[SBE] going green

[Cris Alexander]

We converted to Dialight LED marker lights company-wide over the past couple
of years with excellent results. The marker lamps, which are a direct
replacement for most incandescent fixtures (they simply screw onto the end
of the existing 3/4 or 1-inch conduit), have been very reliable. 

We have not yet made the jump to LED beacons for a number of reasons, the
biggest of which is cost. I also spent some time looking at one of the
beacons and was uncomfortable with the amount of electronics in the fixture,
thinking that one of these at the top beacon position would not survive a
lightning strike on the tower. We plan to try the beacons on one of our FM
towers later this year to see how it does before we consider making the move
company wide.

Our challenge with the LED markers (that will be a bigger challenge with the
beacons) is current monitoring for remote control/compliance -- especially
on insulated AM towers.

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Cris Alexander, CPBE, AMD, DRB
Crawford Broadcasting Company
Denver, Colorado
(303) 433-0104
(303) 433-0905 Fax
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-----Original Message-----
From: sbe-bounces at sbe.org [mailto:sbe-bounces at sbe.org] On Behalf Of Cowboy
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 10:10 AM
To: sbe member discussion mail list
Subject: Re: [SBE] going green

On Monday 05 May 2008 12:03 pm, Gary Blievernicht wrote:

>  Our projected savings were eaten alive by having to replace the failed

top beacon on a 1,000 ft tower.  It would have been far cheaper to replace
the bulbs several times.    Then the replacement unit does not like cold
weather, intermittently fails to start at all.  This last winter we had to
leave the lights on 24/7 to keep the beacon blinking (as opposed to off)

>  

>  oh well.


 What I'm getting here, is that LED lighting is a really good idea  that
just doesn't yet work.

--
Cowboy

http://cowboys.homeip.net

You can never tell which way the train went by looking at the tracks.

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