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Stadium Lighting Design
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What Is a Lighting Design for a Stadium?
A lighting design for LED stadium lights starts with understanding the needs and usage of the playing field. Different sports have different requirements.
The lighting layout takes into consideration the existing pole locations or can suggest new pole locations for fields without existing poles. In the case of indoor stadium lighting design, ensuring the lighting works for all space usages is important.
The end result is a lighting plan / sports lighting solution showing light levels across the playing surface, and light balance across the field. It details the lighting system used – be it sports lights or led flood lights.
What Are the Recommended Lux Levels For Stadiums?
The recommended light levels will vary by sport and competition level. Here are a few simple examples of recommended lux levels.
Baseball (High school): Infield 50 foot candles – 500 lux, Outfield 30 foot candles – 300 lux
Football (High school): 40-50 foot candles, 400-500 lux
Softball (High School): Infield 50 foot candles – 500 lux, Outfield 30 foot candles – 300 lux
What Are the Typical Foot Candle Requirements For Stadium Lights?
The recommended light levels will vary by sport and competition level. Here are a few simple examples of recommended foot candle levels.
Baseball (High school): Infield 50 fc, Outfield 30 fc
Football (High school): 40-50 fc
Softball (High School): Infield 50 fc, Outfield 30 fc
How do LED Lights impact a Stadium Lighting Design?
LED Lights have high light intensity and high light efficiency. As lighting designers, they make our life easy because they are an incredibly good and efficient light source and can create both symmetrical and asymmetrical light distributions.
They come in a variety of color temperatures and and high quality CRI ( Color Rendering Index) high quality LED chips that can make the viewing of most outdoor sports events enjoyable.
Everyone know LED lights have low power consumption and great energy efficiency for more energy saving than traditional lighting systems, but most LED sports light are available in many beam angles
What Are the Typical Lighting Design Standards for Stadiums?
Lighting standards are sport specific, as well as competition specific. For example, baseball fields have different lighting requirements for infield to outfield. And these differ between middle school, high school, college and minor league. The same holds true for football stadiums. Light levels for middle school fields will be lower than light levels for college level fields.
How Many Lumens Are Required For Lighting Up a Stadium?
There are two main ways to think of light levels – foot candles and lumens. Foot candles can be easily translated into lumens using the following formula:
1 foot candle = 1 lumen per square foot.
So, 30 foot candles is the same as 30 lumens per square foot.
