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한국어 LED Vapor Tight Light Fixtures are completely sealed fixtures, preventing moisture, dust, oil mist, and corrosive gases from entering. In Asia, they are often called LED tri-proof lights, earning their name from their ability to illuminate in harsh environments.
For example, thanks to its high protection rating, special housing material, and impact resistance, vapor tight light fixtures can operate in humid, hot, vibrating, and corrosive environments. This is difficult for ordinary industrial LED lights to achieve.
Reason 1: Fully Sealed Protection
Fully sealed protection of LED vapor tight light fixture. This is by no means a simple advantage, it is the fundamental reason for normal lighting in harsh environments.
Imagine the torture ordinary LED lights in your factory face:
- High-pressure water jets: Workers are often exposed to them when using high-pressure water jets to flush equipment.
- Ubiquitous dust: Fine dust particles can penetrate any hole during grinding, cutting, and powder handling.
- Corrosive gases and oil mist: In processing and chemical processing areas, acidic and alkaline substances and oily contaminants are present in air every day.
- Severe temperature fluctuations: From cold storage to ambient temperature, or even high-temperature environments.
Ordinary lighting fixtures in these environments can drastically shorten their lifespan, producing dim light, frequent flickering, and short circuits, posing significant safety risks and increasing maintenance costs.
The LED Vapor Tight Light Fixture uses a fully sealed housing with a minimum IP65-IP67/IP69K rating. This means that even the finest metal dust, flour, and other particles cannot penetrate the fixture, and it is also resistant to moisture and high-pressure washdowns, ensuring stable operation.
Reason 2: Strong Shell Material
Imagine touching the surface of LED Vapor Tight Light Fixture. It doesn’t feel fragile like ordinary plastic, nor cold like ordinary metal. It feels tough, dense, and seamless. It’s a high-end engineering plastic (PC) housing.This makes it have excellent impact resistance and corrosion resistance, and suitable for vibration, salt spray and chemical environments.
- Corrosion and salt spray resistance: PC material is inherently highly resistant to water, acids, alkalis, oils, and detergents. Combined with a die-cast aluminum housing, it has undergone a rigorous 4,000-hour salt spray test, making it resistant even to coastal areas like docks and wind turbines.
- Shock and vibration resistance: Polycarbonate (PC) material has an impact resistance 10-25 times that of ordinary acrylic panels and 60 times that of glass! The seismic resistance level reaches IK10, no longer afraid of equipment impact and high vibration environments.
- Extreme temperature differences: The combination of fully sealed structure and solid materials gives the LED vapor tight light fixture excellent stability. It can maintain its lighting performance and appearance within a temperature range of -40℃ Celsius to +80 ℃ Celsius.
Reason 3: Linear Design with Multiple Length
Modern LED vapor tight light fixture has a streamlined appearance and can illuminate the entire required area continuously, evenly and without blind spots. It is equipped with PC shell to minimize glare. It is available in 2ft, 4ft, 5ft and 8ft lengths to accommodate different space sizes.
- 2-foot (0.6m): Perfect for small spaces such as wind turbine interiors, narrow corridors, and lighting for small equipment.
- 4-foot (1.2m): This is the absolute workhorse length, suitable for most factories, corridors, garages, and tunnels.
- 5-foot (1.5m): Provides wider lighting coverage and is suitable for assembly workshops and large shelves where higher brightness is required.
- 8-foot (2.4m): Designed for large, open spaces such as warehouses, logistics centers, stadiums, and production halls. It achieves high-brightness, uniform illumination over a large area with fewer fixtures and fewer wiring points.
Reason 4: Flexible Installation and Safe Operation
Your lighting installation areas are likely complex: some areas have concrete ceilings, others have steel frames, some require suspended installations, and others need to be flush with the wall. Traditional lighting often limits you to a single model per installation method, making procurement and inventory management a real headache.
The lightweight design of LED vapor tight light fixture makes the weight of a 4-foot LED only half that of a traditional metal lamp, or even lighter. Therefore, it can be installed in a variety of ways, such as ceiling-mounted, hanging, and side-mounted.
Both ends of vapor tight light fixture are equipped with standard waterproof butt connectors, so only one main line is needed to connect all lights in series. This not only saves time but also ensures the safety of electricians.
Recommended LED Vapor Tight Light Fixture
Allow me to introduce you to our in-house manufactured, professional LED vapor tight light fixture line. All images in this article are of our own products. You can view our complete vapor tight light fixture catalog.
Features of our fixtures include:
- Can withstand temperatures up to 75°C
- High protection rating – IP65-IP66/IP69K
- PC shell, V0 flame retardant, IK10 earthquake resistance
- Power range from 15W to 150W
- 2-foot, 4-foot and 5-foot lengths
- Intelligent control
Our company has a full-featured laboratory, including IP testing, related photoelectric testing, temperature testing, EMC testing, impact resistance level, product packaging drop testing, anti-vibration testing, salt spray testing, high and low temperature testing and other equipment. All relevant test data of product in all steps. Please feel free to contact us and we can customize the right lighting solution for you.
People Also Ask
Are the mainstream vapor tight light fixtures all LED types?
Yes, LED vapor tight light fixture are now almost the only mainstream on the market. T8/T12 fluorescent tubes are gradually being phased out.
What is the difference between LED vapor tight light fixture and LED tri proof light?
LED vapor tight light fixtures and LED tri-proof light fixtures actually both refer to the same type of lighting fixture. The former is commonly used in America, while the latter is more common in Asia.
However, there are subtle differences between them, which are generally negligible:
- LED vapor tight light fixtures emphasize the fixture’s airtightness.
- LED tri-proof light fixtures emphasize waterproofing, dustproofing, and corrosion resistance.
What are the common application scenarios of LED vapor tight light fixture?
LED vapor tight light fixture is an industrial lights, so its application scenarios are concentrated in harsh spaces.
- Parking Garages & Underground Garages
- Car Washes & Tunnels
- Food Processing Plants & Cold Storage
- Factories & Workshops
- Ports & Terminals
- Corridors & Passageways
- Farms, Greenhouses & Animal Husbandry
- Marine & Offshore Applications
