Glowing trees with their own hands

The desire to decorate your house or apartment is familiar to all happy owners of real estate, as well as those who have to live in a rented room. Modern manufacturers of various decorative devices race to meet the growing demand, offering a novelty for a novelty and creating the most unimaginable combination of styles and technologies.

Some of them perform only an aesthetic function, others combine the appeal of appearance with functionality. It is to such useful ornaments it is possible to attribute and luminous trees made of polymeric materials and equipped with a large number of small LED bulbs. This decor can perfectly illuminate part of the room.

Naturally, the brightness of such a luminaire can not compete with full-fledged lighting, it is rather intended to replace lighted candles or a night light.

What is LED Lighting

The dynamically developing production of LED lighting devices confidently replaces traditional incandescent lamps, winning the market with numerous advantages:

• Exceptional durability.
• High quality lighting (brightness).
• Security.
• Economical energy consumption.
• Ecological compatibility.
• Resistance to humidity and temperature extremes.

The essence of the work of LED (Light Emitting Diode) luminaires is the allocation of light semiconductor material under the influence of the motion of electrons. To manufacture such devices, phosphorus, mercury or other hazardous substances are not required. And in the process of operation, burns and electric shocks are excluded , since the lamps do not heat up and consume negligible amounts of electricity (5-9 watts).

How trees look LED

The lion's share of the popularity of LED lamps can be attributed to their attractive appearance.

Glowing trees, the branches of which are dotted with numerous sparkling lights, decorated with flowers, berries or other decorations, cause only the most pleasant associations with fabulous landscapes and fantasy genre films. In addition, the owners of some devices are able to change the color of the shining lights, turn on the flashing mode or get a design, the lamps of which play several colors.

Depending on the purpose of the luminaire and the style of the room or landscape, there are trees without decoration. Their lamps are not hidden by flower nozzles, and the trunk is made with a minimum of extra elements, which will perfectly fit into the interior in the style of hi-tech.

Types of LED trees

Thinking about how to decorate your house or territory with a LED light in the form of a tree, you should collect information about devices of this kind in advance.

LED Trees Can be of a variety of sizes and types:

• Small are designed for placement on pedestals and tables.
• Medium and large put on the floor in spacious rooms (large living rooms, offices, shopping halls).
• Street lights are mounted on the site or attached to living growing trees.

Some of these lamps can be purchased in a completely finished form, others need to be assembled and connected. For fans of decorating the house with their own hands, there is an opportunity, besides buying a factory product, to make a similar device yourself.

Glowing trees: price and equipment

Of course, to obtain a complete picture illustrating the furnishing of an interior or landscape with a bright LED tree, one can not do without specifying the prices for such devices.

For fans of traditional shopping, who prefer supermarkets, the purchase of a lamp will cost a little more than when buying in an online store or self-manufacturing. On the other hand, they will be available such benefits of civilization as professional advice, seller advice, home delivery and qualified installation.

Summarizing the cost proposed by several major manufacturers, you can specify the following prices:

• Ready luminous trees up to 50 cm in height - 35 euros.
• Larger models (up to 80 cm), intended for indoor use and having a greater number of lamps - 57 euros.
• Tree for decorating the landscape (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 tape).
• Garland for decorating the tree, including all the necessary devices - 135-225 euros (5 threads of 20 m).

The price of a finished lamp or a garland with lamps is also affected by the color of the LEDs. More expensive are blue, white and yellow lamps.

Holders of "golden hands" will be able to save by purchasing individual components, as well as the independent manufacture and installation of a LED light.

Creating an LED tree at home

With even minimal knowledge of electronics, you can quickly make a luminous tree with your own hands. Although it will be necessary to make some efforts, choosing, buying and combining accessories, but the result will be satisfied even the most demanding handmasters.

There are two ways to create this decoration:

• Collect glowing trees from the prepared elements (a stable base, frame, tape with diodes and decorative colors).
• Solder your own electronic design, using separate LED lamps, wires and insulation.

The first method is much simpler and faster. It does not require the application of skills of working with soldering iron and electric circuits, since you only need to connect the prepared units of the device in a certain order. Here creativity manifests itself in the choice of the color scheme of the future tree and in a unique combination of ready-made elements.

Choosing the second method and completely creating a luminous tree with your own hands, the master consistently performs the following stages of work:

• Gathers a frame (pipes of different diameters, wire, wooden bases are suitable for this).
• Solder to the wires of LED lamps resistors and provides isolation of connection points.
• Fastens the LEDs to the branches.
• Output wires to the power supply and fix them with the solder method (using orthophosphoric acid and tin).
• Fixes the frame of a tree with lamps on branches on a stable horizontal base.

Carrying out such work, you need to carefully monitor the observance of the correct polarity (+/-).

Decoration of trees by LEDs

Glowing trees for the street look great as a single decoration or as an element of a colorful 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 or territories near offices and shops.