Outdoor Solar Garden Lights
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Outdoor solar garden lights are becoming popular amongst homeowners. As the name suggests these lights receive energy from electricity stored in a battery attached to the solar panels. Solar panels convert direct sunlight into electricity and store it in a battery. Not just got gardens but many manufacturers have solar lights for indoors as well. In that case the solar panels can be detached from the light fixture and can be connected again for supply of electricity to the light source. Outdoor solar garden light have many advantages over a standard electricity garden lights. How to solar garden lights work? The concept behind these lights is very simple. Instead of using standard electricity source, solar lights use electricity converted from sunlight to glow the light. The bulb used in these lights is not the normal incandescent lamp. A special type of lamp called as LED (Light Emitting Diod) is used in solar lights. These LED's have longer life cycle than normal lamps and throw more glow too. The entire assembly also has a solar cell which gets exposed to direct sunlight and convert the light energy into electrical energy that gets stored into a rechargeable battery. Many solar lights turn on using a timer at evening time and gets off at the morning. Which batteries are used in solar garden lights? Instead of using standard lead-acid batteries advanced solar garden lights use rechargeable nickel-cadmium batteries. These batteries are much more efficient and at the same time last longer than lead-acid batteries. A standard solar garden light has 1 battery of 1.2 volts. depending upon the design AA or AAA battery is supplied by the manufacturer along with the solar lighting unit. What kind of skills are required for installing solar garden lights? No extra knowledge of setting up complex electrical circuits and wiring are required to install these lights because nothing no wiring of any sort is involved in these lights. All you have to do is select a location in your garden, referable where the light will receive direct sunlight and erect the lamppost by inserting it into ground. That's it, the solar cell will keep on converting sunlight into electricity and will stored into it's battery. During night hours the light will automatically get turned ON and OFF in the morning. This automatic feature is available in most models but not all. How much do these solar lights cost? Depending upon what size you are
looking for outdoor solar garden lights are available from a
price range starting from as low as $10 and go up to $200 and more. Many
people prefer buying solar lights in sets of 4 or more because they give
visual uniformity in the garden and pathways. Colored solar lights that
you can use during Christmas times are slightly expensive as compared to
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