LED Landscape lighting is one of the newest and most reliable types of landscape lighting
. It is most probable that you have grown accustomed to the use of incandescent or fluorescent bulbs wrapped in your choice of finishing or cover, whether plastic, brass or even paper, as in the case of paper lanterns which surely create a dramatic outdoor ambiance.
Landscape lighting is used for decorative and functional purposes. Safety and visibility are the two most important functional reasons for using landscape lighting. LED lights can provide any level of lighting needed to provide visibility and outline safety hazards in the yard.
LED lights also offer a wide range of color choices and extend your decorative and style options. Among the most important design uses for outdoor landscape lighting: up-lighting to provide ambient light in the area; down-lighting to provide targeted light from above; silhouette lighting to provide dramatic accents by casting light behind specific design elements; and colored LED lights to provide color washes and add interest.
Outdoor LED lighting offers many benefits for the homeowner. LED landscape lighting lasts longer than incandescent lighting. High-quality outdoor LED lights will last for up to 30 years.
The LED lights may appear costly while buying but over a period these are highly economical. This is due to the reason that one LED runs for a period longer than five bulbs of any other kind. Thus, saving on their frequent changes LED consumes 80% less power than others and cuts on the electricity bills too.
Because LED lights are smaller than traditional lighting options and last longer, they also allow for many lighting designs that weren't possible before LED lights became common.
Focusing a place with LED is an easy task; these display both that is, decoration and the desired lighting.
LED lights are broadly categorized into solar powered and 12-volt powered. Solar powered LED lights are very cheaper and eat a very small cost in installation. However, when it comes to reliability 12-volt powered LED's win the race.