Halogen

An older incandescent bulb technology now largely replaced by efficient, long-lived LEDs.

Halogen is a type of incandescent bulb that produces light by heating a tungsten filament inside a gas-filled capsule. For decades it was the standard in landscape lighting, prized for its warm color and excellent color rendering, but it runs hot, burns out relatively quickly, and draws far more power than modern alternatives. Today LEDs deliver the same warm, high-quality light while using roughly a fifth of the energy and lasting many times longer, which also reduces voltage drop across long wire runs. We install warm LED systems and often retrofit aging halogen setups, keeping the look homeowners loved while cutting energy use and the constant chore of bulb replacement.

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