Sports Lights

Lighting for Rock Climbing Gym and Indoor Bouldering Training Center

How to Have the Best Lighting for Night Climbing Gym?

Bouldering is an exciting yet dangerous sports, if there is improper lighting in rock climbing wall and other indoor facilities. The climbers will need bright lights to locate the grips. LED is the best lighting for bouldering because it has remarkable lumen output, uniformity and energy efficiency. Apart from fluorescent and metal halide lamps, there is a contemporary light source LED, which is capable to replace the traditional HID high bay lights. The lighting performance can be enhanced after switch to LED.

1. Bright Lighting Setup for Indoor Climbing Wall Center

What is the lighting requirement for the indoor climbing walls? In general, the lux level should be around 200 to 300 lux for training, or 800 to 1000 lux for national/international competition. If your rock climbing facilities are designed for both recreational and professional use, you can go for the lighting system providing higher lux level. It is because the brightness of our lighting system is adjustable. We can dim the lights for the bouldering training classes and have the maximum brightness during the rock climbing competition. Our lighting fixtures are suitable for both community climbing club and top-class competitions such as IFSC Climbing World Championships and Bouldering International Series. Our lighting designer will help you figure the proper solution for your applications.

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2. High Lighting Uniformity Inside Training Center

Shadowless and anti-glare lighting is important for rock climbing. Lighting uniformity indicates if there is significant difference between the minimum, average and maximum brightness across the climbing wall. By using the LED lights having different beam angles and powers, we can achieve the smooth, uniform illumination inside the gym. Your customers (climbers) will love it and enjoy using the facilities. Our engineers are always ready to help you to establish the best lighting design.

Apart from the climbing walls, we also provide versatile lighting products for lounge, storage room, and other parts inside the climbing gym. Let’s contact our staff for more information.

3. Indoor Climbing Gym Lighting Design for Better User Experience

The surface of the inclining wall will be very dim if the lighting is poorly designed. Apart from the horizontal illumination, our lighting solution also consider the best lighting approach for the climbing walls. If the climbers cannot see the grip especially for undercling, they will miss the steps, which greatly affect the user experience of your indoor bouldering gym.

The common issue is that the light beam cannot reach the inclining climbing walls due to the inverted trapezoid or other irregular shapes. Depending on the layout of your climbing club, our engineers will design the best lighting solution to provide adequate lux (brightness) level of both horizontal floor and the vertical walls. Let’s contact our engineers for lighting opinion by filling in our form today.

4. Energy Efficiency & Low Heat LED Lighting

energy-saving-led-lighting-for-indoor-climbingThere are many types of lighting such as metal halide, halogen, mercury vapor, fluorescent, HPS and LED floodlights. Among these lighting fixtures, LED is a better choice of indoor bouldering gym lighting replacement. It is because LED has the higher lighting efficiency of 130 lumens per watt, which is 2 times of metal halide, or 10 times of halogen bulbs; hence, by retrofitting the high bay lighting with LED, you can save around 75% energy inside the wall climbing center, and thus reduce the electricity cost.

Besides, since LED does not generate much heat, the ambient temperature of the gym can be maintained in a lower range, which reduces the cost of air conditioning as well. LED is a cool lighting source because it turns 95% energy into lights instead of heat waste.

How Much Does the LED Bouldering Lights Cost and Its Running Cost?

Some may concern about the cost of replacing the lighting system of the indoor climbing center. Indeed, if you compare the same power LED and metal halide lights, you will find that the price of metal halide is always lower than that of LED, it is because the latter on involves the more complex lighting mechanism.

1. Electricity (Running) Cost of LED Bouldering Lighting

In fact, the brightness of 400W metal halide lamps can be replaced by 150 to 200W LED lights! By using LED lights, we can consume less energy and thus help protect our Earth. For every 1000W lighting, the daily running cost inside the bouldering club = 1000W x 8 hours x $0.12 / 1000 = $0.96, or monthly $28.8.

2. Maintenance Cost

Moreover, apart from the power consumption, we need to consider the maintenance, which means the replacement cost of the lighting inside the climbing gym. If your existing lighting is using HID, you will need to retrofit the lights every 1 to 2 years because the brightness declines quickly. Nevertheless, our LED ceiling lights have 80000 hours life span. You have no need to buy the new lights for 27.4 years if you turn on the lights 8 hours per day.

3. Indoor Climbing Gym Lamp Cost

We offer cheap yet quality LED lighting. If you have no idea on the arrangement of the lighting, please feel free to contact us for the price quote and free lighting design. We are eager to help.