Emergency LED Lamp: Features and Function

Emergency lighting stands for ensuring human security during emergencies. The emergency LED lamp has one main purpose - to ensure a possible evacuation of a person at the moment of sudden switching off of general lighting. In most industrial and public organizations, the issue of organizing emergency lighting remains relevant at any time.

In which rooms emergency lighting is installed

Normative acts oblige owners of premises for various purposes to install LED emergency lighting fixtures. In order to avoid the occurrence of human casualties during various threats (fire, flooding, gas leakage, etc.), similar light sources should be installed in the following rooms:

• Hospitals.
• Airports.
• Office buildings.
• Commercial objects.
• Industrial enterprises.
• Schools.
• Stations.
• Kindergartens.
• Sports complexes, etc.

Types of emergency lighting

• Evacuation. An emergency LED lamp in such a system serves to ensure safe conditions during the evacuation of people. As a rule, it is installed at the fire exits and near the rooms where the fire protection means are stored.
• Standby. In this system, an emergency luminaire with an LED battery is mounted. It allows the lighting system to operate for a long time in normal mode.
• Production. Emergency lighting installed in areas of increased danger. Used in rooms where serious work is being done. Provides the correct operation of lighting under all conditions.

Required installation points

Emergency light LED (LED) in evacuation lighting and a light source in the emergency lighting system are two different things. The first serve only to indicate the way of evacuation. With emergency devices, everything is much more complicated.

To ensure that emergency lighting meets the set of regulations and rules, it is necessary to identify the most important points for its installation:

• The way of evacuation (sign "exit" above the street door or in another room, on which the direction of movement must be indicated).
• Premises, the size of which exceeds sixty square meters (hotel, hospital lounges, the central room of the airport or railway station, etc.).
• Premises of increased risk (public or industrial, where particularly hazardous activities are carried out).
• Important rooms (elevator, staircase, transformer, technical, escalators).
• Premises without windows, the size of which does not exceed eight square meters (toilets, etc.).
• Dangerous places (intersections of corridors, steps, staircases, turnpike areas in the corridors).

Types of emergency lighting

Any emergency LED lamp is used for human safety at the time of switching off the main light. It is used for safe evacuation, to quickly eliminate the cause of the failure of the main power source and the safe completion of the work process.

There are five types of emergency lighting fixtures.

• Constant (the name speaks for itself).
• Unstable (only included in the event of a malfunction in the central lighting system).
• Combined (equipped with two lamps for different purposes, the first lamp is responsible for emergency light, the second - for the worker).
• Centralized (fed by the central system).
• Stand-alone (emergency luminaire with battery LED).

Accumulator devices

Sources of emergency light, which are equipped with a battery, are considered preferable. The advantage is that their work is completely independent of the state of the central lighting system. And if the main road during a fire or any other emergency situation is damaged, an emergency LED lamp with battery can give the necessary light.

The second significant advantage of such devices is their quick and easy installation. Installation can be carried out by people who do not have the proper experience and knowledge of the issue. When choosing batteries, it is very important to pay attention to the quality of the battery. Also a very important point is the timely recharging. In the staff of staff there must necessarily be a person who would be responsible for the condition of the batteries of emergency light sources. Otherwise, in case of emergency and dangerous, the devices will simply remain idle due to the absence of a central current from which they can be recharged.

Advantages of LED emergency lighting

Advantages of LED lighting for emergency lighting systems include the following:

• Long service life.
• Security.
• Economical.
• Full bright light already at system start.
• Simple installation.
• Variety of shapes and sizes.