Both LED wall washers and LED rigid strip lights are linear lights, known as line lights in the lighting industry. However, outdoor landscape lighting generally employs LED wall washers, while the indoors primarily use LED rigid strip lights! Both have their advantages and many differences, including their purpose and nature, materials, appearance, and structure.
Difference 1: Use
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wall washers provide higher lighting and a larger area than rigid strip lights. LED rigid strip lights are suitable for uses like jewelry counter lights and are not applicable to outer walls. If used on outer walls, they should be applied to walls with a radiation height of less than 1 meter. If you want to shoot over a high range, use wall lights.
Difference 2: Appearance and Structure
LED wall washers use high-powered LEDs with a waterproof rating above IP65. LED rigid strip lights use low-power light sources, primarily made with SMD 5050 beads. They are generally not waterproof, mainly used for dark wave troughs, and can have multiple colors.
Difference 3: Projection Distance
Outdoor landscape lighting usually uses LED wall washers, which can project distances of 2-50 meters. Rigid strip lights are mostly used indoors.
Overview:
The main application fields of LED wall washers are: green landscape lighting, special lighting for advertising licenses; atmosphere lighting in entertainment venues such as bars and dance halls.
LED rigid strip lights are generally used for indoor decorations, such as decoration of dark grooves, decoration lights around the ceiling, jewelry counter lights, etc. If applied to outer walls, it is also possible, but the radiation height should be within 1 meter.
In the main lighting applications, high-lumen LED bulbs are used to replace incandescent bulbs ranging from 60 watts to more than 100 watts, and they have great development potential while maintaining considerable color rendering.