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Everything You Need to Know About Wall Pack Lighting

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What Is Wall Pack Lighting? Wall pack lighting is a type of lighting fixture designed for external outdoor use. This type of lighting is most commonly mounted on a building’s side to provide external lighting on a building facade, walkway, or entrance. You’ll typically see wall pack lighting encased in a plastic or metal housing. The intention of encasing this lighting source is to provide … Read More

Everything You Need To Know About LED Lighting

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Introduction Lighting has evolved many times over throughout the technological progress and evolution of human kind. From early humanity with the advent of lantern lighting, to today with various lighting such as incandescent, fluorescent and LED. Over the past 10 years LEDs have exploded in popularity due to their low energy consumption, low purchase price, flexibility and safety. To support our clients here at Energy … Read More

Lighting Comparison: LED vs Metal Halide Lights

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Introduction When considering the lighting for your home, office or commercial property, it’s important to choose a lighting source that is going to be cost efficient, energy efficiency and safe. Over the past decade to address these common concerns, we’ve seen LED lighting emerge as a clear winner over metal halide lighting and other traditional lighting sources for this exact concern. When we look at … Read More

What is Lighting-as-a-Service (LaaS) and What does it mean for LED Lighting Retrofits?

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Introduction Over the past 5 years we have seen a massive shift in lighting. Today, business owners, facility managers, services managers and individuals are replacing inconsistent lighting with LED lighting at an unprecedented pace. The reason for this, is organizations are realizing the immense benefit they gain by switching from incandescent to LED. Whether it is the extended light of the bulb, the energy savings, … Read More

Metal Halide Lights

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IntroductionFor nearly 60 years, metal halide lights (or MH lights for short) have been the go-to lighting sources for a variety of applications. From illuminating parking lots, to sports fields, to buildings interior lighting, metal halide lights have been the staple lighting source since the mid 20th century! At the time, these bulbs were known for their ability to emit white light, produce a high … Read More

Lighting Comparison: Foot-Candles vs Lumen Output

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Introduction Are you in the market to add some lighting to a new project and in doing so, run into some different lighting ratings that are a bit foreign? You’re not alone here. When it comes to lighting, there are various units of measurements to describe the light intensity of a given lighting source such as foot-candle, lumen and lux. Understandably, if you’re new to … Read More

3 Benefits of LED Vapor Tight Lighting

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Introduction The team here at Energy Avenue works hard to not only provide our clients with the highest grade electrical and lighting supplies, solutions and services but also with high quality educational material to provide insight into our diverse line of products and services. We often times have new or existing clients inquiring about the differences and associated benefits of LED vapor tight lighting versus … Read More