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Managing Energy Costs - Not Lights
If you need the lights on and want to reduce your energy consumption,
Active ES is the solution.
The Active ES
E-Series
solution
allows you to harvest energy savings without having to manage your
individual HID or Fluorescent light fixtures.
Whether you plan to
design in
your energy
savings or
upgrade your
existing environment
to be more efficient,
the E-Series lighting controls allow you to build and maintain the
productive, efficient lighting environment you require.
Once your energy savings are set the savings are automatic –
there’s no management required to set and adjust timers, sensors, or
software.
Overview:
The
E-Series
patented energy-saving lighting power controller provides an upgrade to
existing and new facilities by emulating an Active or Compensating
Ballast for HID and Fluorescent lamps at the circuit breaker level.
HID and most fluorescent fixtures utilize magnetic or passive
electronic ballasts to provide ignition level power creating the initial
arc and ignition of the lamp.
Once fully ignited these lamps do not require the same level
energy to maintain the arc or the brightness of the lamp.
Active ES controls are designed to supply full power for the
specific period of time that is required to bring the lamps to full
brightness and maintain the lamp warranty, it then automatically reduces
the power supplied to the lamps, saving energy and extending lamp and
ballast life. E-Series
modules are installed between the circuit breaker and the lighting load
and are matched to the circuit breaker capacity – i.e. 20 amp 277 Volt –
a basic survey by your electrician can identify exactly what you will
need to start saving energy.
How
it works:
Active ES controls utilize an elegantly simple patented and UL
Listed autotransformer and switch combination to provide a line voltage
reduction of 10% to 36% based on the needs of your environment and
energy savings goals.
Through 20 years of production and refinement we have shown that the
clean and efficient use of an autotransformer provides the desired
energy savings with no adverse effects to the sine wave – in fact, the
inherent nature of the transformer reducing the sine wave actually
slightly improves power factor and harmonics as opposed to other digital
methods that introduce negative line conditions through chopping or
limiting the sine wave.
Our controls are designed for use with HID lamps such as high and
low-pressure sodium, metal-halide, pulse-start, and mercury vapor, as
well as fluorescent or any combination of the above.
The controller uses 6 power saving settings to reduce the power
consumed by existing or new commercial and industrial lighting systems
by the amount you request, up to 36%.
What
to expect:
Energy
Savings and Better Lighting
The
“Designed Lumen Output”
of a lamp is measured at a point 40% into the time of a lamps rated
life. As the chart below shows, using the Active ES controls will
slightly reduce the initial lumen output of a new lamp but will maintain
the mean lumen output of the lamp above the Designed Lumen Output for a
greater length of time, thus providing overall better lighting for the
rated life of the lamp.
Damage caused by the high operating temperatures of HID lamps is
a significant factor in determining
“Rated Life”
and
“Efficient Life”
of a lamp. By reducing the excess energy that is normally dissipated as
heat, Active ES controls allow the lamps to operate efficiently at lower
temperatures extending the lamp and ballast effective life. Improved
mean lumen output and longer lamp life means fewer spent bulbs in our
landfills and lower maintenance cost
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Limited downtime –
after the Active ES controls are in place your electrician can make them
operational in moments – on your lunch hour for instance – minimizing
interruptions to your operations
• No cultural changes –
there’s no adoption phase or organizational change required as with
retrofits
• No added management duties –
set the savings settings once, no need to monitor the system nor
maintain the system
• Easy to maintain –
in most cases dust with an air blower just once a year
• Reliable proven technology –
Installations ranging back to 20 years with dependable, reliable
performance
• Documented Energy Savings –
By using data loggers with Active ES Controls in place
we can show your actual energy savings – not an approximation but actual
real time
energy reductions that utilities use to validate rebate programs
Energy Efficiency and Environmentally
Friendly:
How many Negawatts are you producing? Amory Lovins pioneered the concept
of “Negawatts” so that consumers, utilities and governments could
compare the cost of conservation measures against the cost of increasing
power production. Negawatts represent the Megawatts of power saved from
one application that is made available to another application.
Active ES E-Series energy saving lighting controls allow you to select
from 10% to 36% savings in lighting energy consumption based on your
environment and performance requirements. For example, a typical
warehouse structure drawing 1,100 Megawatts annually set to a 25%
savings will produce 275 Negawatts* annually. That’s a direct reduction
in 6,600,000 pounds of Carbon Dioxide, 11,480 pounds of Sulfur Dioxide,
19,140 pounds of Nitrogen Oxide and conserves an amazing 6,875,000
gallons of fresh water. At a rate of .10¢ per Kwh, that’s also $27,500
in business sustainability. And Active ES lighting controls are designed
and built to be easy on the environment. Our modular design can be
repurposed to future facilities, is 95% recyclable by weight, meets RoHS
compliance standards, and has an expected lifespan of decades.
Technical Specifications
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Technical Specifications (PDF).
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