Attention Landscape Lighting Professionals: Interested In Increasing Your Revenues?

Hands-On LED Landscape Lighting Installation

ALA offers 16 credit hours for this seminar

The Kichler intermediate course provides detailed instruction and hands-on training about:

• The design and installation of an actual LED lighting system
• Interaction, logic and reasons for layout and fixture placement
• An interactive exchange on wire runs and fixture selection
• An incandescent lamp primer
• A brief history of LED and why LED is gaining popularity
• How Kichler LED virtually eliminates voltage drop
• How Kichler LED wattages compare to incandescent wattages
• How to layout and design a lighting job
• How LED makes using a hub system obsolete
• Installation, basic troubleshooting and maintenance tips
• Night time photography:
• • Learn how to photograph your lighting jobs at night and show your client how good your work is!
    (Digital camera capable of manual settings is required but not mandatory for class participation.)
• Marketing your business
• …and more!

Your $150.00 investment (or 15,000 Light Pro Reward Points) includes:

• Certified instructor
• Digital files of the night time photo shoot which you can use to promote your business
• Training materials
• Kichler shirt
• Certificate of completion
• 16 ALA certification credit hours
• All meals (2 dinners, 1 continental breakfast, 1 lunch, and refreshments)
• Airport transfers and transportation to and from hotel.

Advanced LED Lighting Design

Low Voltage Landscape Lighting Troubleshooting

A five-hour LED landscape lighting seminar designed for professionals wishing to improve the aesthetic designs of their landscape lighting installations.

This Kichler Advanced course provides detailed instructions, demonstrations and interaction on:

This Kichler Advanced course provides detailed instructions, demonstrations and interaction on:

• How, when and why to use LED in your lighting design
• LED/Incandescent comparison
• Understanding beam spreads and photometrics
• How to determine what wattage and beam spread to use
• Interactive participation on an assortment of “typical” architectural and planting features
• The reasons behind wattage and beam choice
• Illustrations of good and bad uses of light
• What NOT to do with light
• Refresher on how Kichler LED virtually eliminates voltage drop
• Refresher on how Kichler LED wattages compare to incandescent wattages
• Why LED ultimately ends up costing the contractor less money
• Comparing an LED Installation to a halogen installation (The labor and the financial realities)
• Important information on LED MR16 retrofits in halogen fixtures

• How to test a transformer
• What’s inside a transformer? Toroidal core and coil vs. EI
• Transformers: types, features and accessories
• The circuit breaker and how it protects the system
• Amps – matching fixture wire, run wire and power system for total protection
• Refresher on how to use a digital voltmeter and ammeter
• Troubleshooting faulty systems
• What can go wrong
• Class Exercise
  A series of different systems will be set up with intentional flaws. On an individual basis, students will be trained to identify the problem and offer corrective solutions.

Bonus Training: Maintenance Contracts
- Sell the maintenance contract with the job, not after. 
- What to include in a preventative maintenance program
- Pricing and contract length suggestions

• Certified instructor
• Training materials
• Certificate of completion
• Breakfast and lunch
• Airport transfers and transportation to and from hotel in Cleveland.
• Kichler long-sleeve tee shirt