Kansas Mountain
Senior Member
- Location
- Oklahoma, United States
- Occupation
- Lighting and Lighting Control Designs
Have an engineer asking for a fixture with a high ambient operating temp for use in a kiln room on a school. I've done several kiln rooms before on K-12 schools but have always just used whatever standard lay-in fixture we were using throughout the rest of the facility.
As far as I can tell, the responsibility falls more on the mechanical engineer to design the cooling and ventilation for a kiln room to be kept around 100°F or below, not for the environment to be built to withstand a high ambient temperature.
I think if I propose a strip with a max ambient operating temperature of 104°F, he should be covered without needing a costlier fixture with a higher max ambient operating temp. Anybody have a code reference that I'm overlooking?
As far as I can tell, the responsibility falls more on the mechanical engineer to design the cooling and ventilation for a kiln room to be kept around 100°F or below, not for the environment to be built to withstand a high ambient temperature.
I think if I propose a strip with a max ambient operating temperature of 104°F, he should be covered without needing a costlier fixture with a higher max ambient operating temp. Anybody have a code reference that I'm overlooking?
