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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
LiteHawk
solution is a
special application of our E-Series modules designed specifically for 20
amp 120 or 240 Volt environments requiring high quality lighting and
exceptional energy savings.
Typical applications are in billboards, street lights, and service
station canopies using 250 to 400 watt HID fixtures and is also
applicable to fluorescent fixtures with similar lighting loads.
Whether you plan to
design in your
energy savings or
upgrade your
existing environment
to be more efficient,
the LiteHawk 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
LiteHawk patented energy-saving lighting power controller is a special
application of our E-Series solution.
The LiteHawk comes in its own NEMA 3 enclosure ready for
installation and provides 3 energy savings levels for 12% to 20%.
The LiteHawk enables you to easily upgrade your 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. LiteHawk units
are quickly and easily installed between the circuit breaker and the
lighting load. You may also
place a timer or photocell between the circuit breaker and the LiteHawk
providing greater energy savings.
How it works:
Active ES LiteHawk controls utilize an elegantly simple patented
and UL Listed autotransformer and switch combination to provide a line
voltage reduction of 10% to 20% 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 costs.
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 LiteHawk energy saving lighting controls allow you to
select from 12% to 20% savings in lighting energy consumption based on
your environment and performance requirements. For example, a typical
gas station canopy structure with 8 400 Watt Metal Halide fixtures will
draw about 16 Megawatts annually set to a 20% savings will produce 3.2
Negawatts annually. That’s a direct reduction in 76,800 pounds of Carbon
Dioxide, 134 pounds of Sulfur Dioxide, 223 pounds of Nitrogen Oxide and
conserves an amazing 80,000 gallons of fresh water. 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
Click here for the Technical Specifications (PDF).
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