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The best lighting for a baseball field or stadium is not the brightest possible light, but rather the most evenly distributed, glare-free light. Too often, DIY installers overspend when buying baseball field lights, buying both too many fixtures and fixtures at too high a wattage output. This not only results in more exorbitant front-end costs, but it also contributes to higher lighting costs and, in some instances, more glare for smaller baseball diamonds. Professional designers know that installing retail grade baseball lights pre-mounted to poles simply will not put America’s Game in the right kind of light. Advanced foot-candle calculations based upon the size and location of the field must first be done in advanced, then commercial grade fixtures with sophisticated reflectors must be mounted at exactly the right height on poles in order to produce maximum lumens per wattage efficiency. This is critical for mid-air lighting of the ball in play, and something that fixed-mount pole fixtures cannot deliver. Also, preconfigured baseball lights will almost always degrade more rapidly when exposed to extremes in weather, and when they begin to rust, they present an unsightly nuisance that eventually exposes wires to humid air and creates short circuit and possible fire hazard.

While commercial grade baseball lights do represent a price point for the small town, pee wee league, little league, or church camp, they can nonetheless be obtained at competitive prices on the front end and be configured in such a fashion as to create a energy-saving return on investment on the back end. This is why so many small towns, camps, and churches on a budget rely upon RLL Design for baseball lighting fixtures, poles, mounts and accessories. RLL Design experts add years of consultation and lighting expertise to the proposal of the professional looking to generate savings and ROI, and they add consultative value to the knowledge of the do-it-yourselfer at a savings of cost-per-hour labor fees. Many clients are often shocked to see how less can truly be more when it comes to baseball field and stadium lighting. For example, a small little league field seldom needs more than one or two 1000-watt lamps along the baseline, and a single or double 400-watt baseball light over home plate. Knowing the exact wattage to choose and where to install the fixture requires calculation of the size and location of the field and detailed knowledge of light pollution laws in one’s area. Having this knowledge available from your baseball lighting vendor is an added value that saves you time preparing proposals and prevents costly mistakes when you decide to install the purchase and lights yourself.

Savings isn’t limited to the small municipality or organization alone. RLLD baseball lights feature advanced ballast technology that renders superior electron flow, making them ideal for larger baseball stadiums and professional league lighting. RLLD baseball lighting fixtures are designed to resist corrosion in a multitude of climates. Featuring a powder coated die cast housing with formed aluminum lids, they can endure a greater level of stress from wind and rain. Baseball lights further protect lamp life with tempered flat glass insulated with gasket seals and aluminum clamp bands. Adding anodized aluminum reflectors to magnify lumens output and photometrical distribution can further customize each fixture. By working with an RLLD sports lighting specialist, you can choose from types 3, 4, 5, or 6 optics to achieve maximum visibility for safe play.

Superior ballasting technology also extends the lamp life of RLLD baseball lighting fixtures and produces a more reliable, consistent spread of illumination necessary for lighting a larger stadium. For best results, it is best for both contractors and DIY installers to work with a design specialist who will help them purchase poles and fixtures separately, then configure them into a specialty kit or custom lighting design. Each baseball field is different, so a variety of mounting brackets is also required to achieve precise positioning of light fixtures on poles so that directional angle of incidence is optimized and glare is minimized.

For baseball fields that already have light poles in place, you can work with one of our specialists who will fit them with new mounting arms and fixtures. Our baseball sports lighting fixtures can also be mounted on a variety of pole types and wall mounts, making them multi-functional for other sporting events and facility lighting needs. This is an added benefit we offer to contractors competitively bidding jobs for clients who have very limited procurement budgets, and it also serves to help smaller facilities looking to self-install a lighting system that can serve many needs at once.

We also understand that both professional and end-user clients simply do not have the time to do all the research and calculation necessary to effectively develop a baseball or sports arena lighting system. To help serve these organizations and individuals, we staff a team of Experts who will answer any question in our online forum, and we will help any serious inquiries over the phone.

Baseball field lighting requires a number of things to be taken into consideration to ensure that the field is evenly lit for maximum visibility in both the infield and the outfield. Preconfigured baseball field lights often fail to do this because they offer inappropriate wattage to light smaller baseball fields, or because they are designed only for fields in a specific type of league. Poorly designed retail-grade fixtures run the risk of weathering rapidly, first rusting and presenting an unsightly nuisance, then later deteriorating to the level that internal components and wires become exposed and short circuit with exposure to humidity. Baseball field lights that come pre-fitted to a mounting arm may look like a good all in one deal, but they often become more of a nuisance with procurement passes them to the installers, who then discover after the fact that the mounting arms don’t quite fit the poles the right way, and the lights themselves are therefore useless. Finally, many facility managers, owners, and municipalities frequently overspend by buying too many baseball field lights, unaware that certain commercial grade fixtures can be fitted with reflectors that magnify and further cast a brighter, more intense field of light.

Baseball field lighting is so much simpler than all of this. Because we know that baseball fields vary greatly in size per location, ownership, and league status, we sell fixtures and mounting brackets separately. This allows procurement personnel to first study the lighting poles and any currently installed fixtures to see which of our mounting brackets will best fit their existing configuration. Secondly, we provide the lights separately in varying degrees of wattage and corresponding intensities. Our lighting fixtures can also multifunction as arena lights in other sports and public events, which is an added benefit of equipment obtained through RLLD’s adaptive, highly specialized inventory. These fixtures are extremely tough and can take a beating from the elements without rusting out or short-circuiting. Each fixture consists of a powder coated die cast housing with a formed aluminum lid that can endure greater stress from the elements than fixtures made from inferior metals. Baseball field light fixtures also better protect lamp life with tempered flat glass insulated by a gasket sealed with an aluminum clamp band. Further options become available by adding anodized aluminum reflectors. Not only do these reflectors magnify lumens and photometric distribution, they also allow for field managers to precisely adjust the field of illumination by selecting any specific reflector model from Type 3, 4, 5, or 6 optics that best meets the needs of visibility and safe play. In order to ensure that these lights last not only for the duration of the season, but for many years to come, RLLD equips them with the very best multi-tap ballasts in four optional voltage levels. Superior ballast technology means greater energy efficiency, reliable lighting, and longer lamp life.

This ability to match feature to need to create personal benefit unique to a given situation is what RLLD famous as a lighting design, one shop supply house vendor. Small towns throughout America prefer to buy from us because their little league fields in many cases are much smaller than the larger diamonds used by adults. In many cases only a few 400-watt baseball field lighting fixtures is all they need to light the home plate, along with one or two lights equipped with 1000 watt lamps and appropriate reflectors on either side of the baselines. Larger facilities save money with baseball field lights because of their superior electron flow control through the world’s best ballast technology. As in the case with smaller fields, there is both a power saving advantage to this and a replacement cost minimizing factor that results as well. The combination of the right fixtures, wattages, optics level reflectors, and mounts can custom-light any baseball field in the world.