A Guide for Paint Spray Booth Lighting

About LED lights in paint spray booth

The quality of light within the spray booth is the most key feature to consider when choosing manufacturers and suppliers. Traditional lighting has the tendency to deteriorate in brightness and color depends on the age of the tube. It is the efficient way of lighting and illumination with an estimated efficiency of 80-90% when it’s compared to conventional light bulbs and traditional lighting, 

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Green Credentials      

LED is an energy-efficient lighting of choice in the years. The fluorescent tubes have mercury and lead. It prevents businesses, with the responsibility of ensuring the old tubes disposed and controlled safely. It is widely expected fluorescent tubes become increasingly expensive, and they follow the route, which traditional bulbs diminished.

Slim dust proof fluorescent light

The lights are available in the length of 3 and 4 with 2, 4 lamp options. Then if you see 3 fixtures are available in T8 25 watts and 4 fixtures available in 32 and 54 watts T5HO, T8. When you opened, you can see a hinged front access door with a paint spray cutoff switch.

It is widely expected fluorescent tubes become increasingly expensive, and they follow the route, which traditional bulbs diminished. It is mounted on a hinge side up when wall mounted. 

Features

A hinged door provides convenient access and 2 ¼ depth maximizes the space that is needed for the paint spray booth. 

CRI (Color Rendering Index)

It measures the quality of light on a scale of 0 to 100. When it comes closer to number 100, you can see the true color is. It should be used when the color or quality matches. One thing is higher CRI rated lamps tend to be less energy efficient than lamps with lower rating CRI.

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Dual Ballasts energy efficient 

6-tube dual ballasts offer two levels of lighting. Whenever less light is needed during preparations and setting up the things, you can save energy costs by using half of lights. The lighting can easily be restored while painting operations is performed.

T8 Energy-Efficient light tubes

It is more cost-effective and energy-efficient than T12, which is no longer being in production. If you have an old booth with T12 lights, then you have to upgrade to T8 fixtures to get the desired result.

Foot Candles

You can measure the booth using foot candles. A wax candle has a luminous intensity of 1 foot candle. The Industry standard is 100 to 150 foot-candles at a height of 3-foot. If you need a different foot-candle then light size, quantity and size must be adjusted.

Clear tempered lens

It allows for accurate and clear lighting. Choose the tempered glass that is 4 to 5 times heavier than the ordinary glass of equal thickness and size. Then it also looks great clearance than wire reinforced glass used in the paint booths  

We manufacturing paint spray booths over two decades. Purchase our paint spray booths with innovative lighter designs. We offer high quality services at affordable prices. Our staffs are well-trained operatives, and they satisfy the customer needs and requirements in a better way. 

Spray Paint Booth Accessories

Ideas of what spray booth has?

Parts hanger System

To maximize your productivity of the paint booth, you need this part. You people know well about sturdy construction that ensures parts stay put with its easily adjustable racks makes the positioning parts for easy spraying a snap.

Paint Booth Parts Hanger System

Deluxe contains,

• Single track with 2 j-hooks, rod assemblies and 2 adjustable clamp
• You will get support beam

Standard contains,

• A single track with 2 j-hooks
• Along with that a support beam will be there

Gun Hanger

Paint Booth Gun Hanger

It looks like a magnetic four position spray gun holder specially made for paint booths, preparation area or anywhere inside the shop. It exactly works well in paint mixing rooms. It normally equipped with a tape holding hook for storing the tape and other worth able needed items.

Rotating table

Paint Booth Rotating Table

It can be easily accessible of premixed paint or even any other supplies, by installing this rotating table into the wall and it connected the mix room along with paint booth. One staff will be mixing paint at the same time another staff, increasing the productivity by spraying and keep your booth free from debris.

Cabinet Tool

Paint Booth Cabinet Tool

You can add additional storage space to the paint booth for storing tools and thus its supplies free and clean over spray. You can see this cabinet in rear wall of the paint booth. You no need to allocate separate working space for this cabinet. The walls made from white pre-coated panels (steel) for exceptional durability.

Grate Lifting Tool

Grate Lifting Tool

If you need to replace exhaust filters in the downdraft, then this process is easily accessible by using this lifting tool. This lifting tool helps handily in lifting heavy loads and floor grates so that it is quicker to change the filters. It is especially for booth grating along with that you can check the maximum weight load to handle while lifting.

Pump Bottle Holder

Pump Bottle Holder

If you check double magnetic hook sized specifically for degreaser bottle usually scattered across lying on the floor, prep carts or hanging from the ledge. You can easily access the pump bottle by using the magnetic bottle holder anywhere in the booth. Magnetic holder also used for hanging a variety of spray guns, pneumatic tools, etc. 

Haltec offers wide range of accessories in the paint booth system to fulfill the customer needs and requirements. We are leading manufacturer in the UK providing quality paint spray booths over 20 years at affordable prices.

How to Prevent Common Paint Booth Issues? Must read this

We all have one major issue within the paint booth is, over spray that have a tendency to build on spray booth lights, floors and walls. How to prevent the issues? It is recommended to use peel-able paint booth coating.

What paint booth exactly does & how to prevent issues?

It provides protection to the underlying sheet metal of the paint booth, and it is easily removable one. This will prevent contamination in walls over time and time. You have to use floor coverings for your paint booth because this will prevent build up of over spray on the floor.

How to protect paint booth fan from paint?

• Use good quality paint booth filter, these filter helps to prevent over spray from landing on cars in the parking lot and protect the fan blade from over spray
• Low quality filter leads to long term failure due to over spray buildup
• Replace the filters routinely from your paint booth by watching a visual gauge known as manometer

Advice on paint booth

• The car is the patient and the spray paint booth is a sterile environment, For Eg: if you take hospital, there is access point just anybody can’t able to enter into the hospital the same can apply to the paint booth

How to reduce failures?

• Avoid electrostatic problems
• In the painting area please avoid fibers
• Stop the dirt that is getting into the spray booths

Prevent from chemical etching

• Remove harmful contaminants that dissolved in water via regular washing with clean water and detergent
• Occasionally you must polish or wax the car
• Avoid parking near factories that releases chemical byproducts

Prevent from cracking

• Before starting refurnishing process, make sure that to remove all cracked or crazed finishes completely

• Use recommended paint additives and mix it well with other ingredients

• Don’t ever use spray gun to force dry undercoating, use thinner or reducer to measure accurately

• For maximum durability – use 2 component undercoat & topcoat system

Prevent from Chipping

• For maximum protection, apply flex agent in top coat or undercoat system, this must be of top grade two-component quality

Commercial Vehicle Spray Booths in United Kingdom

Haltec is the UK's trusted and quality manufacturer over 30 years experience in supplying paint spray booths, Commercial Vehicle Spray Booth and etc,.. 

Automotive Car Spray Booths

At Haltec Ltd, we manufacture all our Automotive and Industrial Spray Booths from scratch at our premises in Burntwood Staffordshire. Its means all our product meets the customer requirements at the competitive prices.

Commercial Vehicle Spray booths

In today’s competitive bodyshops, paint spraying can make the difference between profit and loss. Based on over 35 years experience of the Vehicle Paint Industry, Haltec Ltd equipment gives you the quality and operating economy you need.

Features:

• Side extraction (No pit required)
• Split cabin option
• Easy to operate control panel
• Designed to suit customers requirements
• Any size available
• High and low level lighting and more....

Smart Repair

Haltec Ltd manufacture the Paint Mixing Rooms / Smart repair / Spray oven / paint oven is specifically for smart repairers.

Features:

• Flame Retardant Flexicurtain
• Ceiling  incorparates 6 No light boxs (approx light level of 1000 lux)
• Input filters to ensure clean air is drawn into the smart repair bay
• Excellent extraction from the 3kw centrifugal fan and more....

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