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Advantages of LED Gas Station Lights and Their Safety Classification

Nov 12,2019

Advantages of LED Gas Station Lights and Their Safety Classification

Gas stations are flammable and explosive places, with particularly strict safety requirements, and the selection of lighting fixtures must meet standards. Currently, the lighting fixtures used in gas stations are gradually being replaced by LED gas station lights. What advantages do they have? What are their safety level classifications? Below, I will briefly introduce them.

Advantages of LED gas station lights:

Since LEDs are solid-state cold light sources, they have advantages such as high electro-optical conversion efficiency, low heat generation, low power consumption, safe low voltage operation, and long service life, resulting in low energy consumption. Therefore, high-power white LED is a very ideal electro-optical source for explosion-proof lighting, especially for portable explosion-proof lighting.

LED explosion-proof lights, patented zone sealing technology: more in line with national new explosion-proof technology. It belongs to a type of electrical equipment used in special industries, mainly solving lighting problems. It includes the lamp housing, a lampshade set at the front end of the lamp housing, a light-emitting body and battery set inside the lamp housing, and a switch set on the surface of the lamp housing.

Its characteristic is that the light-emitting body is a high-power LED module, and there is a wide voltage input driving circuit between the light-emitting body and the battery: the wide voltage input driving circuit includes a constant current chip, and the constant current chip and battery form a power module, with the LED module connected to the constant current chip, and the power module and LED module are glued together: the lampshade and lamp housing are ultrasonically welded.

It utilizes the low heat generation characteristics of LEDs to achieve intrinsically safe explosion-proof levels, and the LED light source has a long lifespan: the LED maintains constant brightness during both fully charged and end-of-discharge states; a heat dissipation device is set on the lamp housing, which can effectively dissipate heat from the LED module, ensuring stable use, suitable for various industry lighting such as coal mines, petroleum, railways, and flood prevention.

Safety level classification of LED gas station lights:

1. Class 0 lighting fixtures: ungrounded lighting fixtures that rely on basic insulation for electric shock protection, meaning that the conductive parts of the lighting fixtures that are easily accessible are not connected to the protective conductor in the facility's fixed wiring. In case of basic insulation failure, it must rely on the environment.

2. Class I lighting fixtures: grounded lighting fixtures, where electric shock protection relies not only on basic insulation but also includes additional safety measures, namely connecting easily accessible conductive parts to the protective grounding conductor in the facility's fixed wiring, ensuring that easily accessible conductive parts do not become live in case of basic insulation failure.

3. Class II lighting fixtures: ungrounded lighting fixtures, where electric shock protection relies not only on basic insulation but also has additional safety measures, such as double insulation or reinforced insulation, but does not have protective grounding measures or relies on installation conditions.

4. Class III lighting fixtures: electric shock protection relies on the power supply voltage being a safe extra-low voltage and does not produce voltages higher than SELV.

The above is my introduction, hoping to deepen everyone's impression.