1st Source Lighting is a second-generation, family-owned LED lighting manufacturer founded in 1993 and based in Auburn, California, where it also manufactures its fixtures. The company builds application-specific lighting for sports courts, gymnasiums, cold storage, data centers, and industrial facilities, and its products are compliant with federal procurement standards including BAA and TAA.

The company carries a dedicated indoor pickleball lighting line. Its main court solution is a direct-indirect linear fixture series in 4, 6, and 8 foot lengths, running 125 to 250 watts with up to 38,000 lumens. The fixtures split light 60/40 between downlight and uplight to reduce glare and the dark-ceiling effect, and use a curved diffused acrylic lens rather than the concentrated point source of round high bay fixtures. For air domes and high ceilings it offers an indirect uplight series at 346 to 405 watts, plus panel-style and budget linear options for low-ceiling or cost-sensitive rooms.

For pickleball facilities, the company designs to Class I competition standards, targeting 75 or more foot-candles with a max-to-min uniformity under 1.7 and attention to vertical illuminance for ball tracking. It positions Class I capable lighting as a way for facilities to host sanctioned tournaments and video or livestream production.

Projects start with a free photometric analysis. A facility submits its building dimensions and requirements through the photometric request tool on the site and receives a proposed fixture layout before committing to a purchase. The site also maintains libraries of cutsheets, IES files, and Revit files for specifiers, and a quick-ship program for stocked fixtures.