Garden lights. Spotlights into trees. Suggestions?

[mikees]

LI'd like to light the garden from dusk to 10ish so the trees and shrubs are illuminated using armour cable under the lawn say 3-5 with a spare socket 100 meters apart and from the timed socket in the the shed.

Anyone does this? Thinking these

http://www.lighting-direct.co.uk/30w-daylight-led-...

On these

http://www.lighting-direct.co.uk/spike-accessory-f...

Any views?


Not overlooked so limited light pollution. Might get the PIR ones also for security. Garden to light is maybe .5 acre with another .5 acre off a different setup.


Too bright or more subtle lower wattage?

Also would prefer 240v to use 3 ply cable without local short length transformers.

Mike

Edited by mikees on Monday 31st August 21:26

[Podie]

No help, but have a 45ft tree I quite fancy illuminating...

[mikees]

Podie said:

No help, but have a 45ft tree I quite fancy illuminating...

Thanks! I'll have a crack and post picks.ths is what I want to light up.

[Podie]

I've used 12V Luxform products to good effect in a previous property, so was looking at the same kit.

[V8RX7]

30W LED claiming 300W equivalent - you'll need a lot of them !

It depends what type of light you like and whether you want an impression of light to to actually see what's lit up.

Personally I like the warm glow of the SON floodlights.

[mikees]

Ummmmm....... Think I should buy a couple of each and run over land and see?

[gtidriver]

Ive got a tree in my back garden and I'm thinking about digging a channel from the fence and running a piece of cable to the tree then making a ring of 5-6led floodlight that normally fix to walls,putting them just below the surface so to miss with the mower. Then put a seat that goes a round the tree to hid them.

[E36GUY]

I'd go with a warmer colour temperature than they are advertising OP. They're showing 5000k but I'd look for 2700-3000k as the green will look much nicer.

Also - with inexpensive items, you should check lots of things on the product spec. Simple things like what are the bolts and screws made from? Many come with those items in mild steel so they'll rust in two weeks. We use stainless.

Edited to add that I don't think that spike advertised is man enough for the weight of a 30W. A little 10W yes but not a 30. You'd probably need two per lamp unit.

[AdeTuono]

I've got half a dozen 50w LED spots in various parts of the garden, pointing upwards. They look especially good under willows & sycamores with low leaf canopies. Also have a few remote controlled colour-changing lights in the beds. All timer-controlled, along with a few light-sensor controlled LED's around other areas. Really brigs life to the night-time garden.

[V8RX7]

mikees said:

Ummmmm....... Think I should buy a couple of each and run over land and see?

That is what I would do.

It depends what type of light and how bright you want it - nothing better than trying a few before buying loads.

[mikees]

AdeTuono said:

I've got half a dozen 50w LED spots in various parts of the garden, pointing upwards. They look especially good under willows & sycamores with low leaf canopies. Also have a few remote controlled colour-changing lights in the beds. All timer-controlled, along with a few light-sensor controlled LED's around other areas. Really brigs life to the night-time garden.

Any pics?

[AdeTuono]

mikees said:

AdeTuono said:

I've got half a dozen 50w LED spots in various parts of the garden, pointing upwards. They look especially good under willows & sycamores with low leaf canopies. Also have a few remote controlled colour-changing lights in the beds. All timer-controlled, along with a few light-sensor controlled LED's around other areas. Really brigs life to the night-time garden.

Any pics?

Not very good pics, but you get the idea...

[mikees]

AdeTuono said:

mikees said:

AdeTuono said:

I've got half a dozen 50w LED spots in various parts of the garden, pointing upwards. They look especially good under willows & sycamores with low leaf canopies. Also have a few remote controlled colour-changing lights in the beds. All timer-controlled, along with a few light-sensor controlled LED's around other areas. Really brigs life to the night-time garden.

Any pics?

Not very good pics, but you get the idea...

Great - do you have any shots of the install - how the lights are wired etc?

Mike

[AdeTuono]

Nothing to show, really. The trees are all set around a small lake, which had power to an aerating pump. We just spurred of that junction box with buried cable to each light.