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These days they pop up all over the place: in LED garden lights, replacements for halogen lamps in conventional
12v lighting circuits and as LED home lighting in general. It was only a matter of time before LED technology staked out yet more territory in areas such as, for example, stage lighting and recently of course, grow lights.
Like many other early applications of LED technology, the first LED grow lights struggled to ...
... emitting diodes (LEDs) have come a long way from their humble origins as indicator lamps found in electronic equipment display panels. These days they pop up all over the place: in LED garden lights, replacements for halogen lamps in conventional
12v lighting circuits and as LED home lighting in general. It was only a matter of time before LED technology staked out yet more territory in areas such as, for example, stage lighting and recently of course, grow lights.
Like many other early applications of LED technology, the first LED grow lights struggled to attain ...
In practice of course, most people don't switch lights on in workshops and garages for over 8 hours a day, so this sort of system has ample spare capacity to power many low voltage tools, recharge
12v batteries and so forth.
In the examples above of outdoor solar lighting, the suggested prices include the cost of the photovoltaic cells (solar panels) and low energy lights but do not include the cost of ...
... playhouse, greenhouse or similar small domestic garden outbuilding.
In practice of course, most people don't switch lights on in workshops and garages for over 8 hours a day, so this sort of system has ample spare capacity to power many low voltage tools, recharge
12v batteries and so forth.
In the examples above of outdoor solar lighting, the suggested prices include the cost of the photovoltaic cells (solar panels) and low energy lights but do not include the cost of the workhorse behind all solar lighting: batteries. In the first (cheapest) case the system can easily be ...
The second most obvious advantage of solar powered garden lights is no electricity costs. Solar power is free, so solar outdoor lights cost absolutely nothing to run. Coupled with this point is that the LED lights now commonly found in
12v LED garden lighting products often have an effective lifetime of tens of thousands of hours, so outdoor solar lighting requires almost no maintenance.
Not only are solar garden lights very easy to install, cheap to run and maintenance free, they ...
... second most obvious advantage of solar powered garden lights is no electricity costs. Solar power is free, so solar outdoor lights cost absolutely nothing to run. Coupled with this point is that the LED lights now commonly found in
12v LED garden lighting products often have an effective lifetime of tens of thousands of hours, so outdoor solar lighting requires almost no maintenance.
Not only are solar garden lights very easy to install, cheap to run and maintenance free, they are inherently safe in a garden environment. The integrated solar panel means the electrical supply is fully ...
Where brightness is concerned then a conventionally powered garden light will always win out simply because it has more juice available. But not everyone wants their garden lit up so it's visible from space and many solar lights will come close to the light levels of regular
12v low voltage lamps. The main difference is that very few solar lights are designed to make it through the night and will start to fade after a number of hours, but again that's usually not a problem unless you really do want to be out there till dawn.
For ease of installation ...
... brightness levels.
Where brightness is concerned then a conventionally powered garden light will always win out simply because it has more juice available. But not everyone wants their garden lit up so it's visible from space and many solar lights will come close to the light levels of regular
12v low voltage lamps. The main difference is that very few solar lights are designed to make it through the night and will start to fade after a number of hours, but again that's usually not a problem unless you really do want to be out ...
However, these days there is a very good solution that is well suited to most kitchen lighting designs: LED kitchen lighting. Simply replace existing halogen spotlights and under-cabinet lighting with equivalent LED light fittings. This is pretty much a matter of replacing existing
12v transformers with one (or more, depending on the number of lights involved) constant voltage
12v LED driver and then swapping out the halogen lamps for LED equivalents. If using mains voltage lighting ...
... of a shelf means that items in the cupboard above are invariably exposed to some amount of heat.
However, these days there is a very good solution that is well suited to most kitchen lighting designs: LED kitchen lighting. Simply replace existing halogen spotlights and under-cabinet lighting with equivalent LED light fittings. This is pretty much a matter of replacing existing
12v transformers with one (or more, depending on the number of lights involved) constant voltage
12v LED driver and then swapping out the halogen lamps for LED equivalents. If using mains ...
