Battery powered and dedicated luminaires are the standard for emergency lighting within the UK, it’s more common to convert standard mains luminaires, giving you a number of design advantages.
However, this method does have a possible downside. Poorly constructed, designed and tested conversions can cause installation problems and become a safety risk. Unfortunately, the desire for cost-cutting combined with badly conceived and or open specifications, leads to conversions that ignore the complexity of the host luminaire, and in some cases be extremely dangerous.
At Coco lighting we ensure all our products are designed, manufactured and individually tested before leaving the factory. We pride ourselves in being one of the UK's best luminaire lighting conversion companies around.
Coco Lighting are registered with the UK’s Industry Committee for Emergency Lighting (ICEL) ICEL 1004. This ensures that our conversions are fully compliant in line with best practice and tests to ICEL document 1004:2013 This sets out the requirements for the conversion of luminaires to emergency operation and provides a clear understanding of the legal obligations
On average UK businesses use up to 35% of their electricity consumption just on lighting, so the beneftis of converting your existing lighting to LED can help companies cut their fixed costs dramatically. Lighting bills can be reduced by up to 90% and a quick payback of the initial investment can be achieved thanks to the great energy efficiency of LED lighting.
Comparisons of energy consumption between traditional fluorescent and LED emergency lighting generally have LED lighting coming out on top. Normally LED luminaires will use less than half the energy and fewer luminaires will be required, as controlling where the light goes is easier. A comparison of an emergency lighting scheme using 200 x 8W fluorescent self-contained luminaires showed that only 130 LED self-contained luminaires – using less than a third of the energy of the old scheme.
Your existing mains luminaires, such as T5 fittings would be re-engineered into your emergency luminaires by the addition of an emergency LED source rather than using the existing T5 lamps as the emergency lighting source. Our re-engineering process is handled correctly by following the ICEL 1004 guide.
Also you won’t have to worry about replacing lamps for a very long time because LED lamps have a lifespan of about 20 years and are more resistant to vibrations and shocks, which makes them more durable and difficult to break.