LED Post Tops and Lantern LED Retrofits Guide

These LED Post Top lamps and Acorn Style fixtures are designed to be retrofitted into contemporary, traditional, or historic cast iron poles. The LED lamps and fixtures listed below can be used with many fixture designs and readily retrofitted to existing poles or post top fitters. Many of these fixtures are DLC listed, with rebates available, improving paybacks, and leading to very high return on investment.

LED Retrofitting of Post Top Lighting

These LED post top retrofit lamps, maintain the look and feel of traditional fixtures  found in pedestrian walkway lighting, street lighting in college campuses, historic districts, parks and recreational facilities, or residential streets, while lowering costs, and increasing energy efficiency. These Post Top Retrofit Kits are designed to be applied in very diverse set of outdoor lighting applications. These MH/ HPS replacement kits are engineered for fixtures that ranges from acorn globe style fixtures, to highly ornamental pole lights. Complete retrofit kits are available to upgrade pole lighting that include the post top fitter, decorative globe, and LED retrofit lamp.

These decorative pole retrofit kits offer numerous choices in upgrading luminaires, by replacing high wattage incandescent, high pressure sodium (HPS) or metal halide (MH) lamps in post top lighting applications with energy efficient LEDs at much lower energy use. Metro LED Lighting’s economic analysis has shown these replacement LED kits have high return on investment, fast paybacks, and no maintenance costs. By changing out inefficient existing lamps / fixtures, rapid paybacks are achieved in these decorative pole lighting applications.

Decorative Pole Lighting Retrofit Guide

A comprehensive guide is available providing advice on retrofitting HID lamps to LEDs in decorative pole lighting. The guide outlines many of the options available to upgrade Post Tops, Lanterns, Teardrops and other decorative fixtures. In this guide, retrofit summary specification are available, retrofits option shown, and lifecycle costing is presented to help compare the upgrade options.

 

Retrofitting Post Top Lighting - LED Benefits

Post Top lighting retrofitted with LED Fixtures or lamps can maintain the aesthetic and design elements of decorative pole luminaires. A wide variety of color temperatures (CCT) are available in the LED retrofits that can be configured for a warm incandescent feel (3,000K) or a bright white MH lamp look and feel (5,000K). By virtue of being DLC listed, light pollution is minimized, less light is wasted upwards, and Dark Sky Standards can be met. The LED sources use advanced optics, and reflectors for high quality lighting by providing better horizontal and vertical foot candles, improving visual acuity and pedestrian safety. These LED Post Top fixtures benefits include:

• Ability to meet IES illumination standards while maintaining the design integrity of the decorative pole lights in the community
• Improvement to the quality of the light, with less light waste, light trespass, providing more effective lighting, and higher energy efficiency, consuming often 70% less energy, thus having a direct impact on the kilowatt hours used.
• Decorative pole lighting efficiency can be improved, putting more light on surfaces for visual uniformity, and acuity, while using less energy
• Wide variety of choices of color temperatures (CCT), and much higher Color Rendering Indexes (CRI) than traditional HPS fixtures to improve the nighttime appearance of campuses, pedestrian walkways, or historic districts
• These LED Post Top fixtures have much higher CRI values than HPS lamps, and selected LED Lamps often have CRIs which can exceed 80
• Energy Savings are readily achievable by retrofitting Post Top Lighting often greater than 70% savings by replacing HPS lamps or MH lamps
• Lower maintenance costs of MH and HPS post top lighting, by eliminating the need for periodic replacement of ballast, and lamps. LED post top lamps have luminaire efficiencies that are much higher than traditional HPS or MH fixture, lowering electric costs while raising efficacy. 
• The LED lamps used in retrofitting these Post Top Lights have very long L70 lifetimes, often over 100,000 hours. Traditional light loss factors are thus minimized, with very long times for lumen depreciation, or virtually no dirt accumulation that often effects tradition MH or HPS lamps in post top lighting. 

 

LED Decorative Pole Lighting: Configurations and Guide

Eye Lighting - Decorative Post Top Retrofit Kits, Fixtures and Acorn Pole Lights

 

Metro LED Lighting - Retrofits for Teardrop Fixtures

 

Sansi Lighting - Spider Mounted LED Fixture

 

 

Decorative Post Top Lighting - References and Resources

Available references and resources include:

• Trials of Post Top Lighting in Central Park, NYC
• An Overview of Lighting for Safety & Security
• A Study on Pedestrian Friendly Lighting
• A Webinar on Pedestrian Friendly Lighting

 

Post Top Lighting Blog Postings - Presentations, Overviews & Examples

For more information on LED Post Tops, Acorn Fixtures, and Decorative Pole Lighting, please see the Metro LED Blog Section on Post Top Lighting. 

DOE Resources on Lighting Emitting Diodes (LEDs) - SSL Technology Fact Sheets

• Fact Sheets on LED Lighting (PDF) - These fact sheet explores some of the unique attributes of LEDs, which may make them the best choice for a wide range of indoor and outdoor lighting applications. 
• Establishing LED Equivalency (PDF) - This checklist summarizes key performance characteristics that should be considered when comparing LED products and evaluating their equivalency to conventional lighting technologies.
• Energy Efficiency of LEDs (PDF) - This fact sheet discusses current and projected benchmarks for the efficacy of LED packages and complete luminaires, as well as providingcomparisons to conventional technologies.
• LED Lifetime and Reliability (PDF) - LED-based products have the potential to achieve lifetimes that exceed their traditional counterparts. Failure mechanisms for SSL fixtures is dependent on many more factors than traditional lamps.