1.What Is High Mast Light?
High mast light is one kind of led lights designed to provide light for the large outdoor areas. As a type of outdoor lighting system, the high mast lights are basically used in every corner of the city. The whole system includes for high mast poles, and high mast lights mounted at the top.
High mast hole is from 12 to 50 meters, and have brackets on the top to hold lighting fixtures to provide an even distribution for places like highways, airports, and industrial facilities.
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High mast lights are regularly high wattage floodlights. Before streetlights or parking lot lights are also used, and now it is proved that floodlights works best under this situation. They are used to provide illumination with big degree and higher uniformity to ensure no shadows in the lighting area. High mast floodlights are very effective to provide bright illumination for outdoor areas, enhancing the security and bring more usage and enjoyment for the various application.
2.Where Are The High Mast Light To Be Used?
High mast lights are widely used in many locations, and for different locations, different kinds of high mast poles and high mast lights will be requested.
Parking lots: Parking lots need bright and uniform lighting for drivers and pedestrians. In parking lots, typically 10m to 30m high mast poles will be used. And led floodlights between 150w to 400W will be used.
The detailed pole and led watt are determined by the size of parking lot, the number of the poles and illumination requirement.
Sports fields: High mast floodlights are used for different kinds of sports fields like baseball fields, tennis courts, and football fields. The height for high mast poles for sports field is about 12m to 30m. Regular each high mast will be installed with 8 to 12pcs high mast floodlights.
The watt for high mast floodlights will be around to 250W to 1000W depending on the size and the scale of the sports field.
Public Space: In public spaces like plaza, pedestrians, walkways, or parks, high mast lights are also widely used. The high mast pole height for public places are from 15m to 20m. And 250W to 400W high mast floodlights will be regularly used.
The floodlight watt and high mast pole needs to combine with the practical use. It is related to the size of the public space, also the illumination requirements for the whole area.
Ports and Airport: In places like ports and airports, because higher illumination standard will be require.And high mast lights are perfect lighting solution for ports and airports, because high mast lights can provide uniform and brighter lighting for the whole large space, even for the loading docks or runways.
High mast poles with height from 20m to 50m will be used in these areas. And led high mast floodlights will regularly choose 400W to 1000W.
If you don’t have a clear idea of layout for the whole area, you can contact us.We can send you the free design.
Industrial Sites: High mast lights also can provide efficient and average lighting for various industrial sites like warehouses, loading areas, construction sites and ect.
For working areas, we will need light with high uniformity to ensure the good working conditions for all the workers.
In this case, regularly 10m to 15m poles will be used with 200-400W high mast floodlights with beam angle around 60 deg to 90deg.
All in all, high mast lights will benefit all kinds of large outdoor areas by providing maxim lighting with uniformity and less shadows, which brings more security and safety for the whole lighting system.
3.How To Choose Right Floodlight For My High Mast Projects?
When choose the right floodlights for your high mast projects, there are a lot of factors you need to consider.
Lighting requirement: For different places and application, the lighting requirement will be different. For example, if the high mast lights are for sports field, the lux requirement will be from 100lux to 300lux. And if the high mast lights are for ports or other industrial working areas, the required lux will be around 100lux.
Pole Height and Pole Distance: For the whole lighting system, the pole height and pole distance are very important. It will determine the number of the floodlights you need and will affect the whole lighting effects. Taller high mast poles will require high mast floodlights with bigger wattage, and narrow beam angles. And with wider pole distance, high mast lights with smaller beam angles are more recommended.
Energy Efficiency: LED high mast lights are more energy saving compared to tradition floodlights. To replace 400W halogen floodlights, we only need to use 150W LED floodlights or equivalent. And with big quantity of led floodlights are used, the energy saving will be huge.
Different Lighting Distributions: LED high mast floodlights have different kinds of lighting distribution curves, such as 30deg, 45deg, 60deg, 90 deg, 120deg. With smaller the degrees, the lights are more spotted. Regularly we will use smaller beam angles for higher poles, and wider angles for shorter poles, so the lights can be more soft and gentle.
Applicable Conditions: High mast lights are used in outdoor places, and some are very harsh conditions like the seaside. Choosing the floodlights with high resistance is very important under this circumstance. High resistance includes the withstand for high-low temperature, rain, salty environment and other factors.
Light Control: Smart solutions for LED floodlights can be chosen. Smart solutions include the dimming functions, the timing function, and photocell functions. For more information, you can contact us for details.
4.What To Pay Attention When Buying High Mast Floodlight?
When you know understand where to use the high mast lights, and how to choose the right high mast lights. The next step should be what to pay attention when choosing high mast floodlights. The consideration can be divided into several parts as below.
Wattage and brightness: In high mast lighting system, floodlights of 250W to 400W will be regularly used. And the lumen efficiency of the floodlights will be from 110lm/w to 170lm/w depending on the chips you use and your budget. Choose the high mast floodlights with enough brightness and wattage is the first step when you want to establish high mast lighting systems.
Color temperature: Color temperatures of LED floodlights are 3000K, 4000K, 5000K, and 6000K. 3000K is yellow warm while 6000K is cool white. You can choose the color temperature you need based on your practical application.
Good LED chip and LED driver Brand: LED chips and drivers are key parts for LED floodlights. LED high mast floodlights with good chips and driver is more long lasting and has much longer lifespan. The famous led chips brands include Lumileds, Cree, Bridgelux, and ect on. And good led driver brands include Meanwell, Moso, Inventronic, Phillips driver, and ect. Choose the suppliers using these brands can prevent from the problems possibly will occur in the future.
Cost and budget: Prices for high mast floodlights can vary a lot. Consider your budget and choose the floodlight supplier that values best for your money.
5.Conclusive Remarks
In a word, there are many to consider when you choose the right high mast floodlights. Follow the instructions and the points of this article will help you to avoid detours to choose the right floodlights, and also can help you tell whether a floodlight supplier is qualified.
High mast lights are used in outdoor harsh environment and some are not very convenient for maintenance, so it is important to choose the led floodlights with high durability and choose the suppliers with high reliability.
6.Amber Lighting Can Help You With The High Mast Projects
With over 10 years experience of producing all kinds of high mast floodlights, Amber lighting is striving to give the led lights with best quality within all kinds of budgets. Amber Lighting provides not only led lights, but also all kinds of lighting solutions.
Send your requests and any questions, Amber lighting will be here for you with their professional engineering and sales team!