Regardless of your church’s size, strategic lighting is crucial to executing a successful worship service. Lighting a church presents many unique challenges, including vaulted ceiling heights and unique architectural features with complex control systems. Thankfully, some solutions offer churches the opportunity to quickly upgrade to LED light bulbs and at a low cost.

LED light technology is riding a massive surge of popularity and for a good reason. LED lights compact, power-saving capabilities offer your church way more “bang for your buck” and solve a wide variety of problems. It won’t be too long before everything with a light source is powered by LED.

LED lighting options expand your church’s sanctuary lighting capacity by up to 500% and help you realize a notable cost saving on your electric bill. Also, LED Church lighting requires a lot less maintenance than conventional bulbs with a bulb lifespan of 10 years or more. Your congregation will enjoy less heat from your LED lighting than traditional lighting while using less wattage. LED lighting is also available in recessed can lighting options as well.

LED Church Lighting solutions include:

• FRONT LIGHTING: LED ellipsoidal fixtures
• TOP or BACKLIGHTING: PAR fixtures
• BACKGROUND or SET LIGHTING: LED stage lighting
• Stage lighting controls

To view a detailed church lighting case study and for more information on church lighting options available, please visit our services page on House of Worship Lighting Options.

If your church needs a lighting upgrade in the Raleigh, North Carolina, or Nashville, Tennessee area, please contact Victory Lights for a consultation and bring light into your church.

Until recently, high-intensity discharge (HID) light fixtures were the standard luminaires for open warehouse lighting, but they present several challenges. Because they have a long re-strike time, they can’t easily be switched off when areas are temporarily unoccupied. They are fragile when compared to newer technologies and need frequent replacement. That entails bringing in a lift, which is costly and disruptive to a warehouse’s workflow. HIDs are also much more energy-hungry than newer technology.

If high-intensity discharge (HID) light fixtures are still providing your warehouse lighting, a retrofit could provide multiple benefits. They include lower energy consumption, lower utility bills, reduced maintenance costs, and better quality lighting throughout the warehouse. Better lighting will, in turn, improve aesthetics, safety, security, and quality control.

Victory Lights can help with LED warehouse lighting. LED’s use much smaller watts of power than other lights and do not heat up when they are on. They are resistant to damage and maintenance-free. There has been a great deal of improvement in their color rendering and brightness in recent years and are environmentally friendly. A 400-watt metal halide can be replaced by an LED consuming a little over 200 watts, while an 80-watt LED can replace a 250-watt metal halide. And both will maintain over 90 percent of their output at 60,000 hours. LED fixtures have an extremely long life of an LED fixture, which translates into significant reductions in maintenance costs, especially in hard-to-access areas. Also, generous rebates are available for LEDs from some utilities. Victory Lights can walk you through what rebates are available from your utility company.

Warehouse Lighting Controls

In addition to specifying luminaires, a warehouse lighting design may also include some control system. One type reduces lighting when areas are unoccupied and can work in several different ways. Switching systems turn lights on and off by connecting or removing lighting sources from the power supply. This system is simple, cost-effective, and useful in areas where an abrupt change in light levels will not be frequent or noticeable to occupants. Dimming systems adjust light output and power input over a specified range. A third option is “step-switching.” This is where multiple lamps in a single light fixture can be switched on and off independent of each other. This allows for a couple of steps between full and zero light output.

Daylight Harvesting Increases Efficiency

Another type of control system to consider is daylight harvesting, which involves installing photosensors near windows and skylights. Daylighting control systems dim or shut off lights when there is a sufficient amount of ambient light available.

Determining the energy savings potential of any control strategy depends on a building’s space and lighting characteristics. But properly installed and adjusted, most control systems reliably save a substantial amount of energy.

If your warehouse lighting needs an upgrade, contact Victory Lights for a complete lighting consultation.

With the coronavirus threat still very much a part of our lives and affecting everything our lives, we can’t help but think of ways to protect ourselves from the virus and keep ourselves and our families safe.

UV lights are used in hospitals and health clinics to sterilized equipment and exams and operating rooms. You would think a business or homeowner can do the same. In theory, it seems like it would be safer to use light to sterilize than messy, irritating chemicals. However, UV light is not safe and practical for everyday use in businesses and homes.

Human skin can be severely damaged by UV light and even cause extensive injury to softer parts of the human body, like our eyes. Hospitals and labs ensure there are no people around when UV light is used to clean rooms and equipment. To achieve maximum sterilization, the light needs to be extremely bright, and if any human being were in the room, it would cause permanent damage and could even cause blindness.

PPE and medical equipment can be sterilized with UV lights if safety precautions are practiced, such as wearing protective gear. Many companies are trying to capitalize on UV light products such as UV wands that claim to disinfect anything it hovers over. Long-lasting injury can occur if these devices are misused.

Sunlight can be an excellent PPE disinfectant. Experts suggest putting PPE gear such as masks in a glass jar for several hours at a time in the hot sun. Other surfaces can be wiped down with bleach, alcohol, and other household disinfectants.

Every day, we learn new ways to live in the age of Covid-19 and creative ways of staying healthy and safe. For now, the UV light as a sanitation method should be left to the experts.

In the old days, hospitals and doctors’ offices were brightly lit with bright fluorescent lighting throughout the facility. No consideration was given to the lights’ productivity or its effects on health professionals and patients. There have been incredible breakthroughs in every kind of lighting. Each situation is unique and requires creative lighting to get the job done.

The old fashion lights can cause a myriad of unseen health problems and don’t sufficiently light facilities in a way that helped medical professionals. CFL light bulbs contain mercury – a highly toxic metal that poses serious health risks, while LED lights contain no such toxic chemicals or metals. Studies performed by the United States Department of Energy and scientists from Carnegie Mellon both found that LED lights are as efficient to manufacture as CFL lights and LEDs will become even more effective in the future.

With a market that’s rewarding businesses for going green by offering incentives for energy-saving methods, LED lighting could benefit your medical facility in more ways than one!

LED lights give off a whiter light than traditional compact fluorescent bulbs- resulting in less strain on your eyes when trying to read or focus. This is such a great benefit to reduce the strain your eyes already undergo during a day of staring at a computer monitor, charts, and of course, patients. LED provides you with a clearer view of what you are looking at. Doctors and nurses must see their patients in true colors to help make the proper diagnosis. Compact Fluorescent bulbs cast objects in a yellow glow, and light that is focused in one direction.

Lights in a medical facility need to reflect the kind of procedures being done and to be flexible in brightness and hue. LED lighting can be manufactured in endless ways to help improve the care health facilities give their patients. Victory Lights can help you create the perfect lighting system for your practice. Contact our lighting experts today.

There are many unexpected ways to cut down expenses around your home and office, but is switching to LED lighting one of them? We certainly think so.

Not only are LED lights significantly more cost-effective than traditional CFLs, but they also improve productivity through better light quality, reducing eye strain and providing you with a more unobstructed view. Also, there are government incentives to reducing your environmental impact and carbon footprint. CFL light bulbs contain mercury – a highly toxic metal that poses serious health risks, while LED lights contain no such toxic chemicals or metals. Studies performed by the United States Department of Energy and scientists from Carnegie Mellon both found that LED lights are as efficient to manufacture as CFL lights and LEDs will become even more efficient in the future. With a market that’s rewarding businesses for going green by offering incentives for energy-saving methods, LED lighting could benefit your business in more ways than one!

While the upfront purchase price of an LED light bulb is higher than that of traditional CFLs, this cost pays for itself over the life of the LED bulb. According to one study done by the environmental website Eartheasy, an LED light would cost $95.95 to run for 50,000 hours while a CFL bulb would cost $159.75 to run for the same period and would have to be replaced about five times during the process. Recognizing these cost savings for your home and business could make a real dent in your bottom line.

If you are a homeowner or a business owner or facilities manager and you are looking to go green and save some green, that reaches out the LED lighting installers of choice serving the Nashville, Tennessee, Victory Lights!

The new decade is upon us, and things are changing fast. Lighting trends are no different. With new, energy-efficient LEDs, the entire lighting industry has gone through some radical changes in just the past few years. As LED lighting technology continues to mature and getter better and cheaper, we anticipate considerable differences in the design of the light fixtures themselves. So what can we expect in lightning? Here are some things to come:

Better Light Quality

Lighting options have gotten super efficient recently, but the new focus is expected to be the quality of light. Reduced flickering may reduce headaches and fatigue, so expect to see more of those. Technology exsists out there in LED grow lights that require full-spectrum lighting, so expect regular lights to continue with that trend.

Refined Retro & Industrial Styles

More elegant metals, varied tones, and unique designs. All based on the retro and industrial styles, but they look for the elegance of them, not the one that remains vastly.

Dark Skys

In an ever Eco-conscious world, we must now be heedful of light pollution and look for dark sky lighting.  Light pollution is light that goes up into the sky instead of towards the ground. Sometimes it’s unavoidable, but in good outdoor lighting design, it can be avoided.

More Retro Bulbs

Incandescent light bulbs are no longer sold in stores. However, they were a trend for 2019 and will be in 2020 because the look is so cool.  Expect more retro and “flame” LEDs to be common.

Accent Lighting

We talk a lot about the dramatic drop in cost in LED lighting, but there is also a size drop as well. Fixtures have gotten smaller and are able to fit into tiny places. Neon LEDs are, becoming popular and hidden fixtures are now the norm and expect even more of them in 2020.  

Nashville and Raleigh are two of the fastest-growing cities in the country. Existing in both incredible metropolitan areas, our company has been serving the Triangle and Music City with LED lighting solutions for half a decade. We get a lot of questions about who we are and what we do, so in this article, we want to reintroduce ourselves and answer: Who is Victory Lights?

Who Is Victory Lights?

Victory Lights was started by Chad Reynolds in 2014. With over ten years of lighting experience, Chad wanted to help businesses save money by installing or retrofitting their spaces with high-efficiency LED lighting. Since we began, Victory Lights has performed over 6,000 lighting transactions and over 1,000 lighting projects. There is no one with as much expertise and experience in LED lighting as us. 

How Does Victory Lights Help Businesses?

Whether you are in an office or retail space, the right lighting can improve your productivity and sales. Effective LED lighting makes parking lots and garages safer and helps property managers showcase apartments for renters. We specialize in commercial lighting supply and projects. We serve all industries with a variety of lighting needs. Some of the projects we do include:

Parking Lot Lighting: The parking lot is the most dangerous place in your commercial property for customers and employees. We help property owners install the safest and most efficient lighting for parking lots and garages. 

Office Lighting: Lighting affects your office’s productivity and can be a deal-breaker for your clients. We help offices install efficient lighting that can ultimately impact your bottom line. 

Retail Lighting; Retail owners know the importance of properly displaying their products. The right LED lighting improves sales while often reducing energy costs. 

Church Sanctuaries: We help churches determine the right lighting for church sanctuaries and other campus buildings. 

Manufacturing: In large warehouses, lighting is vital to getting the job done. However, it is important for manufacturers to reduce energy consumption and costs any way they can. Proper LED lights can make all the difference for a company’s bottom line. 

Restaurants and Coffee Shops: Nashville and Raleigh are known for being cities rich in excellent restaurants and coffee. From displaying items for sale to protecting customers and employees outdoors, Victory Lights can help provide restaurant and coffee shop owners with efficient lighting solutions. 

Hospitals and Doctor’s Offices: Having the correct lighting can be a matter of life and death in a hospital medical facility. 

As a commercial lighting supply and installation company, we will provide lighting solutions for your business’ needs. 

We Provide Free Lighting Consultation for Companies

Many business owners do not know where to start or who to ask when it comes to lighting. Victory Lights is proud to provide free professional lighting consultations for companies in North Carolina and Tennessee. If you would like to know more, fill out this short form and we will be in touch to schedule your LED lighting consultation. 

Victory Lights is here to provide commercial lighting solutions to businesses in Raleigh, Nashville, and surrounding areas. Contact us for more information about LED lighting for your business. 

Vanderbilt University will be partnering with Nashville Electric Service and the Tennessee Valley Authority to produce clean energy on a large scale to mitigate Vanderbilt’s greenhouse gas emissions.

The 20-year agreement was signed to help reach the goal of having the West End campus be powered and carbon neutral by the middle of the century. The energy will be produced by a solar farm in Bedford County run by Nashville based solar company Silicon Ranch.

The university is the first large customer to partner with the TVA on this type of green energy production and is the first agreement to come under the TVA’s new Green Invest program.

The solar farm is slated to come online in late 2022. It will supply up to 35 megawatts of clean, renewable energy, offsetting close to 70% of the university’s greenhouse gas emissions from purchased power. This same amount of electricity could power up to 5,000 homes in the Nashville area for one year, so this is a significant amount of energy.

The Nashville Area is going green, and if you want to get on the bandwagon, start with a complete LED lighting retrofit and be ready for the solar revolution. This is a cost-effective way to begin cutting your power usage and lowering your electric bills as well as contributing to a cleaner and greener environment and will help achieve goals of Net Zero and Net Positive carbon goals for the Tennessee area.

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If you own a business, you want the best curb appeal possible, day or night. When your business hours extend after dark, you want your customers to be able to navigate to the door and in the parking areas safely. There are more choices today for outdoor lighting than in the past.

You don’t have to rely on overpowering bright street lights to light your business at night. There are many choices when it comes to illuminating your storefront after the sunsets.

Many businesses are now utilizing LED lighting in many different ways. There are innovative ways to install lights on the ground for pathways and sidewalks. This lights up the areas where people need to see without impeding on their night vision. The sky is the limit with the color combinations and designs that can be created with LED lighting.

There are innovative changes to the way businesses are using street lamps and parking lot lights. In conventional fluorescent street lights, a considerable percentage of light is wasted and shined into the sky instead of the ground where it is needed. In dark sky lighting, the light is directed downward like putting a lampshade on a desk lamp. This design on top of sustainable LED lighting can save energy and prevent light pollution.

Our team at Victory Lights can help you design the perfect outdoor lighting for your business to help improve curb appeal, safety and save on energy cost. Contact our office today.