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Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Importance Of Lightings For Flags

By Antuan Slow


The relevance of a flag cannot be overemphasized. This tiny piece of cloth painted with elaborate figures and carefully chosen hues carry a certain patch of history. As it flies in the air, it retells a colorful story of a distant past, of courage and valor preserved and immortalized through the passage of time.

Like a shroud worn with careful choice and best accord, a flag is created to reflect a significant idea, thought or emotion. Having been said, it carries with it the ideals and ambitions of the entity it symbolizes, may it be an organization, an industry, a science or a nation.

The lighting design, therefore, has complete freedom to select appropriate equipment that will appropriately light the flag and work in harmony with the entirety of the photometric lighting design.

The demand for flagpole lights is gradually increasing given the heightened need to emphasize patriotism, especially nowadays when public spirit is regarded as a major factor of a nation's success or a business' survival.

However, flagpole lighting is becoming increasingly complicated with the passage of dark sky laws that prohibit all forms of up lighting. In these areas, a lighting designer will have to do a systematic photometrical analysis of the grounds and devise a method of down lighting the flag so it will comply with both Federal law and local ordinances.

There is a barrage of cheap and inferior flagpoles and their lightings being imported and sold, that do not comply with the flag statute. This is bad for a number of reasons. Imported stuff is cheaply made and more importantly, the designs, materials, colors, and methods do not compare well with the better quality, longer-lasting, and correctly designed flagpole lightings made by American manufacturers. The Flag Company Inc specialized in flags and flagpole lightings offered a special edition of flagpole lightings to provide innovative solutions for individual projects.




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