Emergency egress lighting problems
Emergency egress lighting problems
(OP)
We have about 45 facilities each averaging about 30 emergency fixtures - predominately 2X4 T8 Troffers and as of late, T5HO pendants. Our problem is that 90% of them aren't self diagnosing so we do the yearly 90 minute burn test. We have about a 20% failure rate, about half of those battery issues and half chargers. I am beginning to think I need to seriously look into an invertor type system or anything to get away from having to spend all my man hours on changing out Bodine ballast. I know they are a lot upfront - equipment and pipe/wire reconfiguration, but I know what I'm doing now is killing me. Any thoughts?





RE: Emergency egress lighting problems
RE: Emergency egress lighting problems
There are some great smaller systems out there that are very reasonable in cost, of course you need to isolate the egress lighting onto specific circuits fed from these, but with as many facilities, you will realize a very quick payback with your labor savings. The ones I like for an application such as you have will even email you an alarm for power loss, battery failure, etc....
Look at www.myerspowerproducts.com I don't know your location, but they are out of Bethlehem, PA and available throughout the US.
RE: Emergency egress lighting problems