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Clarius illuminators If you need lighting that is going to work and last

Why would you spend £150 on something that you could buy for £15 from B&Q?  That’s the question facing everyone who has or wants to have outside lighting around their homes or businesses.

What are we talking about you may ask?  Well we currently have our traditional halogen 500 watt light fitting. You will see these on just about every house and every industrial unit in the country. They have provided lighting for security, health and safety, deterrent and working light for all of us over the years.

Around 20 years ago the Tungstan halogen light was a hard wearing reliable piece of of kit. For around £45 you could buy a fitting that would last perhaps 5 years if subjected to “normal” working conditions. Although the fitting was of exceptional quality the bulbs themselves can only realistically be expected to survive a year or so. This meant annual maintenance and ongoing cost.

Then came the era of the ultra cheap halogen light fitting. This unit was manufactured to a low standard, it was cheap and it burnt out quickly. The nipples that spring onto the bulb disintegrated after just a few weeks or months. It made a very poor security light as it never seemed to work and the cost of replacing both the bulb and the fitting was prohibitive. Not such a cheap option in the long run. what was worse is it made the good quality halogen lights extinct!

Of course the problem with both the good halogens and the bad halogens is that however long they lasted they are very expensive to run. Half a bar of an electric fire for those old fashioned ones of you reading this and you could have several of these lights burning away all night long. Not efficient or very clever, add to this the  light pollution they cause and nobody is happy really!

So what is the solution? Well it’s simple. White light LED illuminators. This technology uses ultra bright LEDs to achieve the same level of brightness or LUX level as our old 500 watt halogen and at a fraction of the running cost. Yes currently white light LED illuminators are more expensive in the first place but you will get a return on your investment within a year and the lights can self clean and go un-maintained for up to 10 years so no more cherry pickers at £300 a time just to replace your bulbs.

 

White light LED illuminator Clarius

 

We strongly recommend the Clarius white light illuminator. With patented self cleaning lenses and high quality parts used in the manufacturing process, you don’t just get good value for money you also get a unit that looks atheistically pleasing to the eye and looks good on any building. With Heath and safety playing a major role in all business today the directional light satisfies the needs for working light, safe light, light pollution campaigners and those who foot the bills for cherry pickers (a real hidden cost for industry today). Add in the real money saver in the form of reduced electricity cost and it seems like a no brainer.

Taking in consideration that halogen lighting is in sharp decline (1000watt bulbs are not even made anymore) it makes.

thanks to HD CCTV solutions for this article 

 

Are you a factory manager? Then read this. Clarius Illuminators for all your lighting needs

We recently visited a site that had just had over 100 of their cameras either upgraded to HD or their existing cameras linked into an Avigilon software platform. The upgrade was designed to and sold to allow them better image quality both day and night. This is where the problems began because there was no doubt that the daytime images had been improved beyond all expectation. The HD cameras provided amazing clarity and crystal clear pictures, there is a but though, these pictures were only of any use during the day.

At night the decline in the image quality was remarkable, although the cameras were dual chip and had adaptive IR, the pictures just did not live up to the customers expectations. Dark, blurred and grainy would be the best description and it seemed to be in areas where light was clearly present.

The issue of course is where before the customers analogue cameras would work to a much lower LUX level his perception of the new images was that they were not good and rightly so.

The solution was simple and cost effective. His maintenance department was in the the process of replacing some of the older sodium and Halogen lighting and having been recommended Clarius white light illuminators as a way of providing good working lighting for their employees they decided to take this route across the factory. This lighting on our recommendation was also added into the areas where the camera pictures had deteriorated.

The results were stunning not only did the pictures improve dramatically but they remained in colour. This was something that had always been important to the customer and he was delighted with the results.

The best part though is the Clarius illuminators were very easy to install. Available in 12volt, 24v or POE using existing mains supplies and powering the PSU locally to the light or just picking up from a local IP switch makes installation quick and efficient. A built in PEC means they only operate when needed reducing power consumption even further.

The ongoing cost of lighting has been reduced dramatically and the Clarius illuminators will need little or no maintenance over the next 10 years or so. No more cherry pickers and wasted days changing bulbs.

So if you are a company who is considering lighting upgrades either for security reasons or you just have a programme to replace old halogen lighting then look no further than the Clarius illuminators.