Outdoor LED Lighting Facts & Fiction

Myth 1: LED outdoor lighting produces a bluish light that is unflattering and cold looking.

Busted

LED outdoor lighting technology can produce any color imaginable. Illuminated Concepts uses LED landscape lighting fixtures that create warm color tones, enhancing stone and brick. People also look more natural in this pleasant warm light.

Myth 2: LED outdoor lighting cannot produce the lumens (light output) as traditional outdoor landscape lighting fixtures.

Busted

LED outdoor lighting is now standard to light up high-rise buildings, bridges, and monuments. The high lumen output and versatility of color control make LED outdoor lighting technology a perfect choice for these applications. LED lighting is now used extensively in stage lighting. I wish they had LED lighting back when I was doing stage lighting in N.Y.

Myth #3: LED landscape lighting is more expensive than a 12-volt landscape lighting system.

Busted

A 12-volt landscape LED outdoor lighting system will never pay for itself, yet LED landscape lighting can. The 80% electrical and maintenance savings quite often offset the entire cost of an LED outdoor lighting system. Since LED landscape lighting is so efficient, fewer transformers and cables are needed, thus reducing installation costs.