The history of garden lights
Garden lights is an outdoor lighting, generally refers to a 6 meters outdoor road lighting, the main components of: a light source section 5, lamps, poles, flange, base composition embedded parts.
The garden lamp is characterized by its versatility and aesthetics, and is also known as the landscape garden lamp. It is mainly used for outdoor lighting in urban slow lanes, narrow lanes, residential quarters, tourist attractions, public places such as parks and plazas, which can prolong the time of people’s outdoor activities and improve the safety of property.
History of development
In 1879 , Edison of the United States succeeded in extending the life of incandescent bulbs to more than 40 hours. In 1910 , the Couli Hall in the United States used tungsten wire as a filament to invent a tungsten filament bulb. Incandescent lamps In 1913 , the American Lanmir invented a gas filled glass to prevent the filament from evaporating, inventing a gas-filled tungsten filament bulb.
In 1925 , Japan’s unbreakable orange three invented the inner wall matte bulb.
In 1932 , Miura Shunichi of Japan invented a double-helical tungsten filament bulb.
Since then, mankind has never stopped pursuing light. Soon people have discovered that human beings need not only to illuminate indoors to meet their own daily life, but also when night falls, in order to extend the outdoor activities, lighting is also required. Born and born. As human civilization and progress, into the 1970s, it was discovered that the wall-mounted lights to pick not only takes up space resources, and lights hanging in the head not only makes people feel depressed, and there are security risks, and can not meet specific space The installation and lighting requirements were such that the garden light was born.
Features
Garden lights to the development of the 1990s, is widely used in public places of the city on one side road slow lane, narrow lane, residential areas, tourist attractions, parks, squares, private garden, courtyard corridors or two copies for road lighting, Improving the safety of people’s nighttime travel is used to increase the time for people to spend outdoor activities and improve the safety of life and property. It can also change people’s moods, improve people’s emotions, and change people’s ideas to create a light and dark palette-like night. During the day, the garden lights can be used to embellish the city landscape; at night, the courtyard lamps can provide the necessary lighting and living convenience, increase the residents’ sense of security, highlight the city highlights, and embody the bright style, so that it has developed into a mature industrial chain. .
Type introduction
The development of garden lights has been derived from different types according to the use environment and design style. It is divided into three categories: European garden lights, modern garden lights and classical garden lights.
European garden lights:
Its design style adopts some European art elements in European countries and abstracts its expression. Such as: Crown Garden Lights.
Modern garden light:
Its design style uses modern art elements and uses simple styles such as spring bud garden lights.
Classical garden lights:
Its design uses Chinese classical elements to be applied and modified, such as: palace lanterns.
These three types of garden lights represent different styles and are derived from most manufacturers to cater to the design style of urban buildings.
How to choose Best Garden Lights
First: general principles
(1) Select lamps with reasonable light distribution. The type of light distribution of the luminaire should be determined according to the function and spatial shape of the lighting place.
(2) Select high-efficiency lamps. In the case of meeting the glare limitation requirements, direct lighting and open luminaires should be used for lighting that only meets the visual function.
(3) Select lamps that are easy to install and maintain and have low operating costs.
(4) In special places with fire or explosion hazard and dust, humidity, vibration and corrosion, lamps that meet the environmental requirements should be selected.
(5) When the high temperature parts such as the surface of the lamp and the accessories for the lamp are close to the combustible materials, fire protection measures such as heat insulation and heat dissipation should be taken.
(6) Lighting fixtures shall have complete photoelectric parameters, and their performance shall comply with the relevant provisions of the current “General Requirements and Tests for Luminaires” and other standards.
(7) The appearance of the luminaire should be in harmony with the environment of the installation site.
(8) Consider the characteristics of the light source and the requirements for building decoration.
(9) The difference between garden lights and street lights is not big, mainly the difference between height, material thickness and aesthetics. The material of street lamps is thicker and higher, and the garden lights are more beautiful in appearance.
Second: outdoor lighting place
(1) Axial symmetrical luminaires shall be used for high-beam illumination. The installation height of the luminaire shall be greater than 1/2 of the radius of the illuminated range .
(2) The courtyard lighting fixtures should effectively control the output of the upper hemisphere.
Third: landscape lighting
(1) Under the conditions of glare limitation and light distribution requirements, the efficiency of floodlighting fixtures should not be less than 60 .
(2) The outdoor lighting fixtures should not be lower than IP55 . The protection level of buried lamps should not be lower than IP67 . The protection level of lamps used in water should not be lower than IP68 .
(3) Contour lighting should use LED lamps or lamps with single-ended fluorescent lamps.
(4) The inner light-transmissive lighting should be an LED lamp or a light source with a small-diameter fluorescent lamp.
Fourth: the degree of protection of the luminaire
According to the use environment of the luminaire, it can be selected according to the IEC regulations.
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