School LED Lighting

One of the schools we maintain had a classroom with poor lighting and high energy use. They wanted to upgrade the space to brighten it up and save the running cost of having them on.

The original lights had 4x old T8 tubes inside them at a rating of 18 watts each, one light fitting would use 72watts in energy. Also these older lights have control gear inside the housing of the fitting which also uses electricity to power the tubes.

The new lights which we installed are LED panels rated at 30 watts each. As you can see, the cost of running 1.5 of the older tubes would be equal to the entre LED panel.

The total usage of the four old fittings is 288 watts with another 10% for the control gear giving an output of 316.8watts

The total usage of the new LED panels is 120watts, a vast saving over many years of use.