Outdoor Light Fixtures

Outdoor light fixtures for most parking lots are on a 25 to 30 foot light pole. These fixtures come in many shapes and sizes with a variety of voltages and lamp choices. Typically these pole lights are either high pressure sodium, metal halide or mercury vapor. Lamps go out usually in a year, however, hid lighting suffers from a reduction of lumens over time resulting in a loss of light output even though lamps are still burning.

You can identify which type of light you have in your parking lot by the color emitted by your lamp. Metal halide lamps cast a white light, high pressure sodium lamps emit a yellowish hue and mercury vapor lamps project a light blue color that works nicely as landscape lighting. These pole lights, as different as they seem, have one common flaw. They are inaccessible.