Lighting

[thorpie the sinner]

Anyone else struggle with the lighting today, my eyes are still going haywire now!

[Gruffalo]

From nigh on the back row of the Itchen North, I made the mistake of looking directly at the lights over the Kingsland - the brightness was retina burning..

[CWD]

Very annoying, i can still see them!

[Twinkle Toes]

Spent most of the match with spots before my eyes. Every time I looked up the glare was painful. I recommend sunglasses for an evening match!

[1576]

Ah, but it's so much better for viewing on the tellybox don't you know. Which after all is the most important thing!

[Olallana]

First football stadium seen from ISS?

[benjii]

It was fine. Why were you gimps staring at the lights?

[Dazza82]

nothing wrong with them

[beatlesaint]

It's ok guys, I used to work in lighting. After a few hours of use they will dim, people always used to ring up when new LED lighting was first installed anywhere. It won't always be as bright as tonight ;-)

[Whitey Grandad]

Irritatingly bright but not very illuminative, if you get what I mean. They have a very narrow angle of illumination and I found them intrusive but I was sitting in row CC in the north east corner instead of my usual row O on the half way line.

[Matthew Le God]

It's ok guys, I used to work in lighting. After a few hours of use they will dim, people always used to ring up when new LED lighting was first installed anywhere. It won't always be as bright as tonight ;-)

 

In which case shouldn't they have left them on for hours in the build up to today's game to reduce the impact on people's eyes?

[beatlesaint]

In which case shouldn't they have left them on for hours in the build up to today's game to reduce the impact on people's eyes?

 

yes they should have put them on for a few hours over the last couple of evenings for sure.

[TwoPints]

It was fine. Why were you gimps staring at the lights?

This.

 

I was more concerned by the fact that people had turned up in flip flops

[Gemmel]

It's ok guys, I used to work in lighting. After a few hours of use they will dim, people always used to ring up when new LED lighting was first installed anywhere. It won't always be as bright as tonight ;-)

 

LMFAO..... I'm guessing that's why you USED to work in the industry.

 

They won't dim over time.

Edited 9 August, 2014 by Gemmel

[Nexstar]

In which case shouldn't they have left them on for hours in the build up to today's game to reduce the impact on people's eyes?

 

Maybe they did.

[Whitey Grandad]

LMFAO..... I'm guessing that's why you USED to work in the industry.

 

They won't dim over time.

 

I use tens of millions of LEDs a year and mine are not the over-driven lighting type. They'll go dim.

[Gemmel]

I use tens of millions of LEDs a year and mine are not the over-driven lighting type. They'll go dim.

 

Whitey - I could be (very likely) being really thick here but that's over my head

[beatlesaint]

LMFAO..... I'm guessing that's why you USED to work in the industry.

 

They won't dim over time.

 

you'll see

[Gemmel]

you'll see

 

 

But they've already had 14 hours use .....are you still expecting them to get dimmer

[beatlesaint]

But they've already had 14 hours use .....are you still expecting them to get dimmer

 

Lets put it like this, a street light, on for about 10-12 hours a night would take at least a week to dim, these will need a lot more than 14 hours.

[Gemmel]

Lets put it like this, a street light, on for about 10-12 hours a night would take at least a week to dim, these will need a lot more than 14 hours.

 

 

It's ok guys, I used to work in lighting. After a few hours of use they will dim, people always used to ring up when new LED lighting was first installed anywhere. It won't always be as bright as tonight ;-)

[beatlesaint]

Ok Gemmel, have it your way, they will stay that bright, if not get brighter and thousands of people will be blinded by these new lights at St Mary's

 

Better ?

[St Chalet]

Can we play the lights 12 hours of Talksport? Guaranteed they will be dimmer as a result.

[Gemmel]

Can we play the lights 12 hours of Talksport? Guaranteed they will be dimmer as a result.

 

 

LOL - About the only thing that would

[John Boy Saint]

We had a trip to row MM in the Kingsland and the chit chat in the second half was how we wouldn't want to be sat this high every week as the lights intruded on your vision.

[Jonnyboy]

Row V Itchen North, didnt notice them at all.

[Plastic]

Liked them. Cheaper to run and better spectrum, felt like 10k. Sure they will be high quality Cree panels or similar.

Owning a marine tank, you get LED envy.

 

Something like these maybe... (But bigger)

http://ledlightingmanagement.com/led-lighting-management/content/led-sports-stadium-flood-light-300-watt-ip-67-waterproof-flood-light

Edited 9 August, 2014 by Plastic

[Whitey Grandad]

Whitey - I could be (very likely) being really thick here but that's over my head

 

Sorry, of course you're not. In order to get the maximum brightness out of these LEDs they run them at the maximum current possible which means they tend to run hot and need special device packaging to get rid of all the heat. The hotter any electronic device gets the more unreliable they generally become but LEDs in particular suffer from various progressive degradations and lose brightness over time. That's if they don't fail altogether. They're getting better though

 

The ones we use are for electronic signage and are driven at more sustainable currents which is what I meant when I said that these were over driven.

[kpturner]

I think if you stare at any floodlight (LED or not) you are going to get dazzled. Nothing wrong with the lighting today IMHO. Mountain out of a molehill thread.

[ladysaint]

I just wish they would do something with the PA system, in the Northam stand it is terrible unless you are in the loo you cant hear a bloody thing.

[CWD]

It was fine. Why were you gimps staring at the lights?

 

Well that's an unnecessary response.

 

I don't think anyone was staring at the lights. Sometimes in football the ball goes quite high, and I found it dazzled me when the ball crossed the light. That's all.

 

Glad to hear that they will dim over time.

[kpturner]

What would be the point of a floodlight that "dims over time" ?

[beatlesaint]

What would be the point of a floodlight that "dims over time" ?

 

the dazzle and the glare dims, not the wattage/power of the light.

[The9]

Apart from the brightness (there seemed to be far fewer lights overall so I would imagine that's why the ones there were were brighter) I thought they were positioned quite strangely, they didn't seem equidistant or in any obvious pattern. We won't get the true effect until they're used in "proper" dark though, the players only had one shadow on Saturday evening, and that was from the big bright round thing in the sky (and I don't mean the Nike Ordem Premier League match ball).

[TheCholulaKid]

**** me. Some people will moan about anything.