Landscape lighting enhances the appearance of your home and provides safety and security. It requires routine maintenance to ensure it works properly.
Finding a reliable company for landscape lighting repair is essential. Ask friends and family for referrals and get an estimate for the repairs before hiring someone.
Fixtures
Outdoor lighting adds a level of safety and security, as well as beauty, to your home. However, the fixtures that make it all work are exposed to many things that can reduce their effectiveness. Some are natural, like the elements or vegetation growth, but people or animals cause others.
For example, tree limbs might knock fixtures down or run into by kids or pets. Some might even be rusty or broken, which reduces their appearance and can create hazards.
A light fixture’s internal reflector can also get dirty and interfere with its ability to direct light properly. Cleaning it is often easy enough. But, if the institution is more advanced, like a wall-mounted one, you may need to contact a professional for help. This could involve working on a ladder or entering a confined space with live electricity. An experienced landscape or outdoor lighting repair Wayne NJ business can work safely around these electrical issues.
Wiring
Lighting professionals will install the wire that runs between each light. They’ll typically use buried cable to keep it safe from tripping and to hide the lines from view. Each light will be wired to a transformer plugged into an outdoor electrical outlet. The transformer controls your lights through a timer or photocell.
Check the voltage if you’ve examined all the different aspects of your landscape lighting system and still can’t figure out why one fixture isn’t working. A voltmeter can help you see if the problem is a broken connection or a blown socket.
When installing your landscape lighting, leave a bit of slack in the wire for future adjustments or repairs. This is important if you’re using silicone-filled waterproof connectors to make your connections. Start by cutting the cable and stripping off an inch of insulation on both conductors. Then, slip the two connector halves over the ends of each wire and pinch them together until you hear a click.
Sockets
Sockets are tools that snap onto the end of a ratchet and are designed to tighten or loosen a fastener by turning it. They can come in various shapes and sizes depending on what type of fastener they are designed to adjust. They are typically internally square-shaped at one end, which is used to attach them to a ratchet, and have a hexagonal or bi-hexagonal head at the other, fitted over the head of a fastener.
Sockets are bound to a combination of a domain name (a string of characters) for the Unix operating system and an Internet domain for two hosts communicating over the Internet. Once bound, sockets can listen for incoming communications from other connected sockets by polling the network for new connections. They can also accept incoming connections from unconnected sockets using a connectionless protocol such as TCP. This allows them to transmit a limited amount of data.
Controls
Lighting fixtures must be re-positioned regularly to ensure they aren’t obstructed by overgrowing plants or debris. Over time, bulbs can also wear or burn out, and fuses must be replaced. This is why maintenance is so essential! We recommend rubbing petroleum jelly on the bases of all bulbs on installation and checking them several times throughout the year.
Electrical professionals are now offering two-way communication systems that can be used to control individual luminaires or groups of luminaires with a single controller. These systems provide data to help manage lighting as a system by visualizing real-time performance, setting schedules, and creating custom reports.
Landscape lighting showcases the beauty of your property, but if it is kept up, it can be protected. Your landscape lighting technician will look for places where shrubs, trees, and other foliage could be causing connectivity problems or hindering the light’s effectiveness. They will trim and prune the plants to prevent any future issues.
