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Christmas celebration isn’t completed without the fascinating decoration part. To create the yuletide presence in your home and environment, decorations are a must. Not only does it bring you in the December mood but also attracts the neighborhood to extend their gifting hands to your house. Aside from all these, if you have kids, then it’s best to make every Christmas a memory for them, and it isn’t complete without indoor and outdoor decorations. These decorations come in different kinds of light connections, both within the house and outside of it, especially with the Christmas trees. The outdoor and indoor decoration models are however different and that is what we are to explore here. Let’s look at the main decoration differences in types, arrangements, and purposes of indoor and outdoor Christmas lights.

On this post, we’ll compare the differences between Outdoor and Indoor Christmas light decorations. The basis of comparison would be Brightness, Size, Wattage and Cost of operations.

Outdoor and Indoor light Brightness

Outdoor lighting needs to be up to five times as bright as indoor lighting. Brighter lighting used indoors produces too much heat radiation as well as too much power for indoor use. Your outdoor lights will have varying brightness lumen depending on where you place them. The recommended range for outdoor lighting is 50–185 lumens for hardscape lights (on walls), 50–300 lumens for landscape lighting, 100–200 lumens for pathway lighting, and 120 lumens for landscape spotlights. Vibrant cool White LED lights with various or changing colors are frequently chosen for indoor lighting decorations.

Sizes

For exterior home decorations, bigger bulbs provide more light and are preferred. To draw attention to a particular area, such as your doorway or an outdoor tree, use bulbs like C-7s and C-9s. However, when utilized liberally outside, small lights can be very magical. For indoor lighting, combine miniature lights and either C-7 or C-9 bulbs; for indoor Christmas tree ornaments, use microlights and C-7 bulbs.

Wattage

You can use indoor light inside but never outdoor light inside. This is due to the heavier-duty wire coding on the outdoor lights which could lead to burns or more heat if it’s of high voltage. For instance, you might need up to 300 bulbs to cover all of the roof lines on your home using size C9 lights with the customary 12-inch gap between each lamp. Although they require 2,100 watts to operate, incandescent lamps will look stunning. Indoor LED lamps only use 29 watts and will look spectacular when used outside. For indoor use, a set of lights producing more than a thousand watts is not recommended.

Cost of operations

The outdoor decoration has a higher number of bulbs and even bigger sizes which result in more watt usage. There are high tendencies the common thing you’ll light up indoor is the Christmas tree and the room corners, which is more and wider for outdoor lighting. Roughly calculated, a string of 25 incandescent C9 bulbs, which are the large, plump bulbs frequently used outside. They consumes 175 watts of electricity, costing an astounding $15.12 to operate throughout a season. (assuming 12-hour-a-day operation for 45 days)


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