I get the question, "Should I go LED or Incandescent" from clients more frequently every day. To answer the question, lets look at the Pros of LED:
- Lamps last 5 times as long
- Power consumption is 25% that of Incandescent >> saving on your energy bill!
- You can add 4 times as many lights to the system
- Changes to the outdoor lighting are easier to make
- There is less wire to install and transformers are smaller
The traditional complaint about LED was that it was too expensive and the color is not right. That is far from true. All of the photos in this post are LED. I even threw in one Incandescent to show you that there really is no difference. As far as cost, yes LED lamps and fixtures do cost more for LED Outdoor Lighting. However, the labor and total wire and transformer size are all less for LED. Therefore, the cost is only slightly more for LED.
Another LED Lighting example:
LED is not perfect technology and I have seen premature failures as with anything mechanical. However, it is technology that is here to stay and should be strongly considered with any new landscape lighting system. In addition, any existing landscape lighting system can be converted to LED very easily.
INCANDESCENT Example below:
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