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Resources for Specifying Lighting in South Florida
Everything on this site that is built to be used rather than read once: the code pages, the calculators, the cross references, the deep product pages and the line card. I represent the SESCO Ft. Lauderdale and Coral Gables lines in Broward, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach and Monroe counties, and these are the pages I send people to when they call with a question at 4pm.
- 11 code pages
- 15 tools
- 5 cross references
- 29 product pages
Codes and standards
The rules that decide a South Florida job
County ordinances, HVHZ, sea turtle wavelength, egress and emergency, energy code, LEED and WELL — each one written from the section, with the source linked. All codes and standards →
- ASHRAE 90.1 Lighting in Florida
- Broward County Outdoor Lighting Code | Sec. 39-112
- Egress and Emergency Lighting Code Requirements
- Florida Energy Code Lighting Requirements
- HVHZ Exterior Lighting | Miami-Dade & Broward
- LEED Lighting Credits Explained
- Miami-Dade Outdoor Lighting Code: Sec. 33-4.1 and Turtles
- Monroe County and Florida Keys Lighting Code: Turtle Rules
- Palm Beach Coastal Lighting: ULDC 14.A and the 570 nm Rule
- Sea Turtle Lighting Rules | South Florida
- WELL Building Standard: Lighting
Guides
Longer reads on the things that go wrong here
Salt air, wind zones and NOAs, LED dimming compatibility. Start with coastal lighting →
Tools
Calculators that run in the browser
Pole EPA and wind load, footcandles and LPD, voltage drop, RT60 for acoustic ceilings, a fixture schedule builder and more. Nothing is sent anywhere unless you choose to send it to me. All lighting tools →
- Beam Angle Calculator: Spread and Footcandles at Distance
- Bulb Equivalent Chart: Incandescent to LED Wattage
- Chandelier and Pendant Size Calculator
- Circuit Loading and Breaker Sizing Calculator
- Color Temperature Guide: 1800K to 6500K, Seen
- Fixture Schedule Builder | Export a Lighting Schedule
- Footcandle Calculator: Average FC and Watts per SF
- LED Dimmer Compatibility Checker
- LED Tape Calculator: Run Length and Driver Sizing
- Lighting Energy Cost and Payback Calculator
- Low Voltage Landscape Voltage Drop Calculator
- Pole EPA Calculator: Wind Load for South Florida Light Poles
- Recessed Lighting Layout Calculator | Spacing and Count
- RT60 Estimator: Reverberation Time and Acoustic Ceiling Sizing
- Wall Wash, Graze and Accent Spacing Calculator
Cross references
When the schedule names a line I do not represent
What the specified product is, and the line on my card that lands in the same place — with the one non-card option named honestly. All cross references →
Product pages
Specs read off the sheets, for the lines I represent
Deep pages on the families that get specified here most, with the numbers that matter on a coastal site. All product pages →
- Chloride Exit, Emergency and UL 924 Inverters
- Color Kinetics Facade LED: Graze, Blast and Reach
- ConTech CTL84C and CTL84X | 98 CRI Gallery Wall Wash
- ConTech Gallery M CTL93 Track Head | Xicato 95 CRI, Warm Dim
- ConTech Gallery Series Track Lighting
- ConTech Gallery XL CTL94 Track Head | 4,463 lm, DLC, 8° Spot
- ConTech LT & LT2 Line-Voltage Track | Single and Two-Circuit
- ConTech Monopoints and Rigid Stems: Canopy Cylinder Spots
- DMF Lighting Modular Recessed Downlights
- ETC F-Drive RX LED Driver System
- FC Lighting Bollards, Ingrounds and Amber
- Finelite HP-2, HP-4, HP-6 Linear LED
- Gardco OptiForm LED Area Lights: OPF-S, M, L, XL
- Interact and Dynalite Controls: Signify
- Kenall Lighting: Healthcare and Sealed | South Florida
- Ledalite Linear Lighting: MesoOptics and TruGroove
- Lightheaded Opus 3" Downlight
- Lightheaded Opus Multiples 1x2 and 1x3
- Lightheaded Opus Round 3" Downlight | South Florida
- Lightheaded Opus Square 3" Downlight | South Florida
- Lightolier LyteCaster, Calculite and Track
- Liton Lighting: Recessed, Cylinders, Track
- Lumec and Hadco Post Tops and Landscape
- myCreation 3D-Printed Luminaires: Lightolier and Day-Brite
- RIG-A-LITE Hazardous and Washdown Lighting
- Signify NatureConnect Skylights and Islands
- Spring City Cast Poles and Historic Luminaires
- Velaria Systems Luminous Membrane Ceilings | Florida Rep
- Wattstopper Controls for Florida Energy Code Compliance