Taking a walk on Holophane's night-time demo lighting tour
The latest entry in Electrical Wholesaling's “Now why didn't some think of this before?” contest is Holophane's Night Time Demo, which you can take by appointment at the Acuity Brands campus in Granville, Ohio, or by clicking through this online tour.
The tour is intended to help customers increase their outdoor lighting knowledge by walking through a series of outdoor lighting environments and experiencing first-hand the quality of different outdoor lighting technologies. The Night Time Demo includes dozens of outdoor lighting solutions displayed in multiple environments -- walkways, parking lots, streets and roadways - throughout the Acuity Brands campus in Granville. The demonstration site allows customers to view product performance, observe lighting effects, compare different lighting sources, and survey multiple luminaire styles.
"It's an extremely efficient and productive way to experience outdoor lighting technologies in real applications," said Greg Subisak, director of lighting education for the Granville facility, "In many cases, an instantaneous comparison of systems can be viewed. For example, a comparison of a road lit with luminaires using an LED light source and the same road lit with luminaires using a high pressure sodium light source can be made at several viewing stations."
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Jim Lucy has been wandering through the electrical market for more than 30 years, most of the time as an editor for Electrical Wholesaling, Electrical Marketing newsletter and CEE News. During that time he and the editorial team for the publications have won numerous national awards for their coverage of the electrical business. He showed an early interest in electricity, when as a youth he had an idea for a hot dog cooker. Unfortunately, the first crude prototype malfunctioned and the arc nearly blew him out of his parents' basement. Before becoming an editor for Electrical Wholesaling magazine and Electrical Marketing, he earned a BA degree in journalism and a MA in communications from Glassboro State College, Glassboro, NJ., which is formerly best known as the site of the 1967 summit meeting between President Lyndon Johnson and Russian Premier Aleksei Nikolayevich Kosygin, and now best known as the New Jersey state college that changed its name in 1992 to Rowan University because of a generous $100 million donation by N.J. zillionaire industrialist Henry Rowan. Jim is a Brooklyn-born Jersey Guy happily transplanted in the fertile plains of Kansas for the past 20 years.