High-lumen floodlights are designed to illuminate large areas and serve a variety of applications depending on their light output and beam angles. When planning specialist applications, look for the combination of lumen output and beam angle to suit your requirements.
Most often, a combination of floods can be used to achieve perfect light coverage. Radiant has put together some use case examples to highlight the different applications:
Example 1
A Radiant Lighting 75,000-lumen, 500 W integrated LED floodlight (extreme brightness) with a 60-degree beam angle:
- Stadiums and arenas: These floodlights are typically mounted high and require intense brightness to light up large spaces from a distance. A 60-degree beam angle works well here to focus the intense light onto the field or arena floor.
- Industrial yards and ports: The 60-degree beam angle makes this application suitable for illuminating specific, open outdoor spaces, ensuring worker safety and clear visibility during nighttime operations.
In this instance, the combination of high lumens and 60-degree beam angle offers highly focused, long-range lighting.
Example 2
A Radiant Lighting adjustable 36,000-lumen 150 W-240 W Integrated LED floodlight (moderate-high brightness) with 120-degree beam angle:
- Sports fields and medium-sized parking lots: A 36,000-lumen floodlight with a 120-degree beam angle is excellent for lighting wide areas like sports fields, basketball courts, or parking lots, where moderate distance and brightness are needed.
- Building exteriors and warehouses: Illuminate larger surfaces such as building exteriors, warehouse yards, or residential compounds, with sufficient light without oversaturation.
- Concerts and outdoor events: A wider 120-degree beam angle is often used to illuminate stages, audience areas, or festival grounds, providing more diffuse, evenly spread light.
Here, the combination of high lumens and 120-degree beam angle is useful for illuminating broad areas like event grounds, concert venues, or open fields, where evenly distributed light is needed.
Example 3
A Radiant Lighting 15,000-lumen, 100 W Integrated LED floodlight (moderate brightness) with a 90-degree beam angle:
- Small parking lots or gardens: A 15,000-lumen floodlight with a 90-degree beam angle can provide targeted light to small spaces, such as home gardens, smaller parking lots, or walkways.
- Security lighting: This type of lighting covers a wide perimeter in residential or small commercial settings, ensuring broad visibility while maintaining moderate brightness.
- Small architectural or landscape lighting: Illuminate building facades, small parks, or landscape features with focused lighting.
In these examples, the 90-degree beam, in combination with the relatively lower 15,000 lumens, provides balanced lighting for mid-sized spaces.
In summary, the choice of lumen output and beam angle depends on the size of the area and the desired lighting intensity.
To establish the correct lighting performance for the areas mentioned above, a lighting design should be done to determine the lux levels needed to achieve the desired lighting performance and levels required.
When making your purchase, it is well worth factoring in the relevant warranty period, too. The Radiant Lighting options mentioned are all covered by a five-year warranty, so once they are installed, these low-maintenance solutions need no further attention.