Outdoor Lighting Applications

Acrylic rods and tubes, with their excellent weather resistance and outstanding light transmission properties, have become key materials in outdoor lighting design. As the demand for modern urban and landscape lighting continues to grow, acrylic rods and tubes are widely used in various outdoor environments due to their high transparency, durability, and design flexibility. These include parks, courtyards, building facades, and city streets, among other locations.

1. Advantages of Acrylic Rods and Tubes in Outdoor Lighting

Excellent Weather Resistance
Acrylic materials possess exceptional UV resistance and corrosion resistance, maintaining stable optical and structural performance in harsh outdoor environments. Compared to other materials, acrylic rods and tubes retain their transparency and gloss even after long exposure to sunlight, rain, and snow, making them ideal for various outdoor lighting applications.

High Transparency and Uniform Light Effect
Acrylic rods and tubes have extremely high transparency, allowing light to be evenly dispersed and creating a soft lighting effect. This feature makes them particularly suitable as the casing for outdoor lighting fixtures, such as ground lights, pillar lights, and landscape lights, creating eye-catching lighting effects and enhancing the visual appeal at night.

Design Flexibility and Variety
Acrylic rods and tubes can be manufactured in different shapes and sizes according to design needs, making them adaptable to a wide range of lighting designs. Designers can take advantage of their flexible forming characteristics to create a variety of creative lighting installations. Whether it’s vertical light poles or light strips that wrap around trees or buildings, they can meet the unique demands of outdoor environments.

2. Specific Applications of Acrylic Rods and Tubes in Outdoor Lighting

Landscape Lighting
Acrylic rods and tubes are often used in the lighting design of public landscapes such as parks, plazas, and walkways. Their transparent and durable material allows LED light sources to be perfectly concealed within the tube, creating a soft, non-dazzling lighting effect through internal illumination, enhancing the artistic atmosphere of nighttime landscapes. For instance, installing acrylic light poles along garden walkways provides functional lighting while adding a touch of artistic light to the entire environment.

Building Facade Lighting
Acrylic rods and tubes can be applied to the lighting design of building facades, adding a sense of technology and visual impact to modern architecture. By arranging the rod lights in neat rows, they create a series of vertical or horizontal lighting effects that highlight the architectural structure and add a striking visual element to the city's skyline at night. This application is especially suited for commercial and landmark buildings, attracting greater attention.

Street and Courtyard Lighting
Acrylic rods and tubes are also widely used in the lighting design of city streets and private courtyards. Their durability allows them to be used long-term in roadways or pedestrian paths, providing efficient and uniform lighting. In private courtyards, acrylic rods and tubes can be used for fence lights or lighting fixtures around ponds, offering both safety illumination and creating a cozy outdoor ambiance.

  1. Art Installations and Festive Lighting
    The malleability of acrylic rods and tubes makes them an ideal material for festive lighting and outdoor art installations. Designers can shape them into various lighting forms and pair them with LED light sources of different colors, creating a rich festive atmosphere or artistic public installations. Whether it’s Christmas decorations, city light festivals, or art exhibitions, acrylic rods and tubes deliver stunning visual effects.

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    3. Future Development Trends

    With the promotion of smart cities and green environmental concepts, the application of acrylic rods and tubes in outdoor lighting will continue to expand. In the future, the integration of acrylic rods and tubes with smart lighting technologies will enable them to automatically adjust light intensity and color temperature in response to environmental changes, providing more intelligent outdoor lighting solutions. Additionally, with advancements in eco-friendly material technology, acrylic rods and tubes are expected to maintain their excellent performance while further reducing their environmental impact.

Related FAQ

Acrylic Material properties and benefits?
The water absorption rate of acrylic is 0.3%. If the acrylic material absorbs too much water, it is prone to foaming during thermoforming, and it is also prone to cracking and appearance deformation during printing. If it is stored in a humid environment, it will affect the expansion and contraction of the product. If you are very demanding on dimensional tolerances, it is recommended to store it in a dehumidification chamber or vacuum treatment. SMEACRYLIC has nearly 100 pings of dehumidification warehouse space to store all kinds of plates, which can avoid the damage and deformation of the plates due to the humidity of the environment.
What is Acrylic (PMMA) ?
Acrylic is called "polymethyl methacrylate" Poly (methyl methacrylate), referred to as PMMA, also known as plexiglass. It has the reputation of "plastic crystal" and is often used as a substitute for glass. 92% light transmittance, good weather resistance, easy to machine, can be adhered with chloroform, and suitable for various painting and printing (suitable for acrylic materials).
Acrylic Extruded Tube VS. Cast Tube
At present, SMEACRYLIC extruded acrylic round tube, which can produce a maximum outer diameter of 250mm, but if you need a larger size, you can consider casting acrylic round tube, the outer diameter can reach 600mm, thickness 10mm, fixed The length is 1.0~1.2M. The manufacturing process is based on liquid MMA raw material, poured into the tube mold, and formed by the centrifugal principle. The dimensional tolerance is large, the process is long, and one piece can be produced. It is suitable for small-scale production. Better, because the molecular weight is high, it can withstand temperature of about 90 degrees, but there will be fine cloth wheel throw marks on the surface.
PMMA VS. PC
Both have their own advantages and disadvantages, mainly need to consider the way of use and the environment, the following is a comparison table between acrylic and PC for your reference: PMMA acrylic: fragile, light transmittance 92%, processing temperature 70 degrees, not easy to yellow Chemical, cheap PC polycarbonate: impact resistance is 30 times stronger than acrylic, light transmission is 88%, processing temperature is 120 degrees, easy to yellow, and the price is higher
Acrylic VS. Glass
Acrylic is often viewed as a replacement for glass because it can replace glass in some ways, but there are some differences and limitations. Below is a comparison between acrylic and glass for your reference.
Is acrylic environmentally friendly?
Acrylic itself is non-toxic and can be used in medical supplies, contact lenses, food packaging utensils, etc.

Related Applications

LED Light Application
LED Light Application
By placing the LED light strip inside the acrylic tube rod, the light will be refracted and reflected multiple times inside the acrylic tube rod, making the light scatter more evenly on the entire surface of the acrylic tube rod, thereby creating a Soft and even lighting effect.
Backlight Box Application.
Backlight Box Application.
Acrylic tube rods can also be used in backlight boxes. The backlight box is a common advertising display design. An LED light source is placed inside, and the light is guided through an acrylic tube rod to make the entire light box shine evenly. This lighting application is very popular in commercial displays, billboards, and more.
Lobby Lighting Application
Lobby Lighting Application
Hanging a large chandelier from the top of the hall can create an elegant atmosphere and provide the main lighting for the entire space. The design of the chandelier can be selected according to the style of the hall. The lighting that creates the atmosphere is very important, because the hall is usually a building The entrance is also a place for receiving guests and communicating.
Panel Light Application
Panel Light Application
The application of flat panel lights in display cabinets can provide bright, uniform lighting and can be used in display cabinets for valuable items such as art paintings, sculptures, and jewelry to provide even distribution of light and highlight the details and value of these items.
Indoor Lighting Applications
Indoor Lighting Applications
Acrylic tube rods can also be used in interior furniture design, such as hanging lights, chandeliers, etc. The guidance and refraction of light inside the acrylic tube rods can create a unique lighting effect, adding modernity and personalization to the indoor space.
Street Lighting
Street Lighting
Acrylic opal white tubes can be used in street lighting applications to improve light scattering and visual effects, provide soft lighting to reduce glare and glare, and are UV resistant to help reduce the effects of prolonged exposure to sunlight on the tubes Damage to materials.
Furniture Applications
Furniture Applications
Acrylic sticks can also serve many creative and practical purposes. Due to the transparency and sturdiness of acrylic rods, it can bring a unique visual effect and modern feel in furniture design. In addition, combining acrylic rods with other materials, such as metal, wood, etc., can also create more rich and diverse design effects. Whether it’s modern, minimalist or otherwise, acrylic rods make a great addition to furniture designs.
Decorative Lighting Applications
Decorative Lighting Applications
Acrylic pipe sticks can be used as lighting or decorative elements. In the design of lighting or decorations, through appropriate lighting design, the light can form a unique light guide effect inside the acrylic tube rod, creating a unique visual effect and adding to the beauty and artistic atmosphere of the space.
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