Reduce, Relamp, Rejoice!

Walking through a parking garage this week, I did what I always do: I looked up. The garage had  invested in some energy efficient 2 lamp T8 vaportite units. They were, by my best guess, 4 1/2 years old based on some of the outages I noticed. Considering they more...

Your Lamps They Are A-Changin’

By now you’ve probably heard about some of the big changes happening to general service fluorescent lamps (GSFLs). Recently the DOE has pushed for stricter standards on GSFLs established by the Energy Policy Act of 1992.  Although certain types of T12 lamps will...

Outages and Burnouts and Short Circuits, Oh My!

Sharing our weekend stories, one of our employees’ told us how he’d done some furniture shopping on Saturday. He said the longer he was in the store the more he felt that something had changed. It wasn’t the furniture or the sales clerks, but something to him was...