Upgrading to LED Light Sources Rodney Heller LC, CLEP Lighting Geek
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Upgrading to LED Light Sources Rodney Heller LC, CLEP
Lighting Geek
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A Little Bit about Me
Lighting Certified, NCQLP
Certified Lighting Efficiency Professional, AEE
IES –Chair, Upgrading Lighting in Commercial & Institutional Spaces, LEM 3
IES –Member Visual Efficiency Committee TM24
I am a radical compared to traditional designers
I freely give my opinion, but back it up with science!
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This Presentation
There is no sugar coating anything
I am 100% neutral
I will give you my experience, the brutal
truth!
Open forum – question; ask it, comment
or tell me I am nuts I am ok with that too
This is how we learn
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Goals of this Presentation
Get lighting right for the task
Understand how LEDs light spaces
Solving lighting problems
Solving control problems
Thinking outside the box to make new
light sources work in existing fixtures
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Where to Start?
What is your budget?
Most important
LED versus fluorescent
What are you trying to accomplish?
Trying to impress
Save energy
Both?
What is the application?
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Lighting Upgrade Minefields
Lighting Manufacturers- very few have real
world LED experience, “worked in the lab”
Use them for base knowledge only
Count on them 100% you will for sure have
problems
Consistently over light every space!
Control Manufacturers – same thing!
DLC – Do NOT base decisions on grants
How do they know the task? Existing spacing?
Ceiling height? Reflectancies
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Most Import Rule
Light to Task, Light to Task, Light to Task
IES Lighting Handbook 10th edition –My
Bible
Tasks have changed
Technology has changed
Our understanding of how we see is
evolving, TM-24
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Lighting Upgrades
Just because there was 80 fc of light in
the existing space does not mean you
replace 80fc or make it brighter!
Most buildings are over lit
No penalty for over lighting
Same thing with HVAC
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Light to Task
Old Standards vs.
Lighting Handbook
Old 10th
Edition
Classroom 50 fc 20 fc
CAD work 50 fc
No Glare
2.5 fc
vertical
Hallway 40 fc 5-10 fc
Office 70 fc 20-40 fc
Light to task
Paper to Computer
Chalk board to white board to smart board to iPad
Lathe to CNC machine
Hallways –just moving through space
Full moon is .01 fc, how much light do you need to see?
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How You Going to Get There?
LED’s emit light differently than a tube or lamp
LEDs emit light in a 15-20° angle
Direct light to the task, little to no need for reflectors
How many lumens do you need to adequately illuminate your work plane?
Think how hard it is to see your cell phone in sun light
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Can Lighting 13 watt CFL, 900 lumens
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Can Lighting 8.5 watts, 630 lumens
Retrofit Pin based to Edison base
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Can Lighting
14.3 watts, 1000 lumens
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Can Lighting
14 watt, 600 lumens
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2x2 or 2x4 Luminaires
(Fixtures)
Fluorescent or LED?
March, 2014 fluorescent is more cost
effective
October, 2014, now it is a toss up –
depends on what is there
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2x2 Upgrade
Direct/indirect , 2-40 watt biax–very difficult to retrofit
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2x2 LED
Installed new 2x2 LED fixtures for the same price of a fluorescent upgrade
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Retrofit Kits
Pros
Easy to install
Cost competitive
Cons
Not always easy to control lumen output
Need to control light emission
I like kits, but installing more new troffers
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Which is LED?
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Key is Controlling Emission
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LED T8 Tubes
July 2014, I would not touch them
October 2014, I am ready to try
T8 LED Tube
1750 lumens, 110 lumens/watt
Works on instant start ballast only
Saves a lot on labor!
Still just a little edgy on them (lampholder
UL)
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LED Challenge
Fluorescent lamp emits light in 360°
pattern
LED emits light in 15-20° pattern
Bounce fluorescent off top then down
LED is all direct
How many lumens do you need to get
same amount of light on task?
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Fluorescent Lumen vs LED
Lumen
3000 lumens/lamp
Run through PSL ballast, 2100 lumens
Bounce 60% of lumens off top and sides
Now you are at about 1800 delivered
lumens
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Fluorescent Lumen vs LED
Lumen
LED T8 lamp 1750 lumens, all delivered
Same thing with LED 2x4, par lamp, etc.
Bottom Line – you may only need 40%
of rated lumens from LED to illuminate
the space previously lit by fluorescent
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Exterior Lighting
LED - No brainer
Very Low operational and maintenance
costs
Replace whole head, we seldom do
retrofits unless it is a simple screw in lamp
Do NOT over light
Direct light at ground
LED light sources carry a long way and will
cause glare in neighboring homes
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School Driveway
271 watts
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Dock Area
40 watts
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School Parking Lot
271 watts
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Pathway Poles 129 w, wall pack 30 w, Canopy 20
w
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Canopy 8.5 w, Bollards 8.5 w
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And Then There’s Dimmers
As of October, 2014, rheostats are out.
They do not work
20% dimming, choppy, flickering
Common cure is to add an incandescent
or quartz at end it will pull enough
energy to make dimmer work
Had to do this with elevators too, even
though no dimming
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Dimming
Line voltage, sometimes it works
sometimes it does not
Large control systems be very cautious,
crap shoot as to whether it works on not
277 line voltage does NOT work,
regardless of what manufacturer tells
you
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Dimming
0-10 low voltage works
Got to run the line
Wireless is really coming along
Lutron has a very interesting system
Cad 5 is coming on too
Bring power to switch then cad 5 from there
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My Advice
Stay with Tier 1 manufacturers as much
as possible
If they are not making them, there is
probably a reason for it
If you must use Tier 2 or 3 have budget for
replacements
Test all fixtures and lamps you are
working with for the first time
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My Advice
Use new fixtures where you can
They were specifically designed for an LED
light source
Dimming
If using existing controls ALWAYS test
regardless of what manufacturer says
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The Future
Prices dropping
Tunable
OLED
Utilities attempting to change rate
structure to keep income up
Increase monthly charge and lower kWh
rate
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Thank You!
Rodney Heller LC, CLEP [email protected]
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