LED lighting for stables and farmyards

• Individual lighting design:
  Our experienced team of consultants will create a professional lighting design on request, precisely tailored to your needs, whether for stables, riding arenas or barns.
• LED technology in the barn pays off
  LEDs achieve high luminous efficacy, meaning a high luminous flux per unit of electrical output consumed. The investment costs for new equipment or retrofitting are amortised after a short time through considerable savings in operation. A suitable 50 W LED spotlight can consume up to 90 per cent less electricity than a 500 W halogen spotlight whilst delivering comparable light output.
• Service life of LED chips
  Depending on the design and operating conditions, LED chips can achieve a service life of up to 100,000 hours. In continuous operation, this is approx. 6 years, with daily operation of 8 hours even more than 17 years. Costs for maintenance and lamp replacement are thus reduced to a minimum. LED chips also do not simply fail but lose brightness over time (degradation).
• Luminous efficacy
  LED luminaires can achieve a significantly higher luminous efficacy than conventional halogen luminaires; typical LED chips, for example, offer approx. 100–200 lm/W, compared with approx. 18 lm/W for halogen spotlights.
• High switching resistance
  Unlike energy-saving or fluorescent lamps, the robust light-emitting diodes are practically insensitive to frequent switching on and off. They are therefore also ideally suited for switching-intensive operation on motion detectors.
• Full light output immediately
  Minute-long "warm-up phases" are a thing of the past with LEDs because they provide 100 % light output immediately after being switched on.
• Full light output even at low temperatures
  LEDs reach their full light output immediately, even at low temperatures, and are therefore ideal for use outdoors or in unheated buildings.
• Low UV radiation
  Unlike the human eye, insects’ eyes are particularly sensitive to ultraviolet (UV) radiation. The high-pressure mercury vapour lamps that were commonly used in the past still act like a vacuum cleaner for millions of insects due to their high UV content. LED light generally has a very low UV content and therefore attracts far fewer insects than light sources rich in UV radiation.
• No additional heat input
  The light emitted by an LED remains cool - in contrast to temperature radiators such as halogen or incandescent lamps, where a large part of the energy is converted into infrared radiation and thus into heat. In LEDs, heat is generated in the electronics but is not radiated in the direction of the object to be illuminated.
• Natural colour perception
  In dairy cattle husbandry, a high and thus natural colour rendition is required for colour differentiation of blood, urine and milk, especially in treatment stalls, sick stalls and calving pens. The quality of colour rendering is indicated by the Ra value. The maximum possible value is 100, an Ra value of > 75 is recommended. In contrast to LEDs, sodium vapour lamps (Ra 20-50), for example, have very poor colour rendering properties.
• Mercury free LED technology
  LED luminaires do not contain mercury and can be disposed of at the designated collection points for waste electrical equipment.

Young cattle
Increasing the light intensity with 16 hours of brightness and 8 hours of darkness also has a positive effect on the development of young cattle. An increased amount of light stimulates activity and appetite and accelerates the growth of the animals.

Dry standing cows
Daylight phases with 8 hours of light and 16 hours of darkness make sense for dry cows. This leads to higher milk yields in the following lactation. In addition, feed intake and the immune system are positively influenced. It is therefore advisable to house dry cows in a separate barn.

LED luminaires have all the prerequisites
In order to achieve optimal milk and growth performance, LED luminaires are particularly suitable for new barns and for the conversion of old barns. Where annual operating hours are high, power consumption and maintenance costs in particular can have a significant impact on cost-effectiveness.

Influence of colour temperature
The colour temperature of a light source also has a decisive influence on biorhythms. Here, a basic distinction is made between warm white. (< 3300 K), neutral white. and daylight white. (> 5300 K). The higher the colour temperature, the higher the blue-green component in the spectral composition of the light. Since the brightness perceived by the bovine eye is highest in the blue-green range, the use of luminaires with a high colour temperature is recommended to achieve an increase in productivity. LEDs with a colour temperature of at least 5,300 K are therefore particularly suitable.