“We are appealing to the repetitive user of explosion proof lighting that wants to try before they buy,” said Rob Bresnahan with Larson Electronics’ magnalight.com. “Hazardous location lighting costs significantly more than general purpose lighting, and the ‘rent to own’ option enables operators to use the lights for as little or as long as they need with no penalty. If you have short term job, then a monthly rental may be sufficient. However, if the job grows or they see multiple projects in the pipeline, they can easily decide to keep the hazardous location lighting if the total rental cost is going to exceed the purchase price. This is appealing to smaller businesses whose ultimate goals are cash flow and profitability. In about 75 percent of the cases, operators opt to keep the equipment. There is no additional effort on their part, instead they just keep the lights and move on. Because so much of the rent to own equipment is eventually kept by the operators, we tend to have a fairly new rental fleet of portable hazardous location lighting and blowers.