What is LED Sports Lighting?
LED Sports Lights can be used both indoors and outdoors. Outdoor Sports lighting is special high-power lighting designed to be installed on tall poles to light up outdoor sports fields, like baseball/softball fields, football fields, sports and athletic fields, and outdoor tennis courts. Sometimes you will also see this type of lighting referred to as LED Sports Lights or LED Stadium Lights.
LED Sports lighting solutions are high-performance LED Technology lights. They are known for lower energy consumption, longer life, reduced energy, and lower maintenance costs. They can easily maintain or exceed light levels that you have come to expect with HID Lighting solutions at sporting events.
What Are the Benefits of Using LED Sports Lighting?
- Energy Savings: you can expect energy savings of at least 50%.
- Powerful lighting: replace metal halide sports lights with LED lights one for one.
- Lower maintenance costs: there are no bulbs or ballasts to change.
- Slow lumen depreciation with LED: HID / Metal Halide Sports Lights' lumens drop significantly over a short period.
- Instant On: LED Sports Lights are instant on and instant off. There are no slow warm-up periods.
- High-quality lighting: these lights will produce high-quality light for years.
- Great Fan and Player Experience: A high-quality light source provides a well-lit field.
What's the Best Way to Select the Best LED Sports Lighting?
The best way to start is to determine:
- How much light do you need on the playing surface or field?
- For outdoor facilities, are there existing poles? Where are they located? Do you need poles?
- For indoor facilities, are there existing lights? Where are they located?
- What are the light mounting heights?
- How many lights do you currently have – if any?
- How do the current fixtures mount – if any?
- What is your budget?
Why Choose LED Lighting Supply as Your LED Sports Lighting Manufacturer?
We’ve been a sports lights supplier since 2008, and have lit up 1000’s of sports fields, athletic fields, gymnasiums, arenas, and other sports venues. We can handle large and small projects and can provide you with a free lighting plan to show you how well our lights will work inside your sports venue.
Calculating the Number of Fixtures Needed for a Sports Lighting Layout
Lighting Plans for Sports fields and facilities provide the proper assurances that the lighting project will meet your requirements. We supply free lighting plans for our business customers. Ask for yours. We are your commercial and industrial lighting expert's resource partner.
Need Help? Talk to an LED Sports Lighting Expert.
With so many options and fixtures available, it's hard to decide what option will meet your needs and requirements. The sales engineers of LED Lighting Supply are experts in LED sports lighting. Use our experience and tell us your needs, and we will provide you with the best LED sports lighting options for your project or application. We can provide you with a free sports lighting plan to make sure the area is well-lit and the lighting is balanced.
Completed Sports Applications using LED Lighting Supply Sports Lighting
LED Sports Lighting FAQs
Can LED Sports Field Lighting Replace Metal Halide Fixtures?
Yes, LED Lighting is not only as bright, but brighter. Metal Halide bulbs are very bright when they’re brand new but suffer from quick lumen depreciation and loss. LED Lights maintain their lumen levels over long periods. We have powerful options that can easily replace 1000-Watt, 1500-Watt, and 2000-Watt Metal Halide fixtures, 1 for 1.
What are the Best LED Lighting for Indoor Sports Facilities?
When it comes to indoor LED Sports Lighting, the ideal choice is UFO high bays. They provide powerful bright light from above and can come with special optics to focus more light on the ground. Plus, their design is impact-resistant in case they are struck by a ball or other object.
What are the Best LED Outdoor Sports Lighting Fixtures?
When it comes to outdoor field lighting, we recommend either high-power sports flood lights or stadium lights. These sports lighting LED fixtures are very powerful and can easily replace traditional lighting like high-power Metal Halide and high-pressure sodium lighting that you may be currently using. It also pays to choose a sports field lighting company that stands behind its products.
How Many LED Watts Are Needed to Replace 400-Watt Metal Halide?
For indoor sports lighting, we recommend either the 150-watt LED UFO or 200-watt UFO lights. Both produce enough lumens to easily replace 400-watt Metal Halides.
How Many LED Watts Are Needed to Replace 1000-Watt Sports Light Fixtures?
We recommend the 400-watt version of the high-power flood light. It produces 56000 lumens. We can easily replace existing metal halide lights, 1 for 1, with our existing lineup of LED Lights.
How Many LED Watts Are Needed to Replace 1500-Watt Sports Light Fixtures?
We have created several lighting plans using our 600-watt High Power Flood Light with a 15 or 30-degree beam angle, and have provided more foot candles on the ground than the 1500-watt Sports light fixture. We have also been told by several customers that the field is brighter after they’ve installed 600-watt fixtures.
How Can You Tell If an LED Fixture is Impact Resistant?
Check the impact rating of the fixture. We list those on the specifications of the fixtures. IK10 is the highest available rating. Most sports lights are IK08 to IK10.
What Voltage Options Are Available for Indoor and Outdoor Sports LED Lighting?
We offer 3 ranges of voltages with our LED Lights designed for sports facilities. The standard range is 100V-277V. Two High Voltage options are available, 347V-480V and 277V-480V. All these drivers are auto-switching, which means the drivers will automatically adapt to whatever incoming voltage is set.
Do Your Outdoor Sports Lights Have Surge Protection?
They do, and if you are concerned about lightning strikes and other grid-related issues, talk to us and we can provide additional protection.
How Long Does it Take to Install LED Sports Lights?
It depends on the access to the lights. The lights themselves are not hard to install, it’s all the preparation and access to the lights that can take some time.