SEPCO-Solar Lighting Blog

Billboards are a great way to advertise your business for travelers on highways. But if your billboards aren’t lit at night, there are missed business opportunities. Lighting these billboards can provide the advertisement and information for night travelers and a great way to show your business, even after hours. There are design options to take into consideration with every billboard to make sure that your billboard stands out. Billboards typically need one fixture per 12’ of billboard width. The type of fixture required needs to be a bright flood light with a wide distribution pattern. The LEDs need to have a good spread of light so not to make bright glary spots in the middle and dim on the edges. We would suggest using something like the Laramie flood fixture with a large spread such as the NEMA 4 x 4 or NEMA 6 x 6 distribution patterns.

The biggest challenge associated with lighting the scores of billboards located along remote stretches of highways and byways throughout the US is the accessibility of AC power.   When AC power is not readily available or too costly to access, SEPCO’s ultra reliable grid-free solar power systems—combined with energy efficient, high performance LED flood light fixtures from our lighting partners at Hubbell Lighting—are an ideal solution.