LED Eco Lights has expanded its Goodlight™ range of LED replacements for manufacturing lighting, with the introduction of Fluoro-style LED tubes with T8 caps. Available in 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8-foot lengths, the new LED tubes easily retrofit into existing fittings and operate independently of external control gear. With translucent lens covers, they look just like fluorescent tubes and, once installed, deliver a superb, even light spread with no shadowing. Their single-ended connection is considered best for safety and helps to lower installation time by half. The T8 LED tubes have rotatable pins that can adjust up to 90°, facilitating retrofits into any installation.
A recent installation of Goodlight’s T8 LED tubes at Quorn foods, a leader in meat alternative produce, achieved a payback in just eight months, significantly reducing their carbon footprint. The 13,000 sq. ft. Stokesley site is its principal manufacturing site with six hundred staff operating four production lines that create Quorn’s well known range of healthy meat free foods.
Goodlight LED technology offers a flicker-free alternative to standard tubes. Specified output of 105Lm/W leads to direct energy savings up to 75%. Lighting output ranges from 10W with the 2-foot T8 tube, up to 35W for the 8-foot model. Their operational rating of 50,000 hours equates to a lifetime of approximately 20 years at 7 hours a day, 11 years at 12 hours a day, and five years or more at 24 hours a day.
This is backed by a five-year guarantee against failure, borne out by the many live Goodlight installations that have already exceeded five years. Fully dimmable, these LED lamps are internally regulated, with no reliance on traditional control gear. This means they are virtually maintenance free, with no ballasts or starters needed. Maintenance costs are up to 95% lower compared with traditional fluorescent tubes.
Commenting, Derek Passmore, Electrical Engineer at Quorn said, “Goodlight gave us a four-fold advantage. We’ve reduced our costs, reduced our carbon footprint, reduced the maintenance workload and improved the working environment for our staff. It’s rare to make everyone happy, but replacing fluorescent tubes with Goodlight LED light fittings has pleased management, staff and made our lives easier. It was also quick, easy and economic.”
The T8 range is available in daylight (5,500K), natural (4,500K) or warm (3,000K) colour temperatures, so users can retain their preferred white light intensity with a direct replacement, or provide a refreshing change to the working environment.
Quorn Foods selected the daylight colour temperature, and were delighted with the improvement in the ambiance on the production floor. Derek Passmore added, “Goodlight T8 LED tubes give a much cleaner, whiter light than the fluorescent tubes that they replaced. Our staff really appreciate the improvement in their working environment. For example, it is much easier now to assess the colour of food samples. The fact that Goodlight LED tubes are glass-free is an added advantage.”
Even wider flexibility is enabled with the optional emergency function, custom-configured to provide DC operation of the LED tube lamp for at least three hours. The emergency option includes a compact, slim-line battery / driver module, making it perfect for retrofitting into existing fixtures.
Installing the Goodlight LED tubes was simplicity itself, concluded Derek Passmore. “They were an exact replacement for the fluorescent lights that we took out. We were fitting about ten an hour. In a food production environment, getting access to replace failed tubes is always awkward, but these tubes are guaranteed for five years and rated at 50,000 hours, so we won’t need to look at them again for a long time. We will also no longer need to replace the diffusers. In the past, these have gradually deteriorated, become brittle and broken due to the exposure to heat from the lights – but with the efficient Goodlight LED tubes this should no longer be an issue.”
Market-leading LED technology lies behind these new tube lights. They utilise Epistar ‘super’ chips – amongst the brightest currently on the market – along with premium powerful drivers offering both load and short circuit protection to safeguard the lamps from power spikes or unstable circuitry.
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