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    This document provides information about lighting maintenance. It discusses how fluorescent luminaires can be connected physically and electrically even when suspended below individual outlets. It also notes that fluorescent lamps require a greater luminous area than incandescent lamps to provide the same illumination level, despite being more efficient. The document discusses how fluorescent lamp luminaires are often surface-mounted, suspended from, or recessed in ceilings. Finally, it emphasizes the importance of maintenance for any lighting installation and notes that maintenance includes replacing parts as their output depreciates over time.

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    This document provides information about lighting maintenance. It discusses how fluorescent luminaires can be connected physically and electrically even when suspended below individual outlets. It also notes that fluorescent lamps require a greater luminous area than incandescent lamps to provide the same illumination level, despite being more efficient. The document discusses how fluorescent lamp luminaires are often surface-mounted, suspended from, or recessed in ceilings. Finally, it emphasizes the importance of maintenance for any lighting installation and notes that maintenance includes replacing parts as their output depreciates over time.

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    This document provides information about lighting maintenance. It discusses how fluorescent luminaires can be connected physically and electrically even when suspended below individual outlets. It also notes that fluorescent lamps require a greater luminous area than incandescent lamps to provide the same illumination level, despite being more efficient. The document discusses how fluorescent lamp luminaires are often surface-mounted, suspended from, or recessed in ceilings. Finally, it emphasizes the importance of maintenance for any lighting installation and notes that maintenance includes replacing parts as their output depreciates over time.

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    This document provides information about lighting maintenance. It discusses how fluorescent luminaires can be connected physically and electrically even when suspended below individual outlets. It also notes that fluorescent lamps require a greater luminous area than incandescent lamps to provide the same illumination level, despite being more efficient. The document discusses how fluorescent lamp luminaires are often surface-mounted, suspended from, or recessed in ceilings. Finally, it emphasizes the importance of maintenance for any lighting installation and notes that maintenance includes replacing parts as their output depreciates over time.

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    10-20 I E S LIGHTING HANDBOOK

    Even where fluorescent luminaires are suspended below individual


    electrical outlets, they may abut each other and be connected physically
    and electrically. Since common four-outlet-per-bay layouts usually
    call for 10-
    by 10-foot or
    12-
    by 12-foot spacing, it is readily appreciated
    that combinations of 4 foot, 5 foot, and longer elements can bridge such
    spaces readily. Inherently, fluorescent lamps are of low lumen output per
    foot. The 40-watt lamp and its ballast consume together about 12 watts
    per foot. Thus, a greater luminous area and usually a larger number of
    lamps are needed to provide a given illumination level with fluorescent
    lamps than with the higher wattage incandescent lamps, despite the
    greater efficiency of the former.
    Lines and geometric patterns of fluorescent-lamp luminaires often are
    surface-mounted on the ceiling, suspended from it, or recessed in it. The
    low operating temperature of the fluorescent lamp, the value of diffuse-
    light distribution, and the harmonious architectural lines that such an
    approach creates, all have resulted in increasing emphasis on such patterns.
    MAINTENANCE OF LIGHTING
    Maintenance is a most important factor in the effectiveness of any
    lighting installation. In its broadest sense it includes everything connected
    with maintaining the output of a lighting system as near to its initial level
    as possible. Systematic maintenance plans should form a part of every
    installation design involving a large number of lamps. Today increasing
    recognition of the importance of maintenance is resulting in the develop-
    ment of specialized lighting-maintenance-service organizations.
    Incandescent-Lamp-Luminaire Maintenance
    In an incandescent-lamp luminaire, sometimes only the lamp itself is
    considered an essential operating part requiring regular replacement;
    however, the reflecting or other control medium also may be very important.
    When there is a factor of permanent or accumulative depreciation to be
    considered in these other parts (as contrasted with dirt which, hopefully, is
    considered temporary depreciation), provision should be made for their
    replacement also. Such depreciation is not necessarily a sign of poor
    design, although good design tends to minimize it.
    In addition to the dirt problem, the incandescent lamp, like other light
    sources, presents two other maintenance problems: output depreciation and
    failure to operate. Output depreciation is an inevitable condition of
    operation, although in some cases (e.g., series operation of street-lighting
    lamps) it may not be of concern from a maintenance standpoint because of
    compensating factors which are designed into the system. In designing
    installations, output depreciation is included in the original calculations in
    order to allow for the expected reduction in performance caused by operating
    conditions.
    When an incandescent lamp fails to operate, replacement is necessary.
    In many installations this is done on a "hit-or-miss" basis. In larger

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