Tamlite I-Beam LED

[GunRunner]

Is anyone familiar with Tamlite's I-Beam LED linear fixture? Here is a link to Tamlite's website and on their home page, they have a layout calculator which is pretty handy. http://tamliteusa.com/index.php?v=det&rid=1113 It seems as though City Electric may have an exclusive on this because that is the only place I can find them at. The 4 board fixture puts out around 22,000 lumens and the 6 board puts out 32,000 lumens. They also have an 8 board and 10 board fixture. I was quoted $380 for the 4 board fixture and $480 for the 6 board. Just curious if anyone has had any experience with these.

 

[6PTsocket]

Nope. I looked at the spec sheet and they are high bay, meaning the beam pattern is narrow and they are meant for high ceilings where the beam has distance to spread out. They are 5000K and that is bluer than I prefer. Please disregard this reply if you know all this stuff, already

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[cybrdyke]

After a brief look at the spec sheet and at their website, it doesn't look like a bad product. When I look at a spec sheet, I expect the most important things to be the most obvious on the page. If they're not, then I get suspicious. Things like: who's diodes and who's drivers do they use? Beam angle information would be important. Other things that make me suspicious is when the manufacturer lists alot of techno junk that might look impressive to the ordinary viewer, but are really irrelevant...things like: how hard their metal is, on the Rockwell scale
This is a no-name manufacturer and an unusually shaped fixture. It only has a L70 life of 36,000 hours compared to professional fixtures that are over 100,000 hours. I would want to know a lot more about it before I coughed up $380 each. Comparable fixtures can be had for a lot less.
Good luck,
CD

 

[6PTsocket]

After a brief look at the spec sheet and at their website, it doesn't look like a bad product. When I look at a spec sheet, I expect the most important things to be the most obvious on the page. If they're not, then I get suspicious. Things like: who's diodes and who's drivers do they use? Beam angle information would be important. Other things that make me suspicious is when the manufacturer lists alot of techno junk that might look impressive to the ordinary viewer, but are really irrelevant...things like: how hard their metal is, on the Rockwell scale
This is a no-name manufacturer and an unusually shaped fixture. It only has a L70 life of 36,000 hours compared to professional fixtures that are over 100,000 hours. I would want to know a lot more about it before I coughed up $380 each. Comparable fixtures can be had for a lot less.
Good luck,
CD

That Rockwell hardness spec caught my eye too. Technobabble. It would be nice to know whose diodes they are using, driver info., etc. I suspect that info is not that commonly a available except in real top end stuff.

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[motofool33]

lumen output good, looks pretty cool. but kinda high on the price compared to other choices.

 

[Radix2]

After a brief look at the spec sheet and at their website, it doesn't look like a bad product. When I look at a spec sheet, I expect the most important things to be the most obvious on the page. If they're not, then I get suspicious. Things like: who's diodes and who's drivers do they use? Beam angle information would be important. Other things that make me suspicious is when the manufacturer lists alot of techno junk that might look impressive to the ordinary viewer, but are really irrelevant...things like: how hard their metal is, on the Rockwell scale
This is a no-name manufacturer and an unusually shaped fixture. It only has a L70 life of 36,000 hours compared to professional fixtures that are over 100,000 hours. I would want to know a lot more about it before I coughed up $380 each. Comparable fixtures can be had for a lot less.
Good luck,
CD

I'd cut them some slack on the sales talk, looking over the whole website they seem to be a decent sized actual US fixture manufacturer...after all how do you compete with low priced Chinese product in a commodity business...stamped steel is stamped steel... on the other hand, offering a below normal L70 doesn't help with selling the product as a superior domestically made item. Of course god only knows what proof there really is for the 50-100,000 hour life of the value priced imports either.

They do seem have some original designs that look nice, but personally at that price point I would lean to a Lithonia or something...gee are they made in China too?