It’s catching on now. “If their goal is to save money, reduce maintenance, and get the same or better light, induction is the way people will go,” states Shelton.
Shelton points out that he considers Blue Sky unbiased, because they distribute both induction and LED lighting. “We’re on the leading edge,” he says. “We see induction as the best choice for exterior high-space high-bay applications.”
Others agree. Shelton lists projects that include tunnel lighting in Atlanta for the Georgia Department of Transportation, the testing phase of a walkway lighting retrofit in the City of Augusta, GA, and the fact that the Florida DOT uses only induction lighting in their signage.
Eglin Air Force Base in Valparaiso, FL, chose EverLast induction cobra head streetlight fixtures due to the energy and maintenance savings and because of limitations on where LEDs can be used. In addition to reducing their lighting energy consumption by 50%, they discovered the new lighting produces better illumination than the LED streetlights available, according to a statement from Blue Sky.
For information on how induction lighting works see How Inductions Lamps Work
For more info on Blue Sky see here.
BTW, I have no financial interest in any of this. I simply found it fascinating that a Tesla-based light source that I had never heard about was actually commercial today.
“While it’s more expensive than traditional lighting...”
Well, then LET’S GET IT!!!
It has been available in the industrial market for several years, trying to compete with HID lighting (High Pressure Sodium Vapor, Metal Halide, etc).
It has not been widely used due to cost and many believe it never will as the industrial LED lighting is quickly falling in price.
Just so happens that today I got a case of 100W incandescents which should last me for a while (only use them in a few reading lamps.) I'm hoping that will be time for some of the more promising technologies to develop. Maybe this is one of them.
It is interesting (and frustrating) that Congress wasn't able to repeal the stupid ban, but, then, the damage had been done. American bulb manufacturers had already closed their plants and capital had been shifted to other products.
Dopes.
Who is this guy Al Fresco?
He dines out with a lot of people.
They always say, “We’re dining with Al Fresco”....................
Wouldn't that be 70% savings?
Here’s the problem: “Solid state circuitry then converts this DC current to a very high frequency which is between 2.65 and 13.6 MHz depending on lamp design. “
We have more than enough RF pollution without this crap. Keep the gummint out of the market, let technology and natural demand work, and the best solutions will emerge.
This ain’t gonna be it.
We need another Tesla, but it won’t happen if we have another Obama.
I had a sales rep loan me one of these 400 watt high bay induction lamps to demo in a shop I worked at. At the time, we had over a 100 HID lamps rated at a 1000 watts apiece. You could imagine what the electric bill was like. I installed the lamp in a corner area to get an idea of light output and coverage, and was surprised by how well it worked, and it was instant on to boot. The price was roughly double that of a 1000 watt HID fixture and bulb, but the induction lamp was guaranteed to 10 years for light output and against failures.