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6 Bulb F54T5/HO High Output 6500K Daylight Fluorescent Commercial/Industrial Light with Mirror-Like Reflectors and Bulbs
Just a few fixtures is all it takes to light up a shop! It replaces 10.25 cheap T12 shop lights. It's 40% brighter than lowly T8 high output lowbays. Now you can get this great technology at perhaps the lowest price on the net.
T5/HO fluorescents offer 9% more design* lumens of light per watt than pulse start metal halide and 66% more than regular metal halide.
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6500 K Daylight Simply Looks Brighter!
Makes a Cheery white light, just like daylight. Refreshing, vivid prime color light makes seeing tasks easier. People simply feel better under natural light!
Optional 5000K Bulbs are Great for Color Matching.
Includes 6 x 4' F54T5/HO High Output Tubes 4' Long
It's Used to replace to 400 w Pulse Start Metal Halide Fixtures
Brilliant 6500K Bulbs offer Brightest Light Spectrum
Wide Mirror Like Reflector Punches Light Down
Top Quality Construction: This fixture features rotary locking sockets, Electronic Ballasts, and a sturdy steel body with a tough powder coating. It has plentiful knockouts for conduit and a hand hole. Provision is made for chain hangers too. Photo's are a stock photo of the T8 version of this fixture.
This Energy Saving Fixture is used to replace expensive 400 w Metal Halide Fixtures
It uses 128 Less Watts! That s a $256 energy savings per fixture over the life of a set of T5 bulbs. (Assumes e=$.1/Kwhr and 20 Khr bulb life) Most often these are used to replace standard metal halide fixtures. The output of the bulbs is actually a little less, but due to the Perkinje effect, use of daylight tubes will make the fixture look brighter. Under the lower light levels found indoors, the brain uses both the rods and the cones of the eye. And the rods are much more sensitive to the higher energy blue wavelengths found in daylight.
Extra advantages over Metal Halide.
Why build a shop with high walls to pull in tall equipment to work on if your light fixtures are in the way? This fixture consumes the least amount of head room, so it keeps above doors and other obstructions
Natural White Light Makes Everything Better
The best new lighting simulates Sunshine. Many studies have correlated academic performance with natural lighting.
Studies at elementary schools in Wetaskiwin, Alberta by Dr. Harry Wohlfarth show higher combined academic and IQ test scores attributable to full spectrum lighting. (The International Journal of Biosocial Research, 5 no.1,6 no. 1,7 no. 1)
In 1981, Wohlfarth and Cathrine Sam conducted a studied children with severe behavior problems and physical handicaps at Elves Memorial Child Development Center (Edmonton, Alberta). Both room colors and lighting was changed. Systolic blood pressure was reduced 20 points and children were less aggressive. When cool white tubes were reinstalled, blood pressure went up and behavior problems resurfaced.
In another study, Dr. Fritz Hollwich examined stress levels as measured by the stress hormones ACTH and cortisol. This hormones were present in substantial quantities in individuals sitting under cool white lights but absent from those sitting under sunlight simulating fluorescents.
Similar research was conducted in the UK and reported by The Lancet, the British Medical Journal.
It s true that daylight simulating light is not needed to suppress the excessive meletonin hormone that causes SAD. But people feel better under natural lighting. And there is a substantial hormonal basis to understand why.
These Nice lights don t turn PINK!
Take a close look at older (non pulse start) metal halide fixtures! They color shift to make PINK light as the bulbs age! Yuck!
In his classic book, Health and Light, Dr. John N.Ott recounts totally bizarre effects of pink light. Apparently pink light will wreck the sex life of a mink. In a scientific study, ninety percent of male mink exposed to continuous pink light were experimentally found to be sexually non-working and female mink required pregnant mare serum hormone shots to achieve pregnancy. Four pink mink died prematurely due to a strange malady and the pink treated mink also become aggressive.
Questionnaires given to college students indicated that there might be a link between wearing pink tinted sunglasses and emotional disturbances. Based upon this research, John Ott recommended to the Kansas City Royals that players switch from pink tinted to medium gray glasses. The director Syd Thrift wrote back to John Ott It was amazing to observe how the player was changed from a hyper-aggressive and helmet-throwing player to a very relaxed, confident person , pg 116, Health and Light.
But you don't have to be in the pink!
Use Natural full spectrum lighting instead. At 6500K, our T5 bulbs are the brightest around! They generate crisp white light that makes standard 4100K or even 5000K bulbs look yellow!
