To optimize the use of the sports facilities in high school and college at night, LED lighting is installed to the high mast poles to light up the entire area. Bright and comfortable lighting encourages students to do the sports after school, which is beneficial to their both mental and physical health. Metal halide, HPS, mercury vapor, or halogen flood lights are commonly replaced by LED nowadays, it is because LED sports lighting fixtures are energy-saving, durable, light-weight, flicker-free as well as user-friendly. Let’s explore how can we apply the best sports field lighting for high school and college.
Outdoor LED Sports Facilities Lighting Fixtures of High School / College
1. Running Track Lighting Design
Many lecturers or students enjoy jogging the sidewalk or the running track in campus after classes. Keeping the path so gloomy does not help encouraging them to do sports. How bright should it be? Having the 150 to 200 lux level for running tracks lights would be appropriate, as this level is bright enough to see if there is any obstacle on the route, but not blinding to them. This mild and relaxing lighting of running path helps students relieve stress effectively. Apart from jogging, they can also just go for a walk.
To offer you the best lighting design, our engineers will have the unique lighting plan for your high school athletic field, and other irregular path. We will select the proper power and beam angle for your application. Each project would have different arrangement because of the height of high mast light pole and area. Please feel free to contact us today to acquire the free lighting opinion.
2. Field Hockey Lighting – Brightness Levels
No matter which major you study, you can always enjoy field hockey at night with your high school and college teammates. Our dimmable LED lights fit the specific field hockey lighting requirement.
a. Training Sessions
It takes around 200 lux to light up the field hockey pitch during training.
b. Competitions
There is a significant increase in the light level (illuminance) for competition. It is because brighter lighting is essential for the hockey players to spot the fast-moving hockey and sticks. Around 250 to 500 lux illuminance is suggested.
c. Televised Tournament
If your sports fields are designed for televised event, we need to have up to 1000 to 3000 lux, which is an incredibly high in lighting industry. Professional lighting design is compulsory because we need to arrange each luminary precisely to give the adequate brightness for the regional, national or international matches. Similarly, since each stadium haves their own settings, such as number of poles, pole height and their position, our lighting designer will replicate and draw the scenario
3. Football Field Lights – Flickering-free Optics
Do you know the maximum speed of football is around 60 mph? The flickering-free lighting for high school football field enhances the performance of the players because it does not fatigue the eyes. If the light is flashing, our eye will need to constantly adjust the focus. The flashing might not be observable, however; it does irritate our eyes.
Our LED sports lighting has the patented Anti-flickering Pro™ Technology which reduce the flashing rate to 0.3% (to maximum lumen). For instance, if the lumen of our LED is 1000 lm, the actual lumen output would be oscillated in the range of 1000 ± 3, which is undetectable under the high-speed camera up to 6000 fps as well as naked eyes.
4. Baseball Stadium Lighting – No Waiting Time
If you are using metal halide lamp in the campus, you will need to wait for 5 to 15 minutes until they reach the full brightness, which is a wastage of time. Nevertheless, LED lights can be fully turned on and off instantly (within a second). This feature is very useful for the baseball field lighting of college because of frequent training sessions and recreational competitions.
5. Soccer Stadium Lights – Energy-saving LED to Reduce the Electricity Cost of Campus
Soccer match is last for at least 90 minutes. If we need to hold the competition at night, we need up to 50,000 watt LED lights to light up the entire soccer stadium inside high school. Before the LED replacement, we will need to consume 500,000 watt on halogen lighting or 200,000 watt on metal halide to provide the equivalent brightness. The electricity cost will be around $120 per match before LED-halogen replacement, and $12 per match if we use LED.
Higher power consumption of HID lighting also means that more heat is generated, the excessive heat will also make the soccer players uncomfortable. Although dimming the lights help, the inadequate brightness leads to another problem. So, LED is the best choice for college or high school soccer stadium because it is bright but does not generate much heat, when comparing to metal halide, halogen or mercury lamps.
6. Cricket Field Lighting – Weatherproof Outdoor Stadium Lighting
Our LED high mast flood lights for high school cricket stadium has IP66 waterproof function, which is able to tolerate water jet from all directions. It is an essential feature for outdoor stadium lights. Since the pole lights are usually installed at the height of 30 to 50 meters, the strong wind will exert large force on the luminaries. To tackle this problem, our LED cricket field lights have the open design – air passages between each row of the LED array. The gaps reduce the air resistance and improve heat dissipation as well.
Indoor LED Sports Field Lighting You Can Find in the Schools
1. Basketball Court Lights – Better Heat Dissipation
The basketball court ceiling lights should have a good heat sink to channelized the heat away from the light source; otherwise, the life span of the lights will be decreased. We have the patented heat sink design that effectively conducts the heat away. We also offer 5-year warranty. Contact us for further information.
2. Squash Court Lighting – Durable
The LED light is made of strong aluminum outer shell and polycarbonate lens, which are able to resist the impact of fast-moving squash balls if they accidentally hit the lights.
3. Lighting inside Recreation Centers – Color-changing RGB Lights
Color-changing RGB light embellishes indoor recreation center. The colors can be changed automatically or manually. The activity room having the wonderful lighting effect would become one of the popular attractions on campus.
Cost of High School / College Sports Lighting
The running cost of the high school sports stadium light depends heavily on the size of the field and the application (training, recreational, national competition, or televised tournament). Taking the typical outdoor field hockey stadium as an example, if the LED lighting is designed for recreational and competition inside the campus, we will need around 400 lux, and thus we need 91.4m x 55m x 400 = 2,010,800 lumens, which is equivalent to 15000 watt LED lights! Since the average electricity cost is around US$0.12 kWh, the daily running cost of high school outdoor hockey stadium lighting = 15000W x 0.12 / 1000 x 8 hours = $14.4, and monthly running cost = $14.4 x 30 = $432. It should be noticed that the electricity cost for running the stadium lights will be 10 times if you are using halogen lights.
The above calculation is the estimation only since we also need to provide illumination to the audience seat as well as the surrounding areas of hockey field. To provide you with the best high school and college lighting design, we are eager to provide you with the free DIALux or RELUX photometric analysis as well as the price quote of the lighting. Please feel free to drop us a message by using our contact form, or shoot us a message to email beatus@ledsmaster.com, we are looking forward to your message!