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Christmas Lighting for the Holidays

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Light Up Your Holiday Season!
One of the hottest trends for the Christmas season is to hire a professional lighting company to design and install your outdoor Christmas decorations. Make your holiday season shine with professionally installed Christmas lighting. Imagine taking the hassle and headaches out of the busiest season of the year by having it all done for you. Several local landscaping companies offer Christmas decorating and lighting services around the Holidays, starting in October.

Going Green for the Holidays
Another trend is the use of environmentally friendly LED lights. LED lighting is becoming increasingly popular in lighting decorations, mainly because it uses less electricity and can produce brighter and more varied colors. LED lighting gives your decoration design a different and unique look that will no doubt catch the attention of anyone driving or walking by.

LED Christmas lights are used and installed just like standard incandescent Christmas lights. They operate off standard 110v household power outlets. The primary difference is that LED Christmas lights use light emitting diodes or LEDs to produce the lights while standard Christmas lights use incandescent lamps. LED Christmas lights are up to 99% more efficient, last up to 50,000 hours, are extremely durable, and create very little heat.

Ten Reason to consider LED lighting
1. Added safety. Lamps always remain cool to the touch. Because holiday lighting is often used in close proximately to combustible materials (dry evergreen trees) this feature can greatly reduce the risk of holiday fires.
2. Solid-state reliability. No longer will you have to worry about one lamp ruining your whole string.
3. Longevity. LED lamps are rated for 50,000 hours of use or more while standard incandescent lights typically last for only 2,000 hours.
4. No glass bulbs to break. LED lights are encased in a nearly indestructible epoxy casing.
5. No filaments to burn out. Unlike incandescent bulbs there is not filament to burn out so they last much longer and won't be damaged or ruined if you drop them or step on them.
6. Extreme energy efficiency. Uses only 10% of the electricity required to power traditional incandescent. For a typical household this will mean a cost savings of $20.00 or more during the standard 30 day holiday season.
7. Nearly indestructible, solid epoxy lenses. High-quality LED lights can withstand the force of a tractor trailer without breaking.
8. Rust proof, Zinc-coated lamp contacts. The lamp components will not rust when used outdoors or in moist environments.
9. Uses standard house current (120 VAC, 60 Hz). No need for an electrician or expensive power converters.
10. No transformer required. Allows for simple installation and use.

How do LED Christmas lights work?
LEDs are constructed from tiny solid-state chips similar to those used in computers. These chips directly convert electricity to light without the use of a filament or glass bulb. (Standard incandescent bulbs create light by transmitting electricity through a resistant filament which creates heat. A bi-product of the heat created is light.) LED lights encapsulate solid-state chips in solid (and nearly indestructible) epoxy plastic that can be made into a variety of shapes and sizes.

LED string lights use much less electricity, reduce pollution from power plants and last longer. And they stay cooler, too. While they cost more than traditional strings of lights up front, the electricity savings easily make up the cost difference within a season or two.

Light Emitting Diodes, or LEDs, are now considered "the greatest invention in lighting since Edison's light bulb in 1879."

Sources:
Holiday Lighting and Christmas display trends - Delbosque Landscaping - Rockwall, TX
10 Reason to consider LED lighting & How LED Christmas lights work - holidayleds.com