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Raylux 300 white light illuminator

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The Raylux 300 is a high performance White-Light LED illuminator that provides class leading performance within its field. The Raylux white light illuminators primary purpose is to provide even illumination and excellent night time images for CCTV cameras. However they provide plenty of lighting solutions both inside and out the security industry. Deterrent is one option, bright lighting always helps to reduce crime. Health and safety benefits also spring to mind as well as good working light to improve employee efficiency. The Raylux 300 also benefits from long life expectancy, energy efficiency and zero maintenance.

The LED lights incorporate surface mount LED’s to ensure that the optical output borders on outstanding and offers second to none in terms of reliability. Trade-marked technology called Adaptive Illumination provides the flexibility to alter the angle of the light source in order to suit the required illumination and meet the  specification. An output of 110lm/W is present at the LED source, and an independently tested luminaire output of 7000 lm has been confirmed. Active LED Life Control is fitted to each unit to control the lighting  output. This ensures consistent illumination and  power and helps to provide an average working life of 10 years.

 

RAYLUX illuminators include control features on the power supply such as an adjustable power output together with a photocell and telemetry control. RAYLUX300 is also supplied with bracket and power supply and is  suitable for all low light installations up to 240m (787ft).

 

Benefits include:

 

DIRECTIONAL WHITE-LIGHT

ULTIMATE ADAPTIVE ILLUMINATION

LUX 300

Wide Angle light spread

 

 

• Quick Start

• LED technology

• 180° coverage up to 56m (184ft)

• 360° coverage with only 2 units

• Ultimate Adaptive Illumination™

• Various Angles (10° to 180°+)

• Fully Controllable Power Supply

• 10 year life

• Active LED Life Control

• Vandal Resistant

• Excellent Colour Rendition

• Even Output Illumination

• Low Running Cost

 

 

 

 

How important are IR illuminators when installing HD CCTV systems?

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Over the years CCTV as a product has managed to get itself a bad name. Sometimes this is due to trying to get too much out of the view meaning detail is lacking but mainly the problems start when specifiers refuse to advise their customers of the importance of lighting when installing their CCTV system. Ironically as technology has progressed and we now have HD images the need for correctly installed lighting has become even more critical. HD cameras are more light hungry than their analogue counterparts and the fantastic images we see during the day quickly deteriorates when the light starts to fade. The poorer image also has the effect of using more hard drive space as the noise on the screen is seen as movement and therefore worthy of recording.

So what is the answer? Well manufacturers have addressed the issue by integrating IR lighting into their products in the form of a ring of IR leds placed strategically around the lens. This can work well and certainly gives us better nighttime pictures but the biggest downfall of this method is the dreaded spider. We have seen several example of cameras that worked well until a spider decided to weave its web across the front of the camera . This has the effect of reflecting the IR back into lens and completely obliterating the images. The worse thing about this is that it can go unnoticed for many weeks and when the need arises to review the images they are are worthless.

Clarius - IS-8100

So what else can be done? Well good ambient light will help or sensor switched halogens are an option but these are expensive and what if the bulb blows? Sodiums burning all night perhaps but this is throwing money away. No the answer is more simple, it is IR LED lighting. An IR illuminator uses hardly any power they are reliable and effective and maintenance free. The level of investment is higher to begin with but ROI is swift and they solve the issue of picture quality. An IR illuminator is the only answer to lighting issues.

So what do we recommend. Well there are three main players in this market place. Raytec, Clarius and Iluminar. All make several models that can suit most scenarios taking into account distance and width of view. Advances in the manufacturing process have bought prices down dramatically so there is no excuse to compromise your CCTV systems for the sake of skimping on lighting.

Clarius IR illuminators what sets them apart from other IR products

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Clarius illuminators have started to get tongues wagging in the world of security and lighting. The Clarius product range has found a niche in the professional illuminator market place due to its design and build quality as well as a keen price in comparison to its big rival Raytec. With this in mind GJD a world renowned distributor of lighting and security  products have bought into Clarius led lighting with the intention of taking the products forward to challenge Raytec as the market leader.

As most security installers now acknowledge led lighting technology has many benefits over traditional lighting solutions such as sodium or Halogen. Lighting of course has always been important but good lighting saves hard drive space during night time recordings and dramatically improves picture quality. Sales are expected to increase exponentially in the coming years and for good reason.

35m Infra-Red LED illuminator - Clarius - IS-8120-P

 

Clarius IR is leading the way:

 

Clarius infra-red LED illuminators are designed to provide class leading performance, long life and ultra-low maintenance. Incorporating the latest surface mount LED’s with enhanced optical output and outstanding reliability, they deliver excellent night-time images. Each unit is fitted with integrated control circuitry to carefully control LED output, delivering consistent illumination and projected working life in excess of 10 years. Installation is quick and easy, requiring only a 12-32V DC /24V AC input.

New installations and replacement of old tired looking lighting is becoming a practice that will continue going forward and Clarius/GJD are very well placed to benefit from this change in lighting preferences. POE has added to the benefits we can list and this enables installations to be completed by people from a non-electrical background.

list of IR illuminators

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IR illuminators from HD CCTV solutions

RAYMAX Infra-Red

RAYLUX White-Light

FUSION Low Voltage

RAYLUX Urban

AXIS T90A21 IR-LED 50-100 DEG – infrared illuminator

AT-3S Smart Series NANO IR Illuminator, 850 nm

Videotec GEKO IRH10L8A LED illuminator IRH60H8A

VIDEOTEC IR-LED illuminator 60°, Hi-power, 850nm 12/24VDC-24VAC, distance up to 56 m

Clarius IR Short Range. Short range IR illuminator; SMT LED technology, Distances up to 45m Angles 10, 30, 60, 100 x 50 & 120 deg.

GJD CLARIUS Large IR Illuminator 25m Infra-Red LED illuminator – Clarius IS-830

This Clarius IS-830 illuminator is designed to provide class leading performance for HD CCTV images.

Luxurite Product code: IRLAMP-100 198 pcs of high-power IR LED100 meter IR distance15˚ light angleDC12V 1.2Amp IP66 Waterproof

Iluminar 190m 24VA Long Range IR Illuminator IR623-A10-24

COP 80 Metre range IR LED flood lamp

Why have hundreds of CCTV cameras suddenly stopped working overnight?

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Bizarre but true. Suddenly without warning hundreds if not thousands of CCTV cameras have suddenly stopped working overnight. How could this happen? What is going on? Without warning many CCTV end users are trying to review their footage of overnight incidents and have seen a dramatic fall in the quality of their pictures. Why this sudden change? Have CCTV cameras all decided to fail at once? Well no , not exactly but the one thing all CCTV cameras rely on totally has started to disappear, the problem is that all of a sudden there is no light.

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CCTV cameras

Wait you may say, just replace the bulbs, but this is not the inherent problem, the issue arises from the need for many cameras across the UK to rely on ambient lighting to operate, street lighting to be precise. For years the UK has been treated to dusk till dawn street lighting across the pretty much the whole of the country. This has meant cameras using this street lighting to operate have always worked with little or no need for additional light. Now however we have seen a new phenomenon creep into the UK economy . It is called austerity.

For the last year many councils across the country have been faced with some tough decision on how to save money, now many are doing the unthinkable and switching off street lighting in the small hours between 1 am and 5 am. The reasons of course are sound, much money saved and let’s be honest most of us are sound asleep so it has no effect at all on us. However some fractions of the criminal fraternity are thriving on a twofold advantage being handed to them . No light meaning they can operate in more or less complete darkness and no cameras to catch them either. Of course the cameras that suffer most are those that for years have operated with no issues whatsoever. No one has seen this coming…literally.

This problem though is easily solved. Clarius IR illuminators for dual chip cameras and Clarius white light illuminators for colour cameras will solve the problem overnight with the minimum of cost compared to a camera upgrade or the installation of new cameras with built in IR.

 

So cameras that simply don’t work are a growing problem across the UK but Clarius illuminators can solve the problem quickly at the best prices to the end user. So don’t be left in the dark, check your night time images now and take advantage of LED lighting technology to improve you CCTV images all round.