5 WAYS LED SPORT LIGHTING CAN SAVE 70% OFF YOUR POWER & MAINTENANCE BILL AND GENERATE INCOME
Replacing halogen and metal halide bulbs and fittings with LED has been the obvious thing to do for the past 15 years. Well, let’s say 8 years (the promises have been there for 15 but they really haven’t stacked up).
Most of what was said was true – the lamps used less power, required less maintenance and lasted ‘a lot longer’. Unfortunately, the original claims of 50,000 hours seldom, if ever, proved to be true and many people got burned with sub-standard product that cost 5 times as much as traditional bulbs yet barely out lasted them.
Thankfully, however, the technology improved, and we started to get nearer to the life spans we had been promised. All these problems did cause people to be more sceptical of wild promises and slowed the progress in some sectors. Governments then started offering incentives and kick-started a wave of replacements which really got the momentum going in the market.
One of the industries that has been lagging behind (for very good reasons) in all this progress is sport. Sport fields and stadiums, tennis courts, horse racing tracks and many others have struggled to see the value when weighing up against the potential down-sides of early-life failures. With a number of companies working on this problem for the past few years, we can finally say that LED has arrived for sports applications, as a credible and genuine alternative to metal halide.