I am considering using fluorescent up lights in my garden to wash the front of my house. Are fluorescent lights good for outdoor lighting?
Personally, I like
FLUORESCENT LIGHTS for landscape lighting. They do a very good job of
WALL WASHING HOMES with a soft, even distribution of light. Be sure to use warm white lamps on the house and cool white lamps if you decide to light plant materials.
FLUORESCENT LIGHT FIXTURES come in all shapes and sizes and wattages. If you live in a extremely cold climate, you will will want to make sure that your fixtures have a zero degree ballast so that the operate properly when it gets cold outside. My favorite fluorescent light is the
FOCUS INDUSTRIES 26 WATT FLOOD WITH GLARE SHIELD. This little fixture is well made, powerful and will give you years of trouble free operation.
Labels: Fluorescent Lights, Low Voltage Lighting, Low Voltage Outdoor Landscape Lighting
My outdoor landscape bullet light needs a replacement MR8 bulb. Do you stock these hard to find light bulbs?
Yes, we have the
HALOGEN MR8 LIGHT BULBS in stock in both a 10 degree spot and 23 degree medium flood. Both are 20-watts and have a bi-pin base. We have many hard to find replacement parts for landscape lighting fixtures, interior
RECESSED ART LIGHTS and kitchen under cabinet lights.
We also have a full selection of
MR11 HALOGEN LAMPS,
MR16 HALOGEN LIGHT BULBS and
PAR36 HALOGEN LIGHTS! If you need any new
OUTDOOR LANDSCAPE LIGHTING of
LOW VOLTAGE TRANSFORMERS, please give us a call at 800-239-2939.
Labels: Halogen Lamps, Halogen Light Bulb, Low Voltage Outdoor Landscape Lighting, MR11, MR8, PAR36
Can you detail the best way to splice a low voltage outdoor lighting fixture onto main power cable? I want to eliminate my existing quick connectors with a more permenant solution (1/2 of them seem to fail every winter). I''ve seen the suggestion about silcon in the wire nut, but how do I do the rest? For instance, do I cut my main cable (12/2) & wrap the ends together with the leads for the light fixture into a wire nut? There must be a better technique. That seems like way too many cuts on the main cable.
There are several ways you can splice into your main cable to eliminate the quick connectors. Of course, the easiest way is to simply cut the cable, strip back the wires, install a silicon filled wirenut (bathroom silicon sealer) and wrap the splice with electrical tape. If you have a crimping tool you can get crimping nuts or inline butt connectors. You can use 3M shrink wrap over the whichever splice to protect the connections.
We also have HEAVY DUTY QUICK CONNECTORS should you decide to just replace those. It''s the corrosion where the connector penertrates the wire that is usually the problem. For your older system, you caould also move the connectors to a new location on the wire to solve the problem.
If you need any more OUTDOOR LOW VOLTAGE LANDSCAPE LIGHTING give us a call at 800-239-2939 for assistance!
Labels: Low Voltage Lighting, Low Voltage Outdoor Landscape Lighting, Quick Connectors
I bought four spot lights which are low voltage 10 watts each. I am going to use them to point at my house from my garden. My objective is to make my house look big and tall and also elegant. I am not sure how to position the lights to accomplish my goal. Any advice to how close and which angle I should position the lights in front of my house?
The best way to establish where to put the lights is simply to do a nighttime test. Assemble the kit and move the lights around until you like the way it looks. Then mount the transformer and bury the wires.
FYI - ten watt fixtures may not satisfy your needs as well as you would expect. We have many pre-packaged high performance low voltage lighting kits that make projects easy. Please let us know how your project goes and if we can be of further assistance.
Labels: Low Voltage Outdoor Landscape Lighting, Outdoor Enhancing Lighting, Spot Light
