today we're going to take a look at the Lumineux Foremark High Bay light fitTING
looks a little bit different it is a little bit different
okay where was it starting Gordon well in front of us here we've got a high baY light and it
has everything you'd expect in a high bay light quite a few more things but before we get on to
that yes it's a 14 500 lumen highbay at 100 watts also available in 150 and 200 watt versions range
of beam angles 90 and 120 degrees, but Gary i'm going to convert this one in front of your very eyes from a
normal switch on and off high bay to one that has integrated controls so i take it these are
the integrated controls here we've got a PIR and a Microwave sensor how about you fit the pir for me
then well it could be complex gary yeah i'm sure are you ready for this i'm ready well let's have a
little closer look at the camera to watch it might be here sometime so the first thing i'm going to
do is remove this little threaded barrel at the moment yeah in the middle here take that out
get the sensor here i'll start with a PIR version you'll see it's got a little jack
plug here yes okay threaded barrel all right i've got a funny fitness thing to take very long
and then i'll just turn that into that threaded jack socket in the middle there there you go i've
converted it to a PIR controller i see i didn't get that one did i what's the advantage to us
then or the customer for having pir control of our client what's the most efficient satellite
thing the light that isn't on yeah exactly and so we're thinking high bays we're thinking a lot of
applications where there might be massive spaces but low density of people in there
so you know a few people drifting around in a massive warehouse and some other factory spaces
with all the lights on right isn't a very efficient use so fit controls and obviously
significantly reduce that energy consumption so let's think of an example of that maybe i'm in
a warehouse we've got wrecking either side with these high bay light fittings and obviously it's
got low occupancy what would happen with no people in the room what can we do with these sensors
okay so this is it's one sensor per fitting this variant so as he walked along that row
each fitting would trigger on its own pir sensor and obviously go from
zero or a low light level up to 100 like that so we could set it then using the remote control
yes that each of these drop down maybe to 10 when there's no center activity yes i'll come into the
area and it raises maybe up to 100 depending on what you set it to and it'll only be in that area
so as i walk down the racking i would actually see the lights brighten up as i move down yeah it'll
be a cool effect yeah wood really good yes and you can tailor that function with the wireless remote
control that goes with this so you can time the time it would stay at a lower level perhaps then
the time it would go fully off so that's all all configurable in there and all of the fittings are
able to be converted aren't they they all come exactly the same we'll look at another feature
in a minute that they all come with as well don't they so you could have it as a standard high bay
yeah or i could introduce one of the controls yeah so you just yeah do the plugs on i'll do it now
i'll convert it now from pir to microwave if you don't know this different stream pr microwave
census we have got a video on that we'll put a description in the link
okay that's that one done as well there we go hmm i think so much technical stuff this one
that's really easy isn't it yeah that that yeah then that's a great solution and not more so this
is the sort of first generation is this product next year they're bringing out a smart enabled one
where the fittings will talk to each other using the bluetooth mesh network wow looking forward to
have all sorts of interesting scenarios across an installation there and obviously some more
complex controls perhaps better if that in a in a warehouse that's got more people in it and more
things happening okay i'm sure we'll get to review that on the channel depending on when you're
watching that that video might already be out you never know do you however that's that's a couple
of really good features and that was really simple as well so you got those ones gordon when we flip
it over there seems to be something added to the actual fitting itself likewise yeah so obviously
in a warehouse there's other types of light you'd want to fit yeah there is emergency light yes and
normally what would you how would you normally do that in the warehouse you'd normally have those
two spotlights and maybe a small suitcase perhaps on either end of walls etc that's it a classic
twin spot and obviously try to find a high bay light that you can convert easily to emergency led
not very many of them on the market i think we found one until now okay so this fitting
comes with the ability to put the sensors in but also every fitting comes with the ability to be
converted to an emergency one as well doesn't it whether you use it or not yeah that's it that's
a that's yeah so you again you can buy your fittings and then configure it on site to the
options you need for a particular installation so this pack's been added and obviously we've
made the relevant connection should we have a look at that let's have a look at that so let's
go about attaching this battery pack to this light fit and then gordon so we've got our flex
our flex has got our connections here line neutral and cpc and we've got our lead that
goes to our emergency element of the fitting bring in the battery pack here and i'm going to need to
make some connections so first of all i'll do the iec connector so i'm going to connect my
liner neutral and cpc into that a couple of key points here obviously when you separate it open
you've got to remember this little black shroud nothing more embarrassing than making all the
connections and find i didn't fit that so let's put that on first slide that over the connections
and then i can make the connections into the iec connector and then we're on to the second
part so let's whip it apart so that just plugs into your battery pack when you're done does it
it does yeah so that lead would normally be one and a half meters in length it could go
to a click ceiling rows or something like that but for this one we're obviously going to come
through the emergency pack itself so connect those up so nice and simple nice ferruled ends
you might have missed there gordon oh yeah i like to put a feral on things go make your life easier
connect those up obviously reconnect that and then that's going to go into the pack itself
so nice and straightforward so here we go just reconnect the the cover on and we're ready
to introduce the battery pack itself in order to do this i'm going to have to remove the hook
so that's the hook you'd normally hang it by yeah with the chain so let's let's just loosen off the
bolt inside the security bolt just loosen that off and spin it out and you've got to introduce
a couple of washers that one comes out okay so you're going to trap that between the hook that
normally hangs it from the ceiling yeah so large enough yeah simple yep so large washer introduce
the pack it's important now i get the pack the right way around because obviously i've got my
connector and i've got this lead for the emergency element so if you look here that's where the
emergency element leads going to go so this one here okay so that's a low voltage dc supply to the
to the leds within the fitting they're separate leds i believe as well yeah they are we'll see
that when we illuminate it so make sure we line it up correctly and obviously reintroduce the washer
and the hook so just spin those two together ever so simple process in order to do this and then i
would just suggest to remember just to do that little bolt up underneath next oh yeah just in
case it twists when it's hanging in the roof you wouldn't want to come crashing down so yeah when
it just locks it off yeah so spin that lock right into position again that could be easily missed so
just take your time get it done correctly and now we can make the connection here that we just made
into the side of the pack so put it round and we clip that one just in okay and then just a simple
case of pushing and you've got to do a little twist motion now gordon okay that's a little i see
that here you just insert that and turn it again lock it in place it's not gonna accidentally come
out so yeah absolutely nice solution and then the flex itself is now got an extra core so we have a
permanent line switching line neutral and cpc in order that we can obviously energize the emergency
pack as well as switch the light the main light on and off gordon that's good simple enough
oh yeah okay let's take a closer look then what we've got in front of us gordon yeah
you're nearly as fast as me on the control line you know you i spotted that mine took
a lot longer and i had to trim it down in order to get that yours was really quick
yeah okay so yeah let's bring the camera in just have a closer look at what you did there
okay so okay so there's the uh the iec plug and that takes the mains wiring out to the
fitting yes obviously you shorten that lead down so that normally comes with one and a half meters
yeah because if it was being used as a standard high bay fitting you're probably going to
want to get it up to some sort of clicking arrangement so then that's the the supply that
comes in from obviously now you've introduced a permanent life to it to charge the batteries
what i like to see as well so you've got that you can see the charge indicator on the side it's
actually can you show us a bit closer how that was detached and uh connected yeah so that's the jack
up in the roof right okay so we've done that and we'll connect this to this rather nice looking
grid switch arrangement here we've got our switch live so let's just uh make sure we can switch the
light fitting on still turn it on then for us okay and then something like that yeah yeah lots
of light there yeah okay switch it off so now i'm going to disconnect the um the live switch
the charge live connection and they're going to see there's just an inner ring comes on there
there is and i believe that in the ring wasn't on when the lamp was under normal operations
ah yeah it isn't yeah you see that's a separate ring yeah so that's just for
the emergency line so this output's about 600 lumens depending on the optic angle you have
in the fitting that's the emergency element yes that's the emergency element but that's
yeah that's a that's a good punchy light output obviously in emergency mode you only need a few
looks you're obviously a certain uniform to get the emergency lighting requirement you want but
having it built into the fitting means your lighting designs a lot easier yeah because it's
the same distribution as the normal light fitting you might not ever every fitting is emergency but
it saves you having to do a completely separate light design with twin spots dotted around the
place and you could have everything as emergency fitting you probably wouldn't yeah but they all
come exactly the same standard so you can fit the sensors you fit the pack so if you think
you've changed the environment you're in maybe you've moved all your racking around you've
bought another warehouse you've knocked a wall through all of a sudden the original emergency
lighting pattern might not be one that you wanted just a simple case of adding packs in yeah moving
them around moving them around or swapping the pack over and so this pack's got lithium ion
phosphate batteries so easy way not nicad is the easy way to think about it and we'll obviously
give you a minimum of your three hour duration i think when we had this one on the bench we've got
five hours out of it okay that's what we went home last night and two in a five it's got a five year
warranty with it as well hasn't it so as always at efix we're interested in your comments what's the
type of high bay like thing you're fitting how do you accommodate the emergency element of it
have you used this one from lumino the four mark range we'd be interested in
those comments please leave them below and we'll try and get back to as many as we can
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