Facts About Solar Lights!
Solar lights remain the wave of our illuminating future. While we’ve used the energy of sunlight for eons, we are only recently able to efficiently harness and manage this power. Solar lights are a step in lighting our journey toward a more Earth-friendly green tomorrow.
In addition to being versatile solar lighting has the Green advantage. Free Sunlight, our renewable and sustainable energy source, provides energy without pollution. As we continue to benefit from sunlight we’re able to light our great outdoors without contributing to Global Warming.
Let’s get a better picture of how these gems of light work, in a nutshell. A small solar panel is affixed to the top of the light fixture, a much smaller version of the collectors we’ve all seen them on rooftops and on lawns. During the daylight hours the sun’s energy collects there and transfers to a rechargeable battery attached inside the fixture. The battery charges during daylight and after dark the energy releases to the LED (Light Emitting Diode) which gives off light until sunrise when the cycle starts all over again.
More recently, solar lights are used primarily to brighten the outside in our gardens, the backyard, around the pool, and the path to the front door or garage. With this in mind, solar lighting fixtures are available in a vast assortment ranging from functional to decorative. Solar lights can be found to attach up high on a building or to hang from a post or tree shining down to light a wider area. There are many lantern designs to choose from for use closer to the ground rendering a walkway safer to navigate. Would lights on your pool, pond or moat be pleasing? You’ll find a significant variety offered as well.
Dismiss any reservation due to some complicated installation. Digging a trench or pulling wires from your home has no part in this. Your experience of placing solar lights will be as easy as eating rice. Each solar light stands as an independent unit connecting only to its energy source, the Sun.
LEDs last much longer than regular light bulbs and use very little power to keep going. More often than not the LED will last as long as the solar light fixture itself, years. Because LEDs are dimmer than regular bulbs, fixtures are manufactured using reflective surfaces and are available with numerous LED to increase brightness.
Pricing of solar light fixtures vary between what might be charged at a home improvement store to what a garden-enhancing boutique might ask. Regardless of what you might pay, solar lights incur no ongoing monthly charges, the sun shines for free. The lights however will impact your power bill if the solar lights replace older lighting that draws on current, in that case your electric bill will shrink a bit.
The advantages of solar lights are plenty. Even short, gray, winter days hold enough sunlight to fully charge the battery. As long as the sun continues to rise and set the lights will turn on and off automatically. The LED produces no heat ensuring safety around children and pets. During a power outage you may sit outside and read a book or play cards with your neighbors. Solar lights are absolutely a benefit to our planet and it’s the neighborly green thing to do!
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