How Save Money With Your Business

Running your own business can be stressful, you are always looking for ways to maximize your margin or to cut costs in some way. This could be achieved with outsourcing certain administration functions or letting more people work from home to cut down on very expensive office space.

However, one of the ways that people never think about when trying to save money is by reducing the lighting maintenance bill.

How could you save money on lighting?

Every CDM-T lamp made has a life span associated with it, this is designed by the manufactures. When a light gets to the end of this cycle the lamp could take longer to start or become a different color or even start to flicker. Sometimes you are even replacing the same tube over a monthly period.

However, no one ever changes the ballast, for those who are not familiar with the technical details of how a lamp works, read on. When you turn a light switch on in a office or commercial setting, the electricity flows through the switch and to the ballast, the electricity enters the ballast at 220 volts and the ballasts job is to provide the correct current to the lamp and to ensure a stable color impression over the lamps lifetime.

Lamp ballasts are used in almost every single office around the world. They to have a shelve life and when they come to the end they start to become unreliable. When this happens the lamps life is shortened to. So, if you are putting a new lamp into a fitting where the ballast is old and degraded the lamp will probably only last half its designed lifetime.

When changing a metal halide lamp it is better to change the ballast at the same time. By doing this you will notice that lamps will start lasting a lot longer and over time you will start to see a big dip in your maintenance budget. The other thing to bear in mind about this is electric power surges, they to can damage lamps and ballasts.

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