Maintained Or Non Maintained Emergency Lighting Regulations

This will be a dedicated emergency light and cannot be used for normal room lighting.

Maintained or non maintained emergency lighting regulations.

Maintained and non maintained. There are basically two types of emergency lighting systems. A non maintained emergency light will only illuminate when there is a power cut. This is a luminaire whose lamps only come on when the power supply to the lighting fails.

Non maintained emergency lighting is a luminaire made solely for emergency use. It is designed to come on in the event of a mains power failure making sure all emergency exit routes are clearly illuminated but will not be active as your normal day to day lighting system. The x dsa is a mini non maintained emergency light that will only come on in a mains failure. It is linked into the building s lighting circuitry and reacts to a power failure ensuring emergency exit routes remain illuminated.

The classification of maintained and non maintained mode of operation can be. For non residential premises used for recreation such as theatres cinemas concert halls exhibition halls sports halls public houses and restaurants and where the normal lighting might be dimmed or turned off a maintained or combined emergency escape lighting system should be installed. This type of emergency lighting is mostly found in the workplace such as offices and factories where people are. In maintained systems individual luminaries each incorporate a battery that is charged from the mains lighting supply.