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Sports lighting standards, LED performance, photometry and energy savings: expert advice from Rexylum for professionals and local authorities.
Featured · LED performance and controls
Colour temperature is decided when the order is placed, not up in the cherry picker: once the luminaires are installed, going back means taking the ceiling down again. Here is the selection rule by type of space, the limits that apply outdoors and the situations where mixing two shades really causes problems.
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Public lighting and local authorities
A public lighting renovation starts with an inventory of the existing installation, not with a catalogue of lanterns. Here are the preliminary checks and the technical criteria that determine the choice of street luminaires.
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Industry and commercial buildings
In a car park, the feeling of safety depends more on the uniformity of the light than on installed power. Column height, spacing and motion detection decide the result perceived by users.
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Sports lighting
A multi-purpose hall hosts basketball on Saturday and the village dinner on Sunday, with opposite lighting needs. The answer lies in preset scenes rather than a single setting.
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Photometric studies and standards
Comparing two luminaires on their power in watts alone leads to costly sizing errors. Each lighting unit answers a specific question, and here is which one to look at depending on the actual need.
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Industry and commercial buildings
Recessed panels and linear pendants meet the same visual comfort requirement, but not the same ceiling or the same installation budget. Here are the criteria that really separate the two families.
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Sports lighting
On an indoor court, the player follows the ball upwards and regularly looks straight at the luminaires. Layout, uniformity and the treatment of reflections decide playing comfort well before installed power.
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Sports lighting
At the end of August, the gymnasium is empty and the lighting can be checked without moving a club session. Here are the points to check before classes resume and the technical criteria that then guide the choice of luminaires.
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Sports lighting
Relief, speed, banked turns: lighting a BMX track takes more than lux. FFC benchmarks, EN 12193, column layout and glare.
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Industry and commercial buildings
Photoperiod, spectrum perceived by the animal, IP69K, ammonia, electrical safety: the parameters that make good lighting for a livestock building.
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