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Night Star™
Self Contained Obstruction Lighting System from
Flexcharge USA
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Night Star PV Powered
Marine Grade Lighting System
The Night Star is designed to offer our customers a high quality, low
cost, low maintenance, warning and navigation lighting solutions for
bridges, pilings, waterway markers, marina and harbor entrances, etc...
Some are in use by the US Army as firing range
boundary markers, others at the Hoover Dam to warn boats off of the log boom
barrier. The Night Star is the right choice anywhere you need a
dependable flashing or steady ON marker light.
This lighting system comes complete with a Sealed Gel
Battery, Gray PVC Water and Corrosion Proof NEMA IV Enclosure, 12V PV panel, PV mounting bracket, Fully
potted Flexcharge NC2L2 Charge-Load Controller, and high power solid state
lamps which are visible up to 2 Miles. The system is
completely assembled and ready to use right out of the box. Simply mount the
unit where it will be exposed more than 5 hours of non shaded overhead and
southern sky, and plug in the battery. The Night Star will survive
repeated temporary submersion.
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Low Maintenance Design :
The only maintenance required for the Night Star is to ensure that the PV
panel is not encrusted with foreign matter (dust is usually OK) and to change
the inexpensive Gel battery every 2.5 to 5 years (typically every 3 years). (Hot
Temperatures will reduce the life span of all lead acid and gel type batteries).
White incandescent lamp units require a bulb change only once a year to prevent
down time. The PV panel is designed for 20 years of operation and the Solid
State lamps are rated for 100,000 hours of illumination time, that's 243 years
of lamp operation for units operating at the 4 second flash rate.
High Reliability
We have seen many small lighting system designs that will work well until the
seasons change to winter. This is where the quality design of the Night Star
will shine through.
For a PV powered lighting system to function dependably in high earth latitudes,
48° North/South for example, the system must be designed to operate with only
1/3 of a "Full Sun Hour". An entire day of Northern overcast December sky, it is
approximately equal to 0.6 to 1 full sun hour of Bright Overhead Summer Sun. 0.6
sun hours of full sun photon energy is twice what is required to indefinitely
sustain the Night Star's power needs. In the event that
the PV panel was covered with snow, the battery has enough capacity to operate
for 4 nights before disconnecting the lamp to protect the battery from over
discharge. On the next day the system will recover with the equivalent of
only 1 full sun hour. These are the conditions where controller and system
efficiencies are critical for proper system operation, and why high efficiency
Flexcharge Controllers are the controller of choice for large and small
alternative energy systems.
Lamp Colors Available:
Solid State Colors:
Navigation Red
Navigation Blue/Green
Yellow
Orange
Blue
And Now
Solid State White |
Incandescent Colors:
White (Flashing Only).
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Flash Rates Available:
Standard Unit 3.7 Sec OFF
0.3 Sec. ON (Popular USCG Marine Buoy Flash Rate) * Special
Order Flash Rates:
0.5 Sec. OFF 0.5 Sec. ON
1.0 Sec. OFF 1.0 Sec. ON
0.9 Sec OFF 0.1 Sec ON *
3.7 Sec OFF 0.1 Sec.ON *
( " * ") Recommended for use in Latitudes 48°
to 55° North, or South)
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Order Below: Please allow at least 2-3
weeks
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Night Star 4 sec Flash
White
with Incandescent Bulb, Battery and Solar Panel |
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Night Star 4 sec Flash LED
White
with Battery and Solar Panel |
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| LFCS6Vred |
Night Star 4 sec Flash LED
navigation
RED
with Battery and Solar Panel |
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| LFCS6Vyel |
Night Star 4 sec Flash LED
Yellow
with Battery and Solar Panel |
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| LFCS6Vorg |
Night Star 4 sec Flash LED
Orange
with Battery and Solar Panel |
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| LFCS6Vblu |
Night Star 4 sec Flash LED
BLUE
with Battery and Solar Panel |
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| LFCS6Vbl/grn |
Night Star 4 sec Flash LED
navigation
Blue Green
with Battery and Solar Panel |
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