Why is it that you always seem to need something from the storage shed, or check on your greenhouse plants, at night? Wandering around with a flashlight does not stop you from stubbing your toe, and half the time you cannot find what you were looking for anyway in those dark corners.
Running electrical wire to light your storage shed or greenhouse is way too expensive, and the increase to your electric bill each month is never needed. My personal solution is to make someone else wander in the dark to get what’s needed. At least my toes are fine! You don’t think that is fair?
There actually is a fair, easy and cheap solution to dark storage sheds, work shops, boathouses, greenhouses and other outdoor buildings. Installing an indoor solar shed light will light up your outdoor buildings without the expense of an electrical source, wiring, or added cost to your monthly electric bill. One initial purchase price for the solar shed light, and there is no more expense until the rechargeable batteries need to be replaced in two years or so.
Indoor Solar Lights are easy to install on all types of material; metal, wood or plastic. The solar panel is installed on the southern exposure on the exterior of your building, the LED light fixture is installed inside, and constant, energy efficient light is yours! You won’t even have to change light bulbs anymore (another savings) since LED bulbs last around 100,000 hours, and that’s at least 25 years!
Some models of indoor solar lights even come with a compass to help you find the true southern exposure, and a night light to guide you to the indoor solar light fixture to turn it on. Now no one needs to hop around while their toe is hurting. How can indoor solar lights not be the best solution for lighting your outdoor buildings?
Check out the Solar Shed Lights and other eco-friendly Solar Lights at www.NaturesSolarLights.com, and start saving money on electric today.
Are you still working on your New Year’s Resolutions like I am? It’s hard to come up with promises to yourself that you know you are not going to ignore or break.
One New Year’s Resolution that should be made and easy to keep is to stop paying for those electric outdoor lights every month. Go Green starting in 2010 and switch to Solar Landscape Lights.
With Solar Lights, no electric or wiring is needed, which most importantly means no electric bill to be paid every single month. When you tell yourself that your electric outdoor lights are already paid for so why spend money buying solar landscape lights, also remind yourself that Electric Lights Are Never Completely Paid For! Every single day you are paying for the electric to light your “already paid for” outdoor lights.
It truly is a pleasure to look at the soft glow of solar landscape lights knowing that the sun took care of turning on the lights rather than my pocketbook. Even now, I still smile when I see my solar lights come on at dusk.
Give Solar Landscape Lights a chance to put a smile on your face. Prices for solar lights start at less than $20 for a set. That’s less than you pay in a month for electric lights, depending on the quantity you have. With basically no maintenance and LED bulbs that last 100,000 hours, your only expense will be replacing the rechargeable batteries every two years or so. Think you can keep switching on your electric lights for about a $30 cost over two years?
Solar lights will be a great New Year’s Resolution. Easy to buy, easy to install, and easy on the pocketbook from now on.
Go Green! Save money today buying Solar Landscape Lights, Indoor Solar Lights and Solar Garden Decor at www.NaturesSolarLights.com.
Garden statues arranged throughout your landscape and flower beds will add a classic, elegant touch or a fun, fairytale look to your outdoor space, during the day.
Add solar LED lights to the garden statues and you now have classic elegance, extreme fun, and the beauty of showcasing that landscape and flower bed at night, with sun charged solar garden statue lights.
A solar garden statue can be placed anywhere that receives full sun, or sun for at least five to six hours each day. No wiring or electrical is needed. Just imagine what a beautiful sight it will be to see your geraniums, petunias or pansies growing around an angel, fairy or cherub solar statue. When the sun goes down, your flowers and solar statues will light up.
My favorite is the Cherubs with the solar fountain. The solar led lights flow down the fountain bowls to create a continuous solar sun fountain. A Dwarf solar garden statue will make you believe you are in the enchanted land of Sleeping Beauty, with a solar LED lantern to safely show the prince the way.
Solar statues also make great gifts, and can be shipped directly to your friends or family that you are honoring with an elegant, yet fun, solar decor gift.
To shop and buy your solar garden decor, solar animals, outdoor solar LED lights, and indoor solar lights, visit http://www.NaturesSolarLights.com.
Solar garden decor will bring your landscape design to life when the sun goes down. Create fun and excitement in your garden, make an enchanted forest, build your own wildlife preserve, have your own beach. You can create anything you want with unique and charming solar decor. Solar garden decor will add that special touch, and compliment the natural beauty of your landscape.
An adorable Baby Bear holding a solar welcome sign will greet each and every guest with his own welcome smile, which is bound to put a smile on everyone that comes to your front door. Butterfly and flower solar LED garden decor will make every day feel like spring. A Solar Dog family or Solar Frog lights will give your garden the life and activity it needs, day and night. Your special garden areas can either add glow or illuminate your outdoor yard with Solar LED Spotlights.
Only your imagination will limit the special area you can create with groupings of solar dog, daisy and lily solar lights, solar squirrels, color changing solar lights, turtles, snails and sea shells. Your children and grandchildren will believe you created a fairy tale wonderland just for them! They don’t need to know you did it for yourself!
Check out all of the wonderful solar resin animals and creatures at www.NaturesSolarLights.com.
Okay, so you’re only protecting yourself from the dark of night, but isn’t that also important? And they are so darn cute while doing that hard protecting job. And look! He’s bringing your own solar LED lantern to you to light the way, what a good puppy dog!
Go solo (but he might get lonely), set up a pure bred family, or a group of solar powered dog friends. Throw in a solar powered rabbit or solar squirrel to give the dogs some daily exercise and excitement.
Each solar powered garden decor dog holds a solar LED lantern, with 100,000 hours of lighting use. That’s 27 years of enjoyment without changing a single light bulb. No electrical source or wiring is needed, so set your solar dog family anywhere that receives sun for solar charging.
Every garden can use a bit of charm and fun. Solar powered dog groupings can add those touches to your solar garden lights and landscape.
Go Green and have fun at the same time. Check out all of the Solar Garden Decor animals and creatures at www.NaturesSolarLights.com.
Solar accent lights add a very pleasing glow to your outdoors and make your night time beautiful. Solar accent lights are designed to softly highlight garden features, a special flower bed, a seating area or gazebo, where a lot of illumination is not required, and ambiance is preferred. A grouping of solar lights make a great garden feature by themselves, with their unique, soft glow.
Compared to other categories of outdoor solar lights, accent lights have a lower output of light by design, and the light will generally last for more hours each night. Some solar garden lights last as many as three days without being fully recharged by the sun. This feature can be very valuable in areas of the country that go days seeing only clouds.
Solar accent lights are available in white or colored LEDs, for an even softer glow and more enticing look in your landscaping. Amber, green, blue, red, and even color changing LEDs, are readily available to add enchantment to their already beautiful design and glow. Colored LEDs will use less energy than white, and quality solar lights will generally light your outdoors for at least 10 hours a night.
Since outdoor solar accent lights do have less illuminations, they are the most affordable solar lights available. With so many garden features in a normal outdoor landscape, you can afford to purchase solar accent lights in sets and transform every area of your outdoors.
Go Green in 2010! Check out all of the Solar Lights products at www.NaturesSolarLights.com. There are solar garden lights for everyone.
Solar path lights are designed to light your path, walkway, driveway and gardens, to provide sufficient light for safety and beauty at the same time. Since LED solar lights give off a different type of light than electric lights, the overall look that solar path lights give your outdoors will always be soft and inviting.
Solar path lights typically have 3 to 8 LED bulbs to put the light where you need it, and stay lit for 8 – 15 hours, depending on the quantity of bulbs (more bulbs, more energy used), and quality of the solar yard lights. Some solar lights will also light for 3 nights, even with cloudy conditions. They illuminate a dark path or walkway, highlight a special garden feature, and add ambiance to your landscape. There is nothing more beautiful than seeing the warmth of solar path lights along your walkways.
Make your home and outdoors a showplace for gatherings with solar path lights. Create safety and security with low profile solar step lights as you stroll in the evening and walk up those steps. Whichever design you choose, your outdoor landscape will be more beautiful, day and night, with the green energy of solar yard lights.
Outdoor solar path lights are so easy to install, with no electrical or wiring cost or hassle, and can be placed anywhere that receives sun for charging. After a full day charging by the sun, enjoy the warmth of light every night. Rearrange your lighting design at will, since outdoor solar path lights can be moved over and over again.
Solar yard lights are available individually or in sets, in stainless steel, copper, and durable plastic to customize your every lighting need. Check out all of your options at www.NaturesSolarLights.com. Go Green in 2010!
Technology truly is wonderful! Years ago our only choices for indoor and outdoor lights were incandescent bulbs or fluorescent tubes. We now have the luxury of Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) for indoor and outdoor electric or solar lights.
LEDs are a semi-conductor device that emits visible light when conducting current. They are like miniature light bulbs that are installed on an electrical circuit. The light emitted by the LED bulb is the byproduct of electrons moving through the semi-conductor material. LED bulbs do not have a filament to burn out.
One LED bulb will last up to 100,000 hours. If you use the light for 10 hours per day, 3,650 hours a year, your LED bulb will last a total of 27 years! How many incandescent or fluorescent bulbs would you have to replace in a 27 year span?
LED bulbs do not generate heat, so your LED Solar Lights will stay cool to the touch. Another technological wonder for those of us that live in the sunbelt. When it’s 118 degrees outdoors, who needs more heat being generated by incandescent bulbs?
With the improvements to LEDs recently, differing light intensity can be achieved, based on color (amber, green, blue, red, white), super bright, ultra bright, and how many LEDs are grouped, or clustered, into the bulb. That is why LEDs are perfect for solar lights. Choose between a glow and ambiance, or brighter solar motion detector lights for security, and still reap the benefits of using the same LED bulb for the next 27 years.
Go Green with LED Solar Lights and LED Rechargeable products from www.NaturesSolarLights.com.
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The main concept of Solar Lights is to place the solar landscape lights in full sun for charging, and receive light at night. Generally, solar lights need a minimum of 6 to 8 hours of full sun to maximize the number of hours your outdoor solar lights will provide light at night.
If placed in partial sun or shade, charging of the solar panel by the sun may not be optimized, and you may not be pleased with the amount and time of light emission at night. If you follow this basic rule, maintaining solar landscape lights is incredibly easy!
Follow these maintenance instructions for the life of your outdoor solar lights:
1. Wipe off the top, or solar panel area, with a damp cloth periodically to remove dust and grime. Do not use any harsh cleaning chemicals. Avoid putting pressure on the solar panel.
2. Remove any leaves that fall and block the sun from the solar panel.
3. Replace the Ni-Cd or Ni-MH Rechargeable Battery when your solar lights are no longer providing the brightness or length of lighting hours you desire, every two years or so.
That’s it! The LED light lasts for 25-30 years, so you might want to mark your calendar to replace your outdoor solar lights around the year 2035.
Lots of bang for the buck, isn’t it! Another great reason to install solar landscape lights rather than expensive electric fixtures!
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As discussed in Part 1, solar lights generate and store their own power during the day, then release it at night to light your outdoors. An outdoor solar light is made up of six components, including the casing.
Solar Light Casing: The casing of the solar lights can be manufactured in many different materials; brass, bronze, copper, stainless steel, durable plastic, etc. Even the durable plastic is strong enough to last absolutely years. Any casing should be wiped down with a damp cloth periodically to remove layers of dirt.
Solar Panel: also called solar cells, or photovoltaic (PV) modular cells, which is a group of cells electronically connected and packaged in one frame. Solar cells are created with silicon which has impurities added to it, to allow electrical current to pass to the diode, also known as doping. Silicon crystals are expensive to make and the major expense of the solar light. The solar panel converts sunlight directly into electricity, charging the NiCd or NiMH rechargeable battery, then transferred to the LED diode. Solar cells are wired directly to the battery through the diode, which prevents the battery’s current from flowing back through the solar cell at night.
NiCd or NiMH Rechargeable Battery: Nickel-Cadium (NiCd) or Nickel-Metal Hydride (NiMH) batteries are designed to operate from fully charged to fully discharged. An AA size NiCd battery produces about 1.2 volts, and can store a maximum of approximately 700 milliamp-hours. NiMH batteris are a type of secondary electrochemical cell similar to an NiCd. NiMH uses a hydrogen absorbing alloy for the negative electrode instead of cadmium. As in NiCd cells, the positive is nickel oxide hydroxide (NiOOH). A NiMH charging voltage is 1.4-1.6 volts per cell, and can have 2-3 times the capacity of an equivalent size NiCd. A good quality NiMH will generally last up to 1,000 nights.
Photoresistor Cell: Located on the exterior of the casing, sends input to the controller board that darkness is occurring.
Controller Board: Accepts power from the solar cell and battery. When the photoresistor indicates darkness to the controller board, the controller board activated the battery. The three-transistor circuit turns on the LED light.
Light Emitting Diode (LED): A diode is the simplest possible semi-conductor device, and allows current to flow in one direction, but not the other. Basically, a diode is a one-way turnstile for electrons. One LED emits roughly the same brightness as a 2 watt incandescent bulb. The tiny LED bulb fits into an electrical circuit and illuminates solely by movement of electrons in a semi-conductor material, and lasts as long as a standard transistor. There is no filament to burn out, which is why LED lights have a lifespan of 100,000 hours, which is over 25 years.
That is how solar lights work, very simple, very few components, and the energy to have light outdoors at night is supplied completely free of charge, by the sun.
Check out all of our Solar Lights products at www.NaturesSolarLights.com. Go Green!