Electrician in
Royse City, Texas

Light Emitting Diode (LED) technology has a long and proven history, and in the last several years has become a mainstay in high-performance commercial lighting applications, both indoor and out. Regardless of the application, Protec is committed to providing the best in class LED products and will specify and design a system for your facility that will pay for itself in less than 2.5 years in most cases.

Protec has substantial experience as LED consultants and installers. Our lighting staff will provide you with the latest research, most sophisticated luminaries and control solutions, and the optimal balance of price, energy usage and light output you will find. We do not promote a specific brand, but instead, design systems that meet our, and our customer’s exact specifications.

Expect your LED installation to be 80% more energy efficient than HID and 50% more efficient than fluorescent for most applications. Depending on the application, expect the useful life of LED luminaries to range from 50,000 to 100,000 hours of continuous usage with maintenance costs dropping to almost nothing.

Cold Cathode

We proudly offer the finest UL – listed and CE approved Cold Cathode lighting systems and integrated fixtures on the market. With performance characteristics rivaling that of LED technology, today Cold Cathode Fluorescent (CCFL) is widely used in architectural lighting applications for cove lighting and backlighting in both wet and dry locations.

Cold Cathode fixtures can be built to follow architectural curves and provide long unbroken runs. In addition, any color, or color combination is available.

If your needs demand a true linear light source used for indirect or direct lighting requirements, nothing compares with Cold Cathode’s high lumen output, long life, energy efficiency, shadow-free illumination, and low cost.

Fluorescent

Protec offers T8 and T5 Fluorescent lamps, fixtures and retrofit kits to meet your most challenging requirements. We offer indoor and outdoor UL listed and CE approved hi-bay and low-bay units as well as standard surface mount troffers and lay-ins all of which are extremely cost competitive with ROI values often less than 1 year.

For a more sophisticated fluorescent system approach, we offer a full suite of controls to further enhance the already impressive energy performance of fluorescent technology.

Controls

According to the Department of Energy, direct lighting costs account for 40% of the annual energy cost in a typical commercial building.

Whether you have a single room or an entire building, Protec’s integrated lighting controls are powerful energy saving tools that when properly deployed convert “dumb” lighting systems to “smart”.

Our suite of control systems can be configured for manual or automated operation. We carry occupancy/vacancy sensors, daylight control sensors as well as centralized building control units that offer hands-free on/off scheduling, usage, and trend reporting and demand response and load shedding capabilities.

Indoor structured cabling installations are governed by a set of standards that determine how to wire a data center, office or apartment building for data or voice communications, using Optical Fiber, Category 5 (CAT 5E) or Category 6 cable (CAT 6E).

These standards define how to lay the cabling in a star formation, such that all outlets terminate at a central patch panel. Each outlet can be ‘patched’ into a data network switch, or patched into a “telecoms patch panel’ which forms a bridge into a private branch exchange (PBX) telephone system, thus making the connection a voice part.

Telecom networks are not only associated with the wiring inside a building, but also with connecting the structured wiring system to two or more separate buildings on a site through demarcation points. This is a requirement for many large scale facilities, such as schools, hospitals, universities, research centers, and industrial plants. Outside plant wiring systems can support a wide variety of communication services which include telephone and data transfer, live video, security, building automation control systems and any other low voltage circuitry.

Whether copper or fiber cable is utilized, there are three pathways used in outside plant construction: aerial, underground conduit, direct buried, or a combination. Outside plant cabling must be installed in compliance with the National Electric Code (NEC), the National Electrical Safety Code (NESC), utility franchise regulations and local building codes.

Other design factors include: maintaining the security of cable runs, providing alternate routing in case of disaster recovery, the location of local exchange carrier facilities, and the physical terrain of the campus. In many cases, extra pathways should be planned for maintenance purposes. It’s usually necessary to check with local exchange carriers regarding their facilities within, or adjacent, to the campus.

For existing telecom infrastructure, Protec provides a full line of engineering, maintenance, and emergency services to ensure network integrity. Our crews are the most experienced and best equipped to quickly respond and repair downed lines and dig-ups while our engineering team works with municipalities, power companies, and others to maintain your network’s integrity.