerous and actually the current market … Read more
The lighting industry in the early 2000’s had a phrase for highbays – if they are round take them down. This referred to replacing round HID highbay fixtures with linear fluorescent highbay fixtures. Fast forward to the late 2010’s when LED became the go-to source and now if it’s round feel free to keep it … Read more