LED Rope lights

 

LED rope lights are a very exciting development in the field of lighting.

The outside of the new offices are lit at night by a single LED rope light. As you can see in the first picture it downlights the walls and sufficient of the concrete outside, so you can see where you are going.


Note that because the light is in the eaves of the building, there is no wasted light and all of it goes where you want it. There is also no visual intrusion of unsightly fittings on the outside of the building.

The second picture shows the rope light screwed behind the beams on the front of the building.


It is only when you see it in this shot, that you realise all the advantages of using an LED rope light in this situation.

1. There is no visual intrusion on the outside of the building.

2. The light is continuous and there is no variation due to separate fittings.

3. LEDs can be dimmed and this light is fitted with a dimmer control.

4. The whole front of the building is lit by one twenty metre LED rope light, which is only connected to the electricity at one end. This means that although the rope light costs just over twenty pounds a metre, in many cases you save a lot of money on installation costs, as you only need to run the LED rope light rather than electricity as well.

5. LED rope lights are available in lengths up to fifty metres and are full IP65 compliant. The only thing you can't do is submerge them in water.

Our installation is twenty metres long and consumes about 110 watts. It gives out 560 lumens of light which is directed downwards in a forty degree angle.

If you want to know more about the LED rope lights we used, then this is the data sheet. We obtained them from Excled.