. . . from Stan Walercyzk, writing for Architectural SSL magazine:
The entire world will have to change the way maintenance is done with LEDs. Why? LEDs don’t really burn out, they just get dimmer and dimmer over time, like mercury vapor.
I have been in numerous industrial building and warehouses with 1000W mercury vapor high bays, which only provide about five footcandles. I told the maintenance people that this is underlit for work productivity safety, but they point up to the high bays and state the lamps are on, so they will not do anything.
There are millions and millions of LED exit signs and kits that are older than 10 years old. Many of these no longer provide sufficient light per National Fire Protection Agency (NFPA) or other codes. I also point this out to maintenance people, and they usually tell me the signs are working, so they are not going to do anything.
Hopefully it will not take something like people dying in an industrial accident or from not getting out of a burning office building fast enough from too little light, which could also result in massive lawsuits and maybe even destroying some companies and organizations.
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