High-bay LED installs
Machine-shop and wash-bay high-bay lighting, mounted, wired and aimed to put light on the work rather than on the floor between machines. Lift access means we can reach the fixtures without renting scaffold.
High-bay installs, LED retrofits, failed drivers and ballasts, exterior and yard lighting, sensors, photocells and lighting-circuit troubleshooting. Work for shops, warehouses, wash bays, offices and commercial buildings around Red Deer and Central Alberta, with lift access for high ceilings.
From one dead fixture to a whole shop relamped in LED.
Machine-shop and wash-bay high-bay lighting, mounted, wired and aimed to put light on the work rather than on the floor between machines. Lift access means we can reach the fixtures without renting scaffold.
Replacing metal halide, high-pressure sodium and T8 or T12 fluorescent with LED fixtures — usually a full fixture swap rather than a lamp-only conversion, because the results last longer and the wiring ends up cleaner.
Fixtures that flicker, strobe, come on late, buzz or die in groups. Driver and ballast replacement where the fixture is worth keeping, and an honest opinion where it is not.
Wall packs, pole and yard lights, canopy lighting, parking areas and entrances. Buried feeds, photocell wiring and fixtures chosen to survive Alberta winters and the heat cycling that comes with them.
Lights that stay on all day or never come on at night, occupancy sensors that cut out while people are still working, and time clocks that nobody has reset since the last power outage.
Contactor-controlled lighting, relay panels, multiple switching locations, dimming controls and adding switching where a whole bay is currently on one switch. See electrical controls.
Exit signs, emergency battery units and remote heads — replacement, repair and wiring of failed units, including heads that never come on because the battery pack has been dead for years.
Sections of a building going dark, breakers tripping when a bank switches on, neutrals shared across circuits, and faults in the buried run out to the yard. Part of electrical troubleshooting.
Adding fixtures over a new machine or work bench, moving lights after a layout change, and task lighting at benches and inspection areas. Often done alongside equipment and machine wiring.
LED lighting was sold as install-and-forget. A lot of it has not behaved that way, and the shops that got burned are now suspicious of the whole idea. The failures are not mysterious — they come down to a small number of causes, and most of them are avoidable at the buying stage.
The LEDs themselves rarely die first. The driver does. It is a small power supply with electrolytic capacitors, and capacitor life falls off sharply with temperature. Put that driver inside a sealed housing, mount it at the peak of a shop ceiling where the hot air collects, or run it in a wash bay where the fixture is full of warm steam, and it will not see its rated hours. Fixtures with the driver in a ventilated or separated compartment consistently outlast the ones where it is potted next to the board.
Drivers are built for a voltage range. Feed them a circuit that sits high, or one that takes a hit every time a large motor across the shop starts, and they fail early. A shop where LED drivers keep dying on the same circuit usually has something else going on — a voltage problem, a shared neutral, or transient activity from switching loads. That is worth measuring before another case of fixtures goes up.
Dropping LED tubes into existing fluorescent fixtures is cheap and sometimes reasonable, but it leaves you with old sockets, old wiring and either a ballast still in the circuit or a hybrid arrangement the next electrician has to figure out. In a shop that will be there for twenty years, a proper fixture change usually costs less over its life and looks considerably better.
Tip: if a handful of new LED fixtures on one circuit have failed while the rest of the building is fine, stop replacing fixtures and measure the circuit. Repeat driver failures in one area are a symptom, not bad luck.
Count fixtures, check mounting heights, look at the existing circuits and see what the space is actually used for. A machine shop and a warehouse need different layouts.
Output, mounting, environment rating and whether the driver can be replaced. You get told what the trade-offs are rather than just a fixture count.
Old fixtures down, new ones mounted and wired, circuits verified and switching sorted out. Lift work planned around production where we can.
Everything switched and tested, sensors and photocells set, old fixtures removed from site, and the panel schedule corrected for any circuit changes.
Rarely. Fixtures fail one at a time; rows fail together when something upstream lets go — a breaker, a lighting contactor, a switch, a splice in a junction box, or a shared neutral that opened. We start at the panel and work toward the fixtures, which is usually quicker than pulling lights down.
It depends on how many you have and how high they are. If you need a lift for every fixture, doing them one at a time means paying to get up there over and over, and a batch changeout is cheaper per fixture. If the ceiling is low, fixtures are easy to reach and the existing lights are still working, gradual replacement is reasonable. We will give you the count and let you decide.
Most likely the driver rather than the LEDs. Common causes are heat — especially a sealed fixture high in a warm shop or in a wet bay — a supply voltage problem on that circuit, or a fixture that was not rated for the conditions it got installed in. If several failed on one circuit and not elsewhere, that circuit is worth measuring before you buy replacements.
Yes, within reason. We work with lift access for high-bay and warehouse ceilings. Very tall or obstructed spaces get looked at first so the right equipment shows up, rather than finding out on the day that the lift will not fit between the racking.
Yes — wall packs, pole heads, photocell replacement and faults in the underground run out to the pole. Buried feeds are the usual culprit on yard lights that worked for years and then stopped, particularly where a run was direct-buried without adequate depth or protection. That work overlaps with panels and equipment power when a new circuit is needed.
Red Deer, Red Deer County, Blackfalds, Sylvan Lake, Penhold, Springbrook, Innisfail, Lacombe, Ponoka and Morningside. Larger retrofits get scheduled; single fixture repairs get fit in around them. Details on the commercial electrical page as well.
Get a count, a fixture recommendation and a straight answer on what it takes.