A request from senior estates and facilities management personnel at Somerset’s Weston General Hospital to replace existing ‘dark’ traditional lighting in corridors, wards, and stairwells, with ‘a more cost-effective’ LED solution, has been successfully met by Stroud-based Exled.
After conducting a site survey, Exled recommended its Nova 3 high output LED ceiling panels, from its Solara range, for ward areas. Available in white and ‘cool white’ colour temperatures, Nova has a power factor of 0.93, an emergency back-up system, and a claimed lifetime ‘of approximately 50,000 hours’. Nova is reportedly ‘quick and easy to install’, and has three independently controlled LED panels, each providing ‘instant illumination’, allowing use with a variety of lighting controls. Elite T10 tubes, selected for stairwells, are described as ‘supremely efficient, flicker-free, low maintenance LED tubes’. Designed to replace standard fluorescent lighting, they offer ‘low running costs, and maximised efficiency’, plus ‘long life’. Exled added: “For extra savings, we suggested the client install sensors to only turn on lights when needed. Our Nova 3 panel will only produce 39 watts, and the 1500 mm tubes just 23 watts, compared with 58 watts for a fluorescent tube.”
