Everything about outdoor wall washer lights you need to know

What is outdoor led wall washer light?

LED wall washer light is a kind of outdoor landscape lighting, as the name suggests, allows the light to wash the wall like water, and is used to outline the outline of large buildings. Because of its long strip shape, some people call it outdoor LED strip lights. LED wall washer lights are gradually replacing other light sources in the market due to their energy-saving features, high luminous efficiency, vibrant colors, and long lifespan. The technical specifications of LED wall washers are somewhat akin to those of LED floodlights. In contrast to LED floodlights, LED wall washers have a better heat dissipation because of it is linear shape.

Basic Parameter

The widely used LED wall washers basically use 1W high-power LED tubes (each LED tube will have a high-efficiency lens made of PMMA, and its main function is to redistribute the light emitted by the LED tube), showing Single-line arrangement (two-line or multi-line arrangement, I classify it as LED floodlight), most of the LED tubes of LED wall washers share a radiator, and their light-emitting angles are generally narrow (about 20 degrees), medium ( About 50 degrees), wide (about 120 degrees), the farthest effective projection distance of high-power LED wall washer (narrow-angle) is 5-20 meters, and its common power is about 9W, 12W, 18W, 24W, 36W and other power forms, and their common dimensions are generally 300, 500, 600, 900, 1000, 1200, 1500mm, etc., different lengths and power densities can be selected according to actual engineering applications.

Detail Parameter

Projection distance: 5~20 meters according to the lens, the smaller the angle, the farther the projection distance.

Lighting angle: 6-90 degrees floodlight

Mirror surface: glass reflective lens, the light transmittance is 98-98%, not easy to fog, and can resist UV radiation

The lamp body is made of pure aluminum, and there are many optional shapes, such as square and long linear wall washer light, and the optional length can be arbitrary: 300, 500, 600, 1000, 1200, or 1500mm. Width and height are fixed (of which 1 meter is a regular product)

IP Protection level: IP65-IP67 (IP68 is the highest) the effect of a structural waterproof wall washer can reach I67, with high waterproof and long-term characteristics. Even if it is used for a long time, its waterproof performance will not be affected.

There are also many types of wall washer shapes, including long, round, square, length, and size, which can be selected, and are suitable for installation and use of different shapes of buildings. The control method has also been developed from the original master-slave connection control to support offline or built-in control, and the installation method also supports wireless DMX control. The channel of the lamp bead light effect has also been upgraded from the original 3 channels to 4 to 20 channels so that each group of lamp beads can freely configure the luminous effect to achieve different color shaping effects and create completely different visual effects for large buildings.

Power supply : It can be divided into DC and AC. Generally, the built-in power supply is externally connected to AC220V (Japan AC110V) mains, etc., and the external one is generally low-voltage DC24V, DC12V, DC36V, and so on. The voltage is also different according to different requirements.

Color: full-color color, colorful color, red, yellow, green, blue, purple, white, and other colors.

Development trend: Wall washers are mainly developed towards ultra-thin, because the transportation cost of ultra-thin outdoor wall washer light will be relatively lower, and it is more convenient for high-altitude operations.

Control Way

The LED wall wash lighting is controlled by the built-in microchip. In smaller-scale projects, it can operate without the need for a separate controller.Dynamic effects like gradual transitions, sudden shifts, color pulsations, random variations, and gradual shifts can be created. Alternatively, it can be controlled through DMX to achieve effects like chasing and scanning.

High-power LED wall washers offer two control options: external and internal. Internal control eliminates the need for an external controller and can incorporate multiple built-in modes (up to six) for color changes. In contrast, external control necessitates an external controller to facilitate color changes. Most applications in the market opt for external control.

Installation guide

Generally, there are differences for different types led linear wall wash lighting, for the high voltage input type (110VAC or 220VAC input), it is only connecting the light fixture with 110V 220VAC. But for the low voltage DC12V 24V wall wash lights, you need to prepare an extra power supply, the drawing of installation is as follows:

Application

The high-power LED wall washer has an irradiation distance of 10-1 meters, which is very suitable for panoramic floodlighting of internal and external walls such as government lighting projects, commercial places, subways, elevated overpasses, building exterior walls, and architectural landmarks. Landscape buildings, outdoor plazas. Coloring of landscape objects, walls, and exhibits. Can adapt to various indoor and outdoor temperature and humidity environments. The colors are red, yellow, white, green, blue, colorful, and other effects.