How To Choose Outdoor Bollard Light For Landscape Lighting?

Bollard lights are widely used in urban slow lanes, narrow lanes, residential areas, tourist attractions, parks, squares, private gardens, courtyard corridors and other public places on one side of the road or both books used for road lighting.

During the day, lawn lights can decorate the city landscape; at night, lawn lamps and lanterns can provide the necessary lighting and living convenience, increase the residents' sense of security, improve the safety of people traveling at night used to increase the time of people's outdoor activities, improve the safety of life and property. It can also change people's mood, improve people's emotions, and can change people's perceptions, creating a palette of light and dark night.

Tip 1: Choose the right style of bollard light

• Traditional style

Traditional style bollard lights are more classical and classic in shape and decorative, with the body of the light mostly made of iron or brass, which is paired with glass to form a traditional style post light. If your outdoor garden is in a primitive, vintage style, then traditional post lights will be an excellent choice for you. You can place a post light in the grass of your garden, on both sides of the aisle, to create a sense of gravity for the space.

• Modern style

Modern style outdoor lights have a variety of shapes and use a wide range of materials. Compared with the traditional style, modern style pillar lights more revered the combination of simple design unique shape. And with the development of LED technology, outdoor lawn lights pay more attention to the decorative outdoor lighting effects, requiring the use of lamps and lanterns shape, lighting effects for your building to provide more beauty.

Tip 2: Choose the right bollard light with IP rating

• What is IP rating

IP is the abbreviation of Ingress Protection, IP rating is for the protection level of electrical equipment enclosure against foreign body intrusion, the source is the International Electrotechnical Commission's standard IEC 60529. IP is the international code used to identify the protection level, Ip rating consists of two numbers, the format is IPXX, where XX is two Arabic numerals, the first number indicates dustproof The first number indicates the level of protection against dust and foreign objects, while the second number indicates the level of protection against water, and the larger the number, the better the level of protection.

The first number indicates the extent to which the equipment is resistant to fine dust, or the degree to which people are protected from hazards in a sealed environment. i represents the level of protection from solid foreign objects, the maximum level is 6;The second number indicates the extent to which the equipment is waterproof. p represents the level of protection against water ingress, with a maximum level of 8.

• IP rating requirements

Outdoor pillar light waterproof grade selection, should do to choose IP54 or more waterproof grade, can do 360 degrees to prevent water, not afraid of splashing, but can not be flooded; no dust into the light body, no insects into the light body. Choose outdoor lights that are designed with a waterproof structure of the lamp body, and the connections are sealed with rubber rings and waterproof joints.

Tip 3: Choose the bollard light with reasonable light source type

• Incandescent light source

Advantages: versatility, color variety, can be used to enhance the three-dimensional sense of objects, incandescent light color is closest to the sun's light color.

Disadvantages: not energy-saving, the use of incandescent lamps have 95% of the electrical energy is consumed in the heating, only 5% of the electrical energy is really converted into visible light, heat evaporates quickly, high heat temperature, short life (1000 hours).

• LED light source

Advantages: LED lights have low power consumption, small size, non-toxic environmental protection, long life and many other advantages. Can achieve dimming and color mixing and intelligent control, to achieve the consistency of the overall landscape lighting.

Disadvantages: expensive, need constant current drive, heat dissipation is not well handled easy light decay.

Tip 4: Choose the bollard light with reasonable light distribution

The luminous effect and distribution position of lawn lights will affect the actual lighting effect. Installing lawn lights too close together may be too bright and also appear disorganized. If placed too far away, it will not achieve the desired landscape lighting effect.

In general, the effective luminous efficiency of a lawn lamp with a value of about 100 lumens shining to the ground ranges from 5 to 8 square meters, so it is ideal to control the distance between two lawn lamps installed at 3 to 5 meters.

The final words

Hydget lighting is pioneer in all forms of LED Bollard lights and as specialists, can help you with your LED bollard lighting supply and design. We can make product recommendations, letting you know which models are the best for your situation, along with the correct layout and required number of units.

We understand the garden lighting requirements to achieve beautifully designed landscape fixtures and always work towards the best outcomes, tailored to the needs of each client.

If you have any needs or ideas about outdoor lawn lights, please feel free to contact us.