Solar Lights
Solar Lights 360: Clean, Low Carbon, Efficient Beauty
Solar lights provide lighting solutions that are economical, easy to install and use and on top of that are good looking and relatively good for the environment. Even better, solar lights are fun and make you feel good! After all, instead of running wires, you’re just installing the light. And, instead of burning up electricity and dollars on your electric bill, you are like your own solar electric generator.
Solar Lights 360 is becoming a solar lighting mini-mall, and likely the most comprehensive source to find and buy landscape lighting on the Internet. We aim to make shopping for such outdoor lighting solutions an enjoyable, economical, boutique shopping experience.
If you’ve never bought solar lights before you may check out the tips on How to Buy Solar Lights. This buying guide provides some ideas on what to consider in making the design and purchase decisions for outdoor lighting.
To purchase products, first put them in the shopping cart and when ready, check out. Purchased items in this solar lights store are via Amazon.com – the leading Internet retailer – who also provides all the customer support. We hope to provide the best of both worlds – a fun, interesting and convenient solar lights store boutique shopping experience with the pricing and convenience of ordering from a leading retailer.
In this store, you will find all the different types of solar lighting products and parts. You can browse the categories using the tabs at the top of the page, or in the index to the left. Some of the categories are:
- Decorative Solar Lights - suitable for garden or home design features
- Outdoor Solar Lights - most popular section of store featuring outdoor solar lighting systems such as garden lights, patio lighting, path lights and deck lights.
- Solar Flood Lights - providing providing directed highlight lighting
- Solar Security Lights - motion detector lights, perhaps the brightest form of solar lighting
- Solar Batteries - replacement rechargeable batteries for solar lights
What are solar lights? A solar light typically includes three main components: the solar panel, the rechargeable battery, and the light bulb or light source, which typically is made up of one or more LED lights. The brightness often depends on the number of LEDs in the solar lighting solution. Generally speaking, the more LEDs, the brighter the light. Lights with 1-3 LEDs might only be suitable for accent lighting, which provides an attractive glow for accenting a path edge, but not enough light, for example to read much. Brighter lights, like flood lights might have 32 LEDs or more, like 80 for relatively brighter versions.
Of the light fixture parts, the most obvious and the one that distinguishes solar lights from conventional lights is the panel, which is the energy source. When the sun shines during the day, the sunshine strikes the solar panel causing the light to be converted into electricity. Typically the panel has photovoltaics that work the magic and create electrical current. The panel size depends on the amount of electrical current required by the solar lights. The more electricity needed, the larger the panel.
The electricity generated in the on board solar panel can directly power the light bulb if desired, but more typically is used to charge up another of the parts of the solar lights: the battery unit. The battery unit includes one or more rechargeable batteries, so during the day, when the sun is shining, it stores up the electrical current coming out of the solar panel – which is like a little a solar electric generator. Then, at night, the rechargeable battery is available to supply electrical current to the light bulb. As the light source is working, the battery is draining. So the number of hours of lighting provided depends on the capacity of the solar batteries, and the amount of electricity generated by the solar panel during daylight hours - which depends on number of hours of sunshine (time of year, length of day, shade), the size of the solar panel, weather conditions, and the latitude location, dust on the panel etc.
Installation Tips: To increase the hours of lighting, try positioning your solar lights or the solar panel in a sunny area, and try cleaning the panel to remove dust or dirt that may be blocking sunlight.
In solar lights, the light source typically is an LED light, or an array of LED lights. The technology for LED lights has improved greatly in recent years to the point that now LED lights can be used to provide focused and very bright light beams, such as for use in LED flashlights and in LED floodlights. Why this type of light source? Typically LEDs use less electrical current than other types of lights.
Design Tip: Accent lighting - A lot of outdoor solar lights, such as used for garden, patio, driveway or landscape lighting are solar accent lights. Accent lights are a distinct type of solar lights because their purpose is not necessarily brightness, but accent lighting. These are well suited as solar lights since not much electricity is required. So, a small solar photovoltaic panel can be used – typically right on board.
Many varieties, styles and colors of solar lights are available. Take your time browsing around the thousands of selections in our solar store and find the great color and style for your outdoor or indoor lighting needs.
In this Solar Lights Store, we do not ship or sell any products – they all come to you via Amazon.com. And, the reviews you will find on this site are also from Amazon. How do we do it? We are an “affiliate” of Amazon and what we provide are useful articles and tips, and a great solar lighting store specializing in solar lights. You also may find some links on this site to outside sites, which are not affiliated with us. So, of course, we have not reviewed those outside sites or any products sold so you proceed at your own risk! But we hope to provide a fun, interesting and enjoyable shopping experience. Enjoy! HomeGarden see all items
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