Santa Monica's LED Ferris Wheel (photo credit: Pacific Park)
LEDs aren’t just for small, streamlined devices like headlamps. The new Pacific Park ferris wheel on the Santa Monica Pier is evidence that LED projects can be big and bold too – and still amazingly efficient.
LEDs illuminate the all-new $1.5 million ride. It’s a traditional ferris wheel with some high-tech twists, and it replaces the iconic Santa Monica ferris wheel made famous on film and television. Opened a few months ago, the new ride towers 130 feet over the ocean, and boasts energy savings of 75% compared to the old ride that relied on incandescent bulbs for its lighting.
Santa Monica's LED Ferris Wheel (photo credit: Pacific Park)
The Santa Monica ferris wheel’s 160,000 LED bulbs have a projected lifespan of 10 years, which means far less maintenance, and a huge reduction in waste – no more huge piles of burned-out incandescent bulbs. And best of all, the wheel continues to be powered entirely by solar energy, just as the old one was.
And speaking of efficiency and waste reduction, how’s this for recycling? The old ferris wheel was auctioned off on ebay instead of reducing it to a huge pile of construction debris – earning $65,000 for Special Olympics and keeping all that history out of a landfill.
For more information, visit www.PacPark.com.
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Looks great! Practical too — 10 years before you have to climb up on the wheel to replace.