About LED Stadium lights
How to select Rugby Field Lights
What is the requirement on the rugby field lighting?
The general idea is that the LED high mast light should be bright and uniform enough, which are the lighting standard of Rugby Football Union (RFU). LED is a proper choice of the metal halide replacement for rugby ground lights because of higher energy efficiency, life span, and safety. Let’s find out the ways to light up the football pitch step-by-step.
Size of field
In this case study, we assume the size of full field is 120 * 70 meters, though the actual dimension may vary a little bit. we offer the high mast lights for rugby field, such as 4 poles and 6 poles.
Brightness and uniformity
When it comes to power selection on the rugby stadium lights, we can make a reference to the guideline imposed by RFU, which states that for the recreational and general commercial use, the lux requirement is about 250 to 300 lux. What does it mean? We may have the following estimation.
The total lumen needed = 250 * 120 * 70 = 2,100,000 lumens. For our LED rugby field lighting, it is equivalent to 14000 Watts, which will needs such as 14pcs 1000W LED stadium flood lights. Then, the lighting uniformity is about 0.6, which is a normal value for sports field.
How to achieve such the value?
Our engineers will make use of lighting design software called DIALux to simulate the illuminance on the ground. By choosing different individual power and beam angle of LED stadium lights, we can supply you with the best rugby field lighting solution.
By the way, it will need 200-400 lux is for usually exercise, 500 - 1000lux for professional match or official match, 1500 lux is for HD live TV broadcasting.
Why using LED lights for rugby fields?
LED stadium flood lighting has exceptionally long-life span of 50,000 to 80,000 hours. In 2018, we improve the LED chips arrangement and heat dissipation system, therefore, the heat accumulation inside the lights is reduced by 30% more than the past design. Heat is a paramount factor for the working time of luminaires because poor thermal condition will surely decline its performance.
LED high mast lights are much durable than metal halide, HID or HPS lamps. And our sports field lights with IP66 waterproof and 10KV SPD, they can work smoothly under thunderstorm or other bad weather.
Besides, with Lumileds LED & robust MW ELG power supply and our advanced cold-resistant treatment, our 600W and 800W LED flood lights are able to work admirably under the extreme low temperature of -40°C. More than 200 pieces lighting (half project) for Chimbulak Ski Resort in Almaty of Kazakhstan, which are performance very well for years.
We would like to share the work we do from lighting design to lamps installation and lighting effect. Some video taken by smart phone from the customer. Chimbulak Ski Resort is very famous place locates approx. 20 minutes by car from the city of Almaty, and its altitude is 3300mts, drop height 900mts. When our led flood lights lighting up at night time, peole in the city think it is a gigantic ultra-bright flying UFO and take videos to share on SNS.