What advantages are there for induction lights v. metal halide?
One of the biggest advantages in application that induction lighting has over metal halides is the ability to instantly start and shut off. We see a worldwide increasing trend of growing replacement of metal halides to induction in areas like tunnel and street lighting. Why? Because a driver driving at 80kmh cannot afford to be inside a pitch dark tunnel for more than 2 minutes waiting for the metal halides to restart! Many tunnel lighting fixtures have an emergency direct current backup where the light will run on batteries until the electrical power is back up. Metal halides, once turned off in an outage require a cooling off period for the gases to return to a solid state before it can restart itself. A solution to this problem is to install fluorescent lamps such as T5’s or CFL lamps, as emergency lamps that will light up immediately. But that in turn increases the installation of fixtures and lights, as well as periodically testing these back up lamps to see if they are still func
