Sylvania

We are an authorized Sylvania distributor. We stock most common lamps and specialize in energy efficient lamps and ballasts.

Sylvania brand lighting products set the standard for performance, offering superior energy savings and long service life.

Products

T8 Fluorescent Lamp Technology
Why you should replace your old F40, F34 and F96 T12 lamps with the new T8 lamps

Electronic Ballasts
Those magnetic ballasts in your old fixtures are wasting your money. Touch one after it's been on a while. Hot isn't it. It's suppose to be creating light not heat.

Capsylite Screw-Ins
Capsylite lamps slash energy use up to 31%! and Capsylite lamps average 3500 hours.

Capsylite Floods
The bright white light offers near-perfect color rendering, and they retain their excellent light quality throughout their long service life.

Metal Halide & High Pressure Sodium
No other HID light source comes close to that combination of service life and light maintenance of the Lumalux Plus HPS and MetalArc Metal Halide lamps.

Compact Fluorescent
These lamps feature high frequency integral ballasts and rare earth triphosphor technology. Available in straight, reflector and globe screw-in.

LED Exit Lights & Night Lights
Using one watt of energy, Exit lights screws or snaps into existing sockets like a regular light bulb, no rewiring required. The Night Lights plug into any wall socket or can be permanently installed with a built in wall plate.

 

Effective Concepts LLC.
1732 23rd Street South
Fargo, ND 58103

Ray Maas has over forty years experience running and managing wholesale distribution companies. He has experience selling to wholesalers and electrical contractors. Ray has an Engineering degree from North Dakota State University. Ray has experience with Lighting, Controls, Pump Systems, Heating and Air Conditioning.

Craig Maas has twenty-five years of wholesale experience. Craig has a Marketing degree from Moorhead State University and is responsible for developing one of the most advanced computerized marketing systems in the country.

Craig is also the webmaster for a number of web sites. We specialize in small company sites but have also done some large e-commerce sites and one page sites for nonprofit organizations. You don't have to pay a lot of money to have a nice site.

Services

Do you need our services?- Is your annual operations budget in need of a trim. In most cases the answer is yes. Not only can you reduce your operations budget but a properly designed energy retrofit can return money to your pocket. Annual return on investments (ROI) between 20% and 50% are NOT unusual. Maintenance costs can also drop when you upgrade your lighting or HVAC equipment. If designed properly your facilities will show in increase in employee productivity. Performance and safety can be enhanced with new efficient lighting design. The more extensive a facilities needs the more extensive the savings. Our approach is to help you maximize these savings.

Design
The efficient use of energy requires proper design. This is true for lighting and heating. Effective Concepts has years of experience in both fields. We use our expertise to design optimal lighting or heating systems. Whether you are looking for new equipment or wish to retrofit your current lighting fixtures, we can help you. We can design around your design requirements. These include: Cost savings, energy savings, pollution savings, or lighting design changes.

Audits
Proper designs starts with detailed and accurate information. We will provided a free audit of your site. We look at various factors depending on the type of design you are looking for: Counts of existing fixtures, type, and their location. We may also take light level readings if needed.

Lighting Is An Investment
Now is the time to look at your facility for savings. The energy you use to light your facility is going to waste. Your old four lamp fixture uses 188 watts per hour. At 6¢ per kWh, that is only a penny per hour, but over the life of the lamp you're burning up $135.

Effective Concepts can provide you with an alternative one which can result in a short payback on your investment. The money you are sending to the utility is giving you no payback. Many utilities will actually help you with your lighting retrofit by providing a rebate.

With all the pressure to reduce costs and minimize expenses, why not invite Effective Concepts to have a look at your facility. We may have the solution to your budget problems.

Output

  • Lighting Audit, showing existing fixtures, replacement fixtures, locations and savings.
  • Pollution Savings a sample graph showing savings of natural resources conserved.
  • Cost Savings, Cash Flow, and Return on Investment
  • Lighting Conservation/ Light Levels a sample store showing before and after lighting retrofits (60K graphic)
  • Grant Forms to help qualify you for loans or grants.
  • Rebate Forms to help qualify you utility rebates
  • Heatloss & Layouts

Partners

Customers

  • Grocery Stores
  • Retail Stores
  • Educational Facilities
  • Government Facilities
  • Health Care Facilities
  • Wholesalers
  • Manufactures

Electricians

  • We believe in working closely with your electrician.

Utilities

  • Xcel Energy
  • OtterTail Power

Contact Us:

E-mail

Phone
(701) 235-2035
or fax us at
(815) 572-0989

Specials

MYTECH Occupancy Sensors
We have a small stock of Mytech occupancy sensors, which we are featuring with a great price.
A painless way to meet the ASHRAE/IES 90.1-1999 Automatic Shut off code.
Check it out!

Big Beam LED Exit Lights
We still have some single face Exit lights. They are dual voltage and feature universal mounting.

Light Fixtures and Accessories:
These Lithonia and Metaloptics fixtures and accessories were all left over from jobs. Mostly school jobs, so they have many applications in schools, offices, shops, etc.

Instant Start T8 Ballasts
Overstock on Electronic Instant Start T8 Ballasts: Sylvania, K-Tronik, Advanced, Magnetek/Universal
We have a number of mostly 2-lamp small can ballasts for your next energy saving project. Although these items are meant for our current customs in Eastern North Dakota and Western Minnesota, if something is of interest for you, please feel free to contact us.

Definitions

What do Color Temperature and Color Rendition Index really mean?