Colored Floodlights: Options, Applications and Choosing the Right Hue

You can get coloured floodlights, LED’s have made them very accessible.  In days gone you used to have to put a coloured filter over a floodlight but now you can readily get them in several different colours for both aesthetic and functional illumination.

The Availability of Colored Floodlight

Coloured floodlights are readily available for home, commercial and industrial use and they serve multiple purposes such as accent, security and landscape lighting.

LED Technology - The Colour Revolution

Direct colour - Unlike the old technologies for coloured floodlights where you had to put a filter on, LED’s are made to emit light in specific colours such as red, green, blue, yellow etc.

RGB/RGBW - These use red, green and blue and by mixing these three primary colours you can achieve a vast range of hues.

Programmability and control - some of the LED coloured floodlights come with remote controls or smart phone apps, this allows users to change colours, dim down the lighting and even set colour changing sequences.

Energy efficiency - Even when LED’s  are running vibrant colours they still  consume significantly less energy than traditional floodlights.

Durability and Longevity -  LED floodlights are designed for outdoor use so the fixtures are toughened and long lasting.

Choosing the Best Colour for Floodlights

Architectural and landscape accent lighting - warm white between 2700K and 3000K, this is the colour of the older style light bulbs and provides a warm natural look.

Cool white - this is 4000K and is a modern bright white colour mainly used in kitchen and bathrooms etc where better lighting is required.

Green - excellent for use in garden lighting for highlighting trees and plants

Blue - a cooling colour mainly used to accent water features, ponds etc and can be used to provide a coloured wash on buildings.

Security and safety lighting - Daylight 5000 - 6000K is normally used as this colour is good for security due to its bright illumination and it maximises visibility.

Festive and holiday lighting - Solid colour reds and greens are used a lot at Christmas time and orange and purple for the Halloween period.

Special events and mood lighting - RGB is used for parties and commercial displays as they can cycle through colours or can be set to hold a certain colour to match a theme.

Do LED Lights Come in Colours?

Yes LED lights can come in a number of colours to suit different applications

Key Considerations When Purchasing

• IP rating - IP65/IP66 is essential when using outdoors

• Wattage/Lumen output - higher lumens would be required to light larger areas

• Beam angle - This defines how the light is spread, a narrow beam is good for highlighting a specific item or area, whilst a wider beam is better for general illumination.