What Need to Consider Before You Buy A UFO High Bay Light

High Bays are designed to supply properly allotted mild for open and spacious areas. Usually they are for manufacturing facility lighting,warehouse lighting fixtures or different constructing indoors lights. Which commonly the luminaires are hooked up at a great height.

Unlike LED low bays, which is great proper to decrease mounting heights with lens angles commonly extensive to unfold the lighting, LED high bay lights generally have different lights distribution, slender mild beam, medium mild beam or vast mild beam for different lighting functions and mounting heights. Now a new multi-bay mild is even greater powerful, with extraordinary optical lights distribution.It can be used as both high bay mild or low bay light.

Choosing the proper LED high bay lights fixture is a very important thing. Due to the fact the usage of the incorrect fixture can end result in useless prices or wrong lights effect, like putting in a UFO high bay in a low-ceiling area, or a low bay in a high-ceiling area.

Our LED high bay lights grant most fulfilling performance for both industrial lights and business lights applications.Such as factories, warehouses, logistic centers, airport halls, railway station ready room, gymnasium, sports activities coaching centers, etc. Each sequence of our LED high bay lights has its special features, small with compact dimension for restrained set up space, some with excessive effectivity and lumen output, some for narrow light  beams for reinforced lights for a focused area, and some with rectangular lighting fixtures distribution for a slender place lighting.

Then what need to consider before you buy a proper LED UFO high bay light?

1. Proper LED High Bay Light Model and Wattage:

Classic design LED high bay lights are available from 30W to 500W for ordinary industrial or commercial lighting, but high power models can be 500W to 1000W for gym interior or exhibition center lighting, mounting height can be 30m to 40m, or even higher.

Classic designs LED high bay lights are handy from 30W to 500W for regular industrial or commercial lighting, however High energy fashions can be 500W to 1000W for health club indoors or exhibition center lighting, mounting height can be 30m to 40m, or even higher.

LED UFO high bay luminaires are rugged high bay fixtures with compact size. Most UFO bay lights are round shape, however we additionally have rectangular form design, each in the form of a flying saucer. They are designed to replace both high bay and low bay MH(metal halide), HID(high-intensity discharge) and HPS(high strain sodium) High bay lamps. Shineray LED UFO high bays covers wattage from 30W to 400W. Higher energy high bay lights in spherical UFO layout can additionally be available in 400W, 500W, 600W, 800W, 1000W, 1200W, and 1500W. They can additionally be used as LED stadium lights, typically for sports activities stadium or GYM club lighting,

LED linear high bays can without difficulty exchange metallic halide high bays or T5 and T8 fluorescent fixture high bays in gymnasiums and warehouses, commonly stages from 50W to 600W. These linear high bays with low profile are designed to precisely illuminate slim aisles and racking areas for industrial warehouse lighting applications, or for generic lights for spacious areas in groups. These fixtures are large than a UFO LED fixture. The linear LED high bay mild fittings’ mild distribution is precision tailor-made thru software of interchangeable optical lenses. By casting an rectangular lighting fixtures distribution pattern, mild can be directed precisely the place needed.

Before you high bay lighting project, you need to do a lighting simulation or evaluate all the related installation conditions, then decide what kind of LED high bay fixture needed to install.

2.Adequate Lumen Output/Luminous Efficiency

LED high bay fixture luminous efficacy is an vital element to consider the lamp’s efficiency. It suggests the lumens output produced for a sure wattage, while this capability the quantity of electrical energy that will be consumed. Compared with usual HID, MH, or HPS high bay lighting fixtures luminaires, LED highbay can save over 70% of your power bill.

Shineray has a range of high bay LED lights fixtures with exclusive ranges of luminous efficacy. Some are inexpensive lights fixtures with 100-120lm/W however aggressive expenditures that assist retailer your task budget, while some are top rate overall performance excessive luminous efficacy fashions with 130lm/W-180lm/W that assist store greater power than decrease efficiency units.

This is distinction between preliminary price and long-term savings. For sure models, the financial savings of a greater luminous efficacy mannequin over its existence span is greater than the buying price for a decrease luminous efficacy model. Therefore, whether or not to pick out a super high luminous efficacy excessive bay fixture or a decrease one will rely on your challenge and your budget.

3.Proper Light Distribution

High bay lighting distribution can be reflected by the beam angle. For low ceiling height high/low bay lamp installation, wide beam angle like 120° is needed so that the light can be distributed well over the area.

While for very high mounting height of high bay luminaire mounting, narrow beam will be better, it produces concentrated lighting. Narrow or medium beam angles like 45°, 60°, or 90° make the light more intense and focused, and delivers light to the floor and work platform instead of waste.

For those warehouse aisle lighting or passage lighting, asymmetric high bay lights like 30*70°, 60*90° or 70*140° will be needed, such oblong lighting distribution can best utilize the light within the area and avoid light waste.

Before purchase, customers need to make clear of the details and requirements of the area to be illuminated, and for large project, lighting contractors are suggested to make professional lighting simulation to make sure excellent high bay lighting with the right beam angle luminaires.

4.Correlated Colour Temperature (CCT) and Color Rendering Index (CRI) Options

High bay lighting is usually for sports, industrial or commercial lighting. Choosing the right color temperature can make a big difference in selecting a lamp that’s appropriate for the space you wish to illuminate.

Adequate color temperature high bay lights with proper color rendering index can best ensure the smooth running of industrial and commercial activities, improve productivity, and reduce accidents resulting from poor lighting.

The above picture shows the comparison of different CCT for a warehouse LED lighting. 3000K warm white lighting, 4000K neutral white lighting, and 5000K daylight lights gives different visual effect. 4000K neutral white warehouse lighting looks clean and good to increase contrast, usually for large warehouses.

But in more industrial settings, and for higher intensity lighting, higher color temperatures 5000K high bay lighting is accepted. Traditional metal halide lights (HID) have been always used for this application. But now LED high bay lighting can do this job more efficiently. Some customers may also need 6000K or 6500K cold white warehouse lighting to maximize the illuminance. This is always used for warehouse which needs high level of brightness for work.

Color rendering index, CRI, is another important index for light quality.
It tells us how well a light source will reveal colors when compared to sunlight (the ideal light source). When it comes to high intensity discharge lamps (HID), people usually complain about one thing: poor light color. Light color is important in high bay applications. It has a huge impact on clarity and contrast. Most popular CRI of high bay Light fixtures are CRI 70 and 80.

5.Dimmable LED High Bay Fixtures/Non-dimmable LED High Bay Fixtures

When it comes to the options of LED high bay lighting, consumers can choose dimmable high bay lights or non-dimmable high bay lights. Dimmable highbays can be set to lower or higher lighting levels depending on your lighting preference for different lighting requirements.

Dimmable high bay lights will be a little higher in cost than those non-dimmable lamps. LED high bay lighting dimming options: 1-10V dimming/ DALI dimming, etc.
PIR and microwave motion sensors can be added with the dimmable drivers to make the lights into an intelligent control high bay luminaire, it will turn on the luminaire on when any motion is detected and off / dimmed when no activity is detected within the detection radius.

Motion Sensors and other controls can greatly reduce lighting costs by turning off or dimming the lights when people leave the area. This is very necessary for logistics centre, large warehouse or storage area lighting where large quantity of lights are installed and the power consumption is high, but workers only need lighting whenever there is goods arrival or shipping.

To dim, high bay fixtures need a 0-10V/1-10V dimmable driver. Dimming LED fixtures does not affect the lifespan of the luminaire. And if you want to save additional costs, dimming will save you even more money!

6.Ingress Protection Rating

IP rating designates a fixtures ability to keep out both dust and water. For different lighting applications, different IP level will be needed. For ordinary general high bay lighting, IP40, IP44, IP54 will be OK, but for damp, moist or wet conditions, you will need IP65. Generally speaking, IP65 is all you will need for all high bay lighting applications. bbier IP65 UFO high bay luminaires can be installed both externally and internally and will provide protection from rain water and water jets.

For industrial or commercial lighting, choosing the right LED high bay luminaires can save smote energy, reduce carbon emission, lower your electricity bill, and also enhance work efficiency. All above factors are what you need to consider before you make the purchase order. For any more questions, please contact us at justin@bbier.com & info@bbier.com.