Product Spotlight: Stinger DS LED with 120v AC/DC charger

If you’re in the market for one of the most powerful compact and rechargeable flashlights available, you should look no further than the Stinger DS LED with 120 v AC/DC charger.

This small flashlight is nearly indestructible and has an incredibly long lifetime. With a 3-cell, 3.6 volt battery with a substantial run time and the ability to recharge up to 1,000 times, this flashlight is perfect for a person or an organization looking for a durable, long-lasting, and powerful flashlight that doesn’t want to replace flashlights too often.

One of the most impressive features of this flashlight is the intensity of light it puts out. At its highest setting, this flashlight puts out 350 lumens of light. Because of the flashlight’s deep-dish parabolic reflector, you’ll be able to get a concentrated beam of light that goes for 310 meters. This reflector also means you’ll get a wider circle of light, offering you more peripheral vision.

In addition to the highest setting, this flashlight comes with three other illumination settings: medium, which produces 175 lumens at a peak beam intensity of 12,000 candelas; low, with an output of 85 lumens and a peak beam intensity of 6,000 candelas; and strobe for use disorienting or signaling your location.

The Stinger DS is made with the end user in mind. It includes two power switches to accommodate any way you might hold the flashlight. One is near the head of the flashlight, while the other is at the tail cap. Both are independently controlled, making it much easier to control the flashlight regardless of how you hold it.

This LED flashlight has one of the lowest operating costs in its class, too. It costs about 1 cent per hour of usage because of its rechargeable battery and low energy usage.

While not indestructible, this flashlight comes pretty close. Click here to view a video of a customer using the Stinger DS as a hammer and see just how well the flashlight holds up. In case it fails on you, though, the DS also comes with Stinger’s limited lifetime warranty.

If you have any questions about this flashlight or any of our other LED lighting, don’t hesitate to contact us. We’ve been in the lighting business for years and would love to use our experience to help you choose the best flashlight for your needs.

How Businesses Can Retrofit Their Lighting To Save Money

Lighting accounts for a huge portion of many companies’ electricity bills, and older ineffiecient T12 fluorescent lamps are a mojor contributor to increasing businesses energy costs. To reduce their energy bills, companies across the country are considering switching to energy saving T8 fluorescent lamps and energy saving electronic ballasts in their offices and warehouses. Of course, buying new fixtures and the labor to install them to accommodate new energy efficient lighting can be very expensive.

The best way for businesses to save money while transitioning to the newest technology is to buy and install a fluorescent lighting retrofit kit, eliminating the cost of buying new fixtures and saving a lot of money on time and labor costs. At Energy Saving Lighting, we have pre-wired retrofit kits available for 4 foot 2 lamp and 8 foot 2 lamp strip lights, as well as 2’ x 2’ foot and 2’ x 4’ troffer lay-ins.

Transitioning to new lighting with a retrofit kit can be fast and simple, but it’s important to investigate any retrofit kit you’re thinking about buying to determine if it comes pre-wired. Pre-wired retrofit kits can save you hours of labor when installing them into your fixtures. With a pre-wired kit, you can retrofit a fixture for energy saving lighting in minutes.

One of the most important steps in installing a retrofit kit is to determine what kind of fixture you have. The type of retrofit kit you purchase will depend on whether your fixture has a lens or is a parabolic fixture if you’re retrofitting a troffer. Additionally, you’ll want to be sure to measure correctly before you purchase any retrofit kit, because the size of your fixture will make a huge difference in which kit will work for you.

To see instructional pictures and a step-by-step guide for installing troffer retrofits, visit our lighting retrofit guide.

Are you in the process of transitioning the lights in your office or warehouse to more efficient lighting? Tell us about your experience in the comments. If you have any questions about the retrofit process, contact us. We’ll use our years of lighting experience to help you.

Product Spotlight: Picking The Right Lamp For Your Recessed Ceiling Lights.

Product Spotlight:  Picking The Right Lamp For Your Recessed Ceiling Lights.

At Energy Saving Lighting, we’re dedicated to helping our customers choose the best lighting option for their needs. To help in this process, we’ll be publishing a product spotlight each month, highlighting a product we think our customers will enjoy. This month, we’re shining the spotlight on LED Reflector Lamps to replace your existing incandescent lamps in your recessed can lights.

We will be reviewing three different styles of LED Bulbs that can replace your existing recessed ceiling fixtures. Most houses today have many recessed can fixtures in the ceiling, and most of them have a Incandescent or possibly a Compact Fluorescent Lamp installed in them. 

Some of the many benefits of switching to LED lamps include:

• Long Life (Most LED lamps have a lifetime of a minimum of 20,000 hours up to 50,000 hours compared to Incandescent Lamps which have an average of 1000 hours.  You would need to change that incandescent lamp up to 20 to 50 times over the lifetime of an LED lamp)
• Reducing Your Power Bill (The heat dissipated from an incandescent lamp can produce heat that can drive up your power bill by increasing the ambient temperature of your home increasing your power bill)
• Safe and Non-Toxic (Compact Fluorescent lamps have a certain amount of mercury that can be harmful to your health and be harmful to the environment)

Color Temperature:

Color temperature is a  measurement in degrees Kelvin that indicates the hue of a specific light source.  LED products come in many various shades of color. Below is a chart of each kelvin temperature color and its cooresponding color hue. 

Any time you are picking a color temperature for your LED Lamps you want to pick a warm temperature in the range of 2700K to 3000K. 2700K is going to be the warmest and most pleasing light for your household and is considered to be the most similar to your existing incandescent light bulb.

4 Inch Trim

R20 Philips LED

R20 LED Bulbs - These LED Light Bulbs replace incandescent light bulbs up to 50 Watt in 4 inch recessed cans, and really makes a perfect replacement for any 50 Watt incandescent lamp because of its light output of 550 lumens. 

Philips Lighting makes one of the top selling LED replacement lamps and is our recommendation to use in your household. You can replace a 50 watt incandescent R20 with an 8 watt LED and save 42 watts per lamp. That equates to $18.40 savings per year running at .10 per kilowatt hour.

5 to 6 Inch Trim

R30 Philips LED

R30 LED Bulbs - These LED Light Bulbs replace incandescent light bulbs up to 65 Watt in 5 to 6 inch recessed cans, and really makes a perfect replacement for any 65 Watt incandescent lamp because of its light output of 730 lumens and they are fully dimmable. 

Philips Lighting makes one of the top selling LED replacement lamps and is our recommendation to use in your household. You can replace a 65 watt incandescent R30 with an 13 watt LED and save 52 watts per lamp. That equates to $22.47 savings per year running at .10 per kilowatt hour.

Philips also offers a less expensive version that is 9.5 watts, but is not a dimmable bulb.

5 to 6 Inch Trim

R40 Philips LED

R40 LED Bulbs - These LED Light Bulbs replace incandescent light bulbs up to 65 Watt in 5 to 6 inch recessed cans, and really makes a perfect replacement for any 65 Watt incandescent lamp because of its light output of 800 lumens and they are fully dimmable. 

Philips Lighting makes one of the top selling LED replacement lamps and is our recommendation to use in your household. You can replace a 65 watt incandescent R40 with an 14 watt LED and save 51 watts per lamp. That equates to $22.34 savings per year running at .10 per kilowatt hour.

The difference between the three diameters:

R20 - 3.80 Length x 2.48 Diameter

R30 - 5.16 Length x 3.74 Diameter

R40 - 6.46 Length x 4.91 Diameter

Be sure to measure your trims before making your final decision.

We recommend to all of our customers that they do their research before they buy an LED light bulb. It’s important to make sure the bulb will fit your applications and provide you with the energy savings you want. We also recommend making sure you buy light bulbs produced by an established manufacturer who you can trust to be around for years to come. Established manufacturers, like Philips, design great bulbs so they can continue to build their reputation, whereas newer manufacturers may just be in the business to make a quick profit.

Have more questions about LED lighting? Leave us a comment and we’ll help you find an answer.