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Where will you be when the lights go out in Georgia?

I'll be up on the roof at LEEDing Edge on March 27th at 8:30 p.m. for Earth Hour 2010. It'll be interesting to see which buildings go dark on the Atlanta city skyline.

Of course when the lights come back on, hopefully they are fluorescent. By now we all know that fluorescent lighting is much more energy-efficient than incandescent. Much has been said about the environmental and energy gains that could be made if every home in America changed just one incandescent bulb to CFL. But even in the world of fluorescent lighting there is opportunity for significant upgrades. 

So I've got a game-changing lighting technology to share with my readers who own or manage commercial and institutional properties that have a lot of fluorescent lighting fixtures. 

The Watt-SaverTM T5 lamp adapter allows you to convert T12 and T8 fixtures to burn T5 lamps at 18 watts or 28 watts by simply bypassing the existing ballast and clipping the adapter in place of the old bulb. The adapter has it's own built-in electronic ballast that replaces the old magnetic ballast. The adapters save substantial dollars in lighting energy, HVAC costs, labor for retrofit, and ongoing maintenance. And the greenest solution is always to reuse what you have. The T5 adapter allows you to reuse the existing fixtures in place instead of sending them to our landfills.

You should also be aware that sales of replacement T12 ballasts will be prohibited after July 2010. We can all say good riddance since the typical four-lamp T12 fixture is running at 176 watts versus 76 watts for a fixture with lamp-for-lamp T5 adapters.  Many clients could de-lamp to two T5's and still get better luminance and enjoy even greater energy savings of only 36 watts per fixture.

Georgia customers can qualify for significant federal tax deductions and state tax credits for upgrading their older fixtures with these T5 adapters. Some customers are seeing up to 79% energy reductions with a pay-back of less than one year!

There are an estimated one billion T12 lamps still burning in America. Imagine the economic, environmental, and energy impact when those lamps are changed to T5. 

For a fact sheet on the T5 adapter click here.

For FAQ on the T5 adapter click here. 

To order contact me at 404.421.9968.