Aisle 02
LED lighting, indoors and out
A wall of LED lamps and panel fixtures built to save on running cost, stocked for indoor and outdoor projects at all three counters.
Chapter 01
The case for LED, made without a marketing number
The LED wall at Arrow sits panel fixtures and lamps side by side, brands like Atlas, Eaton and Cooper Lighting, MaxLite and Rab Electric, built to draw less power and run cooler than the fixtures they replace. Nobody at the counter is going to quote you a dollar figure for what that saves over a year, because it depends on the fixture, how long it runs and what it replaced, but the direction of the change is real and it is the reason the wall keeps growing.
It is also a genuinely different aisle from general lighting rather than a smaller version of it. Panel fixtures for a drop ceiling, wraps for a garage or laundry room, and lamps sized to fit an existing socket all sit here because the counter question for LED is usually about fit and running cost first, style second.
A wall of LED lamps and panel fixtures on display above racked boxed stock in an Arrow Electrical Supply showroom.
What's racked at the counter, and what comes in against an order
Common lamp bases and standard panel sizes are stocked across Bel Air, Aberdeen and Elkton, the same way general lighting bulbs are. A specific commercial high-bay run from Eaton or Cooper Lighting, or a less common Rab Electric fixture for an outdoor application, is more likely to be a special order against the exact model.
The same rule applies here as anywhere else in the store: if it is not on the shelf at the counter closest to you, it is worth asking whether one of the other two locations already has it before anything gets ordered in.
Chapter 03
Retrofit or replace, and what actually changes
There are two ways to move an existing fixture over to LED. A retrofit kit swaps the light source inside a housing that stays, which changes the least about the fixture itself and is the quicker route where the existing housing is in good shape and the right kit exists for it. A full fixture replacement changes the whole unit at once, housing and all, which is the more direct route where the old fixture is dated, damaged, or simply the wrong shape for the wall or ceiling it is on.
Which one makes sense depends on the specific fixture in front of you, not a rule that applies to every job the same way, which is exactly why the counter wants to see the old fixture or a photo of it before recommending one path over the other.
Same fixture family, two different jobs: indoor and outdoor
An indoor LED panel or lamp is chosen mostly on light color and how it reads in the room it is going into, a warmer color for a living space, a cooler and more even wash for a garage or workshop. An outdoor LED fixture adds a wet-location rating to that same conversation, because a fixture that is perfectly fine over a kitchen island will not hold up over a porch or a soffit through a Maryland winter.
That is the kind of detail that is easy to miss picking a fixture off a display wall and easy to catch with one question at the counter, which is why it is worth asking before the fixture leaves the store rather than after it has been up outside for a season.
The same counter, whether it is one lamp or a job's worth
A homeowner swapping a handful of bulbs to LED gets the same counter as an electrician specifying a whole building's worth of panel fixtures. The questions are the same size either way: what is it replacing, indoors or out, and does the housing stay or go.
Arrow sells the fixture and the lamp. Installing it, whether that means running new wiring or fitting a retrofit kit into an existing housing, is work for a qualified electrician, and the counter will say so plainly rather than blur the line.
Arrow Electrical Supply, Family owned and operated since 1973. Call 410-838-2271.
Ask any of the three counters