LED street light

Today, street lighting devices with LEDs, which are commonly used in the formation of street lighting, occupy a leading position among other popular light sources due to significant savings in electricity. These lamps are actively used as illumination of buildings, billboards with advertising, fountains and bridges, industrial premises. This device is most beneficial to operate where the issue of energy saving and compliance with safety standards is more than urgent.

A LED is a semiconductor device that converts ordinary electric current into light. Nowadays it is difficult to find a house in which there would not be a single LED lamp.

And what advantages of this modern device can you highlight? First of all:

• Economical and rational consumption of electrical energy. Lamps of this type consume much less energy than conventional devices.
• 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 adverse conditions, since these devices operate reliably at temperatures from -30 to +40 degrees. Best suited for installation on the streets.
• Wide color palette.
• Resistant to physical damage. The housing of these devices is designed so that dirt and debris do not collect on their surface.

• Environmental friendliness. For LED devices for the streets do not need any separate recycling, because they do not have harmful components.
• Ignition without delay.
• Easy installation.
• Vibration resistance.
• Excellent strength. LED street appliances are protected against vandals, they are explosion-proof and fireproof.
• Work without noise.

Any public place can be beautiful, thanks to a well-chosen type of lighting.Today you will not find a single device for street lighting, which would not have flaws. Non-essential negative features are in the lanterns with LEDs.

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

• High cost. However, the use of LEDs gives an excellent money saving further.
• Thermal degradation. To make these lights work well, they need a good heat dissipation.
• Dependence on voltage drops. If the voltage fails, the operation of the LEDs may be stopped due to overheating.

All lamps that are intended for use on the street can be divided into 2 main types:

1. Facade lighting It seems to be devices that are installed on the walls of houses. The rays of these lamps are sent to a particular area that needs lighting, for example, it can be a porch.
2. Landscape lighting it is mounted on the house platform. With its help, the borders of the paths in the garden are distinguished, they are placed on lawns and flower beds, near ponds and trees.

The choice of lighting devices for the street is sometimes supplied to just 4 main types: to linear-type devices, cantilever, landscape gardening, floor-lamp products:

• Linear instruments include lanterns. These are products that are in harmony with the architectural style of the entire courtyard. Lanterns with LED lamps, ground luminaires or articles in the form of columns are popular types of linear street lamps. With their help, you can dispel the night outlines, highlight the path with light lines or illuminate the entire territory.
• Console lamp - This is a l-shaped roadside product that will last a long time and will cover a fairly large area. If desired, such a device can be an accent for your yard for a long period of time.

• Gardening product - A stylish option for theatrical atmosphere in the garden. Using several of these lamps, you can make an excellent complex with which you can diffuse light or flood it all within the radius of the desired impact. Lanterns to be suspended and outdoor.
• Floor lamps have a kind of vertical shape. The lamp at the top is covered with a metal shade that helps it shine on all sides. Such kind of lamps, even very small ones, can illuminate a rather large area.

In addition, there are other types of LED lamps:

• Spotlights. Industrial types are mounted mainly on huge objects. They help to easily illuminate the space near the sports stadiums and other structures. Spotlights illuminate the front of buildings, open areas, car parks and many other objects located in the vast territory. Non-cumbersome fixtures are fixed on the yard plots. They emit both white and multicolored light, but at different angles.

• Duralight lamp like a transparent plastic ribbon with a huge number of diodes across the surface. This device is often used to illuminate the contours, in the design of the landscape ribbon is used for decorating trees, in advertising. It has the following varieties:

1. Roralite Use for registration of accurate contours in a decoration of a landscape.
2. Fixing - works in the glow mode on an ongoing basis.
3. With chasing You can dynamically illuminate the streets.
4. Luxurious dynamic lighting done with multichasing.
5. High-quality lighting areas with a controller provides "chameleon».
6. Dyuraflex unlike a number of similar devices, it is waterproof, lightweight and has good flexibility, which makes its use and installation easy. It can be fixed in any right place.
7. Ruler It looks like a flexible thin plastic tape with a silicone sheath, with bright LEDs vertically attached to it. Often operated as a backlight decor.
8. Grid - This product is in the form of a luminous mesh design with LEDs in the connections. It is quite bright, durable, economical and easy to install. It is stretched to a strong frame between different supports in order to decorate the wall of the building or the territory of the garden.

• Touch sensor lights help to significantly reduce the cost of electricity: the lamp will work only when in the zone of its action someone appears. Street appliances with motion sensors are used in summer cottages, cottages, apartment buildings, parks, courtyards, to illuminate various kinds of objects.
• Popular and recessed lights with LEDs for outdoor use. Their difference from other devices lies in the fact that the main part of the body is hidden in the holes in the wall or roof of the house.During the day, such lamps are virtually invisible, and with the arrival of the dark time of day they shine beautifully on objects, emphasizing the features of the architecture of the building, while not attracting attention to the lighting device. Recessed LEDs with light sensor are used to highlight beautiful sculptures, various shops and museums, cottages and cottages.

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

• To illuminate the yard perimeter are often used wall mounted street appliances, they are fixed on the wall of the house and illuminate its entrance part. Wall or overhead spotlights are also used to provide security measures. They are mounted on the walls of houses.
• Landscape Chandelierswhich are mounted along the tracks, are necessary for the decorative lighting of the pond or garage.

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

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

• Outdoor products for the suburban area are usually in the design ceiling lamps. Products are chosen in combination with the decorative style of the garden to make it more harmonious. If in the bushes or on trees it is skillful to hang out these devices, then an original element of decor will come out.
• Solar-powered models very practical. The basis of their action lies in the use of special photovoltaic cells that convert solar energy into electrical energy. If you wish, you can purchase and lamps on batteries.
• Pendant lights the design is very similar to chandeliers for indoor use, slightly adapted to different natural influences. In many cases, such devices are a ceiling on a chain, which is fixed on the roof of a terrace or gazebo.

An important role in the selection of the street lamp is its design, especially when it comes to high-quality lighting of the territory of the courtyard. In this case, it is necessary to take into account the technical parameters, the shape and type, the color of the product and the lighting, the style of the instrument:

• Street lamp in the form of a ball It looks great, perfectly illuminates the place around it and can be an additional decor of the situation. Round street lamps are very popular today.
• Lantern lights are always in fashion. Their elegant appearance creates a special romantic atmosphere in any landscape.

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

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

Diode lamps for streets are in great demand among the locals. Outdoor diode devices are suitable for operation in different conditions. Their body consists of anodized aluminum, and that, in turn, has excellent performance.

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

• Outdoor LED fixtures such as spotlights used for lighting industrial areas, warehouses, gas stations, car parks, pedestrian sidewalks, squares and parks, as well as the city streets themselves.
• Landscape lights used for better lighting lawns, ponds or fountains, gardens and terraces, as well as the lower part of the facade of cottages. Instruments placed along paths, paths and other areas for moving pedestrians should produce diffused and soft light. To guarantee this effect, you can use precisely selected forms of devices, which will spread the rays.
• A variety of facade lighting is the type of architectural lighting.. It bears the role of decor, and all sorts of searchlights and lights are used for it, their rays can be original and unusual in color. To this type of lighting can also be attributed to the lighting of sculptures, various arbors, the roof.

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

The most popular manufacturers of street lamps are:

• Company Amplex Offers unique, high-quality street lighting. The armature of their products is mostly made of brass, the product uses high-quality steel and other popular materials.
• Trademark Technolux imports lighting fixtures from China, its own outdoor spotlights have high quality features.
• "Optogan" - a domestic manufacturer offering LED lamps to illuminate streets, as well as adjacent areas to industrial, commercial, warehouse-type buildings, homestead and house 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. The lamps of the company use LEDs of Japanese origin, corresponding to European quality parameters. Since 2004, the company has specialized in the mass production of LED lighting systems.
• "Intesso LED systems" - this company began its work in 2011. Today it produces about 5 thousand lighting devices per year.

• Firm "Light technologies" It is considered the leading manufacturer of LED lighting devices in the CIS.
• The specialists "Communication Engineering" carry out the development of energy-efficient lighting devices. The street lamps of the company are located in the gardens of many famous people in our country.
• Corvette Lights LLC offers spherical type LEDs and many other lighting technology, which is created in their likeness.

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

This information you can get 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:

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

If you want your home to be as beautifully selected as possible in an architectural sense, feel free to use decorative step lights with LED strip - this is especially true if there are a lot of steps in your area that bring visitors to your home.If your garden area is filled with wicker furniture and flower beds, then it is best to use products of simple forms, as products with a complex design can “overload” garden space - the usual glowing in different colors balls are most suitable here.

But for a modest area with a minimum of details a lamp with a bright design can be an important part of the composition. Therefore, if you want to use just one light fixture in your area, then pay attention to the original idea of ​​building 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.

You will learn more about street LED lamps in the following video.