Industry Magazine Canterra Lighting Magazine Spring 2017 | страница 8

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MAXLITE LED LIGHTBARS
Arizona Starbucks Illuminates Wall Mural
A NEWLY renovated Starbucks coffee house in Tempe,
Arizona, features a new 16-foot cartography-inspired bold
mural with flowers in an old-world painting style positioned
along the customer seating area. While the mural had a strong
use of shape and line with rich colors, the painting needed good
quality lighting that would transition it from a backsplash to a
focal point in the room. Play LED lightbars, installed in a complete circuit around the
mural beneath a frame. The cool operating fixtures now provide
a balanced glow of warm color that enriches the mood of the
mural and draws customers in to view and enjoy.
The LED fixtures will save the coffee house 78 percent in
energy, or 12,200 kWh, and $2,404 in energy and maintenance
costs throughout L70-rated the 50,000-hour lifetime of the
fixtures, compared with the proposed halogen PAR38 bulbs.
“OUR CLIENT WAS VERY IMPRESSED WITH
THE UNIFORM LIGHTING THE LED LIGHTBARS
PROVIDED, AND THEY THOUGHT IT PROVIDED
SUPERIOR LIGHT TO THE FOUR SPOT LIGHTS.
THE LIGHT HAS A SMOOTH LOOK TO IT
VERSUS THE BRIGHT SPOTLIGHTS WE WERE
PREVIOUSLY USING WHICH HAD MORE OF A
SHARP EDGE OF LIGHT AND BURNED REALLY
HOT. THEY ALSO COULDN’T BELIEVE HOW
COOL THE LEDS WERE, EVEN AFTER BEING ON
FOR SEVERAL HOURS.” MaxLite
MaxLite has been committed to providing energy-efficient
lighting products for the last 20 years, and was one of the
first movers into LED technology in the industry. An ENERGY
STAR ® Partner of the
Year, MaxLite established
the MaxLED ® brand, an
extensive line of state-of-
the-art indoor and outdoor
lamps and luminaires.
- Richard Antiporda
Vice President of Sales, Canterra Lighting
Richard Antiporda of Canterra Lighting in Scottsdale, Arizona,
worked with the Starbucks to find an energy-efficient and low-
maintenance alternative to using four 85-watt halogen PAR38
bulbs, which are known to frequently burn out and would leave
the mural unlit in large areas; even when fully lit, the PARs
would produce sharp lines and bright spots that would distract
customers from the artwork.
Starbucks chose to install 16 of MaxLite’s six-watt Plug-and-
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