Energy Savings
LED Parking Lot Lights commonly utilize wattages between 60 - 300 watts, to compare with the HID or MH's traditional wattage from 250W to 1000W, that is easily 70% reduction in energy consumption. This could mean savings of up to $300 per fixture, per year in electricity costs. Best investment in today's world? Yes, it is.
Maintenance Savings
LED Parking Lot Lights can be mounted on a pole or a wall, the common thing is they are all very high, you will for sure need a boom truck, which means them quite expensive to maintain. Due to the way LED’s generate light, the LED Parking Lot Lights functional lifespan are much longer. Also LED’s light output will degrade very slowly over time. As a result, their functional lifespan can often exceed 100,000 hours. The LED’s lifespan drastically reduces the costs associated with maintaining your parking lot and area lights.
What You Need to Know When Replacing an HID/MH Parking Lot Light
Because metal halide bulbs are omni-directional, the bulb gives off light you never end up seeing because it is trapped bouncing around the inside of the area light fixture. On the packaging, this light lost to "Lumen bounce" is still included in the initial Lumen rating. Because LEDs are naturally directional, there's no light trapped in the fixture. This means an LED Parking Lot Lights can be a direct replacement for older systems even if on paper it doesn't look as though the LED area lights put out as much light. In order to help you find the closest actual Lumen replacement, we've listed the wattage equivalent for every LED fixture.