How To Cut Down on Your Office Maintenance Bill
When you are in charge of a business, you are always researching ideas on how you could save money in certain areas of your business. Things people have done include, shutting down all computers at night and also printing less paper and using pdf’s instead.
Another way of looking how you could save money is by studying your maintenance bills on how much you are spending on lamp replacements. One thing that always seems to go unnoticed is how much money is spent on replacing tubes or lights in an office setting continuously.
What can be done to save money?
Every CDM-T lamp made has a life span associated with it, this is designed by the manufactures. When a light gets to the end of this cycle the lamp could take longer to start or become a different color or even start to flicker. Sometimes you are even replacing the same tube over a monthly period.
However, no one ever changes the ballast, for those who are not familiar with the technical details of how a lamp works, read on. When you turn a light switch on in a office or commercial setting, the electricity flows through the switch and to the ballast, the electricity enters the ballast at 220 volts and the ballasts job is to provide the correct current to the lamp and to ensure a stable color impression over the lamps lifetime.
Ballasts have a shelf life and when this starts to get old, it can become unreliable. When this happens the life of the lamp is shortened dramatically. This results in the lamp being changed in the same fitting all the time.
By replacing the CDM-T lamp and the ballast at the same time will ensure that the lamp operates for the duration of its expected life, the one exception here is an electric power surge. You will normally find by doing this that the lamp life increases by 30% and the ballast last longer as well.
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