LED street light glare caused by insomnia British residents to improve

LED China news network is located in the town of Braque, Manchester, northwest of the United Kingdom (Blackburn) about 2 weeks ago LED street lights. The original intention is to improve the quality of street lamps, but this time the accident caused a local family for several nights can not sleep, serious insomnia.

According to local residents, Stewart (Stuart Wild) said Whitaker they outside the house installed LED lights not only illuminate the road, the street on the back of an abnormal strong glare and exposure to the surrounding residential. The trouble is that the light from the LED street lights has made their home brighter than the night.

Braque in the beginning of 2014 to get a capital of $9 million street lamps, out of the old street lights for 40 years. The upgrade is expected to save a lot of electricity and maintenance costs for the city council.

It may be a good thing to have a relatively bright LED street lamp on the road, but the same brightness may not be ideal if installed in residential areas.

She called on the City Council to take action as soon as possible, for example for a suitable style, use LED lamp dimming function, with shade or directly using black paint sealed lighting LED lamp back to improve the direction of the problem,

She contacted the local MP for assistance. Jim, head of the local environmental management department, Jim Smith, has promised to deal with the problem.

According to the understanding of China LED network editor, there may be other residents are also subject to the lack of a good design of the LED street light glare. At LED street light type design on the market mainstream, whether new or bat type light type, with attention to glare and light pollution, choose LED Street proper price, can avoid public lighting produce light pollution problem is not necessary. (compile / China LED network Emmachang)

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