Friday, April 25, 2008

Commercial Light Fixtures

It is necessary for the commercial electrician, architect, engineer, or outdoor lighting design to work with a multi-manufacture lighting distributor that maintains a non-preferential inventory of commercial lighting fixtures. A great number of commercial lighting fixture distributors represent only one or two manufacturers, and many times they insist that you buy from only those manufacturers when developing your proposal. This limits not only the proposal itself; and it affects your delivery power to larger clients who may require a many different, specialized, commercial lighting fixtures for aesthetic and efficiently functional light. Furthermore, limited proposal power can also affect your ability to address regulatory requirements on foot-candle levels, reflective glare, and light pollution.

Easy Rack offers you a better plan of action. Our inventory features selections from the world’s best commercial light fixture manufactures. This allows you to assess your clients’ needs from every aspect of requirement and then select specific commercial wall pack lighting fixtures appropriately suited to the luminance needs of buildings, property, operations, and energy efficiency. Making these choices often requires an extensive site analysis and consultation with both the client and the manufacturer’s representative. This can quickly consume more time than it should if you can’t get product information on commercial outdoor lighting fixtures quickly and efficiently.

This is where Easy Rack will significantly save you time as well as money. Consider the benefit of being able to pick up the phone and have all the specifications of a commercial flood light fixture instantly obtainable from your Easy Rack specialist. Things like lamp life, power consumption, mounting options, and lumens per watt efficiency can all be provided over the phone or sent to you in an email that can eliminate the need to spend hours on the phone with the manufacturer itself or hours hunting through websites through cumbersome .pdf files. Serious inquiries are always free over the phone. For a small, reasonable fee, we can also arrange more in-depth, ongoing parking lot lighting consultation be provided for high-end projects in resorts, hotels, country clubs, large city parks, recreational facilities, and entertainment centers.

Easy Rack’s selection of commercial lighting fixtures include a vast selection:

Athletic & Sports Field lighting
Parking Garage Lighting
Commercial Parking Lot Lighting
New & Used Car Dealership Lighting
Mall Parking Lot Lighting
Agriculture Barn & Horse Arena Light Fixtures.
Business Buildings & Office Lighting
Parks & Recreation Lights.
Commercial Warehouse Lighting
Horse Arena Lighting
Rodeo Arena Lights
Car Lot Lighting
Security Lighting
Roadway & Street Lighting
Architectural Lighting

As we can see, Easy Rack’s inventory represents a virtual warehouse of options that you can pass on to your clients in terms of procurement savings, power cost reduction, and optimal functional and outdoor decorative and concrete pole lighting options. Be sure to read our articles on each of these commercial lighting fixtures, and talk to an Easy Rack specialist about drop shipping and customization options.

Easy Rack carries a wide variety of athletic sports field lighting fixtures, commercial shelving, material handling equipment, commercial lighting, 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. Read our testimonials section, product reviews or visit our material handling blog to learn more about Easy Rack.

Our lighting design office is located west of Downtown Houston with warehouses located throughout the United States that enable us to service all 50 states including New York NY, Los Angeles CA, San Francisco California, 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, Texas.

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Friday, April 18, 2008

Canopy Lighting Fixtures

Canopy lighting makes your building attractive to your customers and safe for your employees. Many businesses like car lots, truck stops, and gas stations rely upon commercial canopy lights to provide walkway lighting beneath the eaves that overhang sidewalks and gas pumps. Many companies also use Easy Rack fixtures that are made to light the entrances to commercial garages. Warehouses and factories light docks and loading areas with these MH and HPS fixtures, and virtually any building with a walkway or recreational area can enhance its look and safety rating with Easy Rack canopy lighting fixtures and accessories.

Easy Rack inventories five distinctive fixture designs that offer specific advantages and lamping options for lighting parking lots, industrial, commercial, or outdoor retail environments.

Easy Rack Small Canopy Lights
These lights are ideal for small gas stations and for over lighting the walkways of single site buildings. They deliver a full 360-degree (Type V) Illumination through a segmented, specular aluminum reflector. High-powered factory ballasts maintain voltage regulation at a constant for optimal energy efficiency, and UV stabilizing lenses filter out yellowing effect. Every Easy Rack small canopy light fixture can be fitted with high-pressure sodium lamps or metal halide lamps.

Easy Rack Large Canopy Lights
These are excellent lights for loading docks, car dealerships, truck stops, factory, and warehouse outdoor walkway lighting. Large canopy lighting fixtures also come with either HPS or Metal Halide lamps. Each unit features a four-sided reflector constructed of high specular aluminum that contributes to the efficient distribution of illumination. Constructed from welded aluminum, large canopy lights feature silicone gasket sealing and mitered corners for weather proofing, which is what makes them ideal for loading dock and outdoor warehouse lighting in cold climates up north and rainy, humid climates down south. Each lens is made from prismatic acrylic assembly that offers high impact resistance and UV stabilization to prevent yellowing.

Easy Rack Garage Canopy Lights
A clear, prismatic refractor lens in this model gives you 360-degree lighting of your parking garage entrances. Choose between powerful HPS or Metal Halide lamps regulated by your choice in multi-tap or 480V ballasting. A segmented aluminum reflector increases both vertical and horizontal foot-candle levels with evenly distributed light. This model is ideal for lighting ramp entrances in multi-storied parking garages.

Easy Rack Recessed Canopy Lighting
Made with heavy galvanized steel, recessed fixtures are protected by thermal protection units and silicone foam gaskets that allow them to burn for long periods of time without overheating themselves or surrounding the surrounding ceiling. Lighting from recessed canopy fixtures is diffused and tempered through a flat glass lens that provides Type V lighting in all directions. Easy Rack offers a number of ballast types, ranging from 50-150 HPS Internal Ballasts to 200-250 MH Remote Ballasts. Ask your Easy Rack lighting specialist about additional ballast options and custom colors.

Standard Canopy Lights
For general-purpose flood lighting over sidewalks and store entrances, use Easy Rack standard canopy light fixtures. Each unit has a prismatic reflector that keeps the light focused and surrounding areas free from light pollution. Each unit comes with a mounting plate and hanging mount for easy installation.

Frosted Standard Canopy Lights.
This unit extends the base of the canopy light lens downward to give both evenly distributed and intensely focused horizontal beam spread and centered down light. The frosted canopy light includes hanging mounts and is equipped with two side conduit holes and a top conduit hole for easy wiring and rod mounting. A high power ballast is standard to this fixture.

No matter how big or small your building is, we can supply you with any light fixture model that will make your outdoor areas more attractive and safer for people to walk in.

Easy Rack Has Everything You Need
Easy Rack carries a wide variety of car dealership lighting packages, commercial shelving, material handling equipment, commercial lighting, used pallet racks, and modular prefab buildings installed nationwide.

If you can not find what you are looking for call us toll free at 1-888-776-3720 and we will find it for you. You can also subscribe to our newsletter for specials and discounted items or visit our material handling and equipment blog for helpful information.

We are located in downtown Houston with satellite warehouses located throughout the United States that enable us to service all 50 states including Montgomery, AL, Juneau, AK, Phoenix, AZ, Sacramento, CA, Denver, CO, Hartford, CT, Dover, DE, Tallahassee, FL, Atlanta, GA, Honolulu, HI, Boise, ID, Indianapolis, IN, Des Moines, IA, Topeka, KS, Augusta, ME, Annapolis, MD, Boston, MA, St. Paul, MN, Jackson, MS, Jefferson City, MO, Helena, MT, Lincoln, NE, Carson City, NV, Concord, NH, Trenton, NJ, Raleigh, NC, Bismarck, ND, Columbus, OH, Oklahoma City, OK, Salem, OR, Harrisburg, PA, Providence, RI, Pierre, SD, Nashville, TN, Austin, TX, Salt Lake City, UT, Montpelier, VT, Richmond, VA, Olympia, WA, Charleston, WV, Madison, WI, Cheyenne, WY.

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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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Monday, April 14, 2008

Soccer Field Lighting Equipment

Easy Rack is a single source depot for soccer field lights, equipment, and poles and mounting arms needed to optimize the visibility of the game itself and keep your field or stadium in full compliance with foot-candle regulatory codes mandated to ensure player safety and reduce light pollution.

The foot candle is the standard of measurement for all athletic sports field lighting equipment. One foot candle is equal to one lumen spread over one square foot of cubic space. Outdoor lighting fixtures and accessories ranging from parking lot lights to sports and security lighting are controlled by government regulations that specify foot-candle minimums. Because foot candles require special equipment to measure, Easy Rack strongly recommends you consult with a lighting specialist who has this equipment in order to ensure your soccer field lights meet with municipal lighting codes and the recommendations of the US Soccer Foundation. Since so many soccer games are played at night, it is necessary to safeguard player safety by having a professional calculate the level of foot candles needed for the size of the field and the number of spectators.

Also, keep in mind that lighting a professional soccer field requires a much greater level of illumination than lighting a recreational field. For instance, if you intend to light a soccer field that is used only for practice without spectators, a field that measures 180’ X 330’ will usually only require 30 foot candles of light. A professional soccer stadium, by contrast, will need more than twice the lighting- approximately 75 foot-candles.

Another factor that is very important to efficient soccer field lighting is precise determination of equipment voltage levels. Fixtures with multi-tap ballasts provide the greatest flexibility for soccer field lighting. Easy Rack sports lights are configured with multi-tap ballasts that produce 120, 208, 240, and 277 volts respectively. We also supply models that are fitted with 480-volt ballast for full-sized professional stadiums.

It is important to work with an Easy Rack specialist who can help you determine the appropriate voltage level for your facility and match the lamp to the ballast. High voltage commercial lighting equipment can be dangerous if guesswork if you substitute guesswork for sound math and engineering advice.

Finally, the material build and height of soccer field lighting poles is a crucial factor in generating optimal illumination for your practice field or stadium. US Soccer Foundation recommendations state that the best poles are made from galvanized steel. You can obtain these outdoor light poles from Easy Rack in a variety of heights and models, and you can also obtain all appropriate mounting accessories, including right angle cross arms that will hold two soccer field lighting fixtures on a single pole.

When properly fitted and ballasted, Easy Rack soccer field lights will also make the game more enjoyable for spectators and reduce potential nuisance to surrounding housing developments. Our metal halide fixtures are equipped with advanced reflector arrays that direct the light toward desired locations along the field and eliminate light pollution that otherwise could shine into the windows of sleeping, next door neighbors. This not only makes the game more enjoyable to people who visit your arena, but it also will minimize neighborhood complaints from those who will certainly be annoyed if your soccer field or parking lot light kits shine into their windows.

Easy Rack stocks a vast inventory of sports lighting packages:
Baseball Field Lighting
Tennis Court Lighting
Football Field Lighting Fixtures
Golf Course & Driving Range Lighting
Rodeo & Horse Arena Lighting
Basketball Court Lighting
Volleyball Court Lighting

If you have not yet find what you are looking for contact us toll free at 1-888-776-3720 and we will find it for you.

Our home office is located in Houston, Texas with stocked warehouses located throughout the United States that enable us to service 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.

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Saturday, April 5, 2008

Football Field Lighting

How do you control glare from commercial stadium lighting on football fields?
Easy Rack’s selection of football field lighting fixtures and mounting adapters contains all that a small to mid-sized field requires to solve the problems of shadows and glare. Improper use of football field outdoor lighting fixtures can lead to serious injuries as shadows make it hard for players to navigate the field, and glare can blind the eyes if in the field of view. This same principle hold true for tennis court lighting layouts.

What makes your athletic lighting products and football field lighting fixtures superior to other manufacturers?
To begin with, Easy Rack athletic field lighting fixtures are made with the finest tempered glass engineered to minimize blinding glare. Our HID fixtures range in wattage from 400W-1500W and mount on steel poles by means of 2, 3, or 4 light angle cross arm bars. The separate selections of fixtures and lighting options for baseball fields and football field gives managers the ability first to estimate the average level of lumens necessary to evenly distribute light throughout the playing field, end zones, and sidelines with point by point accuracy.

Do you also provide general flood lighting and parking lot lights for athletic facilities?
Football fans in the stands can gain from the same type of lighting arrangement with HID flood light fixtures placed around walkways, concession areas, bathrooms, and exits & entrances. This holds true in the parking lot where commercial grade parking lot lighting kits provide a safe and effective lighting solution around any venue. Wall pack lighting fixtures are another good alternative to lost cost security lighting.

How can Easy Rack Athletic Lighting products benefit sports organizations and educational facilities?
With Easy Rack’s football field commercial lighting systems, youth summer camp fields can be the motive kids decide to spend two weeks in the great outdoors, not to fish, but to play football. Churches and community organizations can likewise expect higher attendance and lose fewer members to nightlife when there is a good, clear, well-lighted athletic fields for football players and fans alike.

How do I contact Easy Rack for athletic field lighting equipment?
You can contact us online 24/7 to discuss your sports lighting needs. If you can not find the football field or golf driving range lighting equipment you are looking on our website call us toll free at 1-888-776-3720 and we will find it for you. We invite you to learn more about commercial lighting fixtures for sports complexes by visiting our material handling blog. There you will find many interesting articles covering all types of outdoor light poles and commercial lighting fixtures and equipment.

Where are your offices located?
Our lighting headquarters, computer aided design facility and engineering department is located in Houston, Texas with distribution centers located throughout the United States that enable us to service all 50 states including Washington DC, Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, Las Vegas, Nevada. Portland, Oregon, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Tucson, Arizona, Long Beach, California, Atlanta, Georgia, Fresno, California, Sacramento, CA, Corpus Christi, TX, Plano, Texas, Garland, TX, Laredo, Texas, Lubbock, TX.

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Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Commercial Lighting Poles Provide Security Flood Lighting to Parking Lots and Outdoor Storage Areas.

Security experts tell us that a well lit commercial car park or parking lot is much safer than a dark one without parking lot lighting fixtures. Well, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that one out.

By installing a commercial lighting system at your property, you can reduce the likelihood of accidents happening and crimes occurring. This will also create a much more comfortable environment for your customers and employees. By installing commercial light poles from Easy Rack, you will create a well lit exterior where safety is paramount, and security means you really care.

Commercial light poles from Easy Rack are fabricated to the highest standards in the industry, and come in a plethora of styles, shapes and sizes in order to satisfy your lighting needs. The lighting consultants at Easy Rack can assist with a formal parking lot layout and or quote a competitive lighting package if you already know what you want.

When designing the actual outdoor security lighting system, choosing the correct outdoor light poles to meet your needs does not have to be a tough process. Easy Rack's friendly lighting consultants can assist with photometric calculations, pole selection, fixture performance and detailed quotations. Easy Rack carries both commercial parking lot lighting as well as decorative exterior lighting poles. We also have a good selection ow HID wall pack lighting fixtures and high bay lighting for commercial warehouses.

Easy Rack carries a wide variety of commercial lighting, modular buildings, material handling equipment and offer installation & sales nationwide and much more. Whether you operate a business in Atlanta Georgia, Reno Nevada, Jacksonville Florida, Malibu California or even Casper Wyoming Easy Rack will work hard to earn your lighting business and deliver the right light.

If you can not find what you are looking for call us at 1-888-776-3720 and we will find it for you. Have you seen what people are saying about Easy Rack products?

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