So you want to add lights to your pond or fountain and dont know what to get. Here’s a quick breakdown on how to pick the right units for your set-up.

 

Do you have a pond or a fountain?

 

Ponds: 

Lets do ponds first. For ponds, we always recommend a good brass lighting set-up.  There are a few reasons for this. One, is they’re durable AF. If these lights are going to be hidden under ledges, wedged between stones and other decorative items, you need something that’s extremely durable and wont break. Plastic lights for ponds are garbage. Pure and utter garbage. One of the most common repair calls we receive is for swapping out lights which have leaked and straight up cracked. All this is easily preventable by simply spending cash on proper lights. Good light pucks usually start around the $100 per light. There are metal lights on the market in the $45-$60 range. But these are generally poorly made with low quality electrical line ports, which will leak on you, and the metal itself is of low grade and will rust and crack on you after a few years.

Fountains: 

Now to the fountains. First thing you want to ask, is what size is your fountain? If large brass lights cant fit into the fountain, or look way oversized for your system. They’re not the way to go. In this case, you want to get something like a 2-4 puck led system by Jebao. We do advise that you teflo the seals on these lights at least 1 per year as their gaskets are thin and these lights do not tighten up as much as we like. But they are the best cost effective alternative to  brass pucks.

Now If your fountains bottom basins larger than 3ft in diameter, then get the brass lights. It might seem like overkill, but its not. Brass lights will outlast pretty much everything on the market.

 

-Serge