Street LED lighting do it yourself

The economic crisis that covered the countries of the world forces the policy of savings in all spheres of human activity. As a result of this approach, LED street lighting was wide popular. With the help of LED lamps, the city authorities illuminate the passage of part of the streets, tunnels, parks and squares - places that are constantly visited by people. A wide variety of forms of such lighting devices allows them to find their wider use.

1. In LED performance, there is a huge number of lamps, there are different types of lanterns, small and large searchlights, as well as an abundance of devices with an attractive decorative design.
2. Installation of LED spotlights for street lighting is designed primarily for large objects, such as stadiums, open parking for cars or public areas. But LED searchlights also have a miniature performance for the organization's street lamps of the private house or a nursery.
3. Original, fashionable and effectively look in the private territory LED ferrous lighting spotlights with motion sensors.

LED lamps: Types and characteristics

1. Floodlight is a high-power lighting device and distribution area. Often it covers an extensive territory and therefore it is most often installed above the entrance gate. However, the searchlight as part of the landscape design is also not without flaws. Such a device is usually enough dimensional and is characterized by the absence of decorative forms.
2. LED lights for the streets, of course, familiar to everyone. LED lighting is installed on all central streets, large highways and highways of progressive cities. The power of such lamps usually reaches about 400 W, and if more serious lighting is required, 150-250 W is enough to fulfill normal requirements. The garden zone of the private household site is often undemanding to the power of such devices, so 150 W is quite enough.
3. The appearance of a conventional LED lamp looks like a transit plastic tube with an abundance of LEDs inside. Purplifier points are located at a short distance from each other about 2 - 3 mm. This option is ideal for LED street lighting on the pillars to illuminate buildings and the surrounding landscape. With the help of a special clutch, lamps are combined into a common system, creating unique beauty and magic.
4. Decorative lamps are divided into several groups:

• teasing - Used to illuminate streets;
• fixing - create an original light effect due to the specific installation below the ground level;
• chameleons - have the ability to change the color of the glow using an automatic controlling device, however, such a type of lighting is short-lived and has a sufficiently high cost of repair;
• multicotic is elite luxury lighting, expensive lamps for secured customers.

5. A separate group that is radically different from the rest of the lamps is considered to be lurafelex. Such lighting devices are lightweight, waterproof and flexible, which allows you to create with their help any compositions of street decorative lighting.
6. Such a group of products is distinguished by the original design, which is reflected in the title. The lamp consists of a thin plastic tape that contains inside vertically arranged LEDs with a sufficiently high power. For LED tape street lighting, there is enough voltage in 12 V. This type of lighting devices is quite widely used to illuminate various types of advertising structures and as a decorative design of buildings.
7. Very unusual and original street lighting, made using a LED mesh. At first glance, it seems to be a complex design, and the calibration is light and affordable when installing. It is enough to have two strong supports, between which it is possible to firmly stretch the wires, and the lighting design is fully ready for use. Street LED lighting made using a grid looks very impressive, it is enough to see how it looks in the photo of decorated buildings, which can be found in sufficient quantities on the pages of the Internet.
8. Just keep in mind, the grid has sufficiently large dimensions, so it is difficult and even impossible to use for small areas.

LED lighting: pros and cons

The use of LED lighting has both positive and negative sides. Positive characteristics include low electricity consumption. And this is a real benefit, since the most common LED flashlight consumes two times less electricity than any other.

Advantages of LED lighting

1. It is enough to install such devices on the streets, where in the cold season, the lighting is necessary up to 12 hours a day, and in cloudy and foggy days and more.
2. At the same time, low power consumption does not affect lighting power, the devices produce the same bright light.
3. An important positive property of LED lighting is its durability. The daily type of lamps has a life of up to 15 years, and the night is often even more durable. Such devices are loyal and reliable sources of illumination to a quarter century.
4. Forms of lamps have a wide variety: ribbons, light bulbs of different sizes and spotlights.
5. The apparent fragility and tenderness of the tubular base of the LED lamps for street lighting, deceptive. Devices have a high degree of strength and are reliably protected from the negative impact of the external environment. In addition, the outer surface is completely absent, the glass exposed to shocks that is easy to damage.
6. An unusually practical design eliminates the device from a cluster of a layer of dust and dirt, trash particles, liquid, bird surprises and night inhabitants of streets, usually attracted by bright lamps in the dark.
7. Resistance to temperature indicators of this type of street lighting is simply unique and ranges from - 60 ° C to + 45 ° C, that is, there is practically no restrictions for its application both in the coldest and in the hottest regions.
8. These lamps are easy to install, do not require constant care, work silently and besides fireproof. In comparison with fluorescent lamps, this type of lighting has obvious advantages.
9. The color palette of the glow is always achieved using a unique structure of diode tubes. The most extraordinary shades can be ordered to the manufacturer individually. For LED lamps, there is nothing impossible in this sense.
10. The light begins to emulate instantly, the lamps do not need time for heating, as in luminescent lamps, which requires a glow period depending on the gas filler.
11. Nowadays, when everyone is concerned about the problem of global warming, the use of precisely this type of devices is justified by the fact that such lighting is environmentally friendly. LED devices do not require complex processes for disposal. Their composition does not contain mercury or other harmful substances, as do not contain poisonous inert gases.
12. LED lamps are extremely simple to install, particularly easy to mount lamps in the form of a tape. However, if you decide to arrange the lighting in its plot, can not do without the help of professional electricians.

Disadvantages of LED lighting

Despite the appeal, however, this type of lighting has a number of drawbacks.

1. The biggest drawback - it is a high price of the device.
2. In addition, for LED lamps there are certain requirements for the organization of the right heat removal. This feature performs a substrate that needs to be properly soldered during installation. If this is incorrect, the lamp will overheat and quickly come into disrepair.
3. The tube lighting device is very susceptible to voltage jumps. At this time, the protective element for preventing such situations is not yet provided.
4. The material from which the housing of the LED lamp is manufactured, has a metal component. Contact with the semiconductor leads to a breakdown of the device and the output from the lighting of the system.

As we see, the advantages of this type of clarification are much more, so it is possible to recommend its use to illuminate private households or household plots.

Support Poles: Types and Mounting Methods

1. Street supports can be wooden, concrete, reinforced concrete and metal.
2. Wood and concrete poles are much cheaper, however, it is difficult for them to give a beautiful appearance. The reinforced concrete lantern mast has high strength and resistance to moisture, and it usually falls only from the cargo to the truck.
3. Also, metal supports can be made of cast iron, aluminum or galvanized steel. There are such supports that are not suiced, but they are not only durable, but also look beautiful.
4. The courtyard lighting poles usually have standard dimensions. Supports, even wooden, should have a height from 6 to 11 m with a mass of up to 1 t, so their installation without special construction equipment is impossible.
5. Write supports in the form of grape vines or other images are very beautiful and elegant. When installing such support pillars, it is important to take into account the ways to summarize electricity. If underground, then you need to dug trenches, and if the electrical cable is connected by air, it is enough to prepare the pits under the poles.
6. The pit is preparing according to the standard rules for construction purposes for foundations.
7. When the support is installed, the cement solution is flooded, the support must be maintained by special stretch marks until the solution is completely frozen. After everything is completed, you can start installing lamps.

Installation of lighting on the plot with your own hands

There are no options for the correct lighting scheme by LED lamps, it does not matter, this or private house, the scheme is only one.

Planning

1. To properly install the LED lighting, it is necessary to develop a project. For this purpose, experts who will make the following works are invited:

• calculation of the level of brightness to ensure sufficient lighting of a particular area;
• develop a detailed scheme of places of installation of all points of lighting;
• a list of individual works for power supply wiring (if necessary) will be described;
• you will select the necessary and efficient lighting devices.

Power supply

1. Perhaps two options for laying wires: underground and by hanging on support.
2. Underground method is preferred for LED street lighting of yard or canopy lamps. For underground wiring, a WBBSHB wire is required that does not require protective pipes and metal boxes.
3. When mounting is prepared at a depth of up to 40 cm for laying a cable with special protection, and up to 90 cm - for cable without protection.
4. With the second version, the cable is suspended on supports. It requires an additional climbing rope or a cable that must be fastened with each other with special clamps. Recommended for this type of installation Cable PVS, having high resistance to external conditions.
5. After working on the power supply under the ground, it is necessary to monitor the state of isolation, and after a thorough check, the land is partially rewritten as the earth, and the signal tape is paved on top. It is she who is a landmark for land repair work in case of damage to the cable. Then the trench is finally buried.

Installing lighting devices

1. For the installation of LED lamps of street lighting, pillars prepare in advance. Power support depends on the characteristics of the lighting device installed.
2. For the searchlight, a fairly powerful carrier is needed, but a more fragile base is suitable for the tape.
3. When all lamps are installed, the power supply is supplied to them and the system performance is checked.
4. Alone, this type of work is not made, since it has a number of features requiring training.

LED lamps on solar panels

Consider another way of outdoor lighting with the help of LED lamps on solar panels. Such lamps can also be covered by both urban streets and paths in their own garden. This is especially true in hard-to-reach terrain, which is expensive to supply electricity and problematic support for electrical storage facilities. These are mainly mountainous areas, remote villages or the seashore.

1. The main elements of the solar panels:

• solar panels;
• battery;
• control unit;
• lED lamp.

2. The amount of energy converted to it depends on the area of \u200b\u200bthe solar panel. The more powerful the battery capacity, the longer the lamp will be shining, but all this will affect the cost of the system.
3. This type of lighting is mounted very quickly, the system is completely safe, durable, and the minimum service life is about 10 to 15 years.
4. The entire process works automatically - turning on, turning off and recharge - everything is automated in such a device. Lamps can work on accumulated energy on average up to 5 hours with cloudy weather.
5. Lanterns on solar panels are diverse in shape, as well as directly destination - lighting, such lamps will turn your courtyard into a unique magic world of luminous figures of various colors and shades.