Solar Garden Lights: What to look for when buying them?

When it comes to purchasing lights for your garden, there are lots of choices from conventional lights to solar lights in a different price range. Certainly, they are not all created the same quality and brightness. What you choose hugely depends on why do you want the light and what do you want to get out of your money spend on that?

 

This blog is a comparison between decorative solar lights commonly in the market and SunShare Solar garden Lights in the same range. These lights are simple lights purely for decorative purpose and not safety or security lights nor pathway or driveway lights.

 

Our assumption here is that we all admit that solar lights are the best option for garden and backyard decoration or for landscape lighting. Mainly because they are using purely the solar energy hence they are Green and environmentally friendly.

 

We all are hearing enough about climate change and its devastating impacts on human life and the planet earth, all day, every day. And we know that one of the major remedies for this problem is the way countries generate their energy. Most of the time we consider this problem one of our problems and we find governments, local, and international authorities responsible to resolve it for us.

 

Let’s think about it the other way. Let’s imagine, for the purpose of garden and landscape decoration, you decided to use solar-powered lights instead of the conventional lights running by electricity. What has happened in fact, is that you, yourself, firstly generated the power required for running these lights from natural resources and independent from any grid, power companies, national or local authorities, and infrastructure.

 

Secondly, you saved carbon-generated energy to be used in other projects. Projects for which sourcing energy from renewables is going to be a challenge and need long-term infrastructural investments. And, you saved your money being paid to big power companies.

 

I know, it might seem very minimal and nothing. But, imagine your neighbours saw you doing that and got inspired and motivated so they did the same. Your suburb, town, city and your nation did the same. How big will be the impact of this small step by large numbers? As they say: “Never Overlook a Small Deeds.

 

Now, the question is what to consider when choosing a Solar Garden Light?

 

For our purpose of garden decoration, the first and foremost element is ease and flexibility in placement. Depends on your garden design and decoration, you need something that you can stake in the ground, hang from trees, float in pond or water feature, or screw in concrete, fence or wall. The lights which give you more than one option for placement are perfect choices. Because they will provide you with the flexibility to apply them in different parts of your backyard, create a cohesive look and style, and maybe change their application over the time.

 

It is also important that you get the light as a complete kit. Solar panel, battery, connecting cable (if applicable), and installation accessories all come together in a package.

 

The solar panel is a part that plays an important role in our satisfaction from a solar garden light. Its quality, flexibility, and connectivity are the elements to consider. Generally speaking, the technology used in manufacturing Monocrystalline solar panels is an improved technology compared to the one used in manufacturing Polycrystalline panels. As a result, these panels are more efficient and more expensive.

 

Based on your design and desired location of the light, you might prefer an inbuilt or attached solar panel or detached solar panel with a connecting cable to the light. Sometimes it might be important for you to be able to adjust the angle of the solar panel so that it gets the best exposure to the sun. In the small scale, it’s important especially when the panel is an inefficient and poor quality so that you need to grab every opportunity to increase its output!

 

The quality of the battery is particularly important for the working hours per night and expected life-cycle of the light. Lithium-ion batteries are the most advanced battery technology that is currently used in the solar lights. Other commonly used batteries are Ni-MH batteries which have a considerably lower capacity, and lower life-long.

 

Decorative garden lights are not designed as a motion sensor light. Thus, they emit constant lights for a few hours after dark. As mentioned before, the higher quality of the battery will result in the higher performing hours per night. Certainly, we won’t be happy if the light fades after a couple of hours from sunset as our intention is to shine our gardens after dark to enjoy it for extended hours. All these lights are dusk-to-dawn which means an inbuilt light sensor detects the light level and turns on the garden light when it gets low.

 

In the table below we gathered information about some of the most popular solar garden lights in the market and compared them with two of our lights in the same range.

 

SunShare Solar’s Solar Garden Lights are of the highest quality in the market. Every single light which is for sale in our online shop is tested and proved by our team. They all have upgraded Monocrystalline solar panels and are equipped with Lithium-ion LifeP04 Batteries. It means they have the quickest charge time and the longest lighting period.

 

High-grade and UV-stabilised materials (ABS and PC, Aluminum Alloy, and Stainless Steel) have been used in the lights. This fact plus their high Ingress Rating (IP65 and above) grants that the lights are water-resistant, dustproof and weatherproof. Even with the sun exposure for an extended period of time they don’t fade, crack and crumble. We are so confident in the quality of our lights that we offer the most generous guarantee in the market to our valued customers.

 

Take your time and have a look at our Garden Lights range to find out the best option for your garden creatives.

 

Make a change to solar and make a difference in more ways than one – with our safe and easy solutions, and all backed by our generous warranty (Conditions apply).

 

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