The desire to decorate your house or apartment is familiar to all happy owners of real estate, as well as to those who have to live in a rented room. Modern manufacturers of various decorative devices are racing to meet the growing demand, offering novelty after novelty and creating the most unimaginable combinations of styles and technologies.
Some of them perform a purely aesthetic function, while others combine the attractiveness of appearance with functionality. Glowing trees made of polymeric materials and equipped with a large number of small LED bulbs can be attributed to such useful decorations. This decor is able to perfectly illuminate part of the room.
Naturally, the brightness of such a lamp cannot compete with full-fledged lighting, it is rather designed to replace lit candles or a nightlight.
What is LED lighting
Dynamically developing production of LEDof lighting devices is confidently replacing traditional incandescent lamps, conquering the market with numerous advantages:
- Exceptional durability.
- High quality lighting (brightness).
- Safety.
- Power efficient.
- Sustainable.
- Resistant to humidity and temperature extremes.
The essence of the operation of LED (Light Emitting Diode) lamps is the release of light by a semiconductor material under the influence of the movement of electrons. Such devices do not require phosphorus, mercury or other hazardous substances to be manufactured. And during operation, burns and electric shocks are excluded, since the lamps do not heat up and consume a negligible amount of electricity (5-9 watts).
What LED trees look like
The lion's share of the popularity of LED lamps can be attributed to their attractive appearance.
Glowing trees, whose branches are dotted with numerous sparkling lights, decorated with flowers, berries or other decor, evoke only the most pleasant associations with fabulous landscapes and fantasy films. In addition, owners of some devices have the opportunity to change the color of the shining lights, turn on the flashing mode, or get a design whose lamps play in several colors.
Depending on the purpose of the lamp and the style of the room or landscape, there are trees completely without decor. Their lamps are not hidden by flower attachments, and the stem is made witha minimum of unnecessary elements, which will perfectly fit into the interior in high-tech style.
Types of LED Trees
Thinking about how to decorate your home or territory with a LED-lamp in the form of a tree, it is worthwhile to collect information about devices of this kind in advance.
LED Trees come in a variety of sizes and types:
- Small designed to be placed on cabinets and tables.
- Medium and large are placed on the floor in spacious rooms (large living rooms, offices, sales areas).
- Street lights are mounted on the site or mounted on living growing trees.
Some of these fixtures can be purchased completely finished, others need to be assembled and connected. For those who like to decorate the house with their own hands, there is an opportunity, in addition to buying a factory product, to make a similar device on their own.
Glowing trees: price and equipment
Of course, in order to get a complete picture, illustrating the equipment of an interior or landscape with a bright LED tree, one cannot do without indicating the prices of such devices.
For fans of traditional shopping who prefer supermarkets, purchasing a lamp will cost a little more than buying it online or making it yourself. On the other hand, they will have access to such benefits of civilization as professional advice, sales advice, home delivery and qualified installation.
Summarizing the cost offered by severalmain manufacturers, you can specify the following prices:
- Ready luminous trees up to 50 cm high - 35 euros.
- Larger models (up to 80cm) for indoor use with more lamps - 57€
- Tree for landscape decoration (1.5 m) - 90 euros.
- LED strip for decorating growing trees (5m) - from 5 to 18 euros (depending on the frequency of placement of lamps on the strip).
- Garland for decorating a tree, including all necessary accessories - 135-225 euros (5 strands of 20 m each).
The price of a finished lamp or a garland with lamps is also affected by the color of the LEDs. Blue, white and yellow lamps are considered more expensive.
Owners of the "golden hands" will be able to save money by purchasing individual components, as well as self-manufacturing and installation of the LED lamp.
Creating an LED tree at home
With even minimal knowledge in the field of electronics, you can quickly make a glowing tree with your own hands. Although it will take some effort, choosing, buying and connecting components, even the most demanding hand makers will be satisfied with the result.
There are two ways to create this decoration:
- Assemble luminous trees from the prepared elements (stable base, frame, LED tape and decorative flowers).
- Solder your own electronic design using separate LEDlamps, wires and insulation.
The first method is much easier and faster. It does not require the use of skills in working with a soldering iron and electrical circuits, since you just need to connect the prepared device nodes in a certain order. Here, creativity is manifested in the choice of colors for the future tree and in the unique combination of finished elements.
Choosing the second method and completely creating a luminous tree with his own hands, the master sequentially performs the following stages of work:
- Assembles the frame (pipes of different diameters, wire, wooden bases are suitable for this).
- Solders resistors to the wires of LED lamps and insulates the joints.
- Fixes LEDs to branches.
- Brings the wires to the power supply and attaches them with solder (using phosphoric acid and tin).
- Fixes the frame of the tree with lamps on the branches on a stable horizontal base.
When doing this work, you need to carefully monitor the observance of the correct polarity (+/-).
Decorating trees with LEDs
Glowing trees for the street look great as a single decor or as an element of a bright composition (decorated alley, garden, house).
One of the main advantages of LED garlands and lamps is their resistance to mechanical damage and exposure to aggressive weather factors. That is why they are so often used to decorate household plots orareas near offices and shops.
