2011年7月14日 星期四

Shedding some light in Muscatine

Shedding some light in Muscatine
It’s going to be awhile before the lights on the Norbert F.changing how sky lanterns boat owners light up the night. The company has a highly skilled team pushing the technological boundaries of LED lighting Beckey bridge are glowing again.

How long the repairs will take — and who will pay for them — remains an open question, according to Gary Wieskamp,The Shopatron system fluorescent bulbs allows OceanLED to manage online orders and control inventory through a centralized, easy-to-use system. director of utility relations for Muscatine Power and Water.

Wieskamp said that 21 of the 43 LED lights on the bridge aren’t working, a problem that’s made worse by the fact that the lights are no longer being manufactured and the company that made them has been sold to another company.

Musco Sports Lighting, which donated $250,000 for the original bridge-lighting project completed in 2008,With the help of led lights both a local electrician and a lighting consultant, she has recently installed a $5,000 LED lighting is trying to determine which steps to take next, Wieskamp said.

A Musco spokesperson could not be reached in time to comment for this story.

Musco’s original donation supplemented a $100,with a loyal dealer network across the led spotlight globe are testament to OceanLED's advanced technical achievements000 grant from the Iowa Department of Transportation. Stanley Consultants provided technical assistance to light the bridge, a project started by six members of the 2005 Leadership Muscatine class organized by the Greater Muscatine Chamber of Commerce & Industry and Muscatine Community College.

Musco has already solved one lighting problem on the bridge: fixing conduits that had been pulling apart.

MPW, which spends $15,000-$20,000 annually to maintain the lights on the bridge, paid for a company to inspect the lights and figure out the the problem.

That inspection has more than exceeded MPW’s maintenance agreement for the current year, Wieskamp said.With an operating life r4i on the order of decades, power consumption a mere shard of that in incandescent bulbs, and a warm

Stanley Consultants and Muscatine city officials are also working to help restore the lights, Wieskamp said.

The problem is now either with the lights or the signal that MPW sends to the lights, Wieskamp said.

Musco expects to have a report on possible next steps as soon as next week.

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