We at MRC Signs are experts in the commercial lighting market. We work with small business all the way up to large ones. We will provide your business with the creativity and excellence of a global market key player, but with the dedication and concentration to detail of a small business. We want to provide our clients with brand presence and keep our clients’ customers constantly coming back for more.
MRC Signs completely create and customize your lighting from scratch, so that it fits perfectly with your brand’s image. We specialize in parking lot lights, exterior building lights, decorative lights, street lights, security lights, interior installs and retrofits and of course light emitting diode (LED) conversions and installs. If you are interested in a exceptional sign company in Philly, look no further than us at MRC Signs.
Many Uses of LEDs
Incandescent light sources are being replaced by light emitting diodes (LEDs). LEDs are considered to be a semiconductor light source. They have a longer life than incandescents, require less power, and are smaller in size. What they lack in size, they make up for in performance. LEDs have a high reliability and high brightness levels as well.
LEDs are being used in many applications including: Camera flashes, traffic signals, headlights and even aviation lighting. For example, the global commercial airport lighting market is expected to grow up to eight percent or more between 2016 and 2021. This growth is due to an increase in air passenger traffic, investments in modernizing and upgrading airports, and a demand to increase aircraft and passenger safety. Airports will use the LED lights to provide illumination for the runways, taxiways and terminal lights. Aviation is just one of the many industries that are transitioning to widespread use of LED lighting.
Some of the key players in the global LED lighting market are Digital Lumens, Inc., Cree Inc., Philips Electronics, GE Lightings, and Toshiba Corp. If you are looking for the same experience and quality as one of the key players on a more local scale, look no further than MRC Signs.
Providing Excellent Customer Service
We at MRC Signs use LED lighting in our outdoor signs and banners as well as indoor lighting. When creating and installing our LED lighting, we strive to provide our clients with quality, dependability, and affordability by providing excellent customer service to everyone that we serve in Philadelphia, Montgomery and Bucks County, PA. We make sure that all projects are completed on schedule and efficiently. If you are looking for an extraordinary lighting company in Bucks County, PA, check out our website. At MRC Signs, we are dedicated to helping you understand every inch of your customized project.
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Digitally displayed signs such as LEDs are all the rage these days because they’re versatile, changeable, affordable and allow for nighttime viewing (at a much cheaper price than neon).
For one, LED bulbs last for a long time. And by the nature of how they operate, will never dim in their lifespans. They also save power, which translates to saving money. Arguably the best aspect of digital signs is their restrictiveness and ability to make moving messages. With digital signs, the options are limitless!
Thus, many businesses in Greater Philadelphia in need of a sign company’s services ask us about going digital. While there are certainly many advantages to doing so, there are also some important factors to consider:
Placement Matters
This may sound obvious, but where you put the sign matters. Before you purchase a sign, audit your property and determine the best placement location—somewhere a lot of eyes will easily see it. Follow these steps to best placement practices to optimize on where you put the thing:
Accessibility is key
High traffic areas = great places for your sign
For non-digital signs, make sure to install lights that shine on it at night
Make sure it’s visible from all optimal angles
As far as the last tip goes, it’ll be smart for you to pick a seemingly desirable spot, then walk toward that spot from all sensible points to make sure it can be easily seen from all surrounding areas.
Check the Laws
Much like with traditional signs and advertisements, there’ll be zoning guidelines to follow. Depending on where your business is located, those laws could be strict, lax or somewhere in between. Make sure to learn the laws before you install the sign to ensure that you’re not violating any local codes or ordinances. Remember to confer with your town or city’s zoning office, and if you’re leasing a property, consult with your landlord, too!
Good Design Wins Every Time
We can’t stress this part enough. If you’re going to spend the money manufacturing and installing a sign, the whole idea will be pointless if the message on it isn’t conveyed well. Make sure the sign reduces clutter, features legible fonts and doesn’t involve clashing colors to ensure a strong design.
As long as you consider these things, you’ll be more than prepared when it comes time to call your trusty sign company in Bucks County to help you manufacture the final product. Go ahead, get out there, find the perfect spot and give us a call! We look forward to hearing from you.
It’s hard to imagine a time when the world may as well have stopped spinning as soon as the sun went down. Lights out was a literal fact of life, and there wasn’t a magic switch to help devoid a space of its darkness. Kerosene was introduced in 1846, and with the long lasting, bright flame produced by the coal-based liquid, we were able to stay up a little later. But everything truly changed when the advent of the electric incandescent light bulb allowed society to stay up the whole night through.
We’ve come a long way since the beginning days of electric lighting, and in today’s ever-moving marketplaces, the ability to work 24/7/365 is nonnegotiable. Quality lighting is necessary for your commercial business, and the facility in which it operates.
While we’re best known for the LED signs that we make for Montgomery County, PA area businesses, we’re also fully capable of installing commercial lighting for your company. Get in touch to learn more and set up a plan. In the meantime, read on to discover a few facts about mankind’s journey to produce light:
The Early Days
Back in the days of yore, man was determined to produce light efficiently. During that long, dark period of trial, error and experimentation, we came up with some pretty bizarre solutions. One of the strangest examples takes us to the Shetland Islands in the Northern Isles off the coast of Scotland. An oily avian inhabitant resides there called the Storm Petrel. Before electric light was invented, people from Shetland would take deceased Storm Petrels, outfit them with wicks, and voila—a bird-based oil lamp was born!
The High Price of Keeping the Lights On
Thousands of years ago, artificial light was extremely expensive. A Yale economist named William Nordhaus set out to determine just how much it cost to keep their homes lit in ancient Babylon. His research concluded that their abilities to efficiently keep the lights on was dim. It would cost about a day’s worth of wages for an average Babylonian to run an oil lamp for 10 minutes.
Electric Lighting Changed the World
While many people credit Edison with inventing the electric light bulb, it turns out that bright idea wasn’t his, but rather, was perfected by he and his cohorts. The prototype for electric light actually stems all the way back to 1802. A determined chemist named Humphry Davy built an incandescent light using a massive battery to run an electrical current through a platinum plate. It was dim and inefficient, but set the framework for a generation of other scientists and inventors to try and perfect the idea.
We’ve come quite a way since the incandescent light was invented. For example, just look how much we can do with the LED signs that we supply to Bucks County, PA companies. Imagine what Edison, Davy, a Babylonian or a Storm Petrel-toting Shetlander would think of those!
All in all, we’re fortunate to have access to reliable light sources these days. Get in touch if you need your commercial space illuminated!
Try to guess what that number represents. We’ll wait for a minute while you think.
OK. Do you give up yet?
6250 days, or about 17 years, is how long a typical LED light will last. And while the lifespans of LEDs blow their incandescent, neon and other counterparts clear out of the water, they’re also beneficial for a number of other reasons.
When incandescent or fluorescent lights dim, it’s because their bulbs are filled with gasses that are prone to leaking after a period of wear and tear. Those leaks are what cause a reduction in brightness. LED bulbs don’t contain gas, and therefore, they don’t dim!
They save power
And by saving you power, they’re saving you money, and you’re also saving the environment. While a typical neon light uses about 20 watts of power per foot, an LED will only use a little over 1 watt. Let’s put those numbers to work.
Say you need to run 100 feet of light. LEDs will cost about 120 watts of power. If you crunch the same numbers against neon, you’ll be in for 2000 watts of power. If you light your sign for 10 hours per day, 365 days a year, that will add up to 438 annual kilowatt hours for the LED, and 7300 kilowatt hours for the neon. At a cost of $.012/kilowatt hour (which is the national average), your annual spend will be:
$876 for the neon sign
$53 for the LED sign
That’s a 94% price difference.
LEDs are unrestrictive
In other words, the ways in which they can be used are virtually limitless. Between color and movement options, what your sign can depict is only restricted by how creative you are. Your options are limitless with LEDs.
Change your message and make it move
You can update what your message says, and make it physically move or scroll with an LED sign. With a neon sign, the message is what it is. If you need to adjust what your LED says, you can do so. You can also display real-time information, such as the time or temperature. Changing your LED sign’s message is easy because you’ll make that happen via computer software.
With an LED sign, your message will shine brighter against the signs of your competitors, and for cheaper and longer. So, do you need an LED sign for your Bucks County, PA business? Get in touch today and we’ll make one for you!
Sure, your sign is the just the façade. It doesn’t have anything to do with the way you operate your business, or what’s going on in the engine room. So, what’s the point of investing in a good one when you could be spending more on things like the day to day operations of the business? Maybe you pride yourself on providing the absolute best customer service in your industry. Your sign certainly didn’t play a direct role in that. You’re right.
