LED Street Lights

1. Tool-less access for installation and maintenance 

Tool-less access allows for easy installation and maintenance processes. Clips on he bottom of the fixture allows access to drivers and other vital components.

2. Replace 70W to 1000W Metal Halide and HPS

LED Street Lights produce from 3600 lumens to 38,760 lumens. Most inner-city street lights are low wattage HPS bulbs. We have low cost, high-quality street light options, backed with either a 5 year or 10 year warranty.

We can produce a free photometric evaluation of your outdoor space to show you how well our LED Street lights work, what model is appropriate and what optic provides the best results for you outdoor space.

High Intensity Discharge Lamp to LED Conversion

3. Many Optics Options for Street Lights

LEDs are directional lights. Their light's focussed and with optics lights up the intended location. They have diodes with individual optics and discharge light evenly across surfaces. Optics control the illumination pattern by delivering their designed beam pattern.

Typical road-way distribution patterns include Types 2, 3, 4 and 5. Types 3 and 5 are the most common. Why one works best for you? Let us do a free photometric with one of our many cobra head options.

4. Control Ready and Dimmable

Another great thing about LED street lights is they can dim down. This means you can turn off or dim each fixture in the absence of motion. This does not affect the life of the LEDs, other than it will extend it. And a dimmed light uses less electricity, saving you even more on your lighting bill.

Think about this. Converting Metal Halide to LED, you might switch from 400 Watts to 120W. At night, if the light dims to 10%, that means the LED is now using 12W. That's a reduction of 388 Watts. (actually the HID lamp consumes 455W with the ballast draw, so you're saving 443W per fixture. That's huge!)

Our LED StreetLights work with both 3 pin and 7 pin Nema socket enabled controls and smart networks.

5. 4000K and 5000K Color Temperatures

We offer StreetLight color temperature options in both 4000K and 5000K. 5000K is a perfect replacement for Metal Halide. 4000K is also an option for those states requiring a slightly warmer light. Other color temperatures available upon request.

Both offer a significant improvement over high pressure sodium lights, rated at 2200K. LED street lights with a CCT of 3000K - 4000K (or a little less) are the best for street lighting in residential areas. The amount of blue light they emit is small.

6. High CRI - 70+

One of the specifications you need to pay attention to is CRI (color rendering index). This is a measurement of the quality of light that the fixture is producing. It is a scale between 0 and 100. Sunlight is 100. A general rule is that you need less quantity of light if you have better quality. LED has high CRI making the quality better than most traditional light sources. 

7. L70 Light Maintenance - up to 50,000 hours

Lumen maintenance relates to the lifespan of a light source. LED lights do not burn out like traditional lights. They maintain initial lumens longer. What happens is the light intensity fades gradually, but this usually takes years.

A 70% deterioration in light output is the point at which the human eye notices a decline in the intensity. But, the human eye is only affected when the light intensity of a light source reaches a level of 30%.

Used 12 hours a night, our LED Shoebox fixtures will provide bright, maintenance free lighting for years.

8. Efficacy (Lumens Per Watt)

Luminous efficacy is the true measure of a bulb’s efficiency. It indicates the lumens produced for every watt of electricity consumed. LEDs are more efficient than traditional bulbs with a higher luminous efficacy. High quality LEDs have awesome efficacy ratings. The standard luminous efficacy is upwards of 130 lumens per watt.

To calculate luminous efficacy, divide the number of lumens the lamp generates by the watts of electricity it consumes. LED light fixtures with a higher luminous efficacy  are more efficient than those with a lower luminous efficacy.

9. Energy savings and maintenance savings - up to 80%

LED lights offer high-quality light and use fewer watts than traditional HID lighting. What this means is that you will have more intense light but your power bill will decrease. Most of the traditional HID street lights use between 250 and 1000 watts. That does not include the additional 15% energy used for ballast draw.

If we compare this to LEDs, which consume 40 to 300 watts – there is a 40% to 60% reduction in energy. Greater savings when lighting controls are added.

Maintenance costs drops to near zero. Most street lights require a lift to replace or maintain. These jobs are not cheap. Installing a LED fixture that can last 10+ years mean huge maintenance savings.

10. Paybacks can be relatively short with LED Street-Lights

LED payback = Hours of Use + Reduced Use of Electricity + Rebates

Rebates may be the least important of the three. High hours of use and high cost of electricity will dwarf the benefits of a rebate.

Everyone likes a rebate. We have created many proposals where payback was under 1 year even without rebates. Contact us and we can help walk you through the math.

11. Reduced Light Pollution

Traditional street lights may illuminate streets and sidewalks at night, however, they are notorious for light pollution. Light pollution is misdirected and excessive outdoor lighting. As countries and cities become more developed, the constant demand for street lighting increases the threat of light pollution.

Light pollution occurs in different ways including light trespass (light spill), sky glow, glare, and light clutter. It affects the environment as carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere. The International Dark-Sky Association states that each year, about 12 million tons of carbon dioxide are released by invasive night time lighting. The association also estimates that 30% of all street light is wasted.

Light pollution also affects the lifestyle of mammals, birds, amphibians, and insects by causing disorientation and affecting their migration, sleeping, mating, and feeding cycles. LED technology has addressed the light pollution problem by developing light fixtures that focus light only where it is required.

First of all, the energy consumption of traditional street lights is high. Street lighting accounts for up to 40% of the total energy usage in many cities. During cold weather, traditional lamps need more energy to produce light.

Over lighting is another problem. Traditional HID bulbs cannot dim and thus provide unnecessary bright light.

In some cities, even with low amounts of pedestrians and cars, street lights operate at high intensity. This leads to wasted energy and environmental issues. LEDs can be controlled and dimmed to provide lighting when required.

Light trespass occurs when street lights produce unwanted light. They shine onto adjacent residential properties. Unlike LED, traditional HID lights are not capable of producing directional light.

Another problem with street lighting is the maintenance of traditional lighting systems. Due to their short lifespan, they need relamping and servicing quite often. Money spent on purchasing new lamps, fixtures, and on labor could be spent on better programs. A LED light could operate for 10 years without the need for maintenance.

High pressure sodium produce yellow light and have poor color rendering ability. Everything appears brown and yellow.

Old fashioned street lighting on some streets distributes uneven. Lamp posts are far apart from each other, creating wide dark patches. In other locations, some critical areas along the street do not have lamp posts. And as cities have developed, lamp locations have not been re-assessed.

Several discussions have been going on about the possible negative effects of LEDs. In the process, many misconceptions have come up because of the lack of information about LED street lighting. Let’s discuss these myths and make important clarifications.

Myth 1: LED Street Lights Are Dangerous to People

The focus here should not be on the type of light but more on the amount of blue light emitted by the light source. LED lights have a wide range of color temperatures. LEDs are available in 3000K-4000K, a good choice for street lighting. The amount of blue light is so limited that it doesn’t affect people.

Myth 2: All Blue Light Is Dangerous To People

Blue light plays an important role in human health. It’s part of sunlight and enhances physiological human processes. The issue with blue light comes with over exposure at night time. Too much blue light may affect sleeping patterns.

Myth 3: LEDs Emit More Blue Light than Other Street Lights

During the initial stages of LED, the products emitted a significant amount of blue light. Improvements ensure LEDs produce limited blue light without affecting their efficiency and quality. Compared to conventional lighting, LEDs have the ability to generate directional light. This means they provide equal illumination with less light, decreasing blue light emission.

Myth 4: Street Lighting Should Not Emit Blue Light

Street lighting benefits from having some blue light. Blue light is part of what makes up the light spectrum that enhances street safety and aesthetics. Light sources that contain some blue light make objects appear more natural, help with proper identification of objects and people, and enhance visibility at low illumination levels.

Myth 5: The Streets Are Better With Traditional Street Lights than LED

For years, major cities used conventional lighting like fluorescents, HPS and MH lamps. But these lights became unpopular because their lighting is harsh. They are expensive to maintain and consume high electricity with a short lifespan.

Also, while traditional lights have no control over how much light they give off. LED lights emit focused light that adjusts to the preferred level and intensity. This reduces glare, light trespass, and light pollution. Without a doubt, the streets are better with LED street lighting.