6601 Lyons Rd. Suite C4 Coconut Creek, Florida 33073
Mon-Fri 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
6601 Lyons Rd. Suite C4 Coconut Creek, Florida 33073
Mon-Fri 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Recertification Rusted poles fail the electrical and illumination inspection. See what we check →
Parking Lot & Site Lighting

Parking Lot &
Site Lighting.

A better-lit property starts in the parking lot.

It is the first thing your tenants see and the last thing your customers walk through. We repair it, convert it, rebuild it, and when it keeps going dark we trace the fault all the way back to the panel.

  • Nighttime Inspections
  • Full Circuit Diagnosis
  • 55ft+ Bucket Trucks
Parking Lot & Site Lighting

The lot sets the tone for the whole property.

A lot with three dark poles reads as neglected no matter how well the buildings are kept. It affects how safe people feel walking to their cars, what your cameras can actually record after dark, and what a prospective tenant thinks before they reach the front door.

We handle site lighting end to end. Repairs and fixture replacement, LED conversions, new systems on properties that never had enough coverage, and the electrical troubleshooting underneath all of it when the same section keeps going out.

  • Lighting repair and fixture installation
  • LED conversions
  • Pole replacement
  • New site-lighting systems
  • Photocells, timers and contactors
  • Underground electrical troubleshooting
  • Lighting assessments
  • Preventive maintenance
Full circuit diagnosis

The problem isn't always at the fixture.

A lighting vendor replaces the head and leaves. If the fault is upstream, you are dark again in a month and paying for the same fixture twice. We are licensed electricians, so we can follow the whole circuit. Select a stage to see what fails there.

Stage 1 of 5

Panel

Where the site lighting circuit starts. A breaker that trips every few nights, a failed breaker that never resets, or a lighting circuit that was undersized when the lot was expanded years ago.

What we check

  • Breakers
  • Panels and lugs
  • Circuit loading
  • Dedicated circuits

Typical symptom

  • Whole sections go dark at once
  • A breaker that will not hold
  • Lights return after a manual reset
Stage 2 of 5

Controls

What decides when the lot turns on. This is the single most common cause of lighting complaints and it has nothing to do with the fixture. A welded contactor, a failed photocell or a time clock that lost its schedule after an outage.

What we check

  • Contactors
  • Photocells
  • Timers and time clocks
  • Lighting controls

Typical symptom

  • Lights burning all day
  • Lot never comes on at dusk
  • Switching an hour or two off schedule
Stage 3 of 5

Underground feeder

The part nobody wants to find, and the reason a lot can eat fixtures for years. Water in the conduit, corroded splices in a junction box, a conductor nicked during landscaping or a section faulted after a storm.

What we check

  • Underground feeders
  • Conduit and conductors
  • Junction boxes
  • Splices and connections

Typical symptom

  • The same run keeps failing
  • Poles dim or flicker together
  • New fixtures fail early
Stage 4 of 5

Pole

Inside the shaft and at the hand hole. In-line fuses blow for a reason, and standing water at the base corrodes connections long before anything looks wrong from the road.

What we check

  • Pole wiring
  • Hand hole connections
  • In-line fusing
  • Base and anchor condition

Typical symptom

  • One pole out while the run works
  • Repeat failures on the same pole
  • Intermittent operation in rain
Stage 5 of 5

Fixture

Sometimes it really is the fixture. A failed driver, a dead LED module or a lamp and ballast at the end of a long life. We confirm it is the fixture before replacing one, instead of assuming it.

What we check

  • Drivers and ballasts
  • LED modules and lamps
  • Fixture wiring and terminals
  • Fixture-mounted photocells

Typical symptom

  • A single head out
  • Color shift or heavy dimming
  • Cycling on and off at night
Underground troubleshooting

Where the hard faults hide

Light pole and base on a commercial site

Most contractors will replace what they can see and stop there. Underground faults take testing equipment, patience and a license, so they get quoted as a full rewire or deferred another year.

We isolate the fault first. That usually means a bad section, a single junction box or one damaged conductor, not the whole lot. Knowing which one is the difference between a repair and a rebuild.

Underground feeder troubleshooting Circuit fault diagnosis Conduit and conductor problems Junction boxes Pole wiring Contactors Photocells Time clocks Breakers Circuit troubleshooting
Reading the symptoms

What the pattern usually tells us

Before anyone drives out, the way the lights are failing narrows down where to look. This is what we ask about when you call.

A whole section of the lot is dark
Points upstream, not at the fixtures. We start at the panel and controls, then test the feeder serving that run.
One pole is out, the rest are fine
Usually the pole or the fixture. An in-line fuse, a hand hole connection or a failed driver at the head.
The lights are on all day
Almost always controls. A failed photocell, a stuck contactor or a time clock that lost its schedule.
Lights flicker, dim or cycle on and off
Often a connection or feeder problem rather than the fixture. Replacing heads here tends to waste money.
The same run keeps failing after repairs
A sign of an underground fault that nobody has isolated yet. Each new fixture fails into the same problem.
What we do in the lot

Repair, convert, rebuild, maintain

Repair

Getting what you have working again, from the fixture down to the circuit feeding it.

  • Lighting repair
  • Fixture installation
  • Circuit repair
  • Underground electrical troubleshooting
  • Photocells
  • Contactors

Convert

Moving the lot off metal halide and HPS, with controls that match how the site runs.

  • LED conversions
  • LED fixture replacement
  • Controls
  • Timers
  • Photocells
  • Lighting assessments

Rebuild

New coverage where the lot was never lit properly, or poles that have to come out.

  • New site-lighting systems
  • Pole replacement
  • Fixture installation
  • Underground feeders
  • Conduit and wiring
  • Testing and commissioning

Maintain

Catching failures on a schedule instead of hearing about them from a tenant.

  • Preventive maintenance
  • Nighttime inspections
  • Lighting assessments
  • Group relamping
  • Condition reporting
  • Scheduled route service
Recertification

The inspection covers your lot lighting, and rust is what fails it

Building recertification in Miami-Dade and Broward includes an electrical safety inspection and a parking lot illumination certification signed by a licensed engineer. Salt air corrodes poles at the base plate and anchor bolts, and a pole that looks fine at eye level can be gone where it counts. We inspect the poles, the circuits and the light levels, then price whatever gets flagged.

  • Base plates, anchor bolts and corrosion at grade
  • Hand holes, internal rust, pole lean and foundations
  • Wiring, fuse holders, grounding and controls
  • Night light levels measured against the required illumination
  • Written findings with photos and a repair or replace call per pole
Nighttime inspections

Lighting can only be inspected in the dark

Parking lot inspected at night with lighting in operation

A daytime walk tells you nothing about coverage. We inspect lots after dark, when the controls have switched and every fixture is either working or it is not.

  • Every pole and fixture checked while operating
  • Dark gaps and uneven coverage mapped by area
  • Controls verified switching on schedule
  • Photos and a written list by pole number
  • Repairs quoted from what we found, not from guesses
Common questions

Site lighting, answered

Because the fixture probably is not the problem. Repeat failures on the same pole or the same run usually point to a wiring fault, a bad connection or water in the conduit feeding it. Each new fixture fails into the same fault.

Not to find it. We test to isolate which section or junction is bad before anything is opened up. Sometimes a repair means one excavation at one point, and sometimes it means pulling new conductor through existing conduit with no digging at all.

Yes. We cone off only the area under the truck and work pole by pole. For busy retail and restaurant sites we usually run the work overnight so the lot is clear before opening.

A walk of the property with the lights on, counting fixtures, noting what is out, checking the controls and measuring coverage. You get a written list by location and a scope for whatever you decide to fix.

That is a design problem rather than a repair problem. It usually means pole spacing or fixture selection no longer suits how the lot is laid out, often after a re-stripe or an expansion. Adding poles or changing optics fixes it.

Both. Plenty of properties start with a single repair call. Many then move to scheduled night inspections once they see how many fixtures were out that nobody had reported.

Let us walk it after dark.

We will inspect the lot with the lights on, tell you what is actually failing and where in the circuit it sits, then quote only what needs doing.

  • Night inspection
  • Written list by pole
  • Full circuit diagnosis
  • Repair or convert, your call

Request a lighting assessment

Send the property address and what you are seeing. Photos from the lot help.

Get a Free Quote
(954) 942-4223 Mon to Fri, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM ET