Buying LED Street Light? Real Factors you should consider for best quality
Switching to LED lighting is actually a wise decision, as the incandescent lights are expensive and inefficient too. By delivering exquisite services, LED lights are ruling within the market. This has given an excellent hike in demand of LED street lights. Due to the demand increasing day by day, the manufacturers have also grown multifold. It’s quite natural. However with the number of manufacturers rising rapidly, the frauds are also growing. So, being conscious is important while buying LED street lights.
The reason for selecting the best one isn’t only this. One more reason is its unnecessary fitting efforts as well as expenses. Unlike indoor lighting, street light fitting needs numerous efforts, and anyhow, if you select the incorrect one, then you have to bear heavy maintenance cost. This can excessively shake your budget. Always keep this thing in mind:
Cheap LED street light = High Maintenance Cost
In order to select the highest and best quality LED street lights, we are going to discuss the 2 quality factors that must be kept in mind. Let’s discuss, how could these factors, i.e. overall construction of LED street lights as well as power supply makes a huge impact on your wise decision in selecting best LED street lights:
1. Power Supply: Protection and Technology
Streetlight is used for outdoor purpose. So power condition is extremely critical especially in India. Power Supply needs to fight with worst power conditions like lightning strike during rainy season. In Indoor lighting there’s no requirement for extra surge protection. But Outdoor power supply must have good surge protection and high voltage protection otherwise it may actually fail anytime. Here are the quality factors of excellent power supply:
- For Indian power conditions, 420 VAC or 2 Phase protection is recommended
- Minimum 4KV surge protection.
- Ground connection with surge protection.
- Furthermore, power supply can be replaced on the site without detachment from pole.
- Power supply must be isolated
2. Streetlight Overall construction:
You might wonder that why LED Chip quality isn’t listed as second most significant thing. Moreover, LED chip actually have theoretically unlimited life if you provide good power supply. LED chip is a really solid state device within which efficacy decrease with time.
Many of outdoor products, especially streetlights fail because of poor body construction. It can fail due to many reasons. Some are given below:
- Protection glass broke down and waterproofing failed
- Body gets rusted by rain/weather
- Body broken by psychical shock such as animal or any other
- Waterproofing gasket broke down because of really poor quality
A Really Good Quality LED streetlight’s must have the given below qualities in its body:
- Pure Polyester based powder coating which may resist sunlight and outdoor weather
- Minimum 4mm Toughen Glass
- IP65 Waterproofing
- For weather protection such as heavy rain/wind it should have a rigid heavy aluminum body
- For longer life of outer body, power coating or any other good paint is required.
- Stainless steel based screws and other small parts
- Aluminium Body with chemical treatment to resist rusting
Some other significant factors for highest quality LED street light
- Lumens/watt (Light output) of overall streetlight
- Distribution of lights that is Asymmetric by lens or some other arrangement (as it will actually give more light output to road side and less output to opposite side)
- Pole height should actually be according to wattage rating of streetlight
