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28 September 2023 Design of a reduced glare optical system for mining machine area lights
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Abstract
Hazardous location lighting presents many challenges for illumination. The nature of the environment is such that if lighting fails it could be dangerous to the human operators of the equipment. If the lighting produced has high glare than the features of interest are difficult to distinguish further endangering the operators. A novel optical design is presented which improves glare through an indirect TIR + reflector optic which blends and hides direct view of the LED chips while producing a uniform intensity pattern which meets MSHA distribution requirements for continuous mining and roof bolter machines.
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Edward Bailey "Design of a reduced glare optical system for mining machine area lights", Proc. SPIE 12665, Novel Optical Systems, Methods, and Applications XXVI, 126650L (28 September 2023); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2677907
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KEYWORDS
Mining

Design and modelling

Lamps

Safety

Metals

Minerals

Pattern recognition

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