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Photocontrol Glossary

Suitable for outdoor street lights, corridor lights, courtyard lights and other LED lighting light controller components, to achieve sunrise bright and out of the surrounding environment, sunset around the dark environment

DRIFT:

Drift means that the cell suffers an irreversible change toward lower sensitivity and higher control turn-ON and OFF.

FAA :

Photocontrols that meet the requirements of obstruction lighting as regulated by the Federal Aviation Association.

FAIL-OFF PHOTOCONTROL:

A photocontrol that is designed so that the load remains off when the most likely failure occurs.

FAIL-ON PHOTOCONTROL:

A photocontrol designed so that the light remains on when the most likely failure occurs.

FOOTCANDLE (fc):

A unit of illuminance. One footcandle is one lumen per square foot.

HAZARDOUS LOCATION:

An area where ignitable vapors or dust may cause a fire or explosion created by energy emitted from lighting or other electrical equipment.

Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA):

Professional society of lighting engineers, manufacturing companies and other professionally involved in lighting, devoted to lighting information and evaluation, as well as the development of national standards.

INFRARED (IR):

The name means "below red" (from the Latin infra, "below"), red being the color of visible light of longest wavelength. The Invisible part of light with longer wavelengths that are felt as heat radiation.

The invisible heat radiations beyond the red end on the visible spectrum. Impossible or nearly impossible to see

by the human eye. Light that is so red, we cannot see it. The sun produces a continuous spectrum of light that

spans infrared, visible, and ultraviolet light.

What our eyes perceive as white sunlight is actually a mixture of all the colors of the rainbow.