today we're going to take a look at the TrueForce universal LED high bay lamp from Philips Lighting
funny looking lamp Gary
this is a wonderful looking lamp and very tactile but when am i likely to
use one of these gordon okay so that's designed to replace these traditional
HID lamps that you'd find in those reflector based fittings with the gearbox behind them that you're
probably used to seeing in a retail environment or possibly an industry in warehouse and some other
factory spaces so we're saying we're just going to drop out that metal halide lamp and we're going to
replace it with this led one and all the benefits it brings with it yeah now obviously a lot of the
time you'd probably go in there and press replace the fixture and we've looked at the core line
fixture that's for that on the channel before but a lot of times you know particularly in retail
or up in long hours there's not the opportunity to get in there and mess with the fixed wiring
you know this is an ideal choice because it's a fast install and retrofit when you say fast
install then let's bring the two side by side and show me how i'm gonna fit it in
okay so obviously inside the fitting there'd be a traditional lamp cap so this is an E40 lamp
cap and obviously the lamp screws in there so it's a case of just taking the lamp out
and bringing in the TrueForce and screwing that in now this is quite a lightweight retrofit so it's not going to stress this lamp holder obviously a solid lump of ceramic there and that's it that's
the retrofit done it can't be that simple there must be something else the electrician's got to
do it can't be a simple case of dropping out the lamp and putting an led one in when we've got all
of this gear tray going okay well that's where the universal element comes in this will work with all
this igniter and the ballast and the power factor correction still in circuit so we see here and
we've we've livened it up against the gear tray and yes when we turn it on the lamp illuminates
straight away yeah and let's not do that forget the other advantage what do we normally get when
we have this in circuit still what we normally have a delay from turning on the light and
actually getting any usable light out the actual fitting itself so if we look here we've turned it
on believe it or not Gordon nothing's happening slowly something's going to start to happen and
eventually we get some usable light out of it what happens if the power drops off yeah if power drops
off you can have that re-strike situation where the lamp's gonna have to cool off and re-strike
again now that is obviously one of the benefits of moving to led you get rid of that problem okay but
i've gone up there and maybe that's the reason why i've got to replace the lamp but it could
be that the gear tray itself has failed and now all of a sudden it's not going to work with this
fitting well again back to that universal element this retrofit will work direct to main so you can
strip out the gear and you'd have to do that if it's high frequency gear but it'll work
straight to mains yeah does that detection am i connected to gear or is it a mains operation
so that's great and it's so all we need to connect is the supply to the electrical lamp itself any
issues with that memory when we're fiddling around in the actual fitness okay now we have to you may
have to just put a warning label on there because obviously you wouldn't want someone then to come
sort of reverse retrofit and try and get the old lamp in there perhaps a warning to tell them that
probably won't work okay so we've gone over to LED because we know the energy-efficient
benefits of using it let's compare the wattage of the metal halo with this one now then okay so
this is designed to replace 250 or 400 watt metal halide lamps and that will take the power down to
95 or 140 watts and that gives you between 13,000 and 20,000 lumens from that package so yeah that's
pretty incredible i like the actual leds in here and they've covered over gordon do you want to
just take a little look and have a closer look at that so can you just talk me through the benefits
of this okay so let's you know that traditional reflector based one you've got your lamp
and the sort of you know sometimes aluminium or glass reflector behind it provides the light
distribution when you've done the retrofit the actual light distribution comes from the retrofit
lamp itself from the true force so this is the optical surface here it comes in 120 degrees
or 60 degree beam angle depending on how far apart your existing fixtures are the other advantage is
that's a IP40 sealed optical system so you're not going to get dust in there and flies if
you remember we look up when those fittings sometimes see a good coating of flies and dust
so that that removes a significant part of that lumen lumen loss so we've got an energy efficient
saving from changing over what about the lamp life itself okay so this is rated for 50 000 hours and
again with Philips you always get great data if you have a look on the datasheet they'll give
you some performance curves based upon the fixture it's going into you can measure the
temperature points and then obviously make some lifetime projections from that as well
so you're nearly there gordon with all the information that i can never remember what about
color temperatures okay so this will this comes in 4000 degrees kelvin so again matched probably to
those HID lamp sources but that white light you'd expect to see in retail and possibly could be
an even improvement in some factory environments with a color rendering of Ra80 which is pretty high
for this type of light source and it's probably better than the one you're replacing in the
first place so we can say we've got more light less expensive okay a better color
in the building once we've installed them what about payback to us well that's it i mean this
is that is designed for those fast paybacks and that's what you'd expect to get with that
huge energy saving and obviously just the simple plug-and-play installation
because there's no cost really for the electrician it's almost a maintenance job just swap them
over one last thing what's the warranty on the product comes for five years gary so as always
we're interested in your feedback have you fitted the TrueForce universal led lamp from
philips are you thinking about fitting them in the future what's your go-to lamp when replacing
metal halide please leave those comments below and we'll try and get back to as many as we can