Thursday, April 17, 2008

Commercial Parking Garage Lights

Commercial parking garage lighting is a critical element of facility safety and security. Selecting and installing these commercial parking garage lights requires attention to many details that characterize effective lighting and energy savings. Easy Rack specialists will answer any serious inquires at no charge if you have questions about lighting levels; glare shields, lumens per watt efficiency, and optimal horizontal and vertical foot candle levels. In all honesty, these considerations must be carefully studied first before making any purchase, as not only front-end pricing, but also lamp life and power consumption over long periods of time determine cost effectiveness.

Easy Rack offers you three standard types of commercial parking garage lighting fixtures and a complete line of parking lot lighting kits. We sell High Intensity Metal Halide Fixtures and High Pressure Sodium Lights, and we also furnish a wide range of fluorescent lighting fixtures. Each fixture type offers unique advantages that must be considered in terms of cost, commercial lighting quality, and the size of your parking garage.

Metal Halide Fixtures
Metal Halide commercial parking garage and HID flood lights are the most lamps used in parking garage lighting. Metal Halide fixtures represent a mid-range price point and offer exceptional quality in visual lighting effect and color rendering. However, they have the shortest lamp life (only 10,000 hours) and the lowest lumens to watt efficiency rating.

Nevertheless, of your primary concern is quality, and you have the budget for frequent lamp replacements, metal halide lights will prove an excellent light source for your parking garage.

High Pressure Sodium Fixtures
High Pressure Sodium lights feature highest lumens per wattage output and are the most energy efficient choice for lighting large commercial parking garages with high ceilings. This is because large garages typically have heavy beam supports and other obstructions that pose a potential hazard to drivers. It is important too fully illuminate the front vertical surface of any potential obstructions with HID (High Intensity Discharge) fixtures located at or near the top of the vertical cube.

High Pressure Sodium fixtures represent a very cost effective source of commercial parking garage lighting. Although they rate very low on the color-rendering index, this is normally not an issue in industrial facilities where high lighting levels, minimized replacement costs, and safety are far more important concerns.

They are also the least expensive fixtures in terms of initial purchase price point and are ideal for large corporations requiring dozens, of not hundreds.

Fluorescent Fixtures
In warm climates where cold weather and extremely low temperatures will not affect ballasts during winter, fluorescent commercial parking garage lights offer both an optimal price point and optimal savings on power costs for companies on tight budgets. Fluorescent lights also give you the very best color rendering of any lighting fixture and feature a lamp life of 20,000 hours. Fluorescent lamps are nearly equivalent to high-pressure sodium lights in cost and consume the least amount of power.

In terms of short-term savings on the front end and long term savings on the back end, they are the most economical source of commercial parking garage lighting.

Glare Reduction and Safety
To bring not only the brightest levels of lighting in your commercial parking garage, but also to create the safest possible environment, be sure to talk to your Easy Rack specialists about the many ways we can minimize hazardous glare. High Pressure Sodium and Metal Halide lights can be ordered in cutoff, semi-cutoff, and refractor style designs that will distribute the light evenly down the vertical cube and evenly light your horizontal space with a minimum of hazardous glare.

Glare reduction depends greatly on how you design the parking lot lighting system itself. The size of your garage, the height of the ceiling, the amount and type of vehicle traffic, pedestrian presences, and the architecture of your parking garage (underground, above ground, multi-storied) all represent critical factors that must be carefully balanced so your parking area has the brightest possible light with the least amount of glare.

Make sure that you ask your Easy Rack specialist for a referral to a designer who can help you who can help you find the answers to these questions and install your commercial parking garage lighting system. Also, keep in mind that all three fixtures types can be obtained in good quality, used condition, so you don’t necessarily have to go with the lowest-rated fixtures to save money when you work with Easy Rack.

Easy Rack carries a wide variety of parking lights, athletic and sports field lighting kits, tennis court lighting, material handling equipment, commercial lighting, commercial parking garage lighting equipment, commercial grade Christmas lights, used pallet racks, and modular buildings installed nationwide. If you cannot find what you are looking for call us toll free at 1-888-776-3720 and we will find it for you.

Our Texas office is located in Houston with regional hubs and warehouses located throughout the United States that enable us to service all 50 states including Memphis, Tennessee, Baltimore, Maryland, Irving, Texas, Amarillo, TX, Brownsville, Texas, Grand Prairie, TX, Pasadena, Texas, Fort Worth, Texas., El Paso, Texas., Charlotte, N.C, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Seattle, Washington, Boston, Massachusetts, Denver, Colorado, Louisville-Jefferson County, Kentucky.

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Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Easy Rack adds Commercial Grade Outdoor Christmas Lights & Pre-Lit Christmas Trees for Holiday Season.

Easy Rack has recently added its commercial Christmas lighting to its growing inventory of commercial lighting fixtures. A few people have asked us why we have made this addition so early in the year. The reason for this is simple: We are beginning to service a growing client base of commercial contractors, many of who routinely purchase material handling tools from our diverse product offerings.

These same contractors often install commercial Christmas lighting systems for their clients as early as November of each year. By making these products available now allows, Easy Rack helps contractors to coordinate bulk purchases and place any required custom orders by providing Easy Rack experts to quote projects. We also enable smaller companies who install their own commercial Christmas lights to budget procurement two quarters in advance.

Our growing selection of commercial Christmas lighting includes both fixtures and electrical wiring and installation accessories, which can also be purchased through Easy Rack. Virtually all of these items are available in quality used condition and can be drop shipped to your location or installed at your request.

Our offerings include, but are by no means limited to:

Discount Commercial Outdoor Christmas Lights
For a company or client on a tight budget, Easy Rack provides a variety of commercial Christmas lights that from rope lights to outdoor Christmas lighted signs. Just a few signs and strings of rope lighting, and a small warehouse can look exquisite with only minimal expenses.

Pre-lit Artificial Christmas Trees
Pre-lighted Christmas trees make excellent commercial window displays and are safer for inside space as well due to the fact that they do not die or decay. Easy Rack supplies everything from trees that look like the living thing to huge wall-sized displays that can attach to the entire side of a building, or stand near the front entrance to a facility.

Holiday Lighting Packages
For clients who prefer to handle their own lighting design, holiday lighting packages are an excellent source of commercial Christmas lighting. Easy Rack supplies several packages featuring favorite characters from Disney animation and from traditional Christmas iconography.

LED low voltage Christmas lights
Commercial led lights represent a virtual one-time purchase because of the longevity and rugged construction of LED bulbs and lamps. Low voltage installations combine marginal power consumption with the innate energy-saving features of LED technology.

Everything from window-sized Christmas tree displays to strings of traditionally designed Christmas lights made from commercial LED bulbs can be obtained from your Easy Rack specialist.

The years of longevity and reduction of power expenses will rapidly recover your investment in the equipment itself.

How We Help You
Easy Rack provides you with a wide variety of commercial shelves, parking lot lighting, material-handling tools, commercial lighting, used pallet racks, and modular prefab buildings installed nationwide. If you cannot find what you are looking for call us toll free at 1-888-776-3720 and we will find it for you. Click here to read customer reviews of our service and products in our testimonials page, or visit our material handling blog for more information.

Our corporate headquarters is located in Houston, Texas with warehouses located throughout the United States that enable us to ship to all 50 states including New York NY, Los Angeles CA, Miami, FL. Chicago, IL. Denver CO., El Paso, Texas, Dallas TX, San Antonio, TX, Austin, TX, Boise ID, Atlanta GA, Albuquerque NM, Raleigh-Durham NC, Washington DC, Albuquerque NM, Huntsville AL, Fayetteville AR, Norfolk VA, Madison WI., Corpus Christi, TX, Plano, Texas, Garland, TX, Laredo, Texas, Lubbock, TX, Jersey City, NJ Newark, New Jersey.

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