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Emergency Lighting

Andy65
Morning all.


I am based on a large site in Hemel Hempstead. Maintenance has been neglected for many years. Offices and labs have been move around with no thought to the emergency lighting requirements.


We are now trying to take control of the situation  and I am looking for a company to do the design for us - Google hasn’t produced many ideas!


if any of you guys and gals could point me in the  right direction that would be very helpful.

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    I concur with the advice that you decide what you want to specify first.

    Regular testing can be a major expense if it is to be done properly and there are systems that do this for you and report to a central computer. I suspect that your owner would hesitate at the cost of these but they would probably save a lot of money in the long term.

    One point worth remembering is that they should provide illumination if there is a local power failure as well as a general one so Emergency Lighting should usually be fed from the same circuit as the normal lighting.

    There are other issues like do you want maintained (always ON) non maintained (Normally OFF) or switched non maintained (comes on and off with the other lighting). Maintained used to be popular as it allowed occupant to see immediately if a lamp had failed. Nowadays with LED lighting this is probably less important.
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    I concur with the advice that you decide what you want to specify first.

    Regular testing can be a major expense if it is to be done properly and there are systems that do this for you and report to a central computer. I suspect that your owner would hesitate at the cost of these but they would probably save a lot of money in the long term.

    One point worth remembering is that they should provide illumination if there is a local power failure as well as a general one so Emergency Lighting should usually be fed from the same circuit as the normal lighting.

    There are other issues like do you want maintained (always ON) non maintained (Normally OFF) or switched non maintained (comes on and off with the other lighting). Maintained used to be popular as it allowed occupant to see immediately if a lamp had failed. Nowadays with LED lighting this is probably less important.
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