Why You Need To Think About Using Submersible LED Lights

Underwater lighting for pools, garden pools and water features, has always been a tough problem. Water and electricity do no make the best neighbors. Older lights that use traditional bulbs, or halogen bulbs, depend significantly on rubber and silicone seals, to make joints and openings waterproof. When the bulbs need replacing, there's a fair quantity of work involved in resealing the light fitting, and replacement rubber parts are often required. Submersible LED lights lose a lot of the effort linked with upkeep and installation.

Submersible LED lights use low voltage safety supplies, usually rated at 12V or 24V. The lights are typically high-intensity,and come in a variety of colors. Usually a submersible light will be made from bunches of LED's. Different color LED's can be present in the same light, and many colours can be made by swapping which colour banks are illuminated at the same time.

The LED's can be positioned in many versatile ways , making it possible to use modified fixtures that are already common-place in pool and pool kit, as an example using swimming pool 'aimflows ' as wet niche housings. LED's give off much less heat than halogen or incandescent bulbs, so there is less likelihood of waterproofing failure from overheated rubber seals. Submersible LED lights are extremely safe for use in pools and fish ponds, as the safety transformers only put out low voltage, and sometimes have short-circuit protection and fuse overload protection.

The lights themselves can have integrated circuitry, which can on occasion be resin-sealed, leaving just the two contact terminals exposed on the back of the light. This makes electric connections straightforward, and even if the seal fails, the expensive electronics inside the light will not be influenced.

LED lights use much less power than other categories of lights, and it's simple to hook up banks of lights to the same transformer. The load is usually limited to about 4 lights per transformer. Plenty of the transformers and lights have programmable features, turned on by remotes, or by switching them off and on to cycle thru settings. If they're connected together to the same power source, colour changes and effects can happen in unified sequences.

This implies you may have your pool lights and garden mood lights collaborating, making spectacular effects. For swimming pools, submersible LED lights work particularly well, but they can't match the raw power of a halogen light. For this reason, it's best to plan in advance and use correctly spaced groups of LED lights for large pools, to blend the lighting force.

Retro-fitting these lights is easy: they can be installed into existing wet-niche housings, and even attached straight on to a pool or pond wall, because of the comparatively slim profile the lights have.

Because LED lights are primarily based on electronic circuitry, and this is usually sealed away in resin, there's no user maintenance required, or maybe possible on the light itself. This is why most makers will be offering five to ten year limited warranties on their submersible LED lights.

Brian Zeng is sales chief of one of the LED lighting China company,he writes many articles about LED lighting .