The Importance Of High Intensity Tower Lighting

By Carolyn Wilson


Quite a lot of thought and technology actually go into the trappings of modernity we take for granted nowadays. As innocuous passengers in an airline for example, there are only too many ways in which we describe our experiences, such as smooth, bad customer service, and the likes. However, the whole process is more convoluted than you think. Rarely do we take to account High intensity tower lighting, for example.

These are integral in that not so renowned enterprise called air traffic controlling. When we consider it, theres too many things that can happen up in the air. With a three hundred ton mammoth of steel up in the sky, the damage wrought by an uncontrolled collision is just too hard to fathom. Although an underappreciated job, we can agree that air traffic controllers do what should surely be among the most important jobs on Earth.

First off, you have the strobe lights, light bars, and other combinations and deviations. They aid in visibility and perception when it comes to aircraft approach. The operators in this are the definitive heroes in modern flights since time immemorial. After all, air travel is commonest now in this time and age, compared to other past eras. With lots of hundred ton metals up the sky, the chances are not exactly nil for some of them to meet.

In a typical sense, these strobes are usually attached atop tall structures, and examples can be many and sundry. Of course, its not tall enough so as to vie with the craft for airspace, seeing as how there are limits in structural heights around airport areas. However, they still have to stand out above the other average or above average buildings in the area. That includes towers and broadcast masts, electricity pylons, water tanks, cranes, wind turbines, and tall buildings.

There are many lamp types up for the taking. Generally, two major types and forms are commonly adhered to. First off, you have the red lamps, and secondly, theres the white xenon discharge flasher. The first is somewhat like a strobe light, which turns on and off in a gradual fashion over the course of a few seconds. Whatever the case, both have to be constantly illumined so as to achieve consistency and effectiveness.

The quality of the lighting system is still definitive here, or else it will be all for naught. The lights should function at a higher visibility and intensity so as to contend with the other contributors to light spill and sky glow. The lighting category needs to be the biggest, most considerable, and most visible around. That will make all the difference, no doubt.

What applies now doesnt generally apply to thirty years back. For example, nowadays, theres greater light pollution. All the city glow and light spills make this enterprise harder than its originally cut out to be. Add to the fact that fog and smog are more rampant nowadays, thanks or no thanks rather to greater pollution. Theres a greater need for the strobe lights to stand out. Another trend is that air flight is more frequent nowadays. And of course, higher frequency of an event, the higher the frequency of accidents. Efforts should be greater now than they were back then.

The use of these lighting systems are such. They warn other aircraft of another crafts presence. Therefore, it isnt necessarily tower based. You also have those that function as landing lights, flashing beacons, navigation lights, and wingtip strobes. This is a system with many and sundry parts, all of them necessary and indispensable.

Since this system has to be in use twenty four seven, then its utilization and function must be unflagging. Aside from being intensely useful and functional, youll also have to see different applications, such as in being energy efficient and environmentally compliant. In that way, youll be at ease with your product in a comprehensive and across the board way, leaving no room for regrets, if onlies, and other expressions of dissatisfaction. That also translates to great quality.




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