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Plentiful home lighting options are available to consumers these days when they are considering  purchasing lighting for the home. This article presents brief information about three types of home lighting. These three popular types of home light include light emitting diode (LED) home lighting, solar home lighting, and low voltage home lighting.  While these three types of lighting are also available for indoor use, the focus of this article will be on lighting home exteriors. Each type of habitat lighting is briefly presented below.

(1) LED home lighting is a type of light that lasts significantly longer than incandescent and compact fluorescent light bulbs. These types of  lights start to dim gradually instead of burning out completely when the life of the lighting is consumed. With white LEDs, bugs are not attracted to them, since they do not emit ultraviolet light. LEDs are energy efficient and contain no toxic mercury. However, when compared with incandescent home lighting, they do not provide as bright a light. Therefore, multiple LEDs tend to be  needed to provide adequate lighting. LED lighting is available in solar home lighting as well as in low voltage home lighting, among other types of lighting for the home, including motion sensor lights.

(2) Solar home lighting works by harnessing the sun’s energy during the day and emitting it at night. In order for the solar lighting to work as designed, the solar panel component of the lighting must be placed in the direct sun light. Therefore, the solar panels cannot be blocked by any object. The solar panels also need to be kept clean. Solar lighting is a source of reusable energy, given that it uses the sun’s energy and rechargeable batteries in its design. Thus, solar lighting tends to be ecologically friendly. Consumers will want to be aware that  with the current design of solar lighting, however, it does not tend to be a reliable form of home lighting if placed in areas that do not receive abundant direct sunlight and/or in climates that are not sunny.

(3) Low voltage home lighting uses a low voltage power source.  In other words, it converts the standard home voltage to low voltage, usually via a transformer.  Since less energy is used with low voltage lighting, it tends to be better for the natural environment. The lighting also tends to be more reliable than solar lighting, since it does not depend on needing direct sunlight to work. However, since the voltage is low, low voltage lighting does not tend to be bright.

Common usage of LED, solar, and low voltage lighting include home garden lighting and home landscape lighting.  Examples of LED home garden lighting include LED string lights and LED pond lights. Examples of  solar home garden lighting include solar stepping stones and solar pathway lighting.  Examples of low voltage  home garden lighting include flood lights and bollards.

Similarly, examples of LED home landscape lighting include pathway lighting and spotlights.  Examples of solar home landscape lighting include solar deck lights and rock flood lights.  And examples of low voltage home landscape lighting include flood lights and path lights.

An important commonality among LEDs, solar, and low voltage home lighting is their reduced or non-use of electricity. As previously mentioned, LEDs are energy efficient, using significantly less electricity when compared with incandescent lighting. Similarly, with low voltage lighting, given that the home voltage is reduced, less electricity is consumed. Solar lighting uses no electricity. Thus, all these forms of lighting can help consumers use less electricity, and thus reduce their electricity bill. Moreover, because LEDs, low voltage, and solar home lighting use less or no electricity when compared with incandescent lighting, they tend to be better for the natural environment. Consumers will want to keep in mind, however, when shopping for garden and/or home landscape lighting, that the quality of the components in the home lights vary.  Therefore, consumers may wish to get more information about the quality of the light fixtures they are considering purchasing, prior to buying them.

Nonetheless, whether it is LED home lighting, solar home lighting, or low voltage home lighting, many choices are available to consumers from which to select the type of home lighting fixtures they wish to install and enjoy on the exterior of their home, whether they are installing new outdoor home lighting throughout their property, or adding to the exterior home lighting they already have. Moreover, as previously mentioned, the types of home lighting aforementioned use less electricity or no electricity, and thus tend to reduce the negative impact on the natural environment. Indeed, home lighting facilitates enhancing the ambiance of the home, by helping to create just the right illumination homeowners seek.

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