Before and after in London’s Borough of Merton
RSSVenture Lighting Europe reports that the London Borough of Merton is the latest to use the company’s advanced VLED Westminster Retrofit Street Light engine
Merton has around 3,000 of the Westminster light engines that use the latest technology, SUPRAX glass optic. The VLED module has been retrofitted to the council’s existing street lighting lanterns as part of a borough-wide upgrade to LED lighting from its previous SON lamps.
Installed by Kier Street Lighting Services, this initiative was delivered as a part of an Invest-to-Save scheme to complement the council’s capital relighting programme to replace all borough lighting with LED. The Westminster modules were installed directly into the council’s existing street lighting columns using the plug-and-play feature eliminating the need for lengthy road closures or lighting downtime.
Steve Shew, interim infrastructure manager at Merton said the VLED module was presented to the council with a projected payback period of less than three years. “By using a retrofit solution we were able to use existing columns and lanterns, which saved considerable time and money.”
Venture says that once the module is installed it is virtually maintenance free with a life of 100,000 hours. The VLED module can be built with outputs between 12-105W while still producing high lumen packages beyond 11,000 lm and delivering an excellent efficacy of up to 133 lumens/circuit watt.
With such high performance and energy efficient output the VLEDs not only offer improved lighting compared to less efficient HPS lamps, but have considerably lower energy consumption. The module can be programmed with a part night dimming driver with the ability to extend this using full DALI controls to offer customers the opportunity to produce even greater energy savings.
Venture Lighting Europe partnered with its sister company, Auer Lighting in Germany, to produce the VLED Westminster SUPRAX 8488 borosilicate glass optic, which forms the centrepiece of the street lighting module. Venture says that this is both temperature and UV resistant, which allows the module to offer the stability and long service life demanded in the street lighting environment and eliminates the need for regular maintenance.
Merton has around 3,000 of the Westminster light engines that use the latest technology, SUPRAX glass optic. The VLED module has been retrofitted to the council’s existing street lighting lanterns as part of a borough-wide upgrade to LED lighting from its previous SON lamps.
Installed by Kier Street Lighting Services, this initiative was delivered as a part of an Invest-to-Save scheme to complement the council’s capital relighting programme to replace all borough lighting with LED. The Westminster modules were installed directly into the council’s existing street lighting columns using the plug-and-play feature eliminating the need for lengthy road closures or lighting downtime.
Steve Shew, interim infrastructure manager at Merton said the VLED module was presented to the council with a projected payback period of less than three years. “By using a retrofit solution we were able to use existing columns and lanterns, which saved considerable time and money.”
Venture says that once the module is installed it is virtually maintenance free with a life of 100,000 hours. The VLED module can be built with outputs between 12-105W while still producing high lumen packages beyond 11,000 lm and delivering an excellent efficacy of up to 133 lumens/circuit watt.
With such high performance and energy efficient output the VLEDs not only offer improved lighting compared to less efficient HPS lamps, but have considerably lower energy consumption. The module can be programmed with a part night dimming driver with the ability to extend this using full DALI controls to offer customers the opportunity to produce even greater energy savings.
Venture Lighting Europe partnered with its sister company, Auer Lighting in Germany, to produce the VLED Westminster SUPRAX 8488 borosilicate glass optic, which forms the centrepiece of the street lighting module. Venture says that this is both temperature and UV resistant, which allows the module to offer the stability and long service life demanded in the street lighting environment and eliminates the need for regular maintenance.
