Today we’ll be talking about an interesting use of lights called walkway lighting. Many people have walkways in their yards or gardens and would benefit from installing some walk way lights to make a walking on these paths at night safer. Not only do walkway lights make it safer, they also make your walkways much more pleasing to look at at night.
In a our yard, we have walkway lighting lining the path to our horses. These handy walkway lights make it much easier and safer when we have to go out to check on our horses at night. Our horse corral is about 800 feet from the house and there’s no electricity back there so we installed solar walkway lights. We positioned these solar walkway light fixtures on a either side of the walkway going out to the horses. They are spaced every few feet apart directly across from each other and they not only will work very well but they look quite nice. There’s no electricity necessary because these walkway lights are charged by the power of the sun.
There are all kinds of walkway lights to choose from. We use solar driveway lights for illuminating our walkway. You can use solar rock lights or other walkway lights that are connected to each other with wires that are plugged into your home if you choose. This type of lighting is a little bit more difficult to install because you have to dig a shallow trench to hide the wire in. The wire only has to be buried a few inches underground because this outdoor walkway lighting is powered by 12 volt DC electricity. You might wonder how this is possible if you plug them into your home because you probably know that your home uses 120 volt AC electricity. These walkway light fixtures have a plug on the end of them that looks like a square black box. Some people call these “wall warts” because they are a little bit ugly. These black boxes are actually small transformers that lower the voltage from 120 volt AC down to 12 volt DC for safety purposes.
Walkway lighting isn’t designed to be very bright or put out very much light. They are basically designed to give you some sort of visual reference of where steps are or obstacles might be on the walking path. There’s no reason you can’t install walkway lighting that is brighter but in general, they’re simply designed to be a guide for you while walking.
These handsome solar walkway lights are from Tektrum. They come in a package of 8 and cost $89.95. They are stainless steel and water proof.
Whether you choose to install solar walkway light fixtures or walkway lighting that you plug into your home, one thing is for sure. Your walkway will be much safer and it will look much nicer.