Indoor Commercial Lighting

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Indoor Commercial Lighting

• Unless your employees have an open-air office,
  you will need to find some means of bringing
  light into their workspace. This means that you
  will need an efficient, reliable indoor
  commercial lighting system that will grant the
  right amount of light while using the least
  amount of excess energy. Your type of business
  will determine the type of indoor commercial
  lighting you need. Gather together the
  specifications of your project so that you can
  bring them to a professional to get his
  expertise. Many quality lighting retailers will
  have experts on staff to help guide you in
  finding the best products for your project, not
  just the most expensive items they sell. Once you
  know what you need you can begin installation and
  all the sooner bring light to your workers.

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• If you have a warehouse type of area where your
  employees work, your indoor commercial lighting
  choices will be closer to those of an industrial
  area. For large, lofted ceilings of twenty feet
  or higher, it is recommended that you use high
  bay lights. Lower ceilings will be best served by
  HID low bay lighting. Both of these offer
  lighting over large areas from a single lamp. By
  having these evenly spaced in your business, you
  can provide your employees with even lighting.
  There are many choices for bulbs to fit in these
  lamps. You might want to choose mercury vapor or
  metal halide bulbs. Fluorescent is another indoor
  commercial lighting option that works well with
  high and low bay lighting. If you are not sure,
  as an expert.

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• Perhaps your business is more like an office. You
  are likely to want to install fluorescents for
  your indoor commercial lighting. These lights
  have the benefit of having a long life and being
  energy efficient. In decades past, people were
  loathe to use fluorescent lighting fixtures. This
  is because older models had several problems both
  with the fixtures and the lights themselves. The
  fixtures had poorly constructed ballasts which
  would hum and cause a flickering. Both of these
  actions were stressful and draining to those who
  had to work for hours beneath them. Additionally,
  these older indoor commercial lighting systems
  would make people under them look sickly or
  washed out. In fact, during the 1980's women
  were told to wear more blush and darker reds in
  their lipstick if they worked under fluorescent
  lighting. This was because the lights then would
  filter out red shades from flesh tones, 
  resulting in a pale look, unless compensated for.
  Today, however, thanks to a new mixture of metals
  and gases in fluorescent lights, this problem has
  been diminished or eliminated. Now you have no
  excuse for not using fluorescents for your indoor
  commercial lighting.

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• If you want energy efficiency, you will want to
  stay away from incandescent bulbs or at least use
  a Lutron dimmer control system as an energy
  saving feature.. These are some of the least
  efficient lamps you can buy, even though they are
  the cheapest. They will require replacing much
  quicker than other, more efficient options. If
  you still want an incandescent light, there are
  long lived choices. You might want to install
  10,000 hour bulbs or, if temperature is not a
  factor, halogen lamps. Both of these last much
  longer than traditional incandescents.