Why the Right Stadium Lighting Standard is Vital for Your Stadium Field?

Why the Right Stadium Lighting Standard is Vital for Your Stadium Field?

As we all know, the last generation of sports lighting fixtures is gold halogen lamps, which have been in use for nearly fifty years. It was once popular. With a variety of application scenarios, such as large billboards, railway stations, bus stations, freight terminals, ports, and chemical enterprises, and then the introduction of sports venue lighting. However, because the halogen lamp consumes more power, and easy to damages the eyesight, the maintenance cost is high. The most important factor is that the intensity of the halide light line is too high if long-term exposure to such light will affect the visual judgment of athletes. In addition, it also carries some toxic and harmful substances, that will pollute the environment. Some developed countries have made plans to withdraw metal halide lamps from the market. Now more and more people choose to use LED lights instead of metal halide lights.

For example, low-power LED lamps have been widely used in the home market, commercial places, road lighting, landscape lighting and industrial and mining fields, and have achieved remarkable results. The performance and stability of LED products have also been verified by the market. However, in stadium lighting, the application of LED lamps in the industry lags far behind other fields due to the more stringent requirements for lamp power and lighting effects. However, in recent years, with the continuous breakthrough of LED high-power chips and heat dissipation technology, the power of LED lamps and lanterns has gradually increased and has been widely used in the stadium lighting project. A large number of newly built stadiums are also leaning toward LED lighting, and older stadiums need to replace metal halide lamps with more energy-efficient LEDs. Therefore, how to choose LED lamps the user needs to solve the problem.

There are several important points to consider when choosing LED Stadium Light:
1. Glare,
2. System safety and reliability,
3. High-definition TV broadcast quality
4. Sports lighting entertainment effect. We can analyze from these aspects how to choose a high-quality LED court light to meet the needs of users.

Firstly: LED Stadium lighting is more for competitive games, no matter for professional players or amateur players' entertainment, lighting effect without glare is always the first consideration. The quality of glare control depends on the rationality of lighting design and the superiority of lighting product design.

1. From the point of view of lighting design, factors such as lamp placement, pole height and appropriate lamp power need to be considered.

2. From the perspective of lighting products, how to reduce glare is also one of the important basis to distinguish between good and bad products. Usually lighting products will reduce luminaire glare through optical design and external anti-glare devices. Therefore, users need to compare and evaluate a good lighting solution from the perspective of lighting design and product design.

Secondly: The second factor that users need to consider when choosing LED lamps is the safety and reliability of the product. Different from other applications such as commercial places, roads and landscapes, the service life of court light fixtures in stadiums is usually more than ten years. Therefore, LED lamps used in stadium lighting naturally have a higher requirement for reliability than those used in other applications. Many stadiums will also undertake domestic and international major events, as users ensure the normal holding of the event is the first task, so a reliable and stable LED court light is particularly important. Flux maintenance rate is a parameter tailored for LED lamps, which is also put forward in the new national lighting standards. It is also a parameter that users need to consider when choosing products. At the same time, lighting products must pass safety and reliability testing and certification to become safe and reliable products.

Thirdly: In venues that need to hold major events, users also need to evaluate the quality of TV transmission when choosing LED lighting products. In response to the changing requirements of television transmission, users need to be forward-looking when choosing LED lamps, and they should have higher requirements for technical parameters such as lamp anaphylaxis and color rendering index. The brightness of an object is important for human vision, and it is also important for television. Common comprehensive venues meet the lighting requirements of badminton, basketball, football and other sports and large-scale events; Lamps need to have anti-glare, high output light efficiency, instant start, good stability, and a single lamp can be connected to the stadium intelligent lighting control system, which can greatly reduce the cost of stadium operation and maintenance, to provide more TV viewers with the best relay picture, to ensure clear image transmission, vivid color. In addition, in order to improve the utilization rate of stadiums, more and more indoor stadiums are considering building comprehensive stadiums instead of traditional single-function stadiums, which not only improves the efficiency of use, but also puts forward higher requirements for stadium construction, especially stadium lighting.

Finally: LED lamps can be flexibly controlled performance, but also give sports lighting more entertainment effect, it can be added to the stadium. In addition to the complex lighting requirements of indoor venues, the lighting requirements of outdoor venues are increasingly high. Normally, the Ra 80 is good enough for semi-professional matches, but Ra 90 or over 90 would be great for international and higher levels of play.

Like the light distribution of lamps, there are few requirements in indoor courts, because compared with indoor courts, the space is not too big, the light distribution of lamps and lanterns is basically a large Angle. And in the outdoor court, the light-matching lamp is an important factor. The characteristics of the outdoor training fields are large-scale sites, high bar installation, and far light. In order to attain good lighting uniformity, the small Angle of the lamp is particularly crucial. The outdoor basketball court is recommended to use outdoor court LED lighting. Court lights can be portable with adjustable mounting brackets. Through gradual improvement, the luminaire's luminous efficiency and effective utilization of light are greatly improved, and the unique anti-glare device can provide a comfortable environment for players.

A good stadium should choose good lighting, which can not only improve the overall influence of the site, but also bring more visitors to the site. Soft light makes the site lighting more natural, but also has the characteristics of energy saving and environmental protection, anti-glare, and anti-spillover light, to bring a better visual experience to the audience, but also can help the stadium save resources, and reduce pollution to the environment. Compared with traditional lamps, energy saving can reach 60%-70%. So the choice of lighting fixtures is a very important link.

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