“Going green” is the new hip and happening trend all over the world. More and more people are looking to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions, reduce their electricity costs, and reduce their negative impact on the world. Also, recent years have seen massive growth in South African construction, resulting in an increased demand for electricity on the national grid and requiring people to be more aware of the energy they use on a daily basis.
One of the most effective ways to do this is by simply changing the lighting in your home, office or warehouse. New lighting technologies produce better light with substantially less power required (they can reduce the energy used for lighting by more than 50%), and do far less damage to the environment due to toxic waste and large quantities being thrown into landfills.
There are many types of energy-efficient lighting available, including compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs), light emitting diodes (LEDs) and T5 fluorescent lights.
Incandescent globes and other forms of inefficient lighting such as metal halides and T8 fluorescents will be phased out in stages over the next few years. A ban on importing incandescent globes already exists in many European countries, Australia and the USA.
ENERGY-SAVING TIPS
- Replace incandescent bulbs with CFLs, especially in rooms where lights are on for long periods
- Use the lowest wattage bulb required to meet each room’s lighting needs
- Turn off the lights of unoccupied rooms
- Turn outside lights off when you’re not using them
- Consider using timers and sensors for outdoor lights
- Regularly dust your light bulbs and fittings
- Make the most of natural light by opening curtains and blinds during daylight hours
- When installing wiring in your home, allocate one switch per light rather than turning on multiple lights with one switch
- Use two-way switching in rooms with two exits to ensure lights are turned off when leaving the room
- Use table or floor lamps fitted with CFLs where the most light is required so that you don’t light unoccupied areas of the room
- Choose light fittings that allow most of the light through so that a lower wattage lamp can be used (some light fittings can block 50% or more of the light, especially those with coloured glass)
LED Down Light:
Retrofittable- Massive energy savings immediately (1 Client went from 1.62 KWH to 728W by merely changing lights)
- 50,000 hour lifetime
- 6 watt LED down light that replaces 50 watt halogen lights.
- Designed and made in South Africa
- Your average down lights consume 50 watts per globe, our 6 Watt LED down light requires only 6 Watts to do A BETTER JOB.
- The South African market alone will absorb almost 40 million LED 6 watt down lights.
- We are the only local manufacturing company that produce these lights from start to finish and are Eskom approved.
- Eskom testing ranked our down light higher than all but 1 imported product which was twice the power consumption and price.
- We give a five year local warranty on our down lights.
Features Include:
- Designed and Made in South Africa
- Precision Thermal Management
- 50,000 hour Lifetime
- 300 Lumens
- Energy Saving
- Retrofittable
- 3 Watt LED Down Light That Replaces 50 Watt Halogen Lights
- Up To 90% Improvement in Energy Efficiency and Energy Savings
Warranty: 36 Months
LED Security Light
Security Lights (Even when the power goes off your assets remain protected!!)
Features:
- Up To 50m Illumination In The Dark
- State of The Art Electronics
- On Board Battery Back-Up
- Motion Sensor
- Day/Night Sensor
- Weatherproof
- All Ul And Ce Approved Components
- 12v DC Power Supply For High Volume Traffic Areas (Optional)
- 5 Watt Solar Panel (Min) For Low Volume Traffic Areas (Optional)
- Up To 40 Activations of 20 Seconds Each Per Charge Without Power Supply Attached
- Recycled Materials Used Wherever Possible
- Lead (Pb) Free
- Easy Installation. No Wiring Required
- Indoor or Outdoor Use
- 160mm X 60mm Size
- High Power LED’s
- 800 Lumens
- Up To 50m Illumination In The Dark
- State Of The Art Electronics
- On Board Battery Back-Up
- 12V DC Power Supply For High Volume Traffic Areas
- 5 Watt Solar Panel (min) For Low Volume Traffic Areas (optional)
- Motion Sensor
- Day/Night Sensor
- Weatherproof
- 14 Watts as opposed to conventional 150-400 Watt globes
- 40 Meter Beam
- They generate and run off their own backup power
- Our 8 Watt LED Security Light, works off 220 Volt as well as Solar, with Battery Backup.
LED Street Lights
Benefits of LED Street lights:
SMD Technology- Patent Pending on heat sink design
- Lead free solder and componentry
- Input voltage 230V AC (± 10%)
- Output voltage 24V DC precision constant current LED drivers
- Life span L70 = > 40 000 hours
- Even Light Distribution (no hot/cold spots) Solar options available
As we all have to assist in saving power as a local manufacturer we too are affected.
Here’s an example…
Using a figure of 50,000 street lights where the wattage of bulbs used at present vary between 75 watts and 400 watts
We assume that the 250 Watt HPS is the most prevalent, therefore we will calculate the savings on replacing the 250 Watt HPS with our 125 Watt LED solution.
12,500,000 = 12.5 Megawatts divided by 2= 6.25 Megawatts in savings for every hour the lights are on.
Therefore 10 hours usage = 62.5 Megawatts over this time.
This can be achieved without affecting the light performance.
Industrial LED Lighting
LED Lighting solutions for any industrial application.
For example:
- Mining
- Engineering
- Warehousing
- Distribution Centers
LED Strips – 12V DC
Colours Available:
- Red
- Green
- Blue
- Yellow
- Amber
- White
- Cool White
- Soft White
- Warm White
Rigid Strip
Length: 300mm
Wide: 6mm
Height: 4mm
LED Spacing:
10mm = 30 LED’s per 300mm R143.99 ( Per 300mm length)
20mm = 15 LED’s per 300mm R109.99 (Per 300 mm Length)
Spacing Affects:
Brightness
Costing
Applications:
- Side Illumination
- Shelf Lighting
- Cope Recessed Lighting
- Indoor Lighting
- Channel Lettering
- Stairs Illumination
Flexi Strip
Available Modules:
Standard Module
Length: 40mm
Width: 20mm
Height: 4mm
Solder Joining
11 modules per meter
Slim-Line Module
Length: 30mm
Width: 6mm
Height: 4mm
Solder Joining
13 modules per meter
Applications:
- Channel Letters – Slim Line
- Back Light Channel Letters
- Behind Letters – Halo Effect
- Back Light Boxes
- Recessed Lighting
RGB Strip
Each Strip has all 3 colours:
- Red
- Green
- Blue
Strip Dimensions:
Length: 300mm
Width: 6mm
Height: 4mm
Ribbon Strip
Dimensions:
Length: 300mm
Width: 8mm and 12mm
Multiple Strips of 300mm can be joined together to make up any length
Applications:
- Side Illumination
- Shelf Lighting
- Cope Recessed Lighting
- Indoor Lighting
- Channel Lettering
- Stairs Illumination
Special Characteristic
Ideal for circumstances where extreme pliability is required
LED Signage
LED Signs utilize all of the benefits of LED’s. LED’s are not adversely affected by on/off cycling as conventional lighting is, making LED’s the ideal light source for flashing or intermittent displays. Also, LED signs generate substantially less heat than incandescent and fluorescent lights, and run off of low voltage circuitry, making them much safer to use.
A moving or scrolling LED display is more than a sign. Conventional signs generally consist of a single word, name or very short message. Signs have been an effective tool for advertising, navigation, directions, instructions, notification and warnings for a long time.
However, moving or scrolling messages signs offer the ability to combine movement, light, graphics and messages to get the attention of the intended target, and deliver a more complete message.
Subsequently, if your message requires more than one or two words, and needs to stand out to get noticed, and/or you have multiple messages to deliver, then you probably should consider an a moving or scrolling message led display sign.
If you need to get your message noticed, an LED display sign is the most effective means of getting it done. Compare the features and capabilities of the three types of lighted signs.
| LED Sign Displays | Neon Signs | Incandescent Lighted Signs |
| LED’s offer the brightest lighting | Neon Signs are not as bright and fade and/or flicker with age | Incandescent Lighted Signs are poorly lit & burn out often |
| LED’s use less than 1/2 the electricity of neon & incandescent lights | Neon signs use about double the electricity of LED’s | Incandescent lighting uses 3-4 times the electricity of LED’s |
| LED’s are made of solid plastic and are extremely durable | Neon lamps are made of thin walled glass, and are extremely fragile | Incandescent light bulbs are made of thin walled glass, and are extremely fragile |
| LED’s last up to 100,000 hours | Neon lamps last up to 35,000 hours | Long life incandescent bulbs can last up to 4000 hours |
| Programmable or scrolling signs can display single or multiple messages, and your message can be changed as needed | Neon signs display only one message, and cannot be changed | Incandescent lighted sign boxes cannot be changed, with the exception of removable letter boxes |
| Programmable LED signs and displays enable you to create mutli-message programs that combine text with graphics | Neon signs are not programmable | Incandescent lighted sign boxes are not programmable |
LED’s are superior in comparison to other lighting technologies in terms of negative environmental and health effects during the manufacturing process. Producing LED’s consumes far less energy than manufacturing other lighting and it was noted the LED’s contain no mercury and few if any toxins such as iodine and lead. HPS and MH lights contain an average of 15 milligrams of mercury per bulb. During the Bulbs lifetime electricity consumption produces up to 100 times the environmental impact of manufacturing.
Our locally manufactured “Proudly South African” street light burns at 125 watts compared to the 250 watt HPS or 400 watt MH bulb.
With electrical consumption converted into kilograms of carbon dioxide produced the HPS and MH bulbs would produce over 1 billion kilograms of Carbon Dioxide during 100 000 hours.
The LED Street light produces 60% less over the same period.
CASE STUDY:
A study conducted by the University of Pittsburgh.
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have conducted the first “cradle to grave” assessment and comparison of LED street lights versus existing street light technologies and
the results show that LED street lights outstrip all other lights for balance of brightness, energy efficiency, life span, cost and environmental impact.
COST: Forty thousand LED street lights would cost Pittsburgh $21 Million initially versus $9 Million for HPS or MH.
However the city calculated that by the time the first LED Street light needed replacing them would have spent $44 Million in maintenance of the HPS and MH lights.
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THEORY OF INDUCTION LIGHTING
Induction lighting works on the electromagnetic induction principle similar to that of a transformer. The energy needed to excite the gas inside the fluorescent type tube is magnetically induced by means of high frequency induction coils. This allows for a light with no electrodes inside the tube and no wires penetrating the glass. This results in a very efficient light with the longest lifespan available out of any other type of lighting technology. Because there are no internal electrodes or filaments the inner fluorescent coating does not deteriorate resulting in very little lumen loss for the full life of the lamp. See the lumen maintenance curve below.
Due to the high quality electronic control gear, all the ballasts have a power factor of 0.98 and a THD of less than 4%. All the lights have superior colour rendering of above Ra80 and an efficacy of 80Lm/W or more. Most traditional lamps use liquid and gaseous mercury of from 3 to 20 milligrams, whereas the induction lamp only uses 0.25 milligrams of mercury amalgam. The lamps are soft start with no start-up surge and will “restrike” instantly after power dips and power outages. The lamps are generator friendly and are virtually unaffected by poor quality power supply.
FIXTURES
A full range of commercial, industrial and public lighting fixtures are available to suit most needs. These lights range from high bays, low bays, floodlights to street lights and post tops. All of these fixtures with the required induction lamps will give a minimum reduction of 55% in energy requirements over their respective High Intensity Discharge counterparts. Not only does one get the reduction in energy consumption there is also an immediate reduction in maintenance costs as the induction lights have a lifetime five times greater than the lifetime of the High Pressure Sodium lamps which are known as having the longest life of the traditional HID types. All this means that you will have 10 to 20 years of trouble free lighting.
INDUCTION LIGHTING
 IP 65 40 Watt floodlights are used mainly for smaller areas and security lights. |
 IP 65 80 to 200 Watt floodlights are used for external perimeter lighting and security. |
 IP 65 400 Watt stadium lights are used for smaller sports fields like basketball and tennis courts. |
 Low bays are used for interior lighting at heights of between 4 to 6 meters. |
 High bay lights are used for factories, warehouses and some larger retail outlets. They range in wattages from 80 Watts up to 300 Watts. There are available various types of reflectors depending on the application. Different types of reflectors are available for installation at heights between 5 meters up to 16 meters. |
 A range of bulkhead type fixtures are available ranging from our IP 65 40/80 Watt outdoor fixture right through to our 40/80 Watt round and square type IP54 interior type fixtures. |
 The IP 65 type comes with a glass diffuser and its IP 55 counterpart comes with an acrylic diffuser for use indoors. The round and square types all come with an acrylic diffuser. |
 The latest in our range is the small 40 Watt IP55 round type bulkhead fixture ideal for use in under cover parking areas etc.+6- |
 The wall mount fixture comes in wattages from 40 Watts to 100 Watts. This IP65 unit is ideal for use in passages, walkways and footpaths. |
 The street lights range from 40 Watts up to 200 Watts with the 40 Watt units meeting all the requirements for use on minor suburban roads. All have protection ratings of IP65. |
 Our post tops can be fitted with lamps ranging from 40 Watts up to 100 Watts. The 40 Watt post top will replace any 125 Watt mercury vapour lamp fitted post top. These are used in external parking areas and as street lighting in some newer suburbs. |
INDUCTION LIGHTING, THE LATEST GENERATION OF ENERGY EFFICIENT LIGHTING
INDUCTION LIGHTING SPECIFICATIONS:
LAMPS AND BALLASTS
Wattages 40W — 300 W
Lumens 3200 — 25000
Supply voltage 230 V +- 20%
Power consumption 42W— 320W
Power factor 0.98
Lifespan 100000 Hrs
Approval SABS IEC 61347-2-3
Warranty: Three years on ballast and five years on lamp.
Operating Temperature Ambient Temperature Range – 40C to + 50C
THE PRACTICAL CHOICE
Energy Audit Strategy understands that you are very busy and hence Eco-synergy is here to make your life as easy as possible. By using quality metering and the latest software packages they are able to assess all your requirements and will offer the best solution for your energy saving needs.
THE POPULAR CHOICE
Using induction lighting you will be in good company. As you can imagine this long life system is proving popular with many blue chip companies whose management are looking for corporate recognition by staying ahead of the lighting game. Eco-synergy will be more than happy to share their success stories with you.
So the choice is yours, your “old energy eating out dated system” or the new generation of energy efficient long life lighting that will give you instant, visible and measurable results.
T5 RETROFITS
T5 Retrofits is a collective term for a narrow-diameter fluorescent light tube. They are approximately 3 to 4 times more effective than a standard fluorescent bulb of similar wattage. T5s produce a “flatter” light, like that produced by a standard fluorescent, rather than an intense directed spot of light. T5 is retro, cheaper to install and will cut electricity costs dramatically. T5 Retrofits and HSP Adapters are endorsed by Eskom for their energy saving properties All T5 products have been SABS tested and approved.
OUR T5 RETROFIT ALONG SIDE A STANDARD T8
The new generation T5 Retrofits are the latest, upgraded version of the standard T8 Mercury Fluorescent
Lights are supplied in 2,4 or 5ft tubes.
All our T5 globes come with a 1 Year warranty and 2 Year warranty on the ballast.
- Reduces electricity consumption by a minimum of 50%
- Simple, quick & cost effective installation
This system requires minimal wiring modifications and a non-qualified electrical contractor can perform this upgrade.
As you can see from the above graph the costs for electricity on Business tariffs 1,2 and 3 are exactly the same with Business 4 soaring way above the rest. But if you look at the graph below you will notice that when you include the daily network and service charges to Business 1,2 and 3 after fitting our T5 replacements the cost implications of being in a higher tariff become more evident.
Financial benefit of changing Eskom Tariffs
Just by changing to more energy efficient lights you could benefit by dropping down a tariff. Dropping down a tariff will save you money on your network charges which will further reduce your return on investment.
Traditional magnetic ballast fluorescents have a very high start-up current whereas the new electronic ballast starts instantly without flickering and does not have a high start-up current.
The problem with a high start-up current is that Eskom will assign you with a tariff according to your peak demand. So for a business with majority of its energy going on lighting, the high start-up current of traditional magnetic ballast fluorescents ( 2 x normal operating current) could push you into a higher tariff bracket, Ultimately resulting in higher network charges.
And in a shopping complex if the trend is followed by all of the tenants the benefits will multiply by allowing cheaper block tariffs to be purchased by the complex owners and thus resulting in savings for everybody.
All of the above calculations were done on the Non-local Authority rates which are the lowest meaning R.O.I. could be substantially lower.
Other non-financial benefits
- 40% lower carbon dioxide emissions than T8
- 30% brighter light emitted per watt than T8
- Lights instantaneously (no flickering)
- Four times the lifespan of conventional T8 lighting
- Life of tubes: 10 000hrs (min)
- T5 electronic ballast uses less power & is 95% efficient
- T5 tubes contain a 1/3 less mercury than those of the conventional fluorescent products
A T8 tube contains enough mercury to poison 24000L of clean water.
Become a part of the bigger picture and help save the planet.
“GOING GREEN IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY, GETTING YOU THERE IS OURS”
