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Pull the fixture schedule on almost any garden-style apartment complex, medical office building, or light industrial shell, and you will find the same problem near the bottom of the page. Exterior doors, stairs, breezeways, and service entrances get split across three or four bulkhead types. One is 3000K for the residential entries. One is 4000K for the back-of-house doors. A higher-output version goes on the dock wall. Each one is its own line o Read more Westgate BKR Bulkhead: One Outdoor SKU for Three Wattages, Three CCTs, and a Built-In Photocell

Most vapor tight jobs don't get much attention on the drawings, and they still end up causing problems. A food plant scope calls for sealed 4ft linears in the processing room, the dock, and the walk-in. A garage retrofit needs fixtures that survive salt, water, and the occasional bumper. A facility manager wants one fixture on the maintenance shelf instead of four. On most of these jobs, the problem isn't the light output. It's the number of part Read more Product Spotlight: Westgate LLVT 4ft LED Vapor Tight with Selectable Wattage and CCT

The LRS-O Series is Westgate's field-selectable up-and-down wall sconce platform, built for multifamily and commercial exteriors that need one architectural fixture to cover multiple output levels and CCT calls without a separate submittal for each wattage. Unlike single-wattage decorative sconces that need a distinct SKU for every output level and a separate part number for each color temperature, the LRS-O is built on one platform across all th Read more Specifying the LRS-O2 Wall Sconce for Entries, Breezeways, and Site Work

A two-tone ceiling cylinder shows up on a bid set for a reason. The designer wanted a decorative downlight detail instead of a plain black baffle, usually in a lobby, corridor, hospitality dining room, or a multifamily amenity space where the ceiling itself is part of the design story. Westgate's new CMC-2Tone Series gives an electrical contractor one platform to bid across that whole scope instead of three or four disconnected part numbers, and Read more Westgate CMC-2Tone Series: One Ceiling Cylinder Platform, Three Sizes

Pickleball and padel courts are going in fast right now, on park district budgets, HOA amenity upgrades, and multi-sport rec facility retrofits, and a lot of that work lands on contractors who have never bid a dedicated court lighting package before. The fixture that shows up on the plans is often a generic area light or flood light spec'd because it was available, not because it fits the court. Westgate's new SFP Series is built specifically for Read more High-Output Westgate SFP Series Pickleball and Padel Court Lights

Bulkhead fixtures show up on more job types than most contractors give them credit for: apartment breezeways, hotel corridor exits, courtyard perimeter walls, back-of-house doors at retail and restaurant sites. The spec is usually simple, wall-mount, wet-location rated, dusk-to-dawn, but the SKU count behind that simple spec adds up fast once you factor in wattage, CCT, and finish. The Westgate BKH Traditional Bulkhead collapses most of that vari Read more Traditional Bulkhead BKH Series: One Platform, Six Field-Selectable Configurations

Undercabinet lighting on a commercial job usually comes down to one call made early in the rough-in: run low-voltage tape or pucks that need a remote driver location and a home run back to it, or specify a line-voltage fixture that carries its own driver and lands on a standard branch circuit. The new Westgate's UCLB series is built for the second path. It's a 120V direct-wire linear light bar with the driver built into the fixture body, CRI90 op Read more Westgate UCLB Series: 120V Direct-Wire Undercabinet Lighting

One switch on top sets wattage and CCT on the RLB Series, Westgate's new selectable low bay. Pick 80W, 100W, or 120W, all at 140 LM/W, and 3000K, 4000K, or 5000K, on the same platform in black or white. Miss the call before the lift leaves the site, and the fix is a flip of that switch, not a return authorization. Two SKUs, RLB-80-120W-MCTP-BK and RLB-80-120W-MCTP-WH, replace what used to be eighteen part numbers to stock, on a housing that ships Read more Westgate RLB Series Low Bay: One Fixture, Selectable Wattage and CCT

The FDLO Series ships as a 32.5-inch oval double-ring flush mount with a field-select switch that sets 2700K, 3000K, 3500K, 4000K, or 5000K on install day. Every finish shares the same 48W DOB driver, IP44 damp-location housing, and 120-degree beam. Miss the CCT call before the corridor ceiling closes up, and the fix is a flip of a switch on install day, not a return authorization. Two kinds of orders keep this series moving: a property managemen Read more FDLO Series Oval Flush Mount

A 40W or 60W wall pack over a service door does more than light the door. It casts a glare across the lot and emits more light than a small entry needs. The LMW mini cutoff wall pack line exists for the jobs where a full-size wall pack is the wrong fixture: entryways, alleys, loading docks, pathways, balconies, and small retail bays. It delivers 1300 lumens at 12W in a die-cast housing about the footprint of a large deadbolt plate. Season 2 prici Read more LED Mini Cutoff Wall Packs: Westgate LMW Series