Solar Powered Products

Solar powered garden lights are a beautiful and efficient way to increase the attractiveness and security of your yard.  These lights are stuck into the ground where they absorb sunlight all day, and use that energy for light after dark.  They can also be affixed to houses and used as porch lights or security lights.

Benefits of Solar Powered Lights

There are many benefits to using these attractive lights.  If you are ecologically minded, you will appreciate that they reduce the amount of fossil fuels that each house consumes.  If every house cuts back even in a small way on their consumption of coal or oil based energy, the overall usage of these expensive, unclean fuels will go down throughout the world.  Solar powered garden lights can reduce the amount of energy you spend on outdoor lighting around your home.  That also translates into lower energy costs for your home itself, and lower bills for you ever month.  As it so often happens, when we care for the environment, we also reap the benefits for ourselves.

There are more aesthetic benefits as well.  These solar powered garden lights come in an amazing variety of styles and colors.  There are several standard designs that can simply line walkways or highlight certain sections of your garden.  Most of these designs follow the same basic design; they have slender bases and elegant bulbs surrounded by glass or plastic globes, with rain guards over the top.  You can get them to cover just a small area in your walkway, or to cover a larger area with brighter lighting for security around your yard.  They come as flag lights, flood lights, spot lights, address lights, landscaping lights, or sign lights.

Different Designs of Solar Powered Garden Lights

They also come in attractive and even quirky designs.  You can get solar powered garden lights in the shapes of animals such as turtles, chickens or snails.  You can get hanging lights that look like old fashioned lanterns, light posts, or hurricane lamps.  There are lighted water fountains and meditation pools.  Solar powered lights can be hidden in rocks to provide a subtle, diffused glow throughout your garden or walkway.  Solar powered lights can be placed on steps to make sure that people don’t trip on the in the dark.  They come in floating colored globes, dragonflies, quaint cottages and flower shapes that add beauty and brightness to your yard or garden.  Some of them change colors, or simply glow white or yellow.  You can also have your address posted in solar power lights, so that it is visible at night.

Solar powered garden lights are a bit of an investment.  However, any property repairs to make your home more beautiful and energy efficient are worth the price, and you’ll never have to replace light bulbs, batteries, or wiring.  Solar powered garden lights are an attractive and energy efficient solar powered product to beautify your home, keep your property safe, and reduce the consumption of fossil fuels in your home.

To add the finishing touch to fence posts, deck corner posts, gateway posts and other such spots, many people use a solar post cap light. They come in many different styles, to match your outdoor motif and personality. A row of these lights, on a long stretch of fenceline, looks great every night as dusk settles. And as solar deck rail lights, they also add a lot to the atmosphere of your back yard.

The light given off by these post cap lights is an ambient light, not suitable for tasks. If you need brighter lights, you may have to look into solar powered yard lights, which can be much more radiant. For most garden lighting, these are enough considering the low cost for electricity.

They use the power of the sun to recharge and therefore cost nothing to operate. In most ways these post cap lights are identical to solar powered garden lights, except they are mounted on top of a post rather than a peg or rod in the ground. The led lights are powered at night by 2 rechargeable AA batteries, which can last 8 to 10 hours.  The small solar panel on the top of the light recharges the batteries all day, to be ready by nightfall again.

If it becomes necessary to replace the batteries, make sure rechargeables are used, since regular batteries might wreck the solar powered post cap light. A lifespan of up to 10 years is possible for the light, but the batteries may not last more than 3. I have owned several solar lights for more than 2 years, and they are still working on their first set of batteries.  Fortunately, they are easy to remove and replace when it becomes necessary..

For installation, manufacturers may recommend an exterior grade construction adhesive for attaching your new solar post cap lights to the post. Make sure you read all the instructions should you install these yourself.

One great decorative idea is to use these solar deck rail lights on the corners and stairs of your deck. Inbetween the lights, regular decorative post caps can be used to accentuate the effect. This is a very cost effective, energy efficient way to add the the look of a deck or outdoor area.

One of my favourite solar powered products is the garden light. I prefer the solar stainless steel lights over ones with plastic housings, to give a longer life. They look snazzier too!

Solar garden lighting has a lot of advantages over standard -  wired into house electricity lights.

• Initial outlay is low
• Installing your new lights is very simple
• Solar Garden Lamps are just pushed into the ground
• environmentally friendly
• electrical bills won’t go up
• readily available online or in department stores everywhere

By contrast, wired in garden and accent lights will cost many times more, need to be installed by a professional, your electrical bill will increrase, and you won’t be doing Mother Earth any favours either as you increase your electrical usage.

I own 8 solar stainless steel lights. They are along the edge of our walk from the garden to the house. Two of them change colour from Red to Blue, to Green. I think they add a lot to the atmosphere of the yard, and they didn’t break the bank either. We bought then in sets of 2, and the whole works was very affordable.