New LED Bollards Have a Rated life of 50,000+ hours

---

SENTRY ELECTRIC INTRODUCES LED BOLLARDS

(Tradeslive.com, Sept. 6, 2011) Sentry Electric, one of North America’s oldest and most knowledgeable manufacturers of outdoor lighting luminaires, introduces a new series of LED bollards. With their time honored, historically-styled designs, Sentry’s LED bollards deliver both aesthetic appeal along with the benefits of solid state technology. Users will realize contributions to their sustainability initiatives via reductions in energy consumption, maintenance, down time, and the associated costs.

Sentry LED bollards utilize the XSM 80 LED Module series from Xicato.  Available in a range of color temperatures, the LED bollard series provides a minimum of 50,000 hours of high CRI light, flattering to people, objects and structures. Typical applications for Sentry’s technology integration would entail campuses, pathways, cross walks, driveways, parks, and other similar public spaces.

The XSM 80 LED Module series, in conjunction with Sentry’s rugged, cast aluminum construction, provides a broad array of features and benefits, including:

• A range of light output to suit specific application needs, which minimizes any intrusion to nature’s night time environment.
• No mercury content along with RoHS compliance, which positively contributes to the health and well-being of the ecosystem.
• Choice of color temperature, which provides consistency across the landscape and compliments other lighting from nearby sources.
• A rated life of 50,000+ hours, which is 2 to 5 times longer than traditional high intensity discharge light sources.
• A sealed, IP66-rated light engine that resists rain and moisture.
• Fluting, scrolling and contours of the bollards’ housings harmonize with Sentry’s poles and luminaires, creating a sense of uniformity and recognition.
• Color consistency and stability, within two MacAdam Steps.

Shop Online Now for Your Outdoor Lighting Supplies!

$10 off on $100+ On Home & Garden Products with Coupon Code:LITBH10

About Sentry Electric:

Sentry Electric is North America’s most responsive source of standard and custom, historically‑styled, exterior lighting, completely committed to end-to-end project success. The company’s specification grade cast iron and aluminum luminaires/lamps, bollards, poles, brackets and accessories are installed across America’s prestigious municipal street, park and university settings, including deployments at Yale University, Battery Park City in lower Manhattan, Indianapolis’ Lower Canal Park, UCLA, and Ellis Island. Lighting designers and engineers, architects and urban planners all rely on the company’s commitment to end-to-end project success and its unparalleled knowledge of architecturally significant exterior lighting, honed over the past sixty years.

Sentry’s reputation for solid construction, its longevity in business and its custom design capabilities unquestionably made the company the right choice for outdoor luminaires for the recently rebuilt Yankee Stadium. The distinctive, elegant Riverside luminaire with a robust, durable cast iron pole are both standards now at the new “House That Ruth Built.” www.SentryLighting.com/ProjectGallery.asp

Sentry has produced award-winning outdoor lighting products, including the exclusive SCP Central Park tulip luminaire, the winner of a Central Park Conservancy design competition. Its rugged, cast aluminum structure meets New York City’s vandal resistance specifications. Sentry’s catalog includes a range of luminaires in a variety of styles that incorporate many different light sources, including LED, high intensity discharge (HID), compact fluorescent, induction and incandescent, for high efficiency, photometric performance, service life and energy use.

---