Flood Light Vs Branch Wrap, Need Advise

[Sabre03 10]

every year I branch wrap four large trees in my yard with red green and white. always looking for a way to simplify my setup. has anyone ever tried using red green and white flood lights to illuminate a small maple or other such tree? just thinkin if this idea illuminates the tree good this would save me tons of hours

[gmac 32]

I did something similar, I used 4 90 watt around the tree and it lit it up nicely, you might have to play with the placement of the lights to get your desired look. The problem with using so many bulbs is they sure take some power. So you have a trade off, yes you can get a nice look and save tons of time but you really suck up power using 3 or 4 floods per tree/per color. Maybe a RGB flood might also do the trick but I have no experience with them. Maybe someone who has might chime in.

[hilgi 0]

I would think a couple of these would be great.

I just bought some, I'll see how good the quality is. http://www.amazon.com/Waterproof-Spotlight-Different-AC85V-265V-910WFL/dp/B00CRTICPC/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top#productDetails


 

[rgroves 10]

Hilgi - What wattage did you get?

[Bobby Menard 0]

flood are ok but nothing look as nice as a wrapped tree

[LangfordDave 5]

I did floods on my maple last year but was not overly impressed. Switching to branch wrapping this year.

[hilgi 0]

Hilgi - What wattage did you get?

I am just using these on my roof so I only got the 10W. Based on this video, I think they should work.

http://youtu.be/D52SAx1itaE

 

[jonnyci 11]

So how do you plan to control the individual colors?

[hilgi 0]

Me? The floods have a remote and once you set the pattern it remembers it the next night.

[jonnyci 11]

So how do you plan to incorporate the floods in your display?  Do you sequence you lights to music? 

[hilgi 0]

I just do static, I go for bright. I have seen people on youtube who used them with controllers.