Important public buildings, historic sites, commercial buildings, square sculptures, or some unique landmark buildings or transportation facilities in the city can be beautified with lights at night, making the night scene of the city into a different landscape. But how much do you know about these outdoor lamps? Today, we are going to introduce some common sense of outdoor lighting.
What is an outdoor lamp?
Outdoor lights are lighting fixtures that are exposed outdoors. Usually, it can be combined with the surrounding roads, landscapes, and buildings for lighting design and installation, so as to achieve the unity of its functionality and artistry.
Types of Outdoor Lights
1. Street lighting
Street lighting (also known as: road lamp) is the artery of the city. The main lighting is street lights, which are lighting facilities set on the road to provide the necessary visibility for vehicles and pedestrians at night. Street lights can improve traffic conditions, reduce driver fatigue, and help improve road capacity and ensure traffic safety. Garden lights, landscape lights and street lights form a three-dimensional lighting mode, which can enhance the road decoration effect, beautify the city night scene, and can also make up for the lack of illumination of road lights.
2. Landscape lights
Landscape art lights are an indispensable part of modern landscapes. It not only has a high ornamental value, but also emphasizes the harmony and unity of the landscape of the art lamp, the history and culture of the scenic spot, and the surrounding environment.
(1). Chinese lantern
Chinese lanterns are generous in appearance, generally have multiple light sources, generous and decent, with high illumination and good landscape effects, and are one of the representative series of traditional styles.
(2). Firework lights
Fireworks lamps come in a variety of styles and are beautiful in appearance. They can emit colorful lights at night and flash like fireworks. It can be said to be a beautiful landscape at night. Additional note: Firework lights are a popular trend in home decoration and engineering decorative lighting. They can be divided into landscape fireworks lights, decorative fireworks lights, LED fireworks lights, energy-saving fireworks lights and other fireworks lights with different materials.
(3). Cherry Blossom Lantern
The cherry blossom lamp looks like a colorful tree. LED tree lamp is a new type of simulated landscape lamp, which is environmentally friendly, has a long life and is beautiful.
3. Buried lights
Buried lights are square or round in shape, widely used in shopping malls, parking lots, green belts, park tourist attractions, residential quarters, urban sculptures, pedestrian streets, building steps, etc., mainly buried in the ground, It is used for decoration or indicating lighting, and some are used for washing walls or lighting trees, and its application has considerable flexibility.
4. Lawn lamp
The lawn lamp is used for lighting facilities around the lawn and is also an important landscape facility. With its unique design and soft lighting, it adds safety and beauty to the urban green landscape, and is easy to install and highly decorative. It can be used in parks, garden villas, etc. around lawns, pedestrian streets, parking lots, squares and other places. Use 36W or 70W metal halide and sodium lamps, and the distance between them should be 6-10 meters.
5. Wall lamp
The wall lamp has a beautiful appearance with simple and elegant lines. There are many styles and forms, and they are generally placed in residential areas, parks, or on stigmas, which are very appreciative. It is easy to install, easy to maintain, and consumes less power. The light source is generally an energy-saving lamp. The materials are generally stainless steel, aluminum products and iron products. Electrostatic spraying on the surface of the lamp body. The lamp body is generally welded with flat iron. After the lamp body is electrostatically sprayed, the surface is smooth, the color is bright, the brightness is uniform, and it has strong anti-corrosion performance requirements. When installing, there are generally four screws to fix it, and there is enough strength to fix it.
6. Spotlights
The purpose of spotlights is like a flashlight, which is generally used outdoors. There are also indoor ones, because the varieties are different, so the uses are also different.
7. Flood light
Floodlights are lamps that make the illuminance on the designated illuminated surface higher than that of the surrounding environment, also known as spotlights. Usually it can aim in any direction and has a structure that is not affected by weather conditions. It is mainly used for large-area operation sites, mines, building outlines, stadiums, overpasses, monuments, parks and flower beds, etc. Therefore, almost all large-area lighting fixtures used outdoors can be regarded as floodlights. The output beam angle of the floodlight is wide or narrow, and the range of variation is between 0° and 180°. Among them, the beam with a particularly narrow beam is called a searchlight.
8. Wall washer
Wall washer, as the name suggests, allows the light to wash the wall like water. It is mainly used for architectural decoration lighting, and it is also used to outline the outline of large buildings. Because the LED light source has energy saving, high luminous efficiency, rich colors, and long life Long and other characteristics, so the wall washer of other light sources is gradually replaced by LED wall washer. The technical parameters of LED wall washer are roughly similar to those of LED flood light.
Precautions for outdoor lamps
The outdoor lights (tree lights, ground lights, etc.) used in many residential areas in many countries are 220V high-voltage lights. Once leakage or damage occurs, it is easy to hurt people. The voltage is lowered by the transformer to control it within the safe voltage of the human body, thus ensuring safety.
In addition, some garden outdoor lights use glass products appropriately. Some people think that glass is also one of the unstable factors in the safety of outdoor lights, but experts believe that good quality glass (especially special glass) will not do harm to people even if it is broken. Small, if the developer can pay attention to the use of building materials and use good materials at a cost, the safety factor can be greatly improved.
