Maintained emergency lighting is the most commonly used configuration for emergency lighting.
Maintained sustained exit lights.
The purpose here is to minimise any possibility of emergency lamp failure as the sustained lamp is only used in emergency mode.
Sustained a sustained emergency light has two lamps within the light fitting and only one lamp works at either time.
Non maintained luminaire lights on power failure only sustained when a fitting has two or more lamps at.
Again they can be maintained or non maintained with non maintained signs reserved for areas where occupants are familiar with the layout of the escape routes.
What about sustained combined lights.
A short video explaining the difference between maintained non maintained and switchable maintained emergency lighting.
Clevertronics is a specialised emergency exit lighting company that leads the market across australia new zealand in product innovation customer support.
It circumvents all the problems associated with burn in periods for lamps such as t8 and t5 technologies while providing a cost effective solution for both emergency lighting and exit signs.
Emergency exit signs can also be lit to act as an emergency light.
Non maintained emergency lighting is a luminaire made solely for emergency use.
Maintained emergency non maintained emergency emergency module glows green in standby mode.
Non maintained lights are typically.
This is a luminaire in which the emergency lamps are lit all the time.
Non maintained these emergency lights are normally non illuminated are consistently on charge and only illuminate when the main power has failed.
The terms maintained and non maintained are used to describe the mode of operation for an emergency lighting luminaire and the decision on which mode of operation to use is determined by the use of the permises.
Maintained fittings are not part of the general lighting but are fittings such as emergency exit boxes.
This will only be relevant on a maintained emergency luminaire.
It is designed to come on in the event of a mains power failure making sure all emergency exit routes are clearly illuminated but will not be active as your normal day to day lighting system.
A full range of both types of emergency lighting is available on our website.
This is where a lamp separate to the main lamp provides the emergency light source.