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Solar String LED Lights To Brighten Up Your Garden

Caimin — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 11:43:29 +0000

Solar Star LED Lights

These cool solar star lights can cheer up any garden with their bright white LED solar lights. Not only are they weatherproof but they can be shaped to fit around trees, bushes and other things in the garden adding a bit of welcoming light to your outdoor area.

They come with their own small solar panel that can be driven into the ground a little way from where you want to hang the outdoor lights. Then, after a day of solar charging, when the light fades they automatically turn themselves on.

Each solar star light string measures 23ft / 7m in length and you can even buy a double pack if you feel like going a little crazy. Each engery saving LED light will provide up to six hours of solar powered light per night. In winter, when a full solar charge might not be possible, regular rechargeable batteries can be used as a power supply for up to fifteen night without needing a recharge.

Indoor Solar Lighting with Flexible Solar Tube Lights

Caimin — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:48:57 +0000

Here’s a quick tip if you need a little bit of extra light indoors – flexible solar tube lights. These handy little solar gadgets come with a clip and a gooseneck with a light on the end.

Just attach the clip to a solid surface – the edge of a table, window ledge or the side of a display frame and you’ve got yourself a little extra indoor solar light for very little hassle.

They’re ideal for lighting display cabinets at exhibitions or other venues where you may not have total control over the indoor lighting. Not enough daylight to solar charge? Just recharge the batteries in the normal way.

Solar Powered Courtesy Light

Caimin — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:47:54 +0000

If you need some extra lights in a dark front door entrance, garage or poorly lit area of the garden or the outside of your house you might want to consider this solar powered courtesy light.

This cute solar powered gadget senses when motion is detected nearby and powers up the light. It turns itself off again automatically after one minute.

Because it’s solar powered, no tricky electrical wiring is needed and it’ll work even in areas outside where non solar lights would be difficult or expensive to install. When fully charged, the LED light gives off almost as much light as a normal 60W light bulb and will light a similar sort of area.

Wal-Mart Switches to LED Lights

Caimin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:35:45 +0000

Wal-Mart Stores is planning to fit LED lights in 650 new and renovated stores. The type of LED bulbs Wal-Mart will be using is the LRP-38 by Cree – designed to last up to 50,000 hours and consume 82% less energy than the type of lighting it’s replacing in Wal-Mart stores.

The company has stated that its goal is to double the amount of solar power it uses over the next 18 months as part of its Wal-Mart Project Impact, which aims to have refitted around 70% of its stores by 2012.

Are Indoor Solar Lights Right for you?

Spotlight on Solar LED Lights

Caimin — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:31:45 +0000

One of the biggest trends in solar lights these days is the use of LED lights. Yes, LED is like the lights in those early calculators – but thankfully the light from LEDs these days is a lot brighter.

LED lighting technology is still relatively new and therefore still quite expensive. No doubt the price will come down as they become more commonplace but for the now when you come to buy them you may well find solar LED lights to be twice the price of normal outdoor & garden lights.

What’s up with that? Is that a rip-off?

No. Bear in mind that led bulbs can last 15 years or longer that normal light bulbs. Better still, they typically use 60 -70% less electricity. If you have solar LED lights, of course, your electricity cost savings will go up to a pleasant 100%.