City of Vacaville - Filamento

City of Vacaville - Filamento

Street Lights

City of Vacaville

Location

Vacaville, CA

Highlights

Retrofit into legacy light posts and acorn enclosures
Significantly reduce energy consumption
Provide better illumination of pedestrian areas without overlighting surrounding areas
Reduce maintenance costs
Reduce and limit light pollution
Maintain good color rendering

Products

Vacaville’s important Main Street corridor had a problem with poor lighting that impacted people’s comfort and safety. The installed lighting solution used an acorn style lamp – common to older or historic residential and shopping districts. The installed light sources were HID bulbs. Unfortunately, these bulbs use a lot of energy and distribute uncontrolled or directed light which leads to light pollution and uncomfortable glare.

The City needed to make a change and understood that with LED technology, significant energy savings (compared to the existing 150W HID lamps) and reduced maintenance effort and costs would be possible and could lead to a rapid pay-back of an investment in new lighting.

What they discovered in their search for a solution was the Filamento post top solution that not only provided energy savings and a robust, reliable solution, but one that could also illuminate the traditional acorn housings, minimize glare, virtually elimination up-lighting, and provide better illumination of sidewalks, walkways and crosswalks thereby improving pedestrian safety and confidence.