ARTICLES & REPORTS

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WRITTEN BY STAN WALERCZYK

Hibays

Hibays – It’s all about the Details

 

New Capabilities for High-Bay Metal Halide Technology, co-written by Ira Krepchin, www.esource.com (paid members only)

 

MH vs. FLUORESCENT – 10 Rounds in the Hibay Arena (upcoming and probably charge)

Various Topics in One Article

Cutting Edge Retrofitting, Relighting & Redesigning

 

Including extra efficient T8 ballasts and benefits of suspended indirect fixtures

4Rs Quarterly – December 2004 

 

Last One, Let’s have some Fun

 

How much Office Workers can dislike Direct Troffers

 

Reality Check – Technologies that save More and Less than Expected

 

4Rs

 

Best Practice - Revisited

 

Retrofit Heaven

 

Be Creative

 

Tube Guards for T8s

 

High Performance Hibays

 

Example of Why it was Worth Spending so much Tim Writing this Column

 

Another Lighting Dude in the Family

3Rs Quarterly – September 2004 

 

Best Practice

 

Scotopically Enhanced Lighting

 

Help Stamp Out T12s

 

Snapback

 

Not all Footnotes are Boilerplate

 

Sustainability

 

Walk the Talk

3Rs Quarterly – June 2004

 

Should PS Ballasts be required for T8 Lamps with Occupancy Sensors?

 

Do Dimming Ballasts really save that much Energy?

 

T5HO Ballasts

 

Hibays

 

Controversial Topics

3Rs Quarterly – March 2004

 

Title Change

 

Is 3500K Really Neutral?

 

Full Spectrum Lighting

 

F32T8 Lamp Life

 

Ghost Savings

 

Fluorescent Lamp Efficacy Requires Ballast

 

NEC Case Study

 

New Cold Cathode Lamps

 

Lightfair

Retrofit/Upgrade Quarterly – September 2003

 

Changes in the Fall Wind

 

Return of the Dust Bowl

 

Ballast Temperature Concerns

 

What More can be Learned from Retrofitters

 

Why all the Fuss about 28 – 30 Watt F32T8s?

 

Modesto Irrigation District Case Study

 

Down (But Not Out) on DALI

 

Shadows on Daylight Studies

 

Scotopia

Retrofit/Upgrade Quarterly – June 2003

 

Smoke and Mirrors – Literally & Figuratively

 

Lamp holders for T8s & T5HOs

 

What was Expected is Starting to Happen

 

Scotopia in Photopia

Retrofit/Upgrade Quarterly – March 2003

 

How Designers and Retrofitters can learn from each other about Manufacturers

 

Acalanes Union High School District Case Study

 

Scotopically Enhanced Lighting

 

Voltage Reduction Systems

 

Marketing Games

 

T5HOs can be used in the Cold

 

Ethics

Retrofit/Upgrade Quarterly – December 2002

 

Stroboscopic Effect Hits Home

 

When it comes to Light, the End User is Most in the Dark

 

T8s & T5HOs

 

Scotopically Enhanced Lighting Case Study

Retrofit/Upgrade Quarterly – September 2002

 

Lightfair 2002

 

Scotopically Enhanced Lighting

 

Airport Hangar with 1000W MH hibays

 

 

Economics

Retrofit/Upgrade Quarterly – December 2003

Penny Wise and Dollar Foolish

Buyer Beware

Follow the Money

Dimming Ballasts - Buyer Beware

 

GLOSSARY

2006 White Papers Requiring Payment

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Best Practice Report (full document is 16 pages with numerous useful tables)

MH vs. FLUORESCENT – 10 Rounds in Hibay Arena  (full document is 22 pages)

The cost for each emailed complete white paper is $25.00. If both are ordered at same time, the total is $40.00.

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WRITTEN BY OTHERS

Spectrally Enhanced Lighting (formerly called Scotopically Enhanced Lighting)

Energy Conservation Using Scotopically Enhanced Lighting In An Office Environment, by Brian Liebel and Rita Lee of AfterImage+Space, www.netl.doe.gov, enter ‘scotopically’ in search box 

The Coming Revolution in Lighting Practice, by Dr. Sam Berman, October 2000, Energy User News, http://www.energyusernews.com/eun/cda/articleinformation/features/bnp__features__item/0,,14423,00+en-uss_01dbc.htm

Energy savings with a Twist – Scotopic Lighting Discoveries Could Rewrite Biology Books and The Advantage of Public Power delivers Big Cost Savings to NEC Electronics America through Scotopic Lighting, Roseville Electric 2003 Fall Newsletter,www.rosevilleelectric.org/newsInformation/newsletters/fall_03/bp_fall03.pdf

 

What is Visually Efficient Lighting, by Dr. Sam Berman and Brian Liebel

 

Elementary School Children Have Better Near Acuity under High Color Temperature Lighting, by Dr. Sam Berman, etal, 2004, Abstract only

T8s and ballasts

Super T8s: Super Lamps, Super Ballasts, by Robert Sardinsky and James Benya, www.esource.com  (for paid members only)

Reality check on full spectrum lighting

Full-Spectrum Light Sources, by Mark Rea, Lei Deng & Robert Wolsey, LRC/NLPIP, www.lrc.rpi.edu/programs/nlpip/publicationDetails.asp?id=887&type=2

Environmental and Sustainability

Re-Wiring the Manufacturing Process, Taking the LEED in Lighting Design, and Principles of Sustainability, and potential upcoming ones, all by Denise B. Fong at Candela, www.candela.com/spotlight/articles.asp

Various papers by Alicia Culver of EnviroSpec, www.enviroSpec.org

 

March 14, 2006 version

 

Revised: January 05, 2009