EverLast® Talks Glare: Industry Professionals Need to Take A Closer Look
August 28th, 2012 – A fast approaching “hot button” issue may be on the rise in the lighting industry as “glare” becomes more of an issue for the consumer. For those of you that are not aware of the differences in ‘glare’, below is a short overview of the two different types.
- Discomforting glare – Glare that is too bright, or hurtful to the eye.
- Disabling glare – Disabling glare may or may not be uncomfortable to the eye, but will impede vision.
When we see glare, there are two different mechanism’s reacting to glare that are either direct or reflective glare. Direct glare comes right from the light source, while reflective is more a veil of light, or a type of glare that you might see if you were viewing a magazine and there was light “reflected” on the magazine. Either can produce disabling or discomforting glare. See the below photos:
3 things of importance to take into consideration with the glare of the light are source luminance, background luminance, and angular size of the glare.
You may reduce glare by increasing luminous of the background. In example, if you were to paint a parking garage white then you would reduce the glare of light if it were painted black and so forth.
The reason that this is so important when you are selling EverLast® is because EverLast® has significantly lower glare than most all induction sources, and especially over LED’s. LED’s do not have the capability to reduce glare unless they have an optic solution or a diffuser and even in the event that they did, the diffuser would take away the efficiency of the LED fixture.
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