Escape and exit routes in the uk must be lit to a minimum of one lux during an emergency.
Sustained emergency lighting.
Also available as emergency exit lighting with the escape signs of your choice.
This was because a fluorescent lamp could easily fail and so if you had a sustained light fitting you were always sure of lighting just when you needed it.
In respect of maintained emergency lighting in areas where high levels of light are normally required for example in the corridors of office blocks a combined or sustained emergency luminaire can be installed.
A sustained emergency light is one that has two light sources one for everyday mains room light and one that is only used during a power cut.
The purpose here is to minimise any possibility of emergency lamp failure as the sustained lamp is only used in emergency mode.
Non maintained these emergency lights are normally non illuminated are consistently on charge and only illuminate when the main power has failed.
The purpose here is to minimise any possibility of emergency lamp failure as the sustained lamp is only used in emergency mode.
72 w lamp wattage.
This is where a lamp separate to the main lamp provides the emergency light source.
Stahl s emergency lighting products you can also network your safety lighting.
Maintained emergency luminaire this is a luminaire in which the emergency lamps are lit all the time.
36 w lamp type.
What is emergency lighting.
Folded sheet metal finish.
Sustained bare power rating.
There are three different types of emergency lighting.
This will only be relevant on a maintained emergency luminaire.
Sustained a sustained emergency light has two lamps within the light fitting and only one lamp works at either time.
Emergency batten brand name.
240 v frequency rating.
White powder coated shape.
1225 mm length x 130 mm width x 80 mm height.
Sustained this is where a lamp separate to the main lamp provides the emergency light source.
50 hz number of lamps.
01 02 2018 23 04 2020 maintained non maintained sustained there are now only really two types of emergency lighting modes for when there is a power cut here is a simple explanation of the two.
The lights are typically dimmed when the premises are occupied and the emergency escape lighting prevents total darkness.
Emergency luminaires have integral back up batteries continuously charged during normal operation.
Legislation requires all occupied buildings to have adequate escape lighting to allow safe exit should mains power fail.
