[PSUscaper]

Just went on a estimate tonight and wanted to see if anyone might have some input. I have a potential client who owns a banquet facility and they want to do a great deal of lighting. I have the low voltage lighting pretty much under control but am trying to figure out something to do with the trees.

Besides uplighting and downlights, they want christmas lights strung in trees throughtout the garden areas. They had someone hang regular white christmas tree lights in the trees already and basically, they ALL stopped working. Some of the trees are 25' plus pear trees, large magnolias, and a lot of smaller 4-5" cal. trees.

This is a year round effect they are looking for, so standard string christmas lights aren't going to cut it. I'm trying to figure out what the best product may be for this application. The 'standard' off the shelf lights self destructed, and I would not even think about using them for a year around effect as they will never stay on.

I'm looking into rope lighting as it seems like it would be the most durable. I've found some other products, but not too familiar with.

I'm seeing if anyone has had experience with this type of lighting and could give me some insight on what direction to head. Its winter time, they want it done, and it would be a great job to past some time away with, so I'm looking to move on this one.

I'm keeping cost in mind, but, know its going to be quite expensive. I would say there's up to 30 strands of lights, average, maybe up to 100 in the larger trees already, and they all need to be replaced. I'm not even sure what the power consumption will be and what their current power system will support. They claim that all the trees were lit at one time, so I'm thinking they have adequate power supplies, but that will be another subject.........

This one could be very interesting.......