Outdoor lighting for horse arenas and equestrian facilities are becoming more sophisticated every day. In the old days, horse arenas and outdoor rodeo arenas were lighted with outdoor flood lights, halogen lights or simply mercury vapor barn lights. These forms of outdoor arena lighting did not have the lumen output or performance to properly illuminate arenas, holding pens, stables or horse training areas. In fact, all of these light sources are outdated, ineffective and inefficient. The foot-candle specifications for lighting equestrian and rodeo arenas are 50fc for Class 2 and 30fc for Class 3.
Most equestrian facilities have large creosote light poles that can be easily retrofitted with modern arena lighting metal halide fixtures. Sometimes these lights have brackets designed to mount on walls or buildings. Metal halide is a type of light source that energy efficient, and produces a very bright light with good color rendering. It is part of the high intensity discharge or HID category of outdoor lighting fixtures. Metal halide fixtures are fast becoming the new standard in outdoor arena lighting. By using metal pole adapters and metal halide box floods existing outdoor horse arenas can be updated and brought to life. This can often […]

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