As a Certified Energy Manager, the biggest decision you may make in your career is which LED lighting product to rollout to your facilities. For retrofitting existing facilities with fluorescent tube lights, you essentially have three choices:
- You can completely replace all your older fluorescent and metal halide lights with new LED fixtures. That would give you the best look and the best light, but the cost is significant. Plus refitting a typical big box store can take 3 or more nights with a standard installation team.
- Or you could keep your fluorescent T8 or T12 fixtures and use LED replacement tubes. As you know, these are much cheaper than new fixtures, but they are also problematic: Most produce a harsh, uneven light, and need frequent maintenance to replace tubes and drivers. They can also pose a safety hazard since installation may void UL certification, and LED tubes have been the subject of widespread manufacturer recalls due to electrical and fire hazard issues.
- There is a new, industry-changing alternative: the LED Linear Retrofit by Power Concepts gives you the best of both worlds. It provides the fresh look, clean light and long lifespan of a new LED fixture while maintaining low cost. In fact our LED linear retrofit fixture is actually much faster to install than LED tube replacements, which minimizes your labor costs for any commercial retrofit project.
If you are looking for the best tube replacement solution, check out the Power Concepts LED linear retrofit and you’ll see why top brands across the country choose Power Concepts for Linear, High Bay, Troffer/Panel, and Vapor Tight LED lighting solutions for their commercial and retail ceiling lights.