A 240 volt mains lighting system needs professionally installing by qualified electricians. They will use steel wire armoured cable around your garden, trenched 60cm below ground, and make weatherproof joints to tee off for the lights. This is all fine, but very labour intensive and costly. You will also have a lighting system that is harder to adapt later as your garden matures, and it will. You will also risk getting moisture in the joints or fittings and having the complete garden lighting circuit tripping the main house fuse. Not ideal as fault finding then becomes hard and time consuming. 

A 12-volt system can be installed by anyone. Anyone with some good DIY skills and some basic tools. More complex systems will require more thought and planning, but in the main you could have a garden lighting system up and running in an hour or two. The cables can be lightly buried or left on the surface of the borders. We would just suggest running the cable either at the front or back of the border so you know where it is when gardening. As it is 12-volt and plugs into a standard 240v UK socket (inside or out) it really is easy to install, reliable and flexible to grow with your garden and budget. The Lightpro system includes a great range of lights, from spotlights to wall lights and post lights to deck lights, there is something for all tastes. Oh, and did i say it comes with a 6 year warranty? 

Recently introduced is the Smart range of lights and controls. These include Wi-Fi operated switches, to wireless motion sensors for controlling path and driveway lighting. You can now add RGB led colours to your garden and control zones with smart switches, all controlled via the Lightpro app. In addition to the smart range, Lightpro have also introduced a new range of transformers. They have built-in timer/light sensors, touch sensitive controls and at 150w rating (no de-rating needed) are the largest capacity transformers available. 

All Lightpro lights come with quality energy saving LEDs that are fully optimised to not only work on the Lightpro system, but also to allow the system to go further than other systems. This is all due to the LED technology used and how it overcomes "volt drop", often associated with a low voltage lighting system. 

It is also true to say that low voltage LEDs are not dimmer than 240v mains versions, they never were. Light is measured in Lumens and not wattage, so if a light states 300 lumen output, this is the light output you can expect from a Lightpro light. 

A lot of the Lightpro lights have also got built-in 6 stage dimmers on them. Lightpro believe that it is better to dim individual lights to suit what you are trying to light, rather than dim the complete lighting system. Individual dimmable lights also mean as your plant or tree grows, you can increase the light output to grow with it. A simple but effective addition.