American football is both an aerial and ground sport, combining tackles and high-flying balls. LED lights provide the uniform lighting required to serve the aerial and terrestrial action on the football field. A sports lighting design guide is essential for planning optimal lighting.

Good led sports light offer a consistent level of lighting ensuring enjoyment and safety for both players and spectators. LED closely mimics daylight color temperature making the football, lines, and players clearly visible.

When we designed our FL18 LED flood lighting for outdoor stadium lighting, we not only considered fixture structure, power supply solution, LED chip , luminous effiency ,optics etc. We also take full consider into the current sports field lighting standards :

• 250 foot candles for NFL
• 150 foot candles for collegiate-level football
• 50 foot candles for high school football fields
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The best advantage for this sports lighting fixture is beam control and less light spill and pollution than its competitors, it is conform to NCAA national television broadcast as required.

AGC provide optimal lighting to avoid sports-related injuries due to shadows or glare. Whether indoors or outdoors, when we designed a new product, LED high poles and floodlights provide the optimal lighting solution for the enjoyment of football players and fans are the core element.

Our LED lights are designed and engineered with specific optic for each sport environment, to provide quality lighting with back light, up light and glare reduction.

For tennis court lighting, we have best solution with ST11. And how about swimming pool areas? Swimming pool areas require a more complex lighting solution than most indoor sports facility in that it is such a highly corrosive environment.However our lights for swimming pool areas are corrosion resistant.

Below is a typical case with high appreciation from client:“The lumen level is higher than we expected, customer is very satisfied and happy with the lighting effect. You can see from the pictures how bright!”

Lamps: totally 70pcs, 5000K Ra70 100W HiCap, 120degree

Mounting height: 8m Flux level: 550lux

Above all，for each sport lighting project，our optical engineer will ask for the illumination lever or function of the sport hall, then they could simulate the lighting solution based on actual requirement.

The lighting to the different levels required by the sport and level of competition.is clearly categorized for reference by NCCA. Please refer to the link.

https://www.ncaa.com/news/ncaa/article/2013-11-21/ncaa-best-lighting-practices

Good tennis court lighting is just like air, its existence is almost forgotten by people, and when the tennis court lighting is not professional, it will become like a smog, you can feel it in the first time.

When you have project need to replace HPS/HID/MH, take a consider these factors when you are select and evaluate who are the suitable tennis court lighting solution provider.

1. They should know there are 3 classes of illumination classification in accordance with the ITF’s tennis court lighting recommendation.

Class I is the most professional, for the international competitions such as Wimbledon Championships; Class II represents Mid-level competitions like the local club’s matches; and Class III is for recreational matches. These 3 classes have different lux requirement. For instance, 500 lux for Class I, 300 & 200 lux for Class III & III respectively.

2.  Anti-glare feature.

3.  The ideal color rendering index (CRI).

4.Compare lumens, not watts

5.Think about maintenance and replacements.

All in all, one of the most important goals of your new lighting system  is the ability to see and follow the ball consistently across the court. Properly designed tennis court lighting fixtures are typically forward throw fixtures which have precision optics or cut off characteristics which maximize light levels and minimize glare from the field of view.

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AGC have revolution for tennis court lighting, bringing on more energy saving solution to replace the 1000W/1500W Metal Halide, which starts up and the high maintenance cost due to the very short lamp life.We are engineered with asymmetrical optic design and shield for Back light,up light and glare control(BUG), reducing the lighting pollution.

Below is lighting simulation with AGC ST11

Application: Outdoor Tennis court  Lamps:  ST11 600W 6pcs

Beam angle: R10506           Mounting height: 8 meters high   Flux level: 500lux

Length*Width: Tennis court：23.77m*10.98m   Lighting area：36m*18m

Intensity: 48.8foot-candles (525 LUX), averaged over 15 readings on court.

High/low ratio:  Emax/Emin=1/0.77     Uniformity of illuminance: 0.84    CCT: 5000K   Ra: ≥ 70