Baseball Field Lighting Cost: Lamp Price, Running Cost and Maintenance Expenses

How can I replace metal halide spotlights inside League baseball stadium? What is the baseball field lighting cost, installation and running cost? What wattage should I choice to switch from HPS, fluorescent? What is the advantages of retrofitting the mercury vapor, high or low-pressure sodium for recreational, high school or college? Where can I find the best baseball field lamps that are compatible to international tournament? If you have the above doubts, please have a look at this LED baseball spot light replacement guide.

Cost of Baseball Field Lighting

You may now ask how much do the baseball field lights cost, and the running and installation cost? Generally, the cost of the flood lights contributes only 1 to 3% of total construction cost of the softball field or stadium. The expenses on lighting portion depends on the size and nature of field. For instance, if your stadium is for Major League Baseball tournament or Olympic Games, the requirement would be highest and thus the price would raise. In most of the case, the LED baseball field light cost is around US$40000 to US$70000, as we need about 30000 to 60000 watt LED. If you are doing the metal halide, HPS, LPS or halogen replacement, you will find the price of LED light might be a little bit higher because LED is a brighter and more durable light source, which decreases the maintenance and running cost in long term.

How much do baseball stadium lights cost to run?

Taking US as an example, the average electricity cost is approx. $0.1 to $0.14 / kWh. For a stadium using 50000W LED lights, the baseball stadium lights’ running cost would be 50000 / 1000 * 0.1 = $5 per hour, which is equivalent to $30 daily (for 6 hours use per day), and $600 (for 20 days per month). If you are using metal halide lamps, you will eventually come up with 2 times electricity cost to produce the same brightness, which means US$1200 per month!

What is the cost to install the lights?

It varies in a great extent. For a large-scale and complicated project, the installation cost of baseball field flood lamps can be up to 30 to 80% of the price of the lights, which is estimated to be $10000 to $25000. And thus, selecting the luminary that is durable is essential.

How about the maintenance cost?

It is nearly $0 for LED lights. Since our baseball field floodlights have 80000 hours life span and IP66 rating, they work for at least 20 years and under adverse weather condition. They also have good heat dissipation system to reduce the junction temperature of chips that protect the lights. Let’s contact us for support today.

LED replacement of baseball field lighting

Spot light is the useful equipment to provide intense, broad area illumination on sports field. Traditionally, the HID lights consume much energy and they are not very flexible. By doing the metal halide, mercury, HPS, LPS replacement with LED baseball field flood lamps, we can enjoy the following advantages.

High energy efficiency

When comparing to HPS and LPS flood lights, LED has 80% higher luminous efficacy, which is an energy saving lighting equipment for the large softball stadium. Imagine we have 100000 watt HPS lights in the past setting, and now we only need to use 30000 to 40000W LED to light up the diamond field.

Better lighting uniformity

Our LED flood lights adopt asymmetric lens design that offer high uniformity. Its importance is that, it the ground has low uniformity, such as observable dim or bright spots, the vision of the sports players will be affected, especially for baseball, the sports involving fast-moving balls. Metal halide replacement of softball lamp can increase the lighting performance.

Anti-glare & flickering control

Glare means dazzling effect when looking at the lights directly. Our LED lights, when comparing to traditional HID lamps, has special coating and arrangement on the lens, which decrease the irritating glare by 30%. Besides, our high-power LED has flicker-free feature which is compatible to extreme high-speed photography from 5000 Hz. The flickering rate is about 0.2% on maximum lumens. This quality product is fit for 4K broadcasting.

Versatility

We have a baseball field lighting series for recreational, intermediate or professional use. We have completed countless lighting projects for college, high school, public baseball park, as well as League baseball diamond field.

Facts about baseball and importance of lighting

Baseball is very popular in US, Canada and Asia. Every year there are trillions of people enjoying the matches such as World Baseball Classic, Little League Tournament, Summer Olympics and so on. Lighting for baseball field or stadium is vital for each tournament because poor quality lighting affects the not only the vision of stick players and audiences, as well as the broadcasting quality. If your outdoor fields are experiencing insufficient brightness, poor uniformity or significant flickering, it is time to replace your baseball stadium lighting with LED.

Knowledge about baseball field

The perquisite of successful sports lighting project is to understand your venue first – at least we have to know what a baseball field is. This section is introducing to you the size and relevant terms.

Dimension of baseball field

To make it simple, the whole baseball area is composed of two parts, namely infield and outfield as illustrated in the above figure. The essential measures we have to know are the length of foul lines that have approx. 90 to 130 meters (each side), depending on the scale and nature of the field. It is also called the diamond field because of its shaped when we look down from the top. After knowing the radius and length of field fence, we can get the full size of the field, which determines the power required of LED baseball park lights.

Height of light pole

The baseball stadium high power light pole height is about 15 meters to 50 meters. For the recreational baseball park, the luminary mounting height will be lesser. Higher the light pole, Larger the power we need. Sometimes we will need 10000 to 50000 watt LED baseball field lights for League, Olympics or other world-class stadium. Generally speaking, those professional field will have as high pole as possible because the lights can be more uniform, as well as the glare is decreased. On the contrary, lesser energy is consumed for the low pole height.

To give you the best lighting solution, we offer free photometric lighting design for you. If you are interested in our LED sports lighting, please feel free to drop us a message at email beatus@ledsmaster.com, or using our contact form. Thank you.