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Amenity lighting is something we at www.lightingireland.com define as a leisure facility in the home or garden.
This can be, for example, a tennis court. These are quite common in homes that have a large garden area, which the owners may have decided to put to some use as their children were growing up.
Tennis courts, for the pleasure they provide, are a relatively inexpensive leisure addition to the home. They will add value should you sell your home and quite a lot of modern suppliers can make them multi-purpose, using them for basketball and volleyball as alternatives.
However if you want to get full benefit from them you need to floodlight them. The issue here is cost and correct specification and again, as in all things lighting, these are relative to the size of the court.
In tennis-court lighting, you have low-mast and high-mast pole configurations to consider when making your selection. Most residential tennis court lighting is low-mast lighting and high mast lighting is used in areas where higher light levels are required. Low-mast systems used in conjunction with sharp cut-off luminaries produce good uniformity, low glare, reduced amounts of spill light and are relatively easy to maintain.
Many factors go into selecting the right lighting system for your tennis court. Some of those factors include a uniform distribution of the light and non-glare optics. Good tennis court lighting should illuminate the entire court including approximately 6’ outside the sidelines and approximately 10’ behind the base lines. Metal Halide luminaries are the most common HID source used in tennis court lighting. We say that if you do something in the home, do it right. To make your tennis court lighting project a success, planning is essential on both cost and design. Lighting a court should not be done by taking short cuts, which you will regret later. It is better not do it at all than make a cheap ham-fisted effort.
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