Why Are Some LED Street Lights Purple?
146Why are some LED street lights purple instead of white? This official Q&A explains the real technical reasons, whether purple LED street lights indicate failure, and what cities should do.
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The first time I worked under a poorly designed high bay system was in a sports hall renovation nearly a decade ago. On paper, illumination levels met the requirement. In reality, players squinted, staff complained, and reflections bounced off every polished surface.
That project changed how I look at a UFO LED high bay light 150W.
Output alone doesn’t solve lighting problems. Control does.
This is where the HB13 (GLK) Series from SEEKINGLED earns its place in serious indoor applications.
In large indoor environments—stadium corridors, airport waiting halls, supermarkets—people don’t just pass through. They stay. Eyes adapt, fatigue builds.
According to CIE 190:2010, maintaining a Unified Glare Rating (UGR) below 19 is recommended for commercial interiors where visual comfort matters. Many high bay fixtures ignore this guideline, focusing instead on lumen numbers.
The HB13(GLK) Series is engineered specifically to meet UGR < 19, and in practice, that difference is noticeable within days of installation. In my experience, complaint logs drop sharply once glare is addressed properly.
At 170 lm/W, the HB13(GLK) Series sits comfortably within current U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) performance expectations for industrial LED luminaires.
The 150W model delivers around 25,500 lumens, which aligns closely with real-world replacement ratios for 400W metal halide fixtures. DOE field studies consistently show energy reductions of 60–65% when switching from HID to modern LED high bays at this output range.
It’s not theoretical. It shows up on utility bills.
One detail that often gets overlooked until it matters: cleaning.
The HB13(GLK) housing is sealed to IP69K, a protection level designed for high-pressure, high-temperature washdown environments. This is the same standard used in food processing and heavy industrial facilities.
Add IK09 impact resistance, and you get a fixture that tolerates vibration, accidental contact, and routine maintenance without degradation. Many “commercial” high bays fail quietly under these conditions. This one doesn’t.

Lighting failures often start with unstable drivers, not LEDs.
SEEKINGLED equips the HB13(GLK) Series with MEANWELL or MOSO constant-current drivers, both widely used in industrial lighting worldwide. Electrical characteristics include:
These values meet international grid standards and help avoid harmonic distortion issues in large-scale installations with hundreds of fixtures. In long-running facilities, this stability is not optional—it’s protective.
The projected lifetime of L80B20 >100,000 hours at 25°C is based on LM-80 testing and TM-21 extrapolation, which are the globally accepted standards for LED lifetime estimation.
This is not marketing optimism. It’s a conservative projection used by lighting engineers and specifiers worldwide.
In practical terms, it means fewer lift rentals, fewer replacements, and fewer interruptions over the life of the building.

With wattage options from 80W to 240W, the HB13(GLK) Series allows designers to adapt output to mounting height without switching product families. That simplifies procurement, spare parts, and maintenance planning.
Typical applications include:
Anywhere wide, high spaces demand light that performs without becoming intrusive.
Not every project needs IP69K.
Not every space demands UGR<19.
But when people work, shop, or move through large indoor environments for hours at a time, lighting comfort becomes operational, not optional.
A UFO LED high bay light 150W like the HB13(GLK) Series from SEEKINGLED is built for those situations. It doesn’t chase trends. It solves problems that show up after installation, not before.
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