LED High Bay 150 W: 200 lm/W, 30,000 lumens, Philips driver
A UFO high bay for warehouses, workshops, production and logistics that does three things
differently from the usual stock: 200 lumens per watt instead of the common 120 to 150, a
90-degree beam instead of 120 degrees, which sends less light into shallow viewing angles,
and three output steps you set on the housing: 90, 120 or 150 watts.
30,000 lmOutput at 150 W
200 lm/WEfficacy
Class AEnergy label, top grade
90–150 WThree output steps
90°Beam angle
IP65Ingress rating, IK09
CRI 80Colour rendering
0–10 Vdimmable
Technical data
Work out savings
Frequently asked
The luminaire measures 300 mm across, stands 110 mm high and weighs 1.88 kg. Photograph of
our own sample, unedited apart from the cut-out background.
200 lm/W is the reason this article exists
Across 150-watt high bays the usual figures sit between 120 and 150 lumens per watt. This
luminaire reaches 200 lm/W, in all three colour temperatures.
The gap looks small as long as you only compare wattages. It becomes obvious once you fix
the amount of light and put the electricity bill next to it.
The calculator further down works out what that means for your building. Enter your
existing installation, your operating hours and your electricity price.
The SMD 2835 LEDs sit in rings behind a polycarbonate lens.
A worked example: 20 luminaires
Say you need 20 light points at 30,000 lumens each, running 10 hours a day, 5 days a week,
50 weeks a year. All three luminaires deliver the same light. They just draw it from the
grid with different efficiency.
| Luminaire |
Power |
Electricity per year |
Extra cost per year |
over 5 years |
| This luminaire, 200 lm/W |
150 W |
7,500 kWh |
– |
– |
| Good market level, 150 lm/W |
200 W |
10,000 kWh |
+ €430 |
+ €2,150 |
| Entry level, 120 lm/W |
250 W |
12,500 kWh |
+ €860 |
+ €4,300 |
Based on 2,500 operating hours a year and 17.2 cents per kWh excluding VAT, the German
average for small and medium industrial users (BDEW 2026). If you pay more for electricity
the gap widens accordingly. No electricity price increase assumed.
Energy efficiency class A
The luminaire carries class A under EU Regulation 2019/2015, at 150 kWh per 1,000
operating hours. On the scale that came into force in September 2021, A is the top of
seven grades and starts only at a total mains efficacy of 210 lm/W. Luminaires at the
common 120 to 150 lumens per watt sit two to four grades below that.
The class and the 200 lm/W are the same fact in two languages. The regulation derives the
class from the efficacy.
Each colour temperature has its own label with its own EPREL registration. Class and
consumption are identical across all three.
One size down or one up?
The 150 W sits in the middle of the range. Below it the same luminaire comes as a 100 W for
lower ceilings and ancillary rooms, above it as a 200 W for tall buildings. Mounting and
connection are the same on all three; only weight and diameter grow with the output.
| Luminaire |
Luminous flux |
Output steps |
Ø |
For |
| 100 W |
20,000 lm |
70 / 100 W |
255 mm |
Low buildings |
| 150 W |
30,000 lm |
90 / 120 / 150 W |
300 mm |
5 to 7 m |
| 200 W |
40,000 lm |
120 / 160 / 200 W |
340 mm |
from 8 m |
If your ceiling is over 8 metres, the
UFO High Bay LED 200 W gets you to fewer light points at the same
illuminance. For ancillary rooms and low areas the
LED High Bay 100 W is often enough.
Caught between two sizes?
If the 150 W is cutting it fine, or delivers more light than you need, we will check it
beforehand. A floor plan with dimensions and the ceiling height are enough to work
out the number of luminaires and the grid.
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- Since 2014 experience with buildings for production, storage, sport and events
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Technical data
UFO LED High Bay, HBL03 series, model SHB150W-230V-UFO
| Power |
150 W, switchable to 120 or 90 W on the housing |
| Luminous flux |
30,000 lm ±10 % |
| Efficacy |
200 lm/W |
| Energy class |
A under Regulation (EU) 2019/2015, 150 kWh/1,000 h |
| Colour temperature |
4000, 5000 or 6000 K |
| Colour rendering |
CRI 80 |
| Beam angle |
90°, 60° or 120° on request |
| Driver |
Philips Xitanium |
| Supply voltage |
AC 200–240 V, 50/60 Hz |
| Dimming |
0–10 V |
| Rated life |
50,000 h |
| Warranty |
5 years |
| Ingress protection |
IP65 |
| Impact resistance |
IK09 (10 joules) |
| Ambient temperature |
−20 to +50 °C |
| Housing |
Aluminium, polycarbonate light emitting surface |
| Dimensions |
Ø 300 mm × 110 mm |
| Weight |
1.88 kg |
Data sheet LED High Bay 150W (PDF)
What the changeover saves in your building
Enter what is installed today, how long the lights run and what you pay for electricity. The
calculator shows consumption, savings, CO₂ and the payback over eight years. It takes the
output of this luminaire and the price including volume breaks from this page.
The result is an estimate based on your entries and is no substitute for a lighting design.
How many luminaires you need also depends on ceiling height, building width, racking layout
and the illuminance you have to achieve.
90, 120 or 150 watts, set on the housing
A slide switch on the back has three positions. LOW gives 90 watts, MID gives 120 watts,
HIGH gives 150 watts. You set it on the housing, with no dimmer, no control cable and no
change to the installation.
All three steps are usable on this model. Between the lowest and the highest lie 60 watts
and roughly 12,000 lumens, enough to cover different zones of a building with a single
article: traffic routes at 90 watts, storage areas at 120, assembly and order picking at
150.
The benefit also shows after installation. If the building is used differently later, you
reset the luminaires instead of replacing them. You order one article and fix the output
on the day.
Is even 90 watts more than you need at the lowest step? The same luminaire is available
as the LED High Bay 100 W with 20,000 lumens, where 70 and
100 watts are selectable. It measures 255 instead of 300 mm and suits lower ceilings and
smaller areas.
The output switch on the left, mains lead and control cable beside it. The eyelet takes
the hook; the safety wire is supplied.
90° instead of 120°: less glare from shallow angles
Most UFO high bays have a 120-degree beam, this one 90 as standard. At 120 degrees a
substantial share of the light goes out sideways at a shallow angle, which is exactly the
angle where a bright source glares most. Anyone walking through the building or sitting on a
forklift then has the luminaires in their field of view. At 90 degrees the light lands on the
working and traffic areas instead of in the eye, and what does not escape sideways ends up
as usable light.
For a rough estimate of the light cone at 90 degrees, its diameter is roughly twice the
mounting height above the lit surface, so about 16 metres at 8 metres, with illuminance
falling off towards the edge. Luminaire spacing of 1 to 1.5 times the mounting height is the
usual starting point. We supply 60 or 120 degrees on request.
Beam angle alone does not make a building glare-free. Mounting height, luminaire position,
room geometry, reflectance and the direction people look all contribute. We do not quote a
UGR figure for this luminaire. If glare limitation is specified for your site, for example
at screen-based workstations, let us go through it before you order.
Philips Xitanium driver
A Philips Xitanium is fitted. The driver is potted to IP65 and sits in its own housing on
the back, so it can be unscrewed and replaced if it ever fails.
In an LED high bay the driver is the component most likely to fail. The LEDs themselves
usually last considerably longer. That is why this page names the driver instead of
saying “premium branded control gear”.
The rating plate of the fitted Philips Xitanium, photographed on our sample:
Xi RHB 150W, ordering code 9290 039 248, rated for 150 watts maximum.
Construction
The aluminium heat sink carries radial fins that take heat upwards.
From a low angle: 300 mm across, 110 mm deep. The driver enclosure and the eyelet sit centrally on the back.
The eyelet with the safety wire and carabiner hooked in, both included, alongside the pre-fitted supply lead.
The housing is aluminium, the light emitting surface polycarbonate. The luminaire is rated
IP65 against dust and jets of water and IK09 against impact, which corresponds to 10 joules.
It works between −20 and +50 °C ambient.
The mains lead is pre-fitted in brown, blue and green-yellow. The control cable for dimming
runs separately in pink and violet. The luminaire is protection class I and must be earthed.
Dimming with 0–10 V
The luminaire is 0–10 V dimmable as supplied. The Philips driver is a 1–10 V type, which in
practice means you dim steplessly down to about 10 per cent and switch off through the mains
rather than the control signal.
The combination worth considering is occupancy detection with a dimmed base level: unused
areas run at around 20 per cent and go to full output on movement. That saves on top of the
LED changeover itself, without anyone touching a switch.
If you need DALI, it is a different luminaire
A DALI version exists, and it is not this article with another interface. It is a different
product: a SOSEN driver instead of the Philips Xitanium, 150 instead of 200 lumens per watt,
so around 22,500 instead of 30,000 lumens at 150 watts, and 4000 K only.
If DALI is fixed in your building management system we will of course supply it. Check first
whether 0–10 V is enough: for daylight or occupancy dimming this luminaire does the job and
gives you a quarter more light for the same power draw. Talk to us and we will compare both
options for your project.
Colour temperatures
We supply 4000, 5000 and 6000 kelvin, each at 30,000 lumens and 200 lm/W. 4000 K neutral white
is the usual choice for storage, workshops, production and logistics. 6000 K gives a
noticeably cooler picture for technical areas.
5000 K: less often stocked, often the better choice
The trade is dominated by 4000 and 6000 K. 5000 K sits between them and is stocked less
often, although it is the better choice in two situations.
The first is daylight. As soon as roof lights, window bands or an open door come into play,
two colour temperatures meet. Daylight usually sits between 5,000 and 7,000 kelvin, and next
to 4000 K luminaires it looks distinctly blue while the artificial zones look yellow. The
transition is visible, particularly near the door. At 5000 K the break is far smaller.
The second is fine visual work. Edges, scratches, burrs and surface defects generally stand
out more sharply under cooler light. For inspection, final checks and assembly of small parts
5000 K is often the better choice than 4000 K, without the picture becoming as harsh as at
6000 K.
One limitation belongs here: colour judgement depends on colour rendering, not colour
temperature. This luminaire reaches CRI 80, which is fine for storage, workshops and
assembly. For colour matching, paint inspection or print approval you need CRI 90 or above,
and this luminaire is not intended for that, not even at 5000 K.
3000 K warm white: available, but as a different model
We supply warm white in the 150 lm/W version of the same series, in the same housing, with a
Philips driver and 0–10 V dimming. It is not this article, and the difference is substantial:
21,000 instead of 30,000 lumens at 150 watts, 140 instead of 200 lm/W, energy class D instead
of A, and a 120-degree beam as standard instead of 90 degrees.
Warm white is the exception in an industrial building, but it has its cases. Event catering
and function spaces are among them: converted industrial halls, market halls, venues for
parties and trade shows, where the light should feel warm and welcoming rather than look like
a warehouse, and the ceiling height still calls for a high bay. The same applies to retail and
showroom space and to hospitality in older buildings. Talk to us if you need 3000 K.
Where it fits
- Warehouses with racking, traffic routes and general storage areas
- Workshops, work areas and assembly stations
- Manufacturing and assembly areas in production
- Logistics, dispatch and order picking
- Retail and showroom space with high ceilings
- Agricultural buildings and machinery sheds
For sports halls the luminaire is only suitable after assessment. Ball impact resistance to
DIN 18032-3 is not certified for this article, and glare limitation needs its own design there.
If you are planning a whole building rather than swapping individual high bay lights, our
guide to LED industrial lighting covers the types of fitting, illuminance
by task, glare and the most common planning mistakes.
Accessories
Polycarbonate reflector
The reflector is fitted under the housing and encloses the whole light emitting surface. It is
made of clear, finely ribbed polycarbonate. The ribs scatter the light rather than simply
letting it through, so instead of one bright spot you see an evenly glowing surface.
That does two things. The luminance spreads over a larger area, so the luminaire looks far
less harsh in the field of view, and the reflector pulls the distribution further downwards
on top of the already narrow 90-degree beam.
Worth having wherever the luminaires sit in people's line of sight: lower ceilings, areas
with screen-based work, or buildings customers walk into. The cost is light. Any scattering
loses output on the floor, so allow for a few more luminaires with the reflector fitted.
The reflector on its own, before fitting. The fine ribbing in the clear
polycarbonate is the scattering surface.
The reflector fitted, seen from the light emitting side. The ribbing in the polycarbonate
spreads the light across the whole ring instead of letting it through as a bright disc.
Mounting bracket
Not every building has a point to hang a luminaire from its eyelet. The steel mounting
bracket bolts to two lugs on the side of the housing and replaces suspension from a hook
or chain.
The slots in the top face take the fixing screws for a wall, a beam, a truss or the
underside of a canopy. Because the bracket pivots on the side lugs, you can also aim the
luminaire, for instance at a wall surface or a run of racking.
We list the mounting bracket as a separate article, €8.99 net in the 150 W variant. You bolt it on
yourself, later as well.
What you get: the steel bracket and the bag of bolts, nuts and washers.
The bracket bolts to two lugs on the side. The slots in the top face take the fixing
screws and let you set the angle.
Frequently asked
How many watts is 30,000 lumens?
It depends on how efficient the luminaire is. This one needs 150 watts, because it
reaches 200 lumens per watt. A luminaire at 150 lm/W needs 200 watts, one at 120 lm/W
250 watts, one at 100 lm/W exactly 300 watts. Divide lumens by lumens per watt.
How many lumens do I need per square metre?
EN 12464-1 does not specify lumens. It specifies illuminance in lux on the working
plane. Typical figures are 200 lx for storage areas with people continuously present,
300 lx for order picking and rough assembly, and 500 lx for fine assembly and quality
control.
As a rough first estimate, designers work with 150 to 200 lumens per square metre for
warehouses and 300 to 500 for industrial buildings. That is a rule of thumb, not a
calculation: ceiling height, wall reflectance, dirt and racking layout all change the
result considerably. Our guide has a
table of recommended values by task, from storage areas to
quality control.
How many luminaires do I need?
The rough sum is floor area in square metres times the target lux, divided by the output
of one luminaire, then rounded up generously. For 1,000 m² at 200 lx with 30,000 lumens
per luminaire that gives seven on paper and more like nine to eleven in practice, once
you allow for utilisation, dirt and lumen depreciation.
Space them evenly on a grid, at 1 to 1.5 times the mounting height. If that leaves you
with very few light points, a tighter grid using the
100 W model often gives more even light. Send us a
floor plan with dimensions, ceiling height and intended use and we will tell you the
number and the layout.
Can it replace metal halide or mercury vapour?
In most cases yes. A 400-watt metal halide or mercury lamp draws around 450 watts with
its ballast and gives roughly 22,000 lumens when new. After a few thousand operating
hours only 70 to 80 per cent of that is usually left.
At 30,000 lumens from 150 watts this luminaire replaces such an installation one for
one with headroom, since it delivers more light than the metal halide ever did. It saves
around 300 watts per light point, and in lower buildings or on a tighter grid the
120-watt step is often enough. Check the suspension, the light distribution and the
existing wiring before you swap. The calculator on this page works it out for your
quantity.
How do I wire it to a dimmer or occupancy sensor?
Mains goes to brown (L), blue (N) and green-yellow (earth). Dimming runs on the second
cable: violet is 1–10 V positive, pink is 1–10 V negative. Those two cores go to the
control output of the dimmer or sensor, kept separate from the mains.
If you are not dimming, leave violet and pink insulated and unconnected; the luminaire
then runs at full output. For larger groups fit a contactor for the mains, because the
inrush current of several drivers will overload a simple switch. Installation is work
for a qualified electrician.
Is it suitable for outdoor use?
IP65 means dust tight and protected against water jets from any direction, so it can be
used under a canopy, in a wash bay or a drive-through building. A UFO luminaire of this
shape is not intended for fully exposed mounting without cover, not least because water
collects on the horizontal cooling surface.
Not sure about quantity, output or colour temperature?
Send us a floor plan with dimensions, the ceiling height and a short description of how the
space is used. We will tell you how many luminaires you need and where they should hang.
- Personal advice, easy to reach
- Lighting design with DIALux on request
- Since 2014 experience with buildings for production, storage, sport and events
All figures per the manufacturer's data sheet for the HBL03 series, 2026 edition. Luminous flux
stated with a tolerance of ±10 %. The notes on colour temperature, application and planning are
no substitute for a project-specific lighting design.
