Security Lighting

Protect and Beautify Your Home With Outdoor Lighting

 

Thieves love to strike under the cover of darkness. Surrounding your home with outdoor lighting not only raises the level of security around your house, but also adds a touch of beauty.


Putting Some Light on the Subject

 

What’s a more welcoming site on a cold dark night than a well lit garden showing you the way home?  It really doesn’t matter what time of year it is, having nice subtle lighting around your home is always attractive as well as a safety feature.


How to Create Natural Landscape Lighting

 

Landscaping that draws your attention to its beauty and balance after the sun has set doesn't just happen with a few spotlights set here and there.  Careful planning as to what type of lights, what type of mood and what you wish to achieve are questions that you need to ask yourself before making any type of purchase.


Advances in Solar LED Post Lighting

 

The advances in solar LED post lighting can save you money on your electric bill while providing required functional lighting in your yard or on a patio. The innovations in outdoor solar post lighting include features of attractive designs and LED bright lighting with solar powered batteries that can last for 2 nights or more in some cases.


Solar LED Street Lamps

 

Solar street lamps are a little known secret out there, but becoming more and more popular as time goes on and technology improves. This selection of street lamps boasts more brightness than ever before.

Not enough brightness has always been an issue for home solar post lamps, it's great to see these come on the market to answer a growing need.


Choosing energy efficient outdoor lighting

 

Many of us want to increase the value of our property by adding beautiful lighting designs. We also want to be safe. But as this author points out, a floodlight with two 150-watt conventional bulbs can add $100 to the electricity bill every year, and in hard economic times like these, none of us needs to be wasting money like that. Smart designs are more efficient, easier on the pocketbook, and better for the environment, too.


Making the case for solar-powered LED outdoor lights

 

In an effort to stay ahead of the curve and move beyond oil, some companies are exploring light alternatives such as solar-powered outdoor LED lighting. And it’s none too soon given that if everyone on earth were to consume energy like we do in North America (and all accounts point to developing countries catching up to us soon in terms of energy consumption), the supplies of uranium (for nuclear plants), oil, and coal will run out in about 15 to 20 years.

Solar One Solar Streetlamp
Solar-powered lighting, therefore, has amazing potential to meet our lighting needs without reliance on dirty, limited energies like oil and coal. But as the LEDs Magazine points out, until recently, solar lighting was relatively expensive and unattractive. This was due in large part to their desire to plan for the worst case scenario: the shortest days with the cloudiest weather. As a result, the solar lighting of old was used mainly where light was abundant: near the equator.

Combining LED bulbs with solar collectors and efficient batteries solves some of these problems, making solar-powered LED outdoor lighting even more accessible the masses, at a lower cost in more-attractive fixtures, too. Some of the benefits of these new systems include:

  • Better illumination: Fluorescents produce cool, efficient light, but because their beam angle is quite wide, they send light in all directions. LEDs on the other hand, produce directional beams of light which means less light lost.
  • Increased efficiency and directability: LEDs can produce light when and where they’re needed, which means the solar panels and batteries can decrease in size.
  • Long life: LEDs require very little energy to run, so the batteries can be smaller than with any other bulbs, and will last longer, too.
  • All-weather: LEDs work well in all weather conditions, even the cold. Fluorescents, on the other hand, tend to perform poorly and have shorter lifespans when used in colder temperatures.

Although these are just some of the advantages to using LEDs in combination with solar-powered fixtures, it makes for a convincing case.


How to light your outdoor space, like a good neighbor

 

In another great Sky and Telescope.com article, the rules of good-neighbor lighting is reviewed with some easy-to-comprehend guidelines for creating an outdoor lighting design that’s not only less expensive to maintain, but will also be appreciated by those around you.


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