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August 11th, 2010  Posted at   Uncategorized
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Solar lights are the current trend for nocturnal lighting of the great outdoors. While standard electricity for your home’s interior will be around for quite some time, you can set a precedent for your neighbors to start thinking “green”. One way is to bring some life, and light, to your garden, backyard, observatory, entrance or walkways using eco-friendly solar lights.

Spruce-up the night with some solar light!

The key to great solar yard lights is the photovoltaic solar panel that rests up-top of them. They soak in the radiant heat rays of the sun, and convert some of that into usable energy. They use what is known as a ni-cad (or NiMH) battery, which recharges itself with adequate sunlight for up to a couple of years.

The places that these lights can go are virtually unlimited. Contrary to traditional lights, which need a power outlet or alkaline battery, solar lights can be “planted” just about anywhere outdoors, and even indoors—believe it or not.

A few of the possibilities include:

ü  The type that is driven directly into the ground (spiked). These are immensely popular in illuminating walkways, dimly-lit paths, gardens, patios, driveway enclosures, dark entryways, and so-forth. As far as colors, you aren’t limited to the standard white—choose from a myriad of colored solar LED’s. These color variations work especially well in-between garden plants and/or paths at night.

ü  There are those that come with hooks or clamps—they readily fasten to poles or hang from tree branches. Some even simulate the flickering action of candles.

ü  The type that you mount on exterior walls will come with the requisite kits to install them, and are relatively easy to set-up.

ü  When Christmas rolls around, just imagine the possibilities! Various solar lights—all with different colors, and the best part—there is no cords to fumble with or high electric bills to contend with.

Be aware that you need to position your solar lights to receive the most sunlight during the day. A 12-hour charging cycle will usually be good for around 7-8 hours at night—largely depending on the amount of light they are capable of shining, though.

July 24th, 2010  Posted at   Uncategorized
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If you are planning to illuminate your yard or garden with some solar lights, there are all kinds of options available to choose from. The biggest advantage of buying and installing these lights is that your electricity cost will be nil because these lights work by storing energy from the sun in the day to provide power to work at night. What’s more, they do use a very low amount of power since they use very bright LEDs instead of standard, conventional bulbs.

The most beneficial way to light up pathways or walkways at night is to install solar lighting. Let’s consider, for example, your porch light illuminates only your driveway or path areas closest to your home. However, with the use of solar driveway lights, you can illuminate the entire driveway, which will make it very easy for you to move around and feel secure at night. Generally, these kinds of solar lamps are made of extremely durable and weather resistant material, thus allowing them to be installed in your driveway edges all year round.

One more significant way of using these solar lights to enhance your garden especially at night, as well as add an artistic look and some character to it is by placing such lights in strategic locations to highlight specific areas or items. You may have a special statue or tree or probably a wall that, with some good lighting especially colored solar lights would give your wall an incredibly dramatic look. By doing so, your outdoor landscaping will be raised to a totally new level, as you will be able to change the appearance of your garden, particularly at night by installing these lamps at specific locations.

There is an impressively wide range of solar lights on the market, starting from lantern-styled lights that emit a broad, diffused beam of light to beautiful spotlights that provide brighter light intensity and allow you the flexibility of directing a light beam to specific points of focus. With you own creative thinking and inputs, you could create amazing light combinations to illuminate your garden and give it a unique ambience after dark.


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