LED street lights

Today, street lighting devices based on LEDs, which are widely used in the formation of street lighting, occupy the dominant positions among other popular light sources - due to significant savings in electricity. These lamps are actively used as illumination of buildings, billboards with advertisements, fountains and bridges, industrial premises. This device is most profitable to operate where the issue of energy saving and compliance with safety standards is more than acute.

An LED is a semiconductor device that converts ordinary electrical current into light. It's hard to find a home these days that doesn't have a single LED light.

What are the advantages of this modern device? First of all:

• Economical and rational consumption of electrical energy. Flashlights of this type consume much less energy than conventional appliances.
• Durability. The duration of work with constant use can be 10-15 years, and when used only at night - up to 25 years.
• The ability to use even under the most unfavorable conditions, as these devices operate reliably at temperatures from -30 to +40 degrees. Best suited for outdoor installations.
• Wide color palette.
• Resistant to physical damage. The housing of these devices is made so that dirt and debris do not collect on their surface.

• Environmental friendliness. LED street lights do not need any separate disposal, because they do not contain harmful components.
• Ignition without delay.
• Ease of installation.
• Vibration resistance.
• Excellent durability. LED street lights are vandal-proof, explosion-proof and fireproof.
• They work without noise.

Any public place can be beautiful with a well-chosen type of lighting. Today you will not find a single street lighting fixture that does not have its drawbacks. There are also minor negative features of LED lights.

The disadvantages of such popular devices can be, in the first place, ranked:

• High cost. However, the use of LEDs provides excellent money savings further down the line.
• Thermal degradation. For these luminaires to work well, they need good heat dissipation.
• Dependence on voltage drops. If the voltage fails, the LEDs may be shut down due to overheating.

All lamps that are intended for outdoor use can be divided into 2 main types:

1. Facade lighting represented by devices that are installed on the walls of houses. The beams of these lamps are directed to a specific area that needs lighting, for example, it can be a porch.
2. Landscape lighting mounted on the adjoining site. With its help, the boundaries of paths in the garden are highlighted, they are placed on lawns and flower beds, near ponds and trees.

The choice of lighting devices for the street sometimes comes down to only 4 main types: to linear-type devices, console, garden and park, floor products:

• Linear devices include lanterns... These are products that are in harmony with the architectural style of the entire courtyard.LED lanterns, ground luminaires or bollards are popular types of outdoor linear luminaires. With their help, you can scatter the night outlines, highlight the path with lines of light, or illuminate the entire territory.
• Console light - this is an L-shaped roadside product that will last a long time and will illuminate a fairly large area. If desired, such a device can become an accent for your yard for a long period of time.

• Gardening product - a stylish option for theatrical setting of the atmosphere in the garden. Using several of these lights, you can create a great complex with which you can diffuse light or flood everything with it within the radius of the desired effect. Lanterns be suspended and floor.
• Floor lamps have a peculiar vertical shape. The lamp in the upper part is covered with a metal shade, which helps it to shine on all sides. Luminaires of this kind, even very small ones, can illuminate a fairly large area.

In addition, there are other types of LED lamps:

• Searchlights. Industrial types are mainly mounted on huge facilities. They help to easily illuminate the space around sports stadiums and other structures. Searchlights illuminate the front sides of buildings, open areas, parking lots and many other objects located on a huge territory. Luminaires that are not bulky in size are fixed in the courtyard areas. They emit both white and colored light, but at different angles.

• Duralight lamp resembles a transparent plastic ribbon with a huge number of diodes over the entire surface. This device is often used to illuminate contours, in landscape design, tape is used to decorate trees, in advertising. Has the following varieties:

1. Duralight used to design clear contours in landscape decoration.
2. Fixing - works in glow mode on a permanent basis.
3. Chasing you can dynamically illuminate the streets.
4. Dynamic luxury lighting carried out using multi-chasing.
5. High-quality lighting of territories with a controller provides “chameleon».
6. Duraflex unlike a number of similar devices, it is waterproof, lightweight and has good flexibility, which makes it easy to use and install. It can be fixed anywhere you want.
7. Ruler looks like a flexible thin plastic tape with a silicone braid, bright LEDs are vertically fixed on it. It is often used as a decorative lighting.
8. Net Is a product in the form of a luminous mesh structure with LEDs in connections. It is bright enough, durable, economical and easy to install. It is stretched on a solid frame between different supports to decorate the wall of a building or garden area.

• Flashlights with touch sensors help to significantly reduce the cost of electricity: the lamp will work only when someone appears in its area of ​​\ u200b \ u200baction. Outdoor devices with motion sensors are used in summer cottages, cottages, apartment buildings, parks, courtyards, to illuminate various kinds of objects.
• Popular and recessed luminaires with LEDs for outdoor use. Their difference from other devices lies in the fact that the main part of the body is hidden in holes in the wall or roof of the house. During the day, such lamps are virtually invisible, and with the advent of dark, they shine beautifully on objects, favorably shading the features of the building's architecture, while not drawing attention to the lighting device. Built-in LEDs with a light sensor are used to illuminate beautiful sculptures, various shops and museums, cottages and summer cottages.

There is a classification of LED devices for the street by type of placement:

• To illuminate the courtyard perimeter are often used wall outdoor appliances, they are fixed on the wall of the house and illuminate its entrance. Wall-mounted or overhead spotlights are also used to provide security measures. They are mounted on the walls of houses.
• Landscape chandeliers, which are mounted along the paths, are necessary for the decorative lighting of the pond or garage.

• Soil device is fixed in the ground and is almost imperceptible until the very moment of the start of work. If you hide it in vegetation, you can create a bright garden lighting during the flowering period.
• Mushroom products from above are covered with caps, from which the light beam is reflected downward.

• Light pedestals look like a cylinder. The products are similar to small posts and are used to decorate flower beds and bridges by the pond.
• Floating glass balls Are versatile waterproof products that float beautifully on the surface of the pond. They provide high quality lighting for a pool or pond. To increase the role of decorative lighting, you can use underwater analogs.
• Portable models arranged compactly. They can be easily moved from one part of the site to another. A number of such products have a special clothespin with which you can fix the product on the branches of bushes and trees.

• Street products for a summer cottage usually have a design plafonds... Products are chosen in combination with the decorative style of the garden to make it more harmonious. If you skillfully hang these devices in the bushes or on trees, then an original decor element will come out.
• Solar powered models very practical. The basis of their action lies in the use of special solar cells that convert solar energy into electrical energy. If you wish, you can also purchase battery-powered lamps.
• Pendant lights in design they are very reminiscent of chandeliers for indoor use, slightly adapted to various natural influences. In many cases, such devices are a shade on a chain, which is fixed on the roof of a terrace or gazebo.

An important role in the selection of a street lamp is played by its design, especially when it comes to high-quality illumination of the courtyard area. In this case, it is worth considering the technical parameters, the shape and appearance, the color of the product and lighting, the design style of the device:

• Street lamp in the form of a ball looks great, perfectly illuminates the place around it and can be an additional decor for the environment. Round outdoor luminaires are very popular today.
• Lanterns are always in fashion... Their elegant appearance creates a particularly romantic atmosphere in any landscape.

• Futuristic lanterns in the form of luminous figures or imitation of natural objects will become an original accent in decorating your personal plot or country house.
• Lanterns in the form of columns, fungi, floor lamps give not only a bright illumination of the area where they are located, but also always harmoniously fit into the surrounding landscape.
• You can always choose crowning floor lamp-ball or a cylinder-glass on top of a fence, fence posts, a fence, a retaining wall to decorate your site. Combined shapes of lamps are in great demand by modern buyers.

In connection with the introduction of new innovations, specialists were able to improve the optical part of LED street lamps, which is made of high strength polycarbonate, which contributes to greater uniformity of illumination and safety of use. Today, LEDs of directional light are actively used to decorate the landscape - for accentuated illumination of various squares, shop windows and other objects.

LED street lights are in great demand among local residents. Outdoor diode devices are suitable for various operating conditions.Their body consists of anodized aluminum, which, in turn, has excellent performance.

Depending on the type, style of performance, type of lighting, LED street lighting devices can be used for certain purposes:

• Outdoor LED fixtures such as spotlights are used to illuminate industrial-type areas, warehouses, gas stations, parking lots, pedestrian sidewalks, squares and parks, as well as city streets themselves.
• Landscape lights are used for better lighting of lawns, ponds or fountains, gardens and terraces, as well as the lower part of the facade of cottages. Devices located near paths, paths and other areas for the movement of pedestrians should provide diffused and soft light. This effect can be guaranteed with the help of precisely selected forms of devices, which will begin to scatter the rays.
• A type of facade lighting is the type of lighting of an architectural option... It plays the role of decor, and all kinds of projectors and lanterns are used for it, their rays can be original and unusual in color. This type of lighting can also include the lighting of sculptures, various gazebos, roofs.

When buying a lamp, it is better to immediately pay attention to the products of only well-known brands, which are considered world leaders in the production of lamps with LEDs.

The most sought-after street lighting manufacturers are:

• Company Amplex offers unique quality street lighting fixtures. The fittings of their products are mostly made of brass, high-quality steel and other popular materials are used in the product.
• Trademark Technolux imports lighting fixtures from China, its own outdoor floodlights are of high quality.
• Optogan - a domestic manufacturer offering LED lamps for street lighting, as well as adjacent areas to industrial, commercial, warehouse-type buildings, homestead and adjoining territories, city parks and squares.

• Firm "Svetlana-LED" also produces high quality LED technology.
• Trading house "Focus" has a huge number of developments in the field of popular energy saving technologies. LEDs of Japanese origin are used in the company's luminaires, which correspond to European quality parameters. Since 2004, the company has specialized in the serial production of LED lighting systems.
• "Intesso LED systems" - this company started its work in 2011. Today it produces approximately 5,000 lighting fixtures a year.

• Firm "Lighting Technologies" is considered the leading manufacturer of LED lighting devices in the CIS.
• Specialists "Svyaz Engineering" carry out the development of energy-saving lighting devices. The company's street lamps are located in the gardens of many famous people in our country.
• LLC "Corvette Lights" offers LED spherical type and many other lighting technology that is created in their likeness.

When choosing luminaires for street lighting, you need to pay special attention to the power of the luminous flux, to the possible angle of illumination that they can give, to the color temperature and possible degradation of the product.

You can get this information in the passport of the purchased product.

Choosing what kind of lighting should be mounted on your site, you you need to pay attention to the following recommendations:

• When choosing this kind of product, give preference to devices with such features during operation as comfort, degree of light output, power, service life.
• Before installing lamps on the site in front of the house, it is important to determine the climate conditions, the subtleties of installation, the requirements for the brightness of products.
• When buying a product, you also need to pay attention to the type of material from which the purchased lamp is made. Luminaires made of metal (it can be cast iron, the usual aluminum, products made of steel and other metals are fashionable today) have the greatest strength and can withstand the effects of the most extreme operating conditions. Ceramic appliances have a very durable body, so they can also be safely used for high-quality garden lighting.

If you want your house to be highlighted as beautifully as possible in an architectural sense, feel free to use decorative illumination of steps using an LED strip - this is especially important if there are many steps on your site that lead visitors to your home. If your garden area is filled with wicker furniture and flower beds, then it is best to use products with simple shapes, since products with a complex design can "overload" the garden space - ordinary balls glowing in different colors are most suitable here.

But for a modest area with a minimum of detail, a lamp with a bright design can become an important part of the composition. Therefore, if you want to use only one lighting device on your site, then pay attention to the original idea of ​​constructing a light figure on a plane. Your yard landscape will immediately change for the better aesthetically if you decorate it with such an interesting composition.

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