LED Replacement Bulbs For Mailbu Landscape Lights
19/07/09 15:51
Many people look for T-5 wedge-base 12v LED replacement bulbs for thier Malibu - Intermatic low-voltage landscape light sets. Anyone who's owned them know how short lived and pricey replacement tungsten filament Malibu bulbs can be. There's a fair selection of LED replacements for traditional 4-11 watt 12 volt wedge-base tungsten bulbs on eBay - Often using multiple rather than a single LED for optimum brightness -- and generally available in a wide variety of rich, pure LED color choices.
Do shop and search carefully. Many cars use push-in base LED bulbs for automotive lights - so a general search on eBay will often bring up an awful lot of automotive bulbs.
Do shop and search carefully. Many cars use push-in base LED bulbs for automotive lights - so a general search on eBay will often bring up an awful lot of automotive bulbs.
Energy-Saving LED Lighting Solutions
03/05/09 15:14
Landscape lights provide numerous benefits for modern homeowners including safety, energy efficient and economical. Landscaping light can increase security outdoors by discouraging potential intruders, light up paths, pools, drives and entry areas. With LED landscape lighting your landscape can be enjoyed not only during the day but extending into the evening hours as well. Your landscapes design can take on dramatic new look and showcase architectural and water features - or plant silhouettes with dramatic lighting techniques.
The types of fixtures you buy - and how you creatively place them makes them more versatile than you think. Some common outdoor light placement techniques are:
Direct Uplighting - focuses light and directs attention on an object such as a shrub, tree or landscape additions like an arbor or gazebo. Depending on the size, maturity and location of a plant a bullet or well type outdoor lighting fixture could be specified. It all depends on what needs to be illuminated outdoors. Use Angled Uplighting when there's an adjectant block or stone wall, fence or building to cast shadow textures onto.
Path Lighting - outlines a landscape path or walkway a deck or patio where safe night access is required. Outdoor LED solar or low voltage path light fixtures direct light down and outward. To prevent glare, path fixtures are shielded on top. Equal measured spacing helps convey a travel path. On more curved walkways - closer placement of each fixure helps visitors navigate with more certainty.
Downlighting - is a technique that illuminates outdoor areas for safety, security and aesthetics. Fixtures and lamps are selected for the required brightness and amount of illumination. These lamps are usually placed above eye level.
Flood vs Spot Lighting - Floods imply a wide beam, Spot lights a much narrower beam width. Choose spotlights to cast controlled an focused beam on garden statuary, fountains, or points of interest.
Backlighting, or Silhouette Lighting - gives special effect by illuminating large outdoor surface areas like walls using a flood light fixture. This causes objects in front of the lighted surface to appear as silhouettes.
Wash Lighting - Consider using multiple color lights against a wall, fence or building to cast a spectrum of interest. More distant placement of colored flood lights can blur and smooth the color transitions between shades. Or conversely, uplighting very close against a wall can produce a controlled upshot of color.
The types of fixtures you buy - and how you creatively place them makes them more versatile than you think. Some common outdoor light placement techniques are:
Direct Uplighting - focuses light and directs attention on an object such as a shrub, tree or landscape additions like an arbor or gazebo. Depending on the size, maturity and location of a plant a bullet or well type outdoor lighting fixture could be specified. It all depends on what needs to be illuminated outdoors. Use Angled Uplighting when there's an adjectant block or stone wall, fence or building to cast shadow textures onto.
Path Lighting - outlines a landscape path or walkway a deck or patio where safe night access is required. Outdoor LED solar or low voltage path light fixtures direct light down and outward. To prevent glare, path fixtures are shielded on top. Equal measured spacing helps convey a travel path. On more curved walkways - closer placement of each fixure helps visitors navigate with more certainty.
Downlighting - is a technique that illuminates outdoor areas for safety, security and aesthetics. Fixtures and lamps are selected for the required brightness and amount of illumination. These lamps are usually placed above eye level.
Flood vs Spot Lighting - Floods imply a wide beam, Spot lights a much narrower beam width. Choose spotlights to cast controlled an focused beam on garden statuary, fountains, or points of interest.
Backlighting, or Silhouette Lighting - gives special effect by illuminating large outdoor surface areas like walls using a flood light fixture. This causes objects in front of the lighted surface to appear as silhouettes.
Wash Lighting - Consider using multiple color lights against a wall, fence or building to cast a spectrum of interest. More distant placement of colored flood lights can blur and smooth the color transitions between shades. Or conversely, uplighting very close against a wall can produce a controlled upshot of color.
