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Outdoor lighting makes your house look like home because your landscape light layout is unique to your property. It also helps with safety and security, lighting the way down paths and around entrances. Two popular options—halogen and LED light bulbs—offer distinct advantages and challenges for outdoor use. Should you buy halogen garden lights or LED lights? Before purchasing, you can review how they perform in home landscape settings, to help you know which to buy and where to place them.
People love halogen garden lights for their bright, white light that mimics natural daylight. That’s why halogen light bulb outdoor lights are chosen to illuminate gardens; they make colors stand out in the dark. They’re just right for highlighting specific areas in your outdoor spaces.
Whether you’re aiming for a soft glow in garden beds, brighter security lights, or color-changing options, LED garden lights adapt to your needs and use very little energy. You’ll benefit from LEDs in many garden and lawn lighting configurations.
Both of these types of lights can enhance your nighttime landscape. The key is choosing which ones you like and deciding where you want to use them. Plus, you can decide on how often you want to change them; some garden areas are hard to reach, and you might want to get LED lights that you don’t have to change as often.
1. Energy Efficiency & Cost
In home landscapes, where lights might stay on for hours, it’s more cost-effective to run LED lights in most of your garden areas. Halogen bulbs require more power, converting much of it into heat rather than light. LEDs, on the other hand, use up to 80% less energy than halogens.
2. Brightness & Light Quality
A halogen bulb delivers a crisp, daylight-like glow that excels at rendering colors accurately, making them ideal for spotlighting flower beds, water fountains, and other areas you want to stand out. Modern LEDs can let you set the mood with soft or brighter beams.
3. Lifespan & Durability
Weather in all seasons is tough on outdoor lights. Halogen bulbs can be fragile, but their light lasts long; around 2,000 hours. LEDs offer durability and often last 50,000 hours or more.
4. Environmental Impact
Halogen bulbs can have a bigger environmental impact due to their higher energy use and frequent replacements. LEDs use less power and last a long time. Their minimal heat production boosts their eco-friendly profile.
5. Outdoor Weather Conditions
A halogen bulb’s heat can be a problem in warm climates, and its glass is vulnerable to moisture or cold unless well-protected. LEDs handle temperature swings, so they are usable in wet, cold and other climate extremes.
Each type excels in specific home landscape scenarios:
1. Halogen Bulbs: Perfect for spotlighting key features like a specimen tree, garden statue, or driveway. A halogen light bulb’s brightness suits high-visibility areas.
Best Pro Lighting sells these and more halogen lights:
Osram MR16 20W Halogen bulb with its clear glass lens cover, and white flood with UV filter lasts up to 2000 hours. It’s great for directional lighting, up lighting, and spot lighting. Use it with bullet lights or any low voltage fixture that uses an MR16 bulb.
BPL103 Low Voltage Landscape Lights: These lights provide a 20W halogen glow to accent your garden plants. They’re made from cast aluminum with heat-resistant tempered glass.
2. LED Lights: They’re ideal for pathway lighting, garden accents, or security setups, thanks to their efficiency and durability.
Enjoy the beauty and convenience of these and more LED garden lights from Best Pro Lighting:
LED Brass Path Light: Our LED Brass Pathway Lights provide a soft, circular spread of light to accent your outdoor space and last for years.
LED Well Light: LED Well Lights are perfect for up lighting trees, walls, and more outdoor features. These low voltage LED garden lights come with a PVC stainless steel bulb holder so you can point them in any direction.
LEDs and halogens each can be practical and stylish for enhancing your outdoor spaces. Halogen bulbs offer standout brightness to beautify specific garden features at night. LED garden lights, with their energy savings and durability, work in a range of landscape settings.
Best Pro Lighting offers a wide selection of halogen and LED lights to illuminate all your garden areas and architectural features. Enjoy shopping on our easy-to-navigate website to purchase your favorite LED lights and halogen garden lights.
Q. How to change a halogen light bulb?
A. Turn off the power, let the bulb cool, wear gloves, gently pull the old bulb, install a new one without touching the glass.
Q. How to dispose of halogen bulbs?
A. Wrap in paper, place in regular trash. Unlike fluorescents, halogens don't require special disposal.
Q. Where can I buy halogen light bulbs?
A. It’s easiest to buy high quality outdoor halogen bulbs and fixtures from Best Pro Lighting.
Q. Do halogen bulbs use a lot of electricity?
A. They consume more power than LEDs or CFLs, but less power than traditional incandescent bulbs.
Q. How to wire LED garden lights?
A. Connect transformer to power, run low-voltage cable to lights, attach lights to cable using connectors, test system before finishing.
