Grote Industries has introduced of a purpose-built LED lighting solution that can bring fire rescue vehicles into lighting compliance quickly.
“We’re helping departments meet the standard with easy-to-install, locally mounted lighting that is much more practical than existing solutions such as pole-mounted scene lighting,” Scott Robertson, product manager of LED WhiteLight for Grote Industries said. Robertson explained that if one examined incandescent and LED lighting by comparing two identical vehicles with 14 lamps each, the incandescent-equipped vehicle would need to devote over 30 amps to its electrical overhead alone.
Conversely, an LED-equipped vehicle would need only about 8.4 amps to power its lighting, leaving it with plenty of power to run the vehicle’s other mission-critical equipment. Unlike incandescent and HID lamps, Grote LED WhiteLight lamps are rated for tens of thousands of hours of service life and are virtually impervious to the types of shock and vibration that would disable conventional lighting equipment. The lamps resist water spray and are listed for wet location usage.
