Low Voltage Landscape Lighting

Why We Chose to Buy Low-Voltage Landscape Lighting

This summer we chose to buy low-voltage landscape lighting after we had decided to throw a summer evening party at our place. We knew we would need some outdoor lighting, so he went and bought some tiki torches. If only we had known better.

After the party, which went pretty well, we talked about it and we both noticed that some areas of the yard were not as well lit as we would’ve liked. After some more discussion, we said to look into landscape lighting.

We soon learned that lighting up our entire backyard the way we wanted to would probably cost a small fortune in electricity. However, before we gave up on the whole idea, we found out about low-voltage landscape lighting.

Since we wanted to minimize our cost, we decided that although the initial cost would be a little higher we wanted low-voltage LED landscape lighting. After that, we found out we would have to decide between low voltage landscape lighting kits which use landscape lighting transformers to step down the house current, or would have to choose a solar kit.

The reason we chose to install LED low-voltage landscape lighting instead of another type of low-voltage landscape lighting, was because of the incredibly long operational life of LED bulbs. Unlike incandescent bulbs or even fluorescent bulbs, LEDs are capable of and operational life of up to 30 to 40,000 hours for a use such as the one we planned to use them for.

Another reason this is such an easy choice for us, is that LED lighting saves 80% more energy than traditional lighting, which can have a huge impact on your electric bill.

After we found out about the possibility of using solar powered lighting, it was obvious to us that we could have landscape lighting which would have no impact on our electric bill at all. Plus, we wouldn’t have to be concerned with running wires. Although the low-voltage LED landscape lighting kits which do use wires don’t require an electrician to install, we like the idea that by using solar all we have to do is pick a spot in which to plant late and push it into the ground.

Now that our backyard has solar powered LED landscape lighting in it, it’s a magical place to be at night. And the best part of all, as it is we observe our low-voltage landscape lighting, we see no dollar signs.