As a lighting industry expert, one of the best things that you can do for your customers is to demonstrate how energy-efficient lighting systems can help save on energy costs and provide an impact on their bottom line. This can be done by conducting a lighting audit...
The Complete Guide to Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
A whole new way of driving a car has begun with the advent of the modern electric vehicle (EV). Unlike a car with an internal combustion engine, one major advantage of an EV is that you can charge it at home or at an EV charging station when you’re out and about. You...
The Complete Guide to Industrial Energy-Efficient Projects
Industrial energy efficiency programs can deliver substantial energy savings to the general public and utility systems. It can do this at a lower cost than most programs aimed at other sectors. Realizing energy savings across industrial programs is one of the best...
Top 9 Strategies for Reducing Light Pollution
What is light pollution? We’ve all heard about different kinds of pollution. Examples include air pollution from carbon monoxide, water pollution from industrial waste, and soil pollution from pesticides. But one overlooked type of pollution relates to artificial...
Buyer’s Guide to Baseball Field and Softball Field Lighting
Sports Lighting is one of the most common types of projects we work with and one of the most requested and utilized fixtures we sell. LED Lighting has changed and has become more efficient since their beginning. This is why more baseball and softball fields are...
The Complete Guide To Electrician Salaries by Specialty
Electrician jobs are in demand across the United States. They play an important role because electrical systems are vital to the management of many things. They include lighting systems, communication systems, and machinery. These systems are essential to the...
Guide to LED Lighting Standards, Testing and Certifications
Sorting out recognized standards testing and certifications can be difficult. Some of them are applied to various electronic equipment, while others are only for lighting products. Standards testing and certifications are also related to regional, national, or...
Commercial Shop Lighting Buyers Guide
There are certain settings that require special lighting setups. Workshops are one of those places. They need bright lighting for performing precision tasks. Tasks which are also often potentially dangerous. But, they also need a hardy, durable light that’s resistant...
Commercial Flood Lighting Buyers Guide
If you have a large outdoor area, then you may be looking at choosing a flood light as a way to light it up. Flood lights are extremely versatile fixtures, and you might surprised how often they are used in different outdoor applications. LED Lighting Supply has...
Stadium and Sport Field Lighting Buyers Guide
If you have an outdoor stadium, you may be all to familiar how costly metal halide and high pressure sodium lights are. They have short life spans, and at half life, have lost much of its available lumens to light degradation. Strike times are long, up to 30 minutes,...
Warehouse Lighting Buyers Guide
Commercial and industrial warehouses all over the country are realizing that switching to LED lighting can greatly reduce their energy costs and improve employee efficiency. It is no secret that LED lights have revolutionized lighting thanks to their low energy...
Buyer’s Guide to High Bay Lights
High Bays have become the corner of indoor commercial and industrial lighting for large indoor facilities. LEDs have been available in a factor that would allow them to replace HID since around 2005. Early on, it was hard to find a LED Fixture that would or could...
Buyer’s Guide to Outdoor Wall Pack Lights
The term “wall pack lights” describes the outdoor lighting that is commonly mounted on the outside facing walls of buildings. Wall pack lights are generally used to provide a wide swath of illumination to high-traffic ground areas. But, they also function well as an...
Buyer’s Guide to Parking Lot Lights
If you own a commercial property, then you must explore the option of switching to LED lights. These lights prove especially helpful for the parking lots and advantageous over the traditional light methods. The lights in parking lots suffer a lot at the hands of the...
Guide to Lighting as a Service Business Model (LaaS)
Why spend so much money on lighting when you could use that capital to invest in something strategically more important for your business? There is always something that needs to be replaced or a new tool or machine that needs to be bought. The most successful...
Buyers Guide to Canopy Lights
Looking to convert your existing metal halide or high pressure sodium to LED? Are unsure of whether the time or investment is worth it? We put together this comprehensive guide on some essential items to make your conversion to LED simpler. There are many good things...
Damp Location vs Wet Location Rated Lighting Comparison Guide
In everyday discussions, we may use the terms ‘damp’ and ‘wet’ as if they were the same. However, in terms of lighting, these two terms mean different things. Understanding the difference between a wet location rated LED and a damp located rated LED is quite...
Buyers Guide to Low Bay Lights
What are Low Bay Lights? Low Bay light fixtures are designed as a source of light for indoor space. These lights are commonly found installed on ceilings that range in height from 10 to 20 feet high. They are very similar to another common type of indoor fixtures,...
Sport Field Lighting Design Guide
From soccer fields and baseball diamonds to tennis courts, sports fields and basketball courts, powerful stadium and field lights as well as narrow beam flood lighting is used to promote safety and extend usable hours. This lighting needs to be adaptable and...
Office Lighting Design Guide
Make Light Work of Office Lighting with LEDs Office lighting is more complicated than one may think at first glance. It needs to do the obvious, provide lighting, but it should also accomplish several other tasks as well. Properly designed office lighting provides...
Buyers Guide to NSF Rated Lighting
Everything in the food and beverage manufacturing industry has to be tested and approved for safe use around the products we consume, even the lighting. It's imperative you understand the requirements light fixtures are expected to meet. The three most...
Guide to Factory Lighting
Understanding the right lighting that spaces like manufacturing plants, factories and other facilities need is very crucial for the owners as well as the electricians who carry out the process. The process gets further complicated by the high risk of accidents and...
Commercial Natatorium Lighting Guide
Navigating Swimming Pool Lighting Any industrial or commercial facility presents its own unique challenges. But, perhaps one of the most interesting of all is the challenge of lighting natatoriums and indoor swimming pools. Not only do these types of facilities have...
Guide to California Lighting Regulations: Title 20
The California Energy Commission (CEC) was put into place by the Warren-Alquist Act in 1974. At the time, a growing need for energy in the state led to a need for a modern energy policy to reduce the environmental impacts and costs of existing systems. The CEC remains...
Guide to LED Lighting Rebates By State
As the world’s population continues to grow, so does its need for a power supply. This constant strain on resources has power companies turning to their patrons for help and even offering them money back for installing or using energy-efficient devices. As one of the...
Recommended Foot Candle Chart
What is a Foot Candle? A great place to start is with the definition. For those of you who may not be familiar with them, a foot-candle is a measurement of light intensity. One foot-candle is defined as enough light to saturate a one-foot square with one lumen of...
Guide to Industrial Lighting Design
As any facility manager knows, industrial facilities pose very unique lighting challenges. From lumber and metal production to the aerospace industry, the term “industrial” encompasses many different businesses. Industrial buildings are often extremely large spaces...
Guide to Explosion Proof Lighting Classification
We won’t be much surprised to know that you never much thought about the factors like personal and property security while purchasing lighting solution for your commercial or industrial facility. However, take our word of caution here. As the owner of a facility, you...
Vapor Proof Lighting Buyers Guide
Vapor proof lights are luminaries that are shock-proof, waterproof, and dustproof. They come in many different styles and varying levels of water and dust protection. An LED Vapor proof light takes this a step further with energy efficiency and a long lifespan. It...
Guide to Lighting in Airports
A lit up airport in the middle of the night is a sight to see, whether it brings a feeling of wanderlust or the dread of a red-eye flight. In technical terms, this lighting is referred to as airport beaconing (even though you can usually get away with saying airport...
Highway Lighting Guide
Lighting Up the Road to Somewhere Highway lighting plays an important role in ensuring that the roadways are safe for drivers by ensuring that the streets are visible, even at night. Highway lighting, although similar to street lighting, serves a much more vast...
When to Choose a High Bay or Low Bay Light? (revised 2022)
What is a Bay Light? Before we get into the differences between high bay and low bay lighting, you should first know what bay lighting is. Bay lights are light fixtures that have high power wattage requirements and cover relatively large areas. More often than not,...
Lighting Guide for Education Institutions
Nowhere is good lighting needed as in educational institutions. It not only improves the concentration of the students, it also enhances safety for all the people in the institution. Research has shown that lighting can have a negative or a positive impact on...