LED Efficiency and Long Life Performance Brought to Hazardous Location ATEX/IECEx Emergency Lighting by Appleton

Appleton is one of the leading manufacturers of electrical products for hazardous and non-hazardous applications. Industrial emergency lighting will now receive the superior efficiency, long life and reliability of Light Emitting Diodes (News - Alert) (LED) technology as the company has introduced its new FDBAES Series of flameproof, self-contained emergency luminaries, which is the latest addition to Appleton's growing LED product line.

The Appleton FDBAES luminaries have been custom engineered to provide lighting and visual indication of safe access on exit routes during an evacuation process. This will be specially useful in a hazardous industrial environment and places such as oil refineries, petrochemical plants, pulp and paper mills or other areas defined by the IEC (News - Alert) as Zone 1, 2, 21 and 22.

The FDBAES luminaries have been custom designed for escape lighting, which consume a total of 0.5 watts and produce 55 lumens. If an emergency should take place, they will then run for a one-hour duration on the built-in battery pack. The FDBAES models that have been engineered for space lighting applications will produce 540 lumens, consuming a total of 0.95 watts. Both these versions come equipped with 6 white LEDs rated for 60,000+ hours, which is more than six times longer than standard fluorescent models.

You can order either version as switched or unswitched and as addressable to allow regulatory control of the emergency lighting units and centralization of information on a networked management system. The company’s lighting products are well known for their durability. The FDBAES is known for its exceptionally rugged end caps and cover made of anti-corrosive gray painted Zamak with a sealed tempered glass lens. The threaded access cover is also protective sealed with a Nitrile O-ring. The luminaries can also be easily mounted in any position and run off 230 Vac 50/60 power.