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8power. There are many factors affecting an illuminator’s lifetime, but
most reputable lighting manufacturers should be able to provide their products’ lifetime curve (power against time) – or how else did they calculate their lifetime claim?
Specification/features It is also important that your chosen illuminator can provide the level of functionality needed to meet your installation requirements. As an absolute minimum, your illuminator should provide: Photocell, Photocell Adjust, Power Adjust and Telemetry Control. Desired features could include: adjustable angles, photocell following output, hot-spot reduction technology. Advanced features could include: remote controller, timer function, IP addressable.
The future of surveillance lighting standardisation Raytec has invited all major lighting manufacturers to play an active role in helping to formulate this new standard and are delighted to advise that they have generally agreed with the theory behind ‘POWERS’. Hopefully in time, all reputable manufacturers will commit to measuring their lighting performance in accordance with the standard and publish the proposed information so that customers can have consistent and reliable information on which to base their choices. In addition, Raytec will offer testing of third party products in accordance with the standard, so where there is no published information available, Raytec will measure the product and provide the relevant information. Going forward, we will be publishing ‘POWERS’ information for all our new and A-line products and will continue to work closely with
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Figure 6: Example of “POWERS” data for Raytec VARIO2 model (product launching Jan ‘16)
other manufacturers and customers to evolve the standard over time in accordance with technology advances. We guarantee that at Raytec we are working hard to ensure that the standard becomes widely adopted and used for the benefit of everyone across the industry. n
To learn more on the ‘POWERS’ standard visit www.rayteccctv.com to
listen to the first webinar on the new standard – or alternatively email sales@rayteccctv.com or call: +44 (0) 1670 520055