The document discusses maintenance factors for different types of rooms and provides a table with maintenance factor values for lamp maintenance and dirty lamps. It then provides an example calculation to determine the number of luminaires required to illuminate a classroom to 400 lx at a maintenance factor of 0.7, given the room dimensions and properties of the luminaires including initial lumen output and reflection coefficients.
The document discusses maintenance factors for different types of rooms and provides a table with maintenance factor values for lamp maintenance and dirty lamps. It then provides an example calculation to determine the number of luminaires required to illuminate a classroom to 400 lx at a maintenance factor of 0.7, given the room dimensions and properties of the luminaires including initial lumen output and reflection coefficients.
The document discusses maintenance factors for different types of rooms and provides a table with maintenance factor values for lamp maintenance and dirty lamps. It then provides an example calculation to determine the number of luminaires required to illuminate a classroom to 400 lx at a maintenance factor of 0.7, given the room dimensions and properties of the luminaires including initial lumen output and reflection coefficients.
The document discusses maintenance factors for different types of rooms and provides a table with maintenance factor values for lamp maintenance and dirty lamps. It then provides an example calculation to determine the number of luminaires required to illuminate a classroom to 400 lx at a maintenance factor of 0.7, given the room dimensions and properties of the luminaires including initial lumen output and reflection coefficients.
Table -3 gives the maintenance factors for different types of rooms.
Table -3 Maintenance factor
Room classification Lamp maintenance Maintenance Total factor factor for dirty maintenance lamp factor
very clean 0.09 0.85 0.85-0.9
clean 0.9 0.9 0.8
average 0.9 0.8 0.7
dirty 0.9 0.7 0.6
Example 2
It is proposed to illuminate a class room of dimensions 6 x 8 x 2.85 m
to an illuminance (E) of 400 lx at the bench level. The specification calls for luminaires having one 1050 mm 40 W fluorescent natural tube with an initial output of 3200 lumens with white metal base and prismatic plastic diffuser (its UF is given in Table -2) . Determine the number of luminaires required for this installation when the MF is 0.7, respectively. The reflection coefficients are: (C= 0.70, W= 0.3, F=0.2)
Solution
From the room dimension we can calculate the room index ( k )
assuming the working table height is 0.85 m. Hence,