Electrical Illumination and Lighting System

I design lighting systems for custom wine cellars. Look at my site www.customcellar.com. Do you have images and floor plans I can look at? You don't really need a book (reading instructions is cheating), you just need to decide what you want it to look like and what rules have to be followed. LED technology is great, but I need to know scale of project..

I can also help you on it. from neon to led. maybe there some decoration book can be refered to.

The Illuminating Engineering Society of North America's "Lighting Handbook" is a much referenced source of lighting information. It is around $400, or you can join the society for around $200 (annual) and buy it for half price.

IES(NA) is the correct book for illumination engineering. It comes in two volume. Reference volume nad application volume both are equally important for a designer. In addition to these you also need to refer to your national standards. Those standards give you Illuminance values (in Lux) for different activities. They also help you in estimating Utilisation factors (UF) for different space or room.

If you find this difficult then pass on the details of plan and elevation drawings and activities in each room/space (with reflection factors of ceiling, wall and floor) we will do the needful. we also provide training in illumination projects design.

e-mail:- illumination_course@spce.ac.in

we are located in Mumbai (India).

Prof S A Waheed Raye

Phillips Lighting has just what you need and it is free. Just Google them...

In general, for an externally accessed multi-user storage facility, you will want to use:

Outside: Pulse-Start Metal Halide fixtures with either a photo-cell on each fixture, or a central photo-cell controlling a contactor panel that powers all the outside circuit fixtures. The actual wattage of each fixture and mounting height will determine the spacing, to reach the minimum level of lighting needed for security (recommend 2 fc min for safe access only, much higher if you are using non-infrared cameras for surveillance). Highly recommend fixtures marketed as "optical cut-off" as these won't waste half of the lighting energy up into the sky.

Inside each unit: Occupancy motion/IR sensor can activate fluorescent fixture, we use single 2-lamp linear T8-32Watt with cold-temperature ballast (we have sub-0 deg C winters), but you may need more if greater than 35 fc is needed by users or each unit is larger than about 2mx3m.

See IESNA for equations, calculations, and recommended 'generic' lighting levels for various applications.