Stringing lights through a gum tree means a ladder, an afternoon, and pulling it all down again afterwards. This does the same job from the lawn in thirty seconds. Push the spike in, point it at the tree, and thousands of red, green and blue points drift across the canopy. When you want the garden back to normal, you pull it out.

Why It Stands Out

• It covers what would take hundreds of metres of string lights — 50 to 100 square metres from one unit on a spike.
• The points move — a motor drifts the pattern slowly across the foliage, which is what makes it read as fireflies rather than a static spray of dots.
• Full remote control — on and off, red, green and blue alone or cycling, flash speed and drift speed up and down.
• A 1 to 6 hour timer on the remote — set it for the length of the evening and it shuts itself off. No coming back out at midnight.
• 180° adjustable head — one spot can cover a tree, a fence or the side of the house depending where you aim it.
• Spike or screw mount — a ground spike for the garden bed, or a round base plate for a wall, post or under the eave.
• IP65 housing with built-in temperature protection — it stays out in the weather and it will not cook itself on a hot night.

Where to Point It

• Up into a tree — the job it does best. A jacaranda, a gum or a big shrub takes the points across the whole canopy.
• Across the garden beds — set low and aimed along a bed so the points scatter through the planting rather than landing flat on lawn.
• At the back fence or a rendered wall — a plain surface turns into the backdrop for the whole yard.
• Over the alfresco and the entertaining area — aimed up under a pergola it throws the effect over people sitting below.
• Along the driveway or the front of the house — the one that stops traffic at Christmas and works for a party any other month.

How It Works

1. Three laser diodes — red, green and blue — produce the coloured points, thousands of them at once.
2. A motor drifts the pattern, and the remote sets how fast.
3. The plug pack runs it from a standard power point on a 3 metre lead, drawing about 5 W.
4. The timer on the remote runs it 1 to 6 hours and then shuts it down.

How to Set It Up

1. Water the ground first if it is dry — the spike is plastic and hard Australian clay will snap it.
2. Keep the plug pack under cover — the projector body is IP65 but the adapter is only IP44, so it sits under the eave, in the shed or in a weatherproof box. Never lying in a garden bed.
3. Stand 2 to 5 metres back — closer is brighter and tighter, further is wider and fainter. Five metres covers roughly 100 square metres.
4. Aim at foliage or a wall, never at the sky or a road — pointing a laser upward is both useless and a genuine problem near aircraft.
5. Tune the drift and flash speed — slow for a quiet evening, fast for a party.
Tip: aim it into a tree rather than at the lawn. The points need depth and texture to land on — grass gives flat dots, a canopy gives the effect layers.

Care and Maintenance

• Wipe the lens when the effect looks dull — dust and cobwebs cost more than anything else.
• Keep the adapter dry — the most common failure on units like this is a drowned plug pack, not a dead laser.
• Only ever use the supplied transformer — the manual says it and it matters.

Specifications

What's Included

• 1 × Laser projector with plug pack
• Ground spike, base plate and adjustable bracket
• Remote control and fixing screws