Pad lighting planner
How many towers does your pad need?
Enter the pad size and the lighting level you work to. The planner sizes the fleet from our tower's measured light output and the OSHA construction lighting table, and sketches a layout.
Pad size and lighting level are yours to set. Coverage per tower comes from the manufacturer's photometric map.
Dots are towers; circles are the area each lights at the level you chose. A sketch for planning, not a photometric design.
Method: towers = pad area ÷ area lit per tower, rounded up. Area lit per tower is the ground inside the manufacturer's measured lux contour for one LED fixture (specification sheet SMSS-030725, LED output summary), times four fixtures aimed in different directions: about 13,250 sq ft at 3 foot-candles, 7,800 at 5 and 3,800 at 10. Lighting levels are the minimums in OSHA 29 CFR 1926.56, Table D-3; 1 foot-candle = 10.76 lux. Frac sites: typical pads run 5 to 10 acres in the Haynesville, 3 to 10 in the Permian Basin and 3 to 6 in the Eagle Ford, but crews light the working area (wellheads, frac fleet, walkways), not every acre. For each basin the planner fills in a 3.5-acre lit working area (400 × 380 ft), sized from tower counts on operating Haynesville frac sites; change it to match your pad. No standard sets a lighting number for frac pads (API RP 54 calls for adequate lighting), so the planner uses 3 foot-candles, OSHA's level for refueling, field maintenance and active storage. Runtime, recharge time and trailer loading are from the same sheet. Nights of light = 25 hours on a full charge ÷ hours per night.
The tower
Built for the pad, not the parking lot.
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Send us your pad size and we will confirm the tower count and pricing.
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