The idea behind low voltage landscape lighting is not to illuminate your entire landscape, but to provide nice accent lighting on the highlights of your landscape.
Items such as trees, rocks, and walkways are ideal candidates for a low voltage lighting system.
You have invested a lot of time and money into your landscape design, why not enjoy it just as much in the evening and at night by lighting it up with low voltage lighting? A properly lit landscape can look very dramatic at night.
How to get started?
Getting started with low voltage lighting is simple. You only need 4 items to get your low voltage system up and running.
- Power
- Transformer
- Wire
- Lights
The basic premise behind low voltage lighting is taking a standard house-hold voltage from 120 volts and reducing it down to a 12 volt system. This voltage reduction by the transformer does a number of important tasks. 12 volt is much safer to work than a full 120 volts. 12 volts also produces a nicer aesthetic lighting for your landscape.