What are Emergency Lights Used For?
So let’s start by asking why these lights are really needed. People will need them for personal tasks, such as working on paperwork at a desk, or working on a patient, which generally require both hands and relatively bright area lighting (not just a narrow spotlight), and for this, headlamps are clearly superior. But people also will need them for area lighting, such as at a nursing station. So there are really two types of lights that are needed. • If the power goes off entirely, despite generators and backup generators, the outage will generally be short, a few hours at most. And those who need lights need lights now. And so the lights should be easy to use (no complicated controls), and usable right out of the box, or with minimal preparation that requires no instruction or reading of instructions. And these power outages won’t happen very often, so the light needs to have a long shelf life. • On the other hand, if there is a massive disaster, the lights may need to be used for a l
So lets start by asking why these lights are really needed. People will need them for personal tasks, such as working on paperwork at a desk, or working on a patient, which generally require both hands and relatively bright area lighting (not just a narrow spotlight), and for this, headlamps are clearly superior. But people also will need them for area lighting, such as at a nursing station. So there are really two types of lights that are needed. 1. If the power goes off entirely, despite generators and backup generators, the outage will generally be short, a few hours at most. And those who need lights need lights now. And so the lights should be easy to use (no complicated controls), and usable right out of the box, or with minimal preparation that requires no instruction or reading of instructions. And these power outages wont happen very often, so the light need to have a long shelf-life. 2. On the other hand, if there is a massive disaster, the lights may need to be used for a lo
