High-pole lights are widely used in locations such as city squares, municipal parks, school stadiums, and highway toll booths. With poles exceeding 15 meters and lamp heads 150W or higher, they offer a wide luminous coverage area and high brightness, making them highly popular in the market.
The fact that high-pole lights exceed 15 meters in height distinguishes medium- and high-pole lights.
Manufacturers often design two sections of poles, each exceeding 12 meters in height, for insertion. One reason is that the poles are too long to transport. Another reason is that if the poles are too long, an oversized bending machine is inevitably required, which significantly increases the production cost of the high-pole lights. Furthermore, longer poles are easier to shape.
However, the connection can be affected by many factors. For example, high-pole lights are typically composed of two or four sections. During insertion, improper insertion or incorrect insertion direction can cause the entire high-pole light to be misaligned. This often results in the light appearing to be off-vertical, especially when viewed from the bottom of the high-pole. What can be done about this? Let's approach this from the following points.
1. First, check the bottom section (the section with the flange) to see if it's straight. There's a simple way to measure verticality.
To do this, tie a weight to a thin nylon rope. Hold the top of the rope approximately 10 meters from the high pole light and allow gravity to naturally lower it. Then, with the rope 20 cm away from your eye, use one eye to measure the vertical line of the rope and the bottom of the high pole light up and down.
If this method works in all four directions (east, west, south, and north), the verticality of the bottom section is acceptable.
If the bottom of the high pole light isn't parallel to the line of the nylon rope, adjust it immediately. Otherwise, the section inserted into the top section will also be non-vertical, and the higher it goes, the more it will tilt.
2. Check that the insert is in place. Generally, whether it's a high pole light, a communications tower, or a landscaping tower, the steel pole to be inserted into is designed with a specified insertion depth. If the actual insertion depth differs significantly from the theoretical insertion depth, exceeding 20 cm, the installation may be incorrect. Only by ensuring the depth is sufficient can the verticality be effectively guaranteed.
3. If the base is relatively vertical and the other segments are fully inserted, but it's still not straight, there's only one possibility: the insertion direction is incorrect.
Most high-pole lights are designed with octagonal poles. Manufacturers conduct a series of insertion tests on finished high-pole lights before they ship.
After successfully completing the series of commissioning steps, the installer should mark specific locations on the high-pole light body to ensure correct installation by the construction team. Failure to follow the marked directions during assembly may result in an incorrect insertion, even if the base is fully inserted vertically.
After following the above steps, it's clear that careless installation of high-pole lights, even if a single detail is missed, can lead to significant problems later on.
Therefore, when installing high-pole lights, it's crucial to instruct the installer to pay close attention to every detail to avoid insertion errors. Because the weight and height of the high pole lamp are too high, once there is a slight deviation problem, if we go back to make a second correction, it will be a huge project, and it will also waste a lot of manpower and material resources, and the losses caused by this will not be small.
Post time: Sep-16-2025