Commercial and high-end residential swimming pool lighting design

With the continuous development of led street light wholesale technology, lighting pool is becoming increasingly attractive and interesting. Because the color temperature of the LED light source rich, RGB or RGBW flexible control, coupled with its energy-saving long maintenance cycle, LED pool lights now popular.

So for today's pool lighting, what should we consider when designing it? Today we'll discuss a few points:

1, considering the overall environment surrounding light, not just design the pool itself

First of all, the most important but often forgotten when lighting is designed to pool forget to consider the overall environment surrounding lights, just design the pool itself.

Why should we consider the overall? One reason is that the brightness of swimming pools and to be able to match the brightness of the surrounding environment. This is also a safety factor, such as lifeguards often complain Ceiling reflection in the water caused great glare.

We need to keep in mind three important functions pool lighting: illuminate the pool floor and side walls, objects illuminated swimming and water, and the water itself illuminate certain glare effect. Finally, an implementation requires a small water particles or air bubbles, the light can be emitted in the above irradiation.
1 Pool Lighting

Figure: In this case, the pool lights need to be able to catch up with bright ambient light, so a lot of the number of pool lights. Because ambient light indirect lighting, greatly weakened the glare on the water flood and produced. In order to allow more uniform illumination swimming pools, pool lights beam angle of about 90 degrees.

2, should be considered in the pool design stage lighting design

The second important factor is the lighting design of the pool should be in the pool on the early stages of the design into account.

When watering down the concrete pools, while the lamp does not go into the embedded parts, then it is difficult, you need to drill a hole in the concrete.

And does not recommend the pool surface mounted lights in the public swimming pool, because it is easy to be damaged.

Pool lighting maintenance is very troublesome, it is necessary to use good quality fixtures, and long-life light source, not to mention the IP rating must reach 68.

3. Other TIPS Pool Lighting Design

1) installation depth

Depending on the depth of the pool and lighting beam angle, lighting installation depth is usually 600-700mm, some shallow children's pool at 400-500mm.

Remember, only the light shines on the water - the water will be reflected back to the time when the incident angle of the air interface is less than 41 degrees. If the installation depth is too shallow, light shine before the water body (eg swimmers) went on the air to escape the water to go, looking down from the water, there will be a lot of dark areas underneath the lamp. If installed too deep, you will see there is a bright spot beneath the glare of the lights, when the swimmer when lighting fixtures will be close enough.

2) lamps with light

Taking into account the light distribution problems, we need to think clearly is a need for a more uniform illumination, or some kind of accent lighting, or both.

Most underwater lights have 10 to 90 degrees different beams, and some have "Multiflux" Multiple light distribution means, such as beam angle 120 is 30 degrees, but the center of a narrow light. For less than 1.5 meters of shallow pool, it is recommended to use an oval light distribution, such as 15 × 40 degrees, so to avoid glare and optical loss point.

2 lamps with light
Figure: A small swimming pool using a 10-degree beam angle lamps produce a very dramatic effect

3 underwater lights
Figure: a large swimming pool using a 90-degree beam angle underwater lights, installed on both sides of the cross, more uniform illumination.

3) dimming control

Pool lighting dimming rarely needed, unless it is used with a fixture in all places, but do not need 100% of brightness in some places. Whether in the design and selection dimming lamps need to be considered when.

But many times the pool will need to be able RGB or RGBW color tone, this time you need a good controller, such as DMX control. If you want both a good color effects, but also very positive white light, then they would use RGBW LED lamps, so as to individually control the LED RGB and white.

Most of the swimming led street lighting fixture, users prefer only one controller, there are several good set static or dynamic scenes, each scene can be controlled and adjusted individually. There is a scene when the pool and surrounding environment set lighting scenes together.

Treatment 4) other water elements

Many times there are other pools of water design elements, such as drowning, or water, or water fountain. Do not forget to add lighting effects to them, such as adding or their rear lights from the bottom of the pool.
Treatment 4 other water elements

Figure: Somewhere very beautiful water element, surface-mounted LED floodlights are installed behind the curtain of water.

5) deal with the special needs of the pool

Finally, there are some special needs swimming might want to consider. For example:

Small decorative LED point?
You can move the floor?
Flush mounted or flush mounted but need a very thin donut?
High bit salty pool? Lighting needs to 1.4539 stainless steel alloy lamp body in order to better prevent corrosion.
Or sometimes may need to replace the existing old to the new LED lighting fixtures?

All in all, a satisfactory pool lighting design, the design of demanding, the need for adequate consideration. At the same time, you need a good quality fixtures, lamps flux, size, color, color temperature, the beam angle, etc., need a good match.