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Lighting your waterfall is a mandatory in my book.
There's no way you're going to go through all this hard work, and
not be able to enjoy that water feature in the evening time.
Now, when you place the lights in the pond they should be at the foot
of destination spot shining into the pond, and away from you.
The last thing you wanna do is walk up to the pond and
have the light shine right into your eyes.
So we'll take that same philosophy, and apply it to the waterfall as well.
Now there's a couple different ways we can light this waterfall.
We can put a, a light fixture broadcasting light onto the face of the water,
or we can back light the feature, and have the, the light behind the waterfall as well.
So, there's two really distinct different ways you
can do it one other tip that you can do, is you can use two lights,
dual fixtures, and, and cast them, like, at 45 degree angles across from each other.
And what that does is it creates a different shadow effect that starts to happen and
it's a really neat look as well.
This particular feature, the, the water fall is a little bit small.
It's got a narrow and, and tall.
So, I wanna back light this, cuz I had that deep pocket for that echo chamber.
It would be interesting to light this rock as well.
And maybe what we can do is we can add one other light as an accent somewhere across
the pond, and broadcast some interesting light on this, real subtle effect on there.
But this one right now, we're gonna put that one back behind there,
and I'm gonna show you the LED light as well when we go to put it in.
This is the same light fixture that we used in the pond, and we, of course,
put the O rings silicon grease on the bushing in there.
I do want to introduce you to the LED light that we have as an option
this is more a really bright white.
They are getting warm, warmer we're, we're using halogen on this pond.
It's still my favorite.
It's very warm, warm effect, but we can use the, the LED as well.
So you get a lot longer life span, but the LED light is about 30 bucks, where
the underwater light, the MR16, is somewhere in the range of you know six or eight bucks.
So similar to the pond.
We're gonna do a couple of wraps like this.
[NOISE] These wraps will allow us to remove the light fixture,
and replace bulbs as necessary.
[NOISE] I'm gonna fish the wire out here
back behind this waterfall stone.
And I'm going to face this guy, right like this, pull some more of that wire out.
Okay, I'll be able to hide all of that wire back here behind the stone,
now what I"m gonna do is I'm gonna set this guy right about like this,
I'm gonna hide it with some rock.
Another cool thing about this excess cord.
Not only does it allow me to unravel this thing in the future, like so,
pull it out of the pond water, change the bulb, but it also enables me to move
this fixture around once it's in place, so I have that right there.
And what I'll do is I'll just rock it in right now and
hide the wire, and this will be a nice backlit waterfall.
And, I have a little stand still on here, so I can angle it.
I can aim it straight up to hit the bottom of the spillway stone.
Or, I can push it down this way, and I can cast light on this back stone as well.
The neat thing is,
this is the type of angle that I'll be getting coming off of the light fixture.
So, I don't really know what's the best way it's gonna go.
My educated guess tells me not exactly straight up just tilted slightly,
towards here, so we'll get a good broadcast here.
And the neat thing is, once this water is coming down and I have this full of water,
this light will fill up this whole back end of the waterfall.
So the actual water will help fill in the gap more with,
with with the water, with the light.
So all right, I'm just gonna hide this wire, and put some stone around here and
that'll be it.
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