Case Study: Custom Retrofit Solution

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Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church is a beautiful and historic sanctuary with iconic architectural
features and designs. The original lighting fixtures were tremendous energy hogs, consuming huge amounts of electricity and generating lots of heat. The Metal Halide  uplights and Compact Fluorescent dome light feature of the fixtures needed constant lamp replacments and maintenance. The high mounting height made maintenance a tremendous safety issue since traditional lifts and scaffolding were difficult
to use in the facility. Also, as metal halide degrades, the color of the light also shifts to green and orange that detracts from the ambiance inside the church.

Pastor; Fr Ismael Sandoval-Manzo, decided that he had enough of the poor lighting for his parishioners’ religious services, dangerous working conditions for his maintenance team and outrageously high energy bills. With guidance from District Operations Director; Adolfo Benages, from the Archdiocese
of Chicago, they contacted Pete Hess of Hartmann Electric in Elk Grove Village who immediately provided the ideal solution: American Green Lights Versafit custom LED retrofit kits. Considering similar architectural LED fixtures were over $3,000 each, the Versafit is less than 17% of the cost of a new fixture. The team of American Green Lights of San Diego, CA together with Crescent Electric had performed several other high watt, high intensity discharge upgrades to LED in similar settings with unprecedented
success in light output increase, reduction in electricity and the elimination of the high lamp heat emissions. Taking advantage of the hefty ComEd rebate to convert to LED helped ease the initial financial burden of this daunting endeavor.