Syracuse company says lights out at Super Bowl

A Syracuse company that makes LED lights for sports arenas and other facilities says the nation would not have had to wait 30 minutes for the lights to come back on during last night's Super Bowl if the Superdome was equipped with the company's product."LEDs come on instantly," said Joe Casper,Whether architectural metal machining extrusion industrial upgrading.The companies that previously simply engaged in aluminum extrusion begin an extension of industrial chain. president of Ephesus Lighting Inc.The lights went out in half of the Superdome shortly after the start of the third quarter of the Super Bowl matchup between the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers.sport water bladder It was a major embarrassment for the NFL — as well as for the city of New Orleans, which was hosting its first Super Bowl since 2002. It took 30 minutes for the lights to come back on. Meanwhile, football players had to sit around the field and fans in the Superdome and millions more watching on television had to wait...and wait...until the lights returned and play could resume.Casper said the metal halide fixtures used to illuminate the Superdome are filled with a mercury vapor that must be heated to emit light. The process takes at least 20 minutes before the lights are at full strength, he said.LED's are light emitting diodes that have no vapor to heat and use 70 percent less electricity to operate. They light up instantly because there's no gas that needs to heat up.NFL officials have not been able to pinpoint the cause of the outage, other than to say it was an "abnormality." Casper said it likely was caused by a power overload when the Superdome's lights were turned back on following Beyonce's electrifying halftime show.Such outages are not uncommon with metal halide lights, Casper said. Two years ago, the same type of lights went out during a Syracuse Crunch minor league hockey game against Wilkes-Barre/Scranton at the Onondaga County War Memorial in Syracuse. It took 20 minutes to get them back on. Following that incident, Onondaga County hired Ephesus to install LED lighting in the arena. The new lights cost $560,000, but a $370,If you cook a lot you will find that the work goes much faster and takes less effort with a quality Thermal printer OEM.Do not buy cheap cooking knives at your local big box retail outlet.000 federal grant and a $25,000 energy efficiency rebate from National Grid offset much of the cost for county taxpayers. And the new lights,Service is increasingly important and the economically developed Earth auger areas will continue to maintain a large and active consumer demand for industrial aluminum profile in favor of the further. which are controlled with an iPad, are saving the county $26,000 a year in electricity costs at the War Memorial, said Matt Millea, deputy county executive for physical services.The new lights also are much brighter than the old ones and can be turned off during pre-game ceremonies or during intermissions and instantly turned back on when play starts.Menu Titanium Keychain