today we're going to look at the Phillips Coreline tempo range of LED floodlights
that's not a floodlight gary this is a floodlight
Didn't Crocodile Dundee say something like?
okay i've got the small what have you got? This is the XL but it's the Coreline range we've
looked at that quite a bit on the channel before we looked at the high bay lights
we looked at the Interact Pro control system and some of those core line lights that work with that
this flood lighting range that continues but when i think core line gary what have we learned about
it so far i'm thinking quality and ease of installation gordon exactly and we'll start
with the easiest bit the electrician worries about it comes with some rubberized cable on
it and a simple connector on this version of the connector on the one you've got there goes yes
in-line termination it is because obviously that's a lot lighter than this unit here so that's the
that's the easy bit but some of the features we immediately recognize that we've spoken before
is the service tag over there so we have made a video about the service tag that's great for
anyone who's looking at the long-term maintenance check out that video if you haven't seen it
with this there off we offer some spare stickers okay so spare stickers i suppose you could leave
one in the manual and the handover documents that you have where else could you leave the
sticker gordon well with this obviously this is a huge amount of light comes from this product
i'd suggest it's going to end up quite high up in the air the last thing you want to be doing
is going up in the air to find the service tag to come back down again so you get that spare sticker
possibly put in the bottom of the column if it's on a column or yeah the fuse distribution board uh
if on there so that's uh yeah that's the that's the first features we're used to seeing on the
core line product what about the optics in here because they look completely different to what i'm
used to seeing gordon you're right gary because normally what would you see on a floodlight you
go down the wholesale count there's lots of floodlights available people buy buy wattage
and you've got this yellow square in the middle and some metal work there isn't actually much
optical performance uh going on there this is different with the coreline range and that's the
that's probably when you start thinking about specifying floodlights it makes a huge difference
not in terms you know thinking about things like light pollution but where that light
goes okay we'll look at regulations a little bit further on everyone loves the regulation
but two optical footprints come with your one there your
your smaller one in this large one described as symmetrical and asymmetrical okay i'll let
you continue on with your descriptions now okay symmetrical evenly distributed light
from from all sides of the product asymmetrical is quite useful so most of the light actually
comes forward okay yeah so that's useful so say you're mounting this on a on a building wall
okay and you don't actually want the light going behind you because that's wasted like in most
instances so that would be like being thrown back to the surface the wall et cetera yeah
yeah so you want the light to be thrown outwards outward and think you know if you're lighting a
car park or possibly a sports area with these larger units that's what you'd want you'd put
them around the edge of the pitch or the tennis court or whatever and the light would project
onto the area right and you know you will still get some light going backwards but that's possibly
not where you want so that's asymmetric optics it's a it's a huge um huge design advantage and
obviously remember wasted light is also wasted energy yeah so if you've got that kind of
that distribution it is a way of saving energy if you correctly design your installation i'm talking
about energy obviously that is a very large unit it's the xl as you told me already what's the
power rating of that so this is a 250 watt unit at 36 000 lumens pretty bright then so well you're
down at a 38 watts and 4 200 lumens so obviously for different uh applications so you're probably
sort of general lighting you might like some signage with that possibly some landscape lighting
where this is for that large car parks some sports lighting applications things like that okay and
that that power rating there is there any way that we can perhaps reduce that power rate and dim
it down okay so that's possibly something people don't necessarily think about when you think about
flood lights is the fact you can actually dim them now there's a there's a few reasons you
might want to do that if you're designing a lighting installation you're probably going to
reference the SLL handbook right okay let's bring that in yes if anyone wants guidance on actually
where you get light levels for applications from that book is peppered with applications
you know this might end up on a loading bay and in there you'll get some guidance on the deluxe level
you need to achieve uniformity so difference between minimum maximum output in an area
and that's done for an application so a loading bed suggests what you're doing in the loading bay
usually moving items around from one place to another yeah exactly loading a lorry something
like that people actually doing the work yes getting the right light level for that but
perhaps there's a time of the day when it's not being used okay so maybe everyone's gone home
and maybe security guards are patrolling that area don't need the same level of light yeah so you can
in that instance reduce the light level down right and obviously it's a different application at that
time of day and and that is a great way of saving energy so let's just have a look at what happens
when we do that okay let's bring that in what i've got here gary i've connected the floodlight to
this programmable power meter and what we can see on the display there's our incoming line voltage
around about 230 volts as you'd expect current being consumed and the power so nearly 250 watts
which is the rating of the unit let's just check the power factor while we're here just checking
one's been fibbing on the data sheet 0.98 which is a good thing so i'm not far off unity on that
i've also got a DALI dimmer that's connected to the floodlight so this is five-wire connection
to the unit itself our line, neutral,cpc and then two wires for that dolly connection
so i'm now going to start dialing the power down and we should see the light start
to dim so at full brightness at the minute full brightness and full power
so i'll start taking that down and you'll see the light slowly start to dim as well
keep on going so now we're down at around 30 watts so we're getting towards sort of 10
of our initial power so that represents the significant power serving and obviously we still
have a significant amount of light coming out of the unit as well okay you've got some blue caps
there on the side of yours and i've got some dials on the side of me can you just explain to me what
they are going on okay so we spoke briefly about optics so if you're using optics you're probably
going to do quite a detailed design study of the application yes and obviously you can
adjust your application in terms of where the lights going by slightly tilting the fitting
right you probably just wouldn't do that on site you'd probably do that as a design thing so say
in your design you'd say i'm going to set it to say 20 degrees up from that from that
horizontal point right there's some useful markings on the side which you can see there
so you lock that into position obviously again it would be left in the handbook left behind
and then obviously if it ever got knocked or hit you'd know that you've got to return it to the
appropriate angle gordon yes that's it exactly and that's the same on the on the smaller one
as well that's cast into the aluminium yes it is let's have another little look at that then yeah
you're right it is so it's just there on there so you can set the angle on that one as well
nice touch very nice touch so both robust units you know commonly different completely different
size ranges lumen package outputs both efficient you know we're over 100 lumens per watt uh 75 000
hours alive to l80 on there and it's up to 100 000 hours in the xl range right on my p65 and this is
IP66 um so again very similar common glass front which is a good thing so you know glass tends to
be self-cleaning and there's no way for dust to build up on that so you keep that uh good lumen
output throughout the life of the product so these fittings got an incredible amount of electronics
in them gordon is there any protection measures been built in yeah again something people don't
necessarily think about external installation probably remote from a building cable lengths
you think about surge protection coming into the building but obviously forget that actually those
cables going out to flood lights these tend to be up on the tall poles things like that
surge protection built in to protect from those atmospheric transients that can happen
in any electrical installation but particularly important in lights that's a nice little touch
again as you know they're all built in yeah well you're paying for reliability you want
to make sure that obviously carries through the whole duration of your installation i'll speak
to your Philips representative to talk about some of the other optical versions available and some
of the special protection for swimming pool and marine salt environments we're always interested
in your comments are you currently fitting any industrial or commercial style led lights what's
your go-to lighting product have you fitted this range before from philips the coreline tempo
range if you have we'd love to hear your comments and we'll try and get back to as many as we can