The Lighting Controls Association is pleased to announce that it has updated EE201: Introduction to Lighting Control, a popular offering in the Association’s Education Express series of online distance education courses about lighting controls.
The course, authored by Craig DiLouie, principal of ZING Communications, Inc. and LCA’s Education Director, provides an introduction to daylight harvesting and in-depth discussion for each major decision during the design of a daylight harvesting control system. It consists of three learning modules covering these topics:
• Purpose of daylight harvesting
• Typical energy savings
• Typical system
• Importance of transparency
• Ideal applications
• Daylight harvesting and LEED
• Daylight harvesting and energy codes
• Switching versus dimming
• Open versus closed loop
• Control zoning
• Control zoning: daylight availability
• Control zoning: windowed spaces
• Control zoning: skylighted spaces
• Control zoning: energy codes
• Control zoning: granular zoning
• Control zoning tool
• Photosensors
• Photosensors: range of response
• Photosensors: spatial response
• Deadband
• Wireless sensors
• Centralized versus distributed controls
• Analog versus digital controls
At the conclusion of each learning module, an optional online comprehension test is available, with automatic grading; a passing grade (70+%) enables the student to claim education credit.
EE201: Daylight Harvesting is registered with the National Council on Quality in the Lighting Professions (NCQLP), which recognizes a total of 4 LEUs towards maintenance of Lighting Certified (LC) certification. This course is also registered with the California Advanced Lighting Control Training Program (CALCTP) for credit to qualify to receive live training (30 points).
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