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These high quality garden lighting aluminium spike spots  (bronze texture) are ideal to use in most areas of the garden. Landscapers have incorporated these lights in their outdoor lights design as they they have numerous functions and can be used to up light or down light trees, walls, plants and…

Hello again and for today’s blog we are looking at another question I get asked a lot. 12volt transformer or a LED driver, which is the best when using outdoor lighting? To be fair both have positives and both have their drawbacks. TRANSFORMERS I still use 12volt iprated toloroid transformers…

Manufacturing of the Platinum range of outdoor lights, originated in 1993, within a small manufacturing outfit in Yorkshire. This was long before the LED boom which started when Phillips LumiLEDs released the first one Watt LED in the late ‘90s. The development and manufacturing of these lights has grown over…

Following on from 12 volt vs 240 volt outdoor lights, part2. The final part on low voltage outdoor lighting. In the early days when I started in the garden lighting industry in early 2001, nearly every one was using mains lighting. Extra low voltage was available, however the only large…