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One way to beautify your landscape areas is to dress them up with Solar Garden Lights. With the use of Solar Garden Lights
they really make your landscaped areas, walkway areas, deck and patio areas light up beautifully at night and get a full charge during the day, with the exception that these Solar cells do need to collect sun rays during the day. Almost all solar garden lights are made with different designs, shapes, colors, and for a multitude of purposes for lighting up different areas.
Let’s take a look at two basic kinds of solar panels ( also referred to as a PV- photo voltaic cell ) there is mono-crystalline and poly-crystalline. Each one has it’s own output characteristics. A solar panel made from Polycrystalline silicone yields a slightly higher charging output than a Mono-crystalline silicone cell in direct sunlight, slightly less in overcast conditions.
The solar panels I talk about here is rated at 90mA (milli-amperes), meaning it will put out 90 mA of power each hour in high intensity light or direct sunshine. In overcasts conditions, and even when the PV is not placed directly at the light source, the output is greatly reduced. They may go as low as 6mA on an overcast day, in the shade or indirect sun. This is important to know because they use NiCad batteries and each hold 800mA of power, most lights use two of these, for a total capacity of 1600mA. So, if the PV is putting out an average or 50mA per hour, it will take approximately 32 hours to fully charge the batteries. This, in turn, should power the White LED for up to 20 hours. As the batteries discharge, the output voltage will also decline slightly, along with the brightness of the light.
For this reason it is always good to keep the batteries charged, and to keep the PV exposed to light whenever possible, because that is what keeps the batteries charged up to full capacity. With the use of Solar garden Lights you can add beauty to the landscape and to your home, and also for security reasons too!
Show up your Home Address if you want new friends or delivery people to find your house.
Have you seen these new light up address markers. Solar illuminated house number signs. They can provide up to 10 hours of light on a charge from the sun. They come with interchangeable numbers and use 2 AA Nickel-Cadmium rechargeable batteries.
The wonderful ideals of using
Solar Lighting products is-
You are using NO ELECTRICITY to light up your address, and they look really nice as part of your decorating designs with landscaped areas.
Add a touch of class to your landscape!
Have you ever had to walk outside in the dark to go around the house or walked outside in the back yard to do something at night, very hard to see where your walking.
Instead of walking around the flower beds and landscaped areas you want to cut through the flower beds to save time, I know I have done that, Yes I’m Guilty! You probably have too!
Some areas are hidden from the porch lights and stay dark in that area, maybe you don’t want to place a solar garden light there or maybe that area doesn’t get enough sun light during the day.
I have a solution for taking the short cut through the flower beds at night, in the dark, to have a good footing, stay out of the dirt, and they look great during the day & light up at night.
Solar Powered Stepping Stones would compliment anyones outdoor landscaping projects!
In less than 5 years, the technology of solar cells and batteries has improved by leaps and bounds. Older solar garden lights had a poor reputation for emitting only a small amount of light for a short period of time. This, however, is no longer true.
That’s not to say that solar garden lighting is perfect. However, today’s version of solar garden lights is far superior to the first generation of solar landscape lighting. Keep in mind that solar lighting is the next best thing to a low-voltage outdoor lighting system, which is expensive to install and maintain.