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Have you been wanting professional
landscape lighting? Call us. Landscape lighting is
our expertise. You’ve put so much into your house
and landscaping. Now enhance it after dark. We will
be glad to help you achieve the look you have been
wanting. Our systems are artistically designed,
professionally engineered and carefully installed,
using only the finest components, and guaranteed to
last for years.
We are located in Flower Mound, Texas
and serve the North, Central and West Texas areas for full service
design and installation, and nationwide for design and consulting.
972.539.7240
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A question we frequently get...
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Why does solar
lighting not work?
Simply put, it is a
matter of physics. The bulb and the battery inside
are just too small. To obtain a usable amount of
light to adequately illuminate the subject requires
a level of power that the small battery inside solar
fixtures just cannot supply. Most have a small AA
size rechargeable battery connected to a LED (Light
Emitting Diode) type bulb. The solar panel charges
the battery during the day, but once the sun goes
down, it is up to the battery to power the LED
(light bulb). Though very efficient, it still
produces an insignificant amount of light, barely
enough to make the fixture faintly glow.
So what would work?
Our engineer did some calculations, and to power a
typical 20 Watt professional landscape lighting
fixture for a few hours using a solar system would
take a battery about the size of a riding lawn mower
battery. And to charge it, would take a 1 x 3 foot
15 Watt solar panel. Try squeezing that into a small
light fixture. To do it right takes some power,
although surprisingly less than you might think. The
halogen type bulbs used in our fixtures are very
efficient and require only 20 Watts to provide
enough light to fully illuminate a small tree or all
the way up a two-story brick face of a house.
LED lighting is
currently available from Lightscape FX. These
revolutionary lighting sources have been gradually
increasing in intensity and in recent years have
made great strides. We offer, as an option, an LED
in the standard MR16 configuration, that uses a
fraction of the power for the same output. The most
amazing thing about LED lighting is that it last a
very long time. Typical bulb life is 50,000 hours
compared to 4,000 to 10,000 for standard halogen
bulbs. (Contact
us for more information.) These LED lamps will
still need to be supplied external power. Our
systems all use lights that are supplied power from
a buried cable tied to a remote transformer. This
ensures adequate power. For answers to
other landscape lighting questions not found on our website, please
feel free to
contact us.
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For a complete online guide to the Flower Mound
area, with accommodation, real estate, business and
location information, try
www.flower-mound-spot.com.
Located in Flower Mound, Texas, Lightscape FX primarily
provides service in Flower Mound, Lewisville, Plano, Carrollton,
Copper Canyon, Double Oak, Bartonville, Lantana,
Argyle, Highland
Village, Grapevine, Southlake, Colleyvillle, Keller, Roanoke, Coppell,
Hurst, Euless,
Bedford,
Irving, and Las Colinas, but also serves the
entire
Dallas-Fort Worth, North, Central and West
Texas area. |