Commercial Lighting and LED Retrofits

Almost always, and the payback is usually faster than owners expect once you count the relamping labour you stop paying for. We can walk the building, count fixtures and run hours, and give you a realistic picture rather than a sales number.

Yes, and we recommend it. Scheduled maintenance catches outages before a tenant or an insurer does, and group relamping is far cheaper per fixture than sending a bucket truck out one pole at a time.

Yes. Emergency and exit lighting needs periodic testing to stay compliant, and it is one of the first things a fire inspector checks. We test, replace failed units and batteries, and document it.

Yes. Occupancy sensing, daylight harvesting, and timeclock control typically add meaningful savings on top of an LED retrofit, particularly in offices and warehouses where lights run in empty spaces.

The cost is set by pole count and height, whether foundations and conduit already exist or the lot has to be trenched and poured, the fixture wattage and photometric requirement, and whether the service has capacity for the added load. Reusing existing poles and bases is dramatically cheaper than a new install. Published national guides show wide ranges per pole and per project, and those are general market figures rather than a Kincaid quote. We survey the lot and price it properly.

It depends on what is being retrofitted. A lamp and driver retrofit inside an existing housing sits at the low end. A full fixture replacement costs more, and a high-bay conversion in a warehouse costs more again because of the working height and the equipment needed to reach it. Adding controls, mounting height, and ceiling access all move the number. Published national ranges exist per fixture type, but we count your fixtures and quote from that.

Solar poles cost considerably more per pole than a mains-fed fixture, but they avoid trenching, conduit, and the service capacity question entirely, which is where the savings sit on a lot with no existing infrastructure. Battery replacement every few years is a running cost to plan for, and Florida cloud cover and tree shading affect real performance more than the datasheet suggests. We will tell you honestly whether your lot is a good candidate before quoting either approach.

Lumens on their own are the wrong measure. What matters is the illuminance at the surface, measured in foot-candles, and how evenly it is distributed, because a bright pool next to a dark gap is worse for liability than a lower uniform level. General guidance for a standard commercial lot is roughly one to two foot-candles average with attention to uniformity, and entrances and pedestrian crossings want more. We run a photometric layout rather than guessing at fixture wattage.

For a building whose lights run long hours, meaning warehouses, twenty-four hour operations, and parking lots, the payback is usually measured in a small number of years, and the maintenance labour you stop paying for is often half of it. For a space lit eight hours a day it takes longer. Utility rebates through Lakeland Electric or Duke Energy Florida shorten it where they apply. We count fixtures and run hours and give you a realistic figure rather than a sales number.