How GS light design LED products for hot weather environments in GCC countries.

GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) region contains countries Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, and we can add Iraq to this list too.

These countries have a sweltering summer season with many challenges that could lead to a quick failure to your product.

• High Temperature: The day temp that can reach 55 degrees under a shade and 85 degrees under direct sunlight. At such a high temperature, LED drivers with even an ambient temperature of 50 degrees quickly fail. Also, LED modules need unique heat management to avoid failure.
• Humidity: Humidity in the GCC region can reach 100 %, which could lead quickly to condensate water inside the LED luminaire.
• Sand Storms: it is a desert area, so intense sand storms commonly happen during summer, Sand storms can lead to scratching LED lenses, covering your product with sands which affect the heat management through the product heat sink.

Why LED lighting can fail in GCC weather conditions? 

An LED street lighting fixture that working fin in most areas of the world could fail after a short period in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, or the rest of GCC counties. For that, Gs-Light taking into consideration this region’s special conditions when designing or dealing with an LED lighting project for outdoor lighting, street lighting, or industrial LED lighting.

How GS Light design LED products for Hot weather environments such as the GCC region?

At GS-light we make sure that our LED lighting products meet our GCC clients expectations, as we usually offer 5 to 10 years warranty on our LED product range, main elements we take in consideration are:

• Proper heat sink design for best Heat Management.
• LED components that can survive: we use LED drivers and modules from top brands such as Cree, Philips, and Meanwell, the chosen LED components can work at an ambient temperature of +60 degrees.
• Design LED products to work at a low current rating: this is essential to protect the LED chips against high temperatures, and it also helps increase the lifetime of the LED chips.