Smart Obstacle Lighting Solutions
With more than 35 years’ experience in the design and manufacture of aviation and offshore obstruction marking products, Orga Aviation BV supply medium and high intensity obstacle lighting products and systems for day and night time marking of tall structures that present a hazard to safe air navigation.
Our obstacle lights are certified to the latest international and national standards, and incorporating the latest LED and xenon strobe light source, optical design and power control technologies.
Our obstruction light systems are used around the world in the aviation, telecommunication, broadcast, wind power, construction, power transmission and petrochemical industries to provide reliable and cost effective solutions under extreme operating conditions.
We understand the sometimes differing objectives of the various project stakeholders, and we balance these with the need to meet regulatory requirements to ensure safe operation in a reliable and cost effective design solution.
Orga Aviation’s products include integrated automatic day–night control, LED intensity stability across the product operating range, automatic flash character synchronisation between lights on different structures, over voltage protection, visibility dependant variable intensity control and comprehensive performance monitoring.
When training and support services are required, factory trained engineers are available from our European head office, and from our regional support partners in USA and Asia.
Smart Obstacle Lighting Solutions - 12/04/2010
ORGA DEVELOPS EFFICIENT WHITE LED OBSTACLE LIGHTOrga has developed a new obstacle light based on LED technology. Recent technical improvements to white LEDs allow the development of a new white medium intensity obstacle light. Matthieu Scheffers, Sales Manager at Orga:
"Our knowledge of optics and LEDs has enabled us to develop a practical, cost effective solution for the white obstruction light market." The new L450 light, fitted with a built-in flash synchroniser and with the flexibility to operate at reduced light intensities, is due for release soon.
LEDs and optics
Optical efficiency was an important focus during the development of the L450 obstacle light. Normally the light from a LED spreads in different directions. The secret is to use a good optic design to gather the light produced by the LEDs and to focus it in the required direction. Matthieu Scheffers: "We have used our broad knowledge of optics to ensure the efficient use of light to minimise the number of LEDs needed to produce the light beam profile required by the standards. This is what makes our obstacle light such an attractive proposition."
Optimised solution
Furthermore, Orga's new obstacle light is an "all in one" concept, fitted with a built-in power module, controller and synchroniser. The greatest advantage of this feature is that there is no need for a separate device for the operation and monitoring, and including the flash synchronisation of all the lights on wind turbines or meteo towers in the same, or even adjacent, wind farms. Another advantage is the ease of control of the light as the light intensity can be automatically adjusted according to weather conditions or to meet local regulations. "The new obstacle light will comply with all international requirements and/or recommendations. This flexibility feature means that any local regulations can be easily met with a the same product", says Matthieu Scheffers.
Orga
With more than 35 years of experience in the development and production of obstacle lights, Orga delivers reliable and smart light solutions for wind turbines, telecommunication, radio and television broadcast masts, power transmission towers and tall buildings all over the world. Orga also has separate departments focusing on marking systems for oil and gas platforms, and for hazardous area ATEX certified explosion-proof solutions.