Do you want to install landscape lighting on your property, maybe garden lights or carport light fixtures but don’t think you have the know-how or money to hire an electrician? Well, your problems are solved with low voltage lighting. Low voltage lighting is completely do it yourself and the transformer that you will be installing steps down the current from the dangerous 120 volts that comes into your house off the power lines to a safe and shock-free twelve volts.
Low voltage lighting has many advantages over other lighting options. Unlike solar powered lights, the lights are always there when you need them and they won’t be subject to inclement weather or cloudy days. You’ll also have more fixtures to choose from because the fixtures won’t have to have a solar panel attached to the top of them. You’ll even have more freedom on where to place the lights because you won’t have to put them in direct sunlight like you do with solar lights.
As long as you have an area with a plug to install a transformer, low voltage lights are also completely do it yourself. There’s no need to hire an electrician unless you need to install the transformer somewhere there is no plug. Since the cords you will be running won’t be a shock hazard, you don’t have to tear up your yard by digging trenches and burying them underground. All that’s required is you keep them out of sight to make sure your landscape still looks nice during the day and people don’t trip over them or hit them with the lawnmower.
Low voltage lighting is great, but it is useless if you don’t install the lights correctly. For more information on lighting your yard and different lighting styles that you can use, visit the Garden Lights Guru.
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