thorpie the sinner Posted 9 August, 2014 Share Posted 9 August, 2014 Anyone else struggle with the lighting today, my eyes are still going haywire now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruffalo Posted 9 August, 2014 Share Posted 9 August, 2014 From nigh on the back row of the Itchen North, I made the mistake of looking directly at the lights over the Kingsland - the brightness was retina burning.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CWD Posted 9 August, 2014 Share Posted 9 August, 2014 Very annoying, i can still see them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twinkle Toes Posted 9 August, 2014 Share Posted 9 August, 2014 Spent most of the match with spots before my eyes. Every time I looked up the glare was painful. I recommend sunglasses for an evening match! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1576 Posted 9 August, 2014 Share Posted 9 August, 2014 Ah, but it's so much better for viewing on the tellybox don't you know. Which after all is the most important thing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olallana Posted 9 August, 2014 Share Posted 9 August, 2014 First football stadium seen from ISS? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benjii Posted 9 August, 2014 Share Posted 9 August, 2014 It was fine. Why were you gimps staring at the lights? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazza82 Posted 9 August, 2014 Share Posted 9 August, 2014 nothing wrong with them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beatlesaint Posted 9 August, 2014 Share Posted 9 August, 2014 It's ok guys, I used to work in lighting. After a few hours of use they will dim, people always used to ring up when new LED lighting was first installed anywhere. It won't always be as bright as tonight ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 9 August, 2014 Share Posted 9 August, 2014 Irritatingly bright but not very illuminative, if you get what I mean. They have a very narrow angle of illumination and I found them intrusive but I was sitting in row CC in the north east corner instead of my usual row O on the half way line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Le God Posted 9 August, 2014 Share Posted 9 August, 2014 It's ok guys, I used to work in lighting. After a few hours of use they will dim, people always used to ring up when new LED lighting was first installed anywhere. It won't always be as bright as tonight ;-) In which case shouldn't they have left them on for hours in the build up to today's game to reduce the impact on people's eyes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beatlesaint Posted 9 August, 2014 Share Posted 9 August, 2014 In which case shouldn't they have left them on for hours in the build up to today's game to reduce the impact on people's eyes? yes they should have put them on for a few hours over the last couple of evenings for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwoPints Posted 9 August, 2014 Share Posted 9 August, 2014 It was fine. Why were you gimps staring at the lights? This. I was more concerned by the fact that people had turned up in flip flops Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmel Posted 9 August, 2014 Share Posted 9 August, 2014 (edited) It's ok guys, I used to work in lighting. After a few hours of use they will dim, people always used to ring up when new LED lighting was first installed anywhere. It won't always be as bright as tonight ;-) LMFAO..... I'm guessing that's why you USED to work in the industry. They won't dim over time. Edited 9 August, 2014 by Gemmel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nexstar Posted 9 August, 2014 Share Posted 9 August, 2014 In which case shouldn't they have left them on for hours in the build up to today's game to reduce the impact on people's eyes? Maybe they did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 9 August, 2014 Share Posted 9 August, 2014 LMFAO..... I'm guessing that's why you USED to work in the industry. They won't dim over time. I use tens of millions of LEDs a year and mine are not the over-driven lighting type. They'll go dim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmel Posted 9 August, 2014 Share Posted 9 August, 2014 I use tens of millions of LEDs a year and mine are not the over-driven lighting type. They'll go dim. Whitey - I could be (very likely) being really thick here but that's over my head Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beatlesaint Posted 9 August, 2014 Share Posted 9 August, 2014 LMFAO..... I'm guessing that's why you USED to work in the industry. They won't dim over time. you'll see Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmel Posted 9 August, 2014 Share Posted 9 August, 2014 you'll see But they've already had 14 hours use .....are you still expecting them to get dimmer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beatlesaint Posted 9 August, 2014 Share Posted 9 August, 2014 But they've already had 14 hours use .....are you still expecting them to get dimmer Lets put it like this, a street light, on for about 10-12 hours a night would take at least a week to dim, these will need a lot more than 14 hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmel Posted 9 August, 2014 Share Posted 9 August, 2014 Lets put it like this, a street light, on for about 10-12 hours a night would take at least a week to dim, these will need a lot more than 14 hours. It's ok guys, I used to work in lighting. After a few hours of use they will dim, people always used to ring up when new LED lighting was first installed anywhere. It won't always be as bright as tonight ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beatlesaint Posted 9 August, 2014 Share Posted 9 August, 2014 Ok Gemmel, have it your way, they will stay that bright, if not get brighter and thousands of people will be blinded by these new lights at St Mary's Better ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Chalet Posted 9 August, 2014 Share Posted 9 August, 2014 Can we play the lights 12 hours of Talksport? Guaranteed they will be dimmer as a result. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmel Posted 9 August, 2014 Share Posted 9 August, 2014 Can we play the lights 12 hours of Talksport? Guaranteed they will be dimmer as a result. LOL - About the only thing that would Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Boy Saint Posted 9 August, 2014 Share Posted 9 August, 2014 We had a trip to row MM in the Kingsland and the chit chat in the second half was how we wouldn't want to be sat this high every week as the lights intruded on your vision. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonnyboy Posted 9 August, 2014 Share Posted 9 August, 2014 Row V Itchen North, didnt notice them at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plastic Posted 9 August, 2014 Share Posted 9 August, 2014 (edited) Liked them. Cheaper to run and better spectrum, felt like 10k. Sure they will be high quality Cree panels or similar. Owning a marine tank, you get LED envy. Something like these maybe... (But bigger) http://ledlightingmanagement.com/led-lighting-management/content/led-sports-stadium-flood-light-300-watt-ip-67-waterproof-flood-light Edited 9 August, 2014 by Plastic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 9 August, 2014 Share Posted 9 August, 2014 Whitey - I could be (very likely) being really thick here but that's over my head Sorry, of course you're not. In order to get the maximum brightness out of these LEDs they run them at the maximum current possible which means they tend to run hot and need special device packaging to get rid of all the heat. The hotter any electronic device gets the more unreliable they generally become but LEDs in particular suffer from various progressive degradations and lose brightness over time. That's if they don't fail altogether. They're getting better though The ones we use are for electronic signage and are driven at more sustainable currents which is what I meant when I said that these were over driven. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpturner Posted 9 August, 2014 Share Posted 9 August, 2014 I think if you stare at any floodlight (LED or not) you are going to get dazzled. Nothing wrong with the lighting today IMHO. Mountain out of a molehill thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladysaint Posted 11 August, 2014 Share Posted 11 August, 2014 I just wish they would do something with the PA system, in the Northam stand it is terrible unless you are in the loo you cant hear a bloody thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CWD Posted 11 August, 2014 Share Posted 11 August, 2014 It was fine. Why were you gimps staring at the lights? Well that's an unnecessary response. I don't think anyone was staring at the lights. Sometimes in football the ball goes quite high, and I found it dazzled me when the ball crossed the light. That's all. Glad to hear that they will dim over time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpturner Posted 11 August, 2014 Share Posted 11 August, 2014 What would be the point of a floodlight that "dims over time" ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beatlesaint Posted 11 August, 2014 Share Posted 11 August, 2014 What would be the point of a floodlight that "dims over time" ? the dazzle and the glare dims, not the wattage/power of the light. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The9 Posted 11 August, 2014 Share Posted 11 August, 2014 Apart from the brightness (there seemed to be far fewer lights overall so I would imagine that's why the ones there were were brighter) I thought they were positioned quite strangely, they didn't seem equidistant or in any obvious pattern. We won't get the true effect until they're used in "proper" dark though, the players only had one shadow on Saturday evening, and that was from the big bright round thing in the sky (and I don't mean the Nike Ordem Premier League match ball). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCholulaKid Posted 11 August, 2014 Share Posted 11 August, 2014 **** me. Some people will moan about anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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