Duvon replaced metal-halide lighting on four courts at Banbury Tennis Club with asymmetric Freedom LEDs that kept light off neighbouring homes, it reports.
Results
The challenge
Banbury's metal-halide lighting gave uneven coverage and a slow restart, and neighbours had complained about light reaching their homes. Any new system had to light four courts evenly and still meet the municipality's outdoor lighting bylaw.
The solution
Duvon ran a fixture-level photometric study first, modelling the four courts and the surrounding tree line in 3D to check spill, glare and uniformity before anything was installed. It then fitted 500 W Freedom asymmetric luminaires on the existing pole positions, with aiming angles refined to avoid the cross-court hot spots that symmetrical optics produce.
The outcome
Duvon reports an average of 50 fc maintained across the four courts at a 1.2:1 uniformity ratio, and spill readings below 0.1 fc at the property line without add-on shrouds. Connected load fell by 64 percent against the old 1500 W metal-halide set, and the 8 to 12 minute warm-up is gone.
About the Freedom fixture
Freedom is Duvon's high-output court family at 500, 600 and 800 watts, designed for competition-level tennis and pickleball. It can replace 1500 to 2000 watt metal halide and HID fixtures. Housings are IP65 rated, with full cut-off or indirect asymmetric optics.
Key takeaways
- Photometric modelling came before fixture selection, which let the design target spill and uniformity up front.
- Asymmetric optics, not shrouds, kept light inside the property line.
- Instant-on LEDs removed the dusk warm-up delay members had put up with.
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