An LED upgrade can be a major investment, but the investment has an attractive return—in utility savings, worker productivity, public image, and more. It's also an easy investment: once the new lights are in place, there's nothing more to do.
You spent a fair bit of money getting just the right fixtures for your space. Is there a simpler way to replace your old, inefficient lighting technologies without having to do rip everything out and start from scratch?
When LED lighting first came on the market, it was expensive and inefficient, and definitely not a contender for high-output exterior lighting applications such as wall packs, canopy lights, parking lot lights, and area lighting. However...
You may have noticed that lumens are often higher for fluorescent tubes than LED, leading you to wonder if LED tubes put out enough light to be worth switching over. Lumens, however, aren't the whole story.