Let There Be Lights!
This summer, Solstice installed 30 landscaping lights on a 14 acre property in beautiful Sonoma county. We created an inner perimeter around the pool, with another perimeter around the outer-grounds.
The Jedi master on this one was Daemon Knutson, Solstice’s mean green-energy machine. He crunched the numbers for the two shinny transformers that would juice the 30 lights.
Fortunately, Sonoma was a crisp 100 degrees and sunny durring the project – but a strong, fresh westerly wind came up like clock-work every afternoon (so we’re not complaining). The trenches were at least six inches deep, ensuring our direct-burial line would not interfere with future landscaping (or an aggressive Easter-egg hunt).
We dug, dug, dug, ran close to a mile of wire, striped, spliced, connected, fastened, water-proofed, re-buried, troubleshot, and turned on the juice.
The lights made perfect sense. Their design (basically a lamp on a pole) was subtle and unobtrusive, barely perceptible to the eye once installed, so that the final product did not visually intrude on the natural landscape. And when they’re live, the lights cast a perfect beam on selected foliage, and quietly trace the perimeter of the property, adding both practical safety, and aesthetic.
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