hi I’m Dan Larsen from Polaris Lite and today what I want to talk to you about is corn light LEDs these fittings are really really damaging the reputation of the LED light industry I want to try to explain you the logics behind why this is such a poor solution so basically this is the product that I’m talking about it’s called the corn light and a lot of people are selling these as a great solution to replace metal halide fittings now basically the the what you do is you you screw them in to to your normal metal halide high base and it looks like such an easy solution because it takes zero capabilities to install what at least you can do it yourself however the logics of this fitting is that it’s giving you even worse life time and it’s going to give you even worse lumen output now the logic of this is if you screw this up into a high-end existing high-bay fitting basically you’re going to lose all of the lights coming out from the side of this fitting now that’s 80% of the LEDs that are pointing in the wrong direction basically these 25 LEDs are the only ones pointing in the right direction towards the floor now imagine that you are taking out a 400 watt metal heart and you’re reducing the energy consumption by 65% by using one of these now that’s great the problem here is that you’ve only got like 20% of the LEDs pointed towards the floor so what we usually see is that you’ve got Lux levels actually going from 120 locks down to 60 lakhs now 60 watts is really poor from a health and safety point of view and that’s not what we are all about now the other way that you can install this is by installing it into what we call a shoe fitting basically it points the the corner light in this direction you screw it in now again the logic is against you the 25 LEDs are pointing in this direction which is not going to help anybody but a half of the of the lights actually pointing upwards towards the ceiling now basically in this way again you’re down to 40% of the LEDs pointing in the direction towards the floor where you need it so again we are seeing when they when they installed in this direction that you’re only getting about 40% of the output that you need and you’re taking the lux levels from your hair metal halides from a hundred and twenty lakhs to somewhere about 80 lakhs now that’s really really poor now our high bay fittings the cost is about 25 percent more than these corn fittings but first of all you’re going to shrivel your light levels you’re going to go from 120 up to 300 or 400 Lux with the same amount of energy use the other thing is that our light fittings will last you between five and eight years now screwing this putting this into an old style fitting usually you will have a lifetime of two or three years and then you will be all added again so you’ll have lower light levels and they will last a lot less for 25% more you can get a brand new fitting that’s going to last between five and eight years for me that’s a no-brainer and that’s why we’re warning against using these corn fittings at all please stay away from them thanks so much guys
