Post Top Luminaire Base optimizes safety during maintenance.
August 9, 2011 -
Combining classic styling with design features that help facilitate luminaire maintenance, Utility Base Series has removable access door with tool-less spring latch. Safety cable on door prevents it from falling to ground below where it could cause injury. Removable modular ballast tray, which slides out to allow access to electrical components, utilizes quick disconnects for power supply conductors and lamp socket conductors. Tray also has option for NEMA locking type photo control.
Original Press release
Sentry Electric, LLC
185 Buffalo Ave.
Freeport, NY, 11520
USA
Sentry Electric Introduces Utility Base for Post Top Luminaires
Customers To Realize Operating Cost Reductions While Simultaneously Improving Safety For Service Personnel
FREEPORT, NY, - Sentry Electric, one of North America's oldest and most knowledgeable manufacturers of outdoor lighting luminaires, introduces its new Utility Base for post top luminaires. The Utility Base series combines classic, historic styling with design features that help facilitate luminaire maintenance and reduce operating costs. Utilities, municipalities, streetlight maintenance contractors, and facility personnel will appreciate working with the easily accessible ballast housing as well as realize improved safety during service operations.
Road construction personnel, as cited by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, experience on the job injuries and fatalities at much higher rates than most other professions. Within this category are utility workers and other professionals that frequently perform streetlight maintenance. They encounter elevated risks while servicing lights along roadways and other busy public spaces. And for motorists and pedestrians, servicing of luminaires means frustration, as traffic lanes, sidewalks, and pathways must be closed down to allow service crews to perform their tasks. Sentry's new Utility Base series has a feature set that positively contributes to faster and easier servicing, which will inherently reduce safety risks, reduce traffic congestion, reduce maintenance costs, and relieve stress for all involved.
The first significant feature of the Utility Base series is the easily removable access door. A tool-less spring latch allows service personnel to quickly open and close the door without having to utilize screw drivers and other similar tools. A safety cable on the door prevents it from falling to the ground below, where it could inadvertently cause injury to service personnel and passersby.
Once inside the ballast chamber, service personnel will appreciate the large opening and the easily removable ballast tray, which slides out to allow access to the electrical components. The ballast tray is modular, and utilizes quick disconnects for power supply conductors and lamp socket conductors.
The ballast tray also has an option for a NEMA locking type photo control. This style of control allows for the broadest offering of photo control options while simultaneously reducing the necessary time for photo control servicing.
The exterior of the Utility Base is encompassed by contours and design elements that seamlessly blend with the aesthetics of Sentry Electric's luminaires and decorative poles. The expanded ballast housing, which is, on the whole, imperceptible to motorists and pedestrians alike, is an option with which the design community has readily expressed architectural acceptance.
About Sentry Electric:
Sentry Electric is North America's most responsive source of standard and custom, historically styled, exterior lighting, completely committed to end-to-end project success. The company's specification grade cast iron and aluminum luminaires/lamps, bollards, poles, brackets and accessories are installed across America's prestigious municipal street, park and university settings, including deployments at Yale University, Battery Park City in lower Manhattan, Indianapolis' Lower Canal Park, UCLA, and Ellis Island. Lighting designers and engineers, architects and urban planners all rely on the company's commitment to end-to-end project success and its unparalleled knowledge of architecturally significant exterior lighting, honed over the past sixty years.
Sentry's reputation for solid construction, its longevity in business and its custom design capabilities unquestionably made the company the right choice for outdoor luminaires for the recently rebuilt Yankee Stadium. The distinctive, elegant Riverside luminaire with a robust, durable cast iron pole are both standards now at the new "House That Ruth Built." www.SentryLighting.com/Project...
Sentry has produced award-winning outdoor lighting products, including the exclusive SCP Central Park tulip luminaire, the winner of a Central Park Conservancy design competition. Its rugged, cast aluminum structure meets New York City's vandal resistance specifications. Sentry's catalog includes a range of luminaires in a variety of styles that incorporate many different light sources, including LED, high intensity discharge (HID), compact fluorescent, induction and incandescent, for high efficiency, photometric performance, service life and energy use.
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