Why you should care…about glare!
The importance of reflectors on LED highbays.
Do you ever wear a baseball cap or sunglasses? Ever use your car visor? These shielding actions reduce glare, or “bad” light that detracts from our ability to see. In a factory, warehouse, or retail facility, highbays are installed to light the space, but if the highbays are unshielded, glare interferes with what we can see. In commercial settings, glare is more than an inconvenience. This low visibility can hurt safety, productivity, and health.
Below are three photometry tests on the same highbay. The first with no reflector, the second with a shallow reflector, and the third with a deeper reflector. The glare reduction, while having little impact on lumen output, is dramatic.
Using a reflector, not only are high angle candela reduced, but they are also emitted over a much larger surface area, reducing high angle luminance by a hundredfold! If your facility has light-colored ceilings, installing reflectors has the added benefit of producing uplight. Uplight further reduces apparent brightness, eliminates the “cave” effect, and makes the space feel larger.
LexaLite® brand glare shields, from the economical and shallow LENA 16™ to the deep, high-performance S16, kill the glare without killing the light. Specify the LENA 16 or S16 by LexaLite on your next highbay project. We can customize the mounting mechanism to fit virtually any highbay.
Deep Reflector, Glare Control, glare reduction, Highbays, LENA 16, LexaLite, Lumen Output, photometry, Reflector, Reflexor, S16, Shallow Reflector, uplight
Here are some of the products we WOULD have shown at Lightfair!
With the unfortunate cancellation of Lightfair 2020, we will all miss the opportunities for in-person meetings that were scheduled for the show in Vegas this week. But missing Lightfair doesn’t mean you are missing A.L.P.’s newest technology updates. Take a peek at what we had in store for LFI 2020:
800 Series, Downlighting Components, Edge Lighting, Edgelit, Edgelit Panel, KDS LED Strip Kit, LBE Linear High Bay, LENA 16, LexaLite Brand, Lightfair International, Lindy, Little Lindy, Lumieo Acrylic, Platform Series, Platform Series LED Fixture Kits, Post Top, Reflector, Reflek, Reflexor, S12, S16, S22, S22T, Sentry Elite