LED Street Lighting Fixtures

Uneconomical incandescent lamps, old sodium or mercury devices, which require special disposal, are surely replaced by high-quality and efficient LED flashlights. Modern street LED lights are used for outdoor illumination of highways, for illumination of road signs, sidewalks, pedestrian and bicycle paths, stops, other places where night and evening requires a good coverage of the area. Many people have already appreciated the superiority of these lamps over competitors and began to introduce them in their everyday life. Therefore, you will also probably need some knowledge about the competent choice of LED devices and how to use them in a personal household.

We choose LED lights for street lighting at home

1. Manufacturer of devices.

Now the market is saturated with a variety of lamps of Asian, European or American origin. About the companies Philips, Nichia, Cree or the German firm Osram have heard many, the quality of their products in most cases corresponds to the exact characteristics indicated on the colorful packaging. To equip their street lighting with cheap LED lights of an unfamiliar or unknown producer at a suburban dacha is a risk. Such devices are able to break down or even after a short time period to issue only half of the declared brightness in the passport.

2. The main characteristics of LED lights.

All pay attention mainly to the power of the lamps, but in addition there are other important characteristics that are important for the user - the real brightness of the luminaire, its color temperature, lighting angles, and the degradation rate of the LEDs over time.

3. The quality of the power supply.

It is necessary to know exactly whether the device is protected against overvoltage. Well, if the power supply has a power factor of about 0.9. The most important nuance is that the passport should indicate how the lamp carries negative temperatures and possible dangerous voltage drops.

4. Design features of the lamp.

High-quality devices of high power are not produced on the basis of a single LED. Usually their design consists of a number of separate light-emitting diodes, lenses for focusing a light beam and a plate of aluminum for removing heat. Good secondary optics also plays a strong role in any device. It should be able to distribute light, both in the form of a thin beam, and to produce light rays with wide radiation angles.

Rational use of LED street lighting fixtures

There are two main types of garden lighting - decorative and functional. In the first case, it is about giving your landscape a certain touch of romance, making it spectacular, unique. With the help of a magical play of light, you can perfectly transform a site, give some elements (benches, ponds , bushes, boulders, paths ) some mystery. In addition, the owners can only light up the necessary zones at night, hiding the flawed planning in the twilight.

Functional lighting is needed not only to ensure safety, but also to improve comfort at night. You should maximally illuminate the entrances to the buildings, the main paths in the garden, the stairs, the approaches to small buildings that are used after sunset (gazebo, summer kitchen, bathhouse). If there is a reservoir of artificial origin, then it is worth equipping it along the perimeter with lanterns. Naturally, there is no need for over-expenditure of electricity, so try to use LED street lighting with quality built-in light sensors. In addition, there are popular a variety of LED devices on the solar panel, the most fantastic design, which generally consume the free energy of the star, without loading the host's meter at all.