ERCO stopped by with Stan Deutsch and Associates last week. We got a look at their new fixture called the Lightscan. The Lightscan is a large exterior rated flood light with a slim profile that is available internationally as well as in the US. It comes in 5 different sizes ranging from 18 to 96 watts and offers various beam spreads; narrow spot, spot, flood, wide flood, oval flood and wallwash. The Lightscan has a high cutoff angle which makes it comfortable to look at.
The lens technology ERCO has developed for the Lightscan as well as several of their other fixtures takes multiple diodes and with the use of a lens, they are able to smooth out the light to create one beam spread.
We also took a look at the Tesis which is an inground adjustable uplight. The Tesis comes with a double housing collar made out of fiberglass which helps to keep water out of the fixture. The fixture is adjustable with 360° horizontal rotation and 30° vertical tilt and comes with either round or square trims, both flush and overlapping. The interior of the fixture is black so the fixture blends in when it is not turned on unlike other fixtures which can appear glary. This fixture is very customizable and there are 96 different combinations, one of them includes a wall wash reflector.
We briefly took a look at some downlights, both interior and exterior. The exterior downlight uses the same technology as the Lightscan with the individual diodes having the ability to control the beam spread then use a lens to create uniformity. We looked at the interior wall wash fixture for the international market which produced a nice even wash with a high cut off angle. They also have a double wall wash version that would work great in long corridors to evenly light both sides, but it also is only available in the international market.