Installation of street lamps with his own hands

Anyone who came across the problem of arranging their own cottage or country house, sooner or later became the choice of sources of coverage of the local area. A huge range of lighting instruments will play an important role in choosing a lamp for giving. But keep in mind that all street lights have a fairly high cost, and will not always taste. It is better to make them yourself, thereby saving. In this article, we will try to carefully disassemble how to make a street flashlight with your own hands by performing everything according to the technical standards and requirements.

general characteristics

To assemble a lantern on your own taste, you need to pay attention to some nuances and features inherent in every type of street lamps. All of them are different in shape and composite materials, but have a common feature. Carefully examine the characteristic of a particular type. It will help to decide on the further design of your lamp.

Types of street lamps

To equip the cottage with lighting elements, you must first understand their destination. Each species is intended for accommodation on surfaces of different types, and has its own design features.

For the illumination of the local area, the site and other elements of the cottage, the following light sources are used:

• "Torsher" - represents a rack with a height of 30-50 cm, on which the plane is placed. Most often they are mounted to the floor of the veranda. A variant of installation is also possible near the veranda to the ground. Such lamps serve to illuminate the local area, having a pleasant soft spectrum of the glow. There is a huge variety of different design forms of "Testers", but the classical remains - spherical. As a diffuser, a round plastic or glass ball is used, which cooled on the rack;
  
• wall-mounted - a classic version will be the lantern, made in an old-style style using wrought elements. Such lamps are installed on the wall next to the door. A variant of installing a wall light is also possible near the wicket or gate. In both cases, the lamp plays the role of illumination of a small area. Often, such a lantern is installed in a pair with a motion sensor;
  
• suspended - represents a rope or chain fixed to the ceiling, to which the plane is mounted at the bottom. Most often, they are used to illuminate the veranda and arbors. The suspension lamp mounted on a tree branch will excellently light up the place at the bottom of the rest, harmoniously shook in your landscape design;
  
• soil - serve for the convenience of moving around the site, lighting paving paths, bushes and pedestrian alleys. They are installed directly on the surface of the Earth, which allows you to hide the wiring in the soil. Ground lights greatly highlight trees, statues, swings and other objects located on the plot. In such lamps, the light beam is directed most often from the bottom-up, and it has the ability to change the angle of inclination.
  

As can be seen, all street lights serve as the same goal - the lighting of the house and the local area necessary for the unimpeded and convenient movement along the site. A wide selection of models and design solutions will allow the light to be perfectly fit into the general view of your estate.

Sources of light

On the change of old street lamps, which shone due to burning inside the phytyl, impregnated with flammable material, came new light sources. Their wide choice and design will not leave indifferent any owner of the household site.

The following types of light bulbs exist as a source of light lamps:

• incandescent lamp. We do not advise you to use this source, since it is not resistant to temperature drops, has a very bright range of the glow, and consumes a huge amount of electricity. However, the incandescent lamp has a sufficiently low cost, which cannot but rejoice. Due to frequent replacements associated with burnout, the use of such a light source is unacceptable for street lighting;
• halogen lamp Provide excellent intensity and light transmission. It will not be very hot, besides, it will become a very economical and durable option. But note that such lamps are quite expensive and sensitive to voltage drops. In addition, halogen lamps do not tolerate dirt, which is able to bring them out of order;
• choice lED lamp It will be far from the cheapest option. But the huge advantage of such a light source will be: savings (up to 95% energy consumption) and long service life. In addition, LED lamps are placed in a durable case, which will reduce the likelihood of accidental damage. Another important advantage will be the lack of substances negatively affecting human health;
• solar battery, The power supply source of the street lamp will become an excellent solution for places in which the sun shines most of the day, for example, in beds or flower beds. Street lantern with such a battery is better to install in places where the wiring laying causes problems. The battery is charging in the daytime, feeding with solar energy. She leaves for about 12 hours. This lighting option carries more decorative function than practical. With the onset of the daytime, it automatically turns on. Since the lantern on the solar battery is dimmingly shine, then several are used immediately.

To select the desired lighting option, analyze the settings of the installation, lighting items, as well as weather features of your region. We advise for all types of street lamps to use LED lamps that initially require a circular amount, but in the future you will get rid of you from frequent replacements, while saving your tools.

Material of manufacture

Make an old wrought lamp with your own hands will be quite difficult. To make such a lamp, you need to have certain experience and knowledge that will help perform a forging in compliance with all technologies. In any case, an independently made flashlight will become the original addition of your site, and make your neighbors just envy.

In order to make the street lamp at home, such materials are used:

• wood It will serve as excellent material for the manufacture of a street lamp. In addition, you can use old boards and even firewood. Since the lamp will be located on the street, it will constantly succumb to the negative impact of ultraviolet rays, precipitation and insects. Be sure to treat wood with a special impregnation. This will help increase the service life, protecting the lantern from weather factors and fires;
• plastic - fragile and not particularly reliable material. The location of the lamp made from such a material is better to move the inside of the room. In an extreme case, some auxiliary elements of the lamp can be performed from it, but not the whole lantern;
• metal It will become excellent material for making a street lamp with their own hands. The use of galvanized sheet will help experiment with rounded shapes. Metal is a coarse material with which it is quite difficult to work. The flashlight made of such a material will serve much longer, since it is not affected by weather conditions. To give originality, color types of metal can be used, such as: bronze, brass or copper. But note that the manufacture of such a lamp will get to you "in a penny";
• glass - One of the most popular materials from which street lights are made. It is enough to find a bottle or a jar of suitable diameter and draw it beautifully. In addition, the glass lamp will shine brighter.

Naturally, the option is also possible when the design of the lantern consists immediately of three materials at the same time. Before proceeding to independently manufacturing a street lamp, carefully analyze the characteristic features inherent in one or another type of material. Then you will achieve a better result, and the lantern will last you for one year.

Installation of street lamp

Street lamp on the solar battery, made with their own hands, will serve for the local area not only the element of the decor, but also will save some amount because it does not need constant nutrition, accumulating charge during the day. Wall-mounted street lamp, made personally, will also not leave indifferent neighbors, besides, give a special "highlight" to your home. The lamp made of paper will also be original, but probably will not last long. Choose material to your taste, but do not forget about the characteristic features and disadvantages of each.

Tool

To save yourself from additional difficulties associated with the lamp assembly for your summer cottage, purchase or borrow a neighbor all the necessary tool.

Predit to assemble the street lamp, the following set of tools will help:

• manual (bucket, shovel, trough, passatia, scissors and hacksaw for metal, saw on wood, knife, checkpoint, line, corner);
• power tools (drill with a set of necessary bits, perforator with a brown of concrete, burgrage, welding machine, soldering iron).

The presence of the necessary tool will help make an assembly and installation without much effort.

Order assembly

Street lamps made by personally differ in size and form of materials from which they are made. But it is worth paying attention to the sequence of actions that is inherent to each type separately.

To create a street lamp with their own hands, act in stages, using the following algorithm:

1. Draw a drawing drawing of the lamp. Mark all the corners of the bends, as well as specify the color of the material and the connection methods.
2. Using the drawing, prepare all the components of the future lantern. Cut and bend the sheets of metal. Treat tree and cut the right way. Cut from plastic decor elements.
3. Using the drawing schema, collect prepared elements together.

Such an assembly order will be faithful for any kind of street lamp, and a properly compiled drawing will help make it all extremely accurately, observing all the necessary dimensions.

General Wiring Mounting Principles

Before starting the installation of lighting elements: Analyze the characteristics of the soil on different sections, decide on the installation site, make sure that the high-voltage wires are not laid.

Measure the distance from the lantern to the electrical panel, from which it will be powered. Also consider: the pillar's height, the size of the ceiling, the presence of several light sources. Measuring the distance required to purchase the wire of the desired length, add another 10-15% to the result. It is better to purchase a 2x1.5 jn cable, designed specifically for such works.

Buy also a special corrugated sleeve with a diameter of 18-25 mm (depending on the number of wires extended). It should be made of metal, and have a silicone overall, which will protect the cable from moisture and small rodents. Do not buy a corrugation made from PVC because it will not protect the wire to the desired degree.

Do not forget to purchase key pads and cartridges that are needed for lining and connecting the wire with a light source. Choose pads calculated on 5-10 A. to select the required cartridge, it is better to determine what lamps in your lamp will be applied.

In order to qualitatively mount the wiring, use the following algorithm:

1. At a distance of at least 0.6 m from home to proper a ditch with a depth of 0.7-0.8 m. The channel will hide the cable under the ground and the gasket route will task.
2. If you install a lamp type "Torsher", then first install the racks, and then start to drag the wire in them. Always leave in the lamp up to 0.5 M wires to the reserve. To connect the soil flashlight, it is enough just to bring the cable to the lamp and connect to the Terminals.
3. Now the lamp can be connected to the cable. To do this, use the gleam block and scolding. Fix each living wire that comes out of the ceiling in a separate opening. In the same way, connect the submerged cable.
4. For self-installation of a wall-mounted lamp, instead of a terminal, use a junction box, fixed on the wall surface. In this case, each connection must be carefully soldered. All open connections wrap the tape.
5. Connect the wire so that the switch swaps the Phase Wire. Most often, this wire is marked with black, brown or white.
6. Connected switch connected to the power grid, predefined in the absence of voltage.
7. In the electrical panel you can install a special machine of the required nominal value, which will protect the light sources in case of voltage jumps.
8. Carefully check all connections and contacts. Check the performance of the system several times. Make sure there is no closure.
9. Skip the trenches. When arranging a lamppost in soft soil, further strengthen the design with a cement-sand solution.

The following video describes an option to create a street lamp from the jar:

We hope that the assembly of the street lamp in its own drawing did not cause you with special difficulties. Performing work with your own hands, use any favorite materials and objects of life, used. It all depends on your imagination. Street lamp made personally, will be the original solution of the country exterior. Having made everything according to our own design, you will get a unique lighting element, not similar to any of those offered in the store.