Imagine the following scenario: you’re in the middle of a meeting, you’re fixing your hair to go to the long awaited party with your friends, or you’re making your favorite blend of fresh juice and light goes out! Imagine this disaster taking place in the middle of a seminar? What would it be like to see everything dull and covered in a cloud of dusk? We certainly do not want that to happen to us.
Despite the government taking significant measures in fire drills in infrastructure for the betterment of the society, accidents, sometimes, occur resulting in severe financial losses for UK businesses and other countries as well.
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The Welsh Fire and Rescue Services attended a total of 7,564 intentional fires in 2013-14. This is an increase of 18 per cent compared with the previous year, but a decrease of 71 per cent compared with 2001-02. Of these fires, 18 per cent were primary fires.
In 2013-14, 66 per cent of deliberate fires were in South Wales, 24 per cent in Mid and West Wales, and 10 per cent were in North Wales.
To counter these unforeseen incidents we need to think of a back-up plan, ensuring a reliable and continuous supply of back-up power for critical life safety systems, such as emergency lighting. Responsibility for this will usually fall to a facilities manager.
Most residential occupancies are now facilitating the residents with emergency lighting. This can make life easy for both the owner and the tenants. Offices have a continuous power supply back-up to work efficiently without any delays. The uninterrupted power supply can make life at home or office more fruitful. Steps have been taken by large organizations, banks, civil departments and by the State to incorporate a back-up power supply system in their infrastructure. This can ensure that even when there is a catastrophe and the entire town is downtrodden and struck by a complete black out, the lighting system will not fail. This system can even be installed in hazardous areas where there is always a high risk factor for sudden power failure.
General standards define emergency lighting as lighting that is activated as a result of a general malfunction in the central power supply. This emergency lighting alleviates misgivings and panic. When there is a need to escape safely in a problematic area, Emergency lighting serves as a fundamental resource, making evacuation easier. It is also useful when you need to identify safety gadgets and fire-fighting equipment in case of an emergency.
Emergency lighting systems can come in single, grouped or central battery systems. They allow limited luminance to restricted objects and ensure that power is supplied in minimum time. These consist of a battery, charging and monitoring equipment.
Turn it on and off according to specific personal needs. You can even adjust the auto turn-on and turn-off timings to fit your requirements. This amazing facility has recently become very popular with people from all walks of life. Students, teachers, business men, community workers and even housewives have resorted to this efficient system of emergency lighting. It is always a good idea to let things run smoothly without hurdles. Why then let something come in way of our busy schedules?
There are three basic types of emergency lighting:
Non-maintained: Emergency lighting only illuminates in the event of a mains failure.
Maintained: Emergency lighting remains illuminated at all times using the same lamps for both normal and emergency operation.
Sustained: The emergency lighting is fitted with two lamps. One operates on mains AC supply, the other operates from a battery supply in the event of mains failure. This is essentially a non-maintained system with the addition of mains lamps that should be illuminated whenever a building is occupied.
Emergency Conversion Kits are maintained in case of power failures. This appliance provides central power which is designed to supply a source of independent power for security equipment such as emergency lighting and other essential safety equipment.
The regular testing of emergency lighting systems and power supply is strictly regulated under ICEL61347-2-7 and ICE61347-1.
Under ICEL 61347, European legislation provides stringent requirements for systems permanently connected to AC supply voltages and that use batteries as an alternative power source.
Emergency lighting is prone to high inrushes and power surges. To cope with this demand, emergency conversion kit (which consists of inverter, rechargeable battery pack) must be able to operate at incessant overload without affecting the load or their stability. Batteries are required to attain a 100% recharge rate within 24 hours and must provide three hours of run time after being fully discharged every 3 months.
In view of this, it’s important to select the most suitable range of emergency lighting conversion kits.
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