Practical advice on commercial lighting from LED retrofits to lighting design.

LED is an exciting technology, but completely changing the lighting in your building over to LED may not always be practical nor the best choice today. We still get a lot of questions from customers asking where in their buildings are the best places to convert to LED.

Oftentimes, the switch to energy efficient lighting takes place over a few phases. One section of the building is changed first. Then, when the energy savings from that kicks in, more money is allocated for similar projects. That's how one of our customers at a high-rise apartment building managed to retrofit every socket to top-of-the-line LED.

 We recently had a customer who was looking to retrofit a large number of compact fluorescent recessed cans at the multifamily property they manage from 4-pin compact fluorescent to LED.

We first looked at using a 4-pin plug-and-play LED lamp in the application, but the customer felt that the lamps were too bright.

What other potential solutions were there?