I've been searching for a 12V LED lighting setup for my garden and have just come across this forum - and I hope that someone can provide some advice.
Specifically, I'm looking for lights to light up a patio area. It's an area of about 6m square and I'm thinking of using 4 wall lights (two each along two sides of the patio) and a couple of post lights along another side.
I've come across two suppliers - Techma and Lumena
One thing that concerns me is how bright some of the lights will be. For example, the Techmar products all seem to be low wattage LEDs (between 1 and 2 watts). From what I can gather, these are only equivalent to less than 15W conventional bulbs.
Within the Lumina product range, however, they do ES/E27 fitting 12V AC or DC bulbs up to 7W which should give out light equivalent to 50W conventional bulb.
So I have two specific queries:
1) Have I got my "brightness" equivalent calculations above correct? And if anybody has used Techma 1 or 2 watt lights, are you happy with the brightness?
2) The Lumina ES/E27 12 LED's look a very attractive proposition which will enable us to use conventional garden lights fitted with ES sockets. However, these do seem to be quite a specialist product and it would concern me that I'm choosing a solution that appears to be almost single source and may be a short term niche product. Does anybody know of similar higher wattage 12v ES/E27 bulbs from other well known brands?
Thanks in advance
Specifically, I'm looking for lights to light up a patio area. It's an area of about 6m square and I'm thinking of using 4 wall lights (two each along two sides of the patio) and a couple of post lights along another side.
I've come across two suppliers - Techma and Lumena
One thing that concerns me is how bright some of the lights will be. For example, the Techmar products all seem to be low wattage LEDs (between 1 and 2 watts). From what I can gather, these are only equivalent to less than 15W conventional bulbs.
Within the Lumina product range, however, they do ES/E27 fitting 12V AC or DC bulbs up to 7W which should give out light equivalent to 50W conventional bulb.
So I have two specific queries:
1) Have I got my "brightness" equivalent calculations above correct? And if anybody has used Techma 1 or 2 watt lights, are you happy with the brightness?
2) The Lumina ES/E27 12 LED's look a very attractive proposition which will enable us to use conventional garden lights fitted with ES sockets. However, these do seem to be quite a specialist product and it would concern me that I'm choosing a solution that appears to be almost single source and may be a short term niche product. Does anybody know of similar higher wattage 12v ES/E27 bulbs from other well known brands?
Thanks in advance