People always wanted to decorate their home, including decorative lighting.
Today, the most popular is decorative LED lighting, which is used in residential and public buildings, in courtyards and on the streets. Fantasy decorators have no limits. An example is LED fringe.
Decorative ornaments
In everyday life, the first appeared LED advertising. City streets began to be decorated with signs of shops from light bulbs. Luxurious showcases of fashion boutiques sparkled with LED curtains .
For restaurants and cafes, there were few signs. Summer playgrounds began to be highlighted with artificial and natural trees with LED garlands.
And holidays celebrated with bright colored lights are a real extravaganza of light and colors. Garlands not only on holiday trees, but also on the windows, roofs and walls of houses complement the magical charm of the most magical New Year holiday.
One of the most favorite decorations is the rain of light bulbs, of which LED fringe is considered a variety. It makes unusual the facades of houses, door and window openings, road extensions, even entire streets.
What is LED Fringe
This is a light garland in which vertical threads of different lengths from 0.2 to 0.9 m with LEDs are located in segments on a horizontal loop of a fixed length, for example, 3 or 4.2 meters. On a three-meter cable, on their threads 2, 4, 6, 8, 6, 4, 2, and on the longer 2, 4, 5, 8, 5, 4, 2 pcs. in one segment. Only five and six fragments, and the LEDs are one hundred and fifty and one hundred and eighty in one garland, respectively. The distance between the threads and the bulbs is about ten centimeters.
The main cord can be transparent, white or black, and the glow is white, yellow, red, green or blue.
Power consumption in energy-saving LED curtains of different manufacturers is different, but not more than 20 (3 meters) and 25 W (4.2 meters).
You can sequentially connect several garlands into one curtain, their maximum can be up to ten. The result is a luminous canvas with a wavy bottom edge.
Benefits of LED Fringe
Sometimes you can see how a large house shines with colorful lights from the roof to the porch, the fence surrounding it, the path to the house. Almost all jewelry is LED fringe. Photos of such houses are viewed from the pages of New Year’s issues of glossy magazines. It becomes scary on how much electricity can be spent on such decorative lighting. But the fact of the matter is that very little!
One of the main advantages of LED fringe is its low power consumption and, consequently, low costs for its payment.
Another advantage is the long (up to one hundred thousand hours) service life of garlands.
In addition, LED fringe is very easy to install, it is enough to connect it to household electrical networks. It tolerates low temperatures and high humidity, is fireproof.
A wide range of color solutions and the ability to combine a sufficiently large number of garlands into one complete the list of useful properties of LED fringe.
How to make a choice
LED fringe for the street should be characterized by high moisture resistance, this indicator is not important for decorating the premises. In addition to moisture resistance, protection against street dust is important. In the fringe marking, numbers indicating the degree of protection are indicated, it is advisable to buy street garlands with an IP65 indicator, in any case, not lower than IP44.
For long garlands, it is better to use special power supplies or transformers that reduce voltage.
Depending on what effect is expected, you need to choose the colors and type of glow of the LED fringe, but do not forget about the brightness of the decoration. Illumination can interfere with drivers on the road or neighbors at night. You can set a timer that turns off decorative lighting, for example, after eleven o'clock in the morning.
By the way, such a timer will help reduce energy costs.
Varieties of LED Fringe
It differs by type of glow. It can be LED fringe flickering, and in two versions: flicker, that is, light up and go out, all diodes or some specific one, for example, one on a thread or every fifth. The flicker effect is created using the built-in controller, that is, you do not need to purchase additional equipment.
The second type of glow is when all the diodes are continuously lit without changes. This type of glow of LED fringe is called fixing. Such garlands more often decorate the interior of spacious rooms.
The third type of glow (chasing) - diodes on a garland smoothly light up and fade out just as well - looks very advantageous in large-scale jewelry when the effect of a light waterfall is achieved.
Decoration Examples
The LED fringe flickering for the street hangs down very bizarrely and mysteriously. Therefore, if you place it around the perimeter of the roof of the house or gazebo, decorate the visor, you will get the impression that icicles flicker in the moonlight.
In country houses, this decor is designed for fencing terraces and balconies, window and doorways.
Like any other garland, LED fringe, stretched between the pillars, very decorates the streets.
Not only festive, but also very practical looks in the night darkness the design of the lights on the flights of stairs in the house and outside.
LED fringe - decorative decoration of streets and houses, inexpensive, safe, easy to install and at the same time effective. It gives scope for the creative imagination of professional lighting designers and ordinary housewives who love their home and holidays.