[SBE] LED tower lighting
Hand, Ted
Ted.Hand at wsoc-tv.com
Mon May 5 13:09:57 EDT 2008
SSAC. Part FB9L. Monitors led beacons
Ted hand
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----- Original Message -----
From: sbe-bounces at sbe.org <sbe-bounces at sbe.org>
To: sbe at sbe.org <sbe at sbe.org>
Sent: Mon May 05 13:04:48 2008
Subject: Re: [SBE] LED tower lighting
I'm curious to hear from someone with LED beacons. How have they survived the top spot on the tower?
Also, has someone figured out a way to monitor the current draw situation that Cris describes?
Chriss
----- Original Message -----
From: Cris Alexander <crisa at crawfordbroadcasting.com>
Date: Monday, May 5, 2008 11:20 am
Subject: Re: [SBE] going green
> 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 --
> especiallyon insulated AM towers.
> ______________________________
> Cris Alexander, CPBE, AMD, DRB
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