Knowledge Centre

Technical guides for the people who have to specify the lamp, order it and then defend the choice when it reaches the machine.

Two lumen figures on the same lamp are not a marketing trick. They describe different things and only one of them reaches your work area.

The ingress protection rating tells you about dust and immersion. It does not tell you about pressure washing, salt or thermal shock.

R10 is the regulation buyers see most often on auxiliary lamps, and it is also the one most often misread as a road approval.

Choosing the beam pattern before the wattage saves more complaints than any other decision in a lighting order.

Most field failures on off-highway machines are mechanical or thermal, not a dead LED.

A safety lamp only works if everyone on the floor reads the marking the same way.

A wide input range is not a marketing line. It is what stops one lamp specification turning into four stock codes.

Most slow quotations are slow because the enquiry did not contain enough to quote against.

Still Not Sure Which Lamp to Specify

Send the machine, the mounting position and the working distance. That is usually enough to answer the question in one reply.