Warehouse aisles: emergency lighting where racking blocks the sight line

What makes warehouses different Three conditions appear together in almost every distribution warehouse: mounting heights well above head level, escape distances long enough that one luminaire cannot cover them, and racking that interrupts the line of sight. A layout that works in an office corridor usually fails here — not because the luminaires are wrong, but because the exit sign is visible from the main aisle and invisible from inside the racking where people actually work. ## Recommended configuration - Higher-output luminaires over the main aisles, with the spacing checked against the actual illuminance requirement rather than the catalogue coverage figure.

• Exit signs repeated along the route so they remain visible from within the racking rows, not only from the cross aisle.
• IP65 fittings where wash-down or dust is part of normal operation, with the IK rating checked separately for vehicle areas.
• Self-testing or remote-testable units wherever the fitting cannot be reached from floor level with a step ladder. ## The cost that gets missed The purchase price is decided at quotation. The maintenance cost is decided by whether the fittings can be tested without equipment. On a 10,000 m² warehouse with a hundred fittings, an annual manual test that requires a scissor lift is a recurring capital expense disguised as a routine task — and the predictable outcome is that testing gets deferred until it stops happening. ## Before you order - The mounting height and the racking layout, because they decide spacing and sign positions.
• The ambient temperature range, since low temperature reduces usable battery capacity.
• Whether the local authority requires 1 hour, 3 hours or another duration.
• The IP and IK ratings the space genuinely requires, and the test reports behind them for the exact model. Anshine supplies emergency luminaires and drivers from 3W to 300W, with CE, RoHS, CB and ISO 9001 documented at company level. Send the layout drawing and the duration requirement and we will size the configuration against it.