Wednesday, September 16, 2015
Safety and Reliability in High Mast, Light Tower and Area Lighting
Occupational Health & Safety: When illuminating a work area, sporting complex, roadway, or any populated area, safety and reliability are of the utmost importance. Without proper illumination, risk for accidents and injury is increased. Power outages, mechanical or equipment failure, or acts of nature can introduce unwanted hazards into the environment. Advances in LED technology have solutions that address these safety issues.
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This article is very informative of the options for area lighting at big events. I had no idea the restrike time on metal halides was so long, and it definitely is not constructive to a fast-paced environment. LEDs are definitely a superior choice for quick big events when used properly. The article mentions the beam being smaller than the metal halides, but I personally haven’t seen the impact be so negative. Also, LEDs seem to be much brighter and more reliable than the metal halides. By drawing less current and being engineered to have a similar brightness and throw as metal halides, there now seems to be no reason to not have LEDs now. At Shakespeare in the Park this summer, we used standard HDX work lights positioned at the tops of our booms, and they were pretty effective at just turning on and off at the press of a button.
These are actually great. We rented a few of these this summer for our outdoor strikes. The company that we rented the generator from just threw them in for like $10/day plus fuel.
You’d think that this article being about safety would be bogus, but in reality it’s pretty accurate. A reliable worklight is essential to keeping the whole operation running smooth and safely.
I haven’t used the LED version of these. I know the article discusses energy savings, but I think the real benefit to the LED over the Halide is the warmup time, or lack of. Being able to turn on a light and have it at full lumens right away is an important feature
I know this is a little out of the scope of the article, but theres one more consideration with these high mast lights, especially the portable ones that crank up: less trained users during setup. A model that we rented this year wouldn’t allow the mast to go up until the outriggers were out. And it only allowed the mast to go up to a certain height depending on how far out the outriggers were. It was actually kind of annoying, but definitely a good feature for the less trained user.
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