by Shane Henson — January 25, 2013—Business owners and facilities managers seeking to boost the visibility of their businesses by using signs, and wanting to make the signs stand out to spark the public’s interest without bursting their energy bills, may be interested in GE Lighting’s Tetra LED Lighting System, which the company says enables infinite signage applications, indoors or out.
“Professionals appreciate and specify GE LED sign lighting for more than its quality and reliability,” said Mark Shepard, global product manager for GE Lighting. “They go with GE because we’ve designed the system to be fast and easy to install—from pre-drilled holes and industrial-grade mounting tape, to the flexibility to cut between modules. Our proven system offers the potential to save money not just in operation but on the installation.”
The Tetra channel letter portfolio includes miniMAX (small letters), MAX (medium), and PowerMAX (large) options to meet any need. With Tetra products, customers can typically use one string of light-emitting diode (LED) modules where two strings were needed before. Though slightly less bright, the outstanding uniformity of GE’s LED systems maintains impressive illumination across letter faces with fewer modules, meaning less cost in most cases, the company claims.
Take, for example, a typical five-inch depth capital “T” using 13 to 15 LED modules arranged in two rows, says GE Lighting. With Tetra, the same capital “T” can be properly lit using a single string of seven to eight Tetra modules. Both Tetra PowerMAX and Tetra MAX stretch spoke spacing to a “remarkable” 11 inches in a five-inch depth channel letter, while Tetra miniMAX allows nine inches in a four-inch depth channel letter.
