Solar Powered Landscape Lighting: Cordless Decorative Lighting

By John Monsholi

Solar powered landscape lighting is a solution to consider for any gardening enthusiast. Solar powered landscape lighting is a substantial step forward in modern landscaping, since solar lighting eliminates one of the major disadvantages of the regular landscape lighting - long, bulky and unsightly wires.

Solar powered landscape lighting uses natural solar energy for emitting light. This type of landscape lighting is both cost effective and environmentally friendly.

No lighting wires in your garden means three main things: children in your garden will not get an electric shock, animals in the garden will not damage the wires as well as such wireless units will be very easy to set up and to relocate in the future.

So why does solar powered landscape lighting become more and more popular each day?

1. Solar powered landscape lighting has no boundaries in choosing the design of your landscape lighting. Solar powered landscape lighting units include floodlights, spotlights, flashlights, garden lights, step lighting, wall lights, hanging path lighting, deck lighting, tube lights, light strings lantern lights, and even amazing floating pool lighting.

2. Solar powered landscape lighting also provides you with a wide choice of materials, such as copper, bronze, stainless steel, metal, plastic, as well as chrome coated units.

3. There are a wide number of decorative lights to choose from for your solar powered landscape lighting design, including glass globes, stone lights, color changing orbs, butterflies, hummingbirds, dragonflies, fireflies, flower lights, lights in the form of mushrooms and so on.

Solar powered landscape lighting does not need any electric to operate. Each unit consists of three parts: light emitting diodes, rechargeable batteries and a solar panel. Solar energy is accumulated in the solar panels, charging the battery and further producing the light through light emitting diodes. Solar powered landscape lighting will produce over 14 hours of light after being charged throughout a sunny day. The solar powered landscape lighting units will also shine in the evening after an overcast day. However, since they did not get fully charged, they will be capable of operating fewer hours after the sun goes down. Solar powered landscape lighting is functional and completely autonomous.

With the use of solar powered landscape lighting units, you can illuminate your garden paths, stairs, alpine slides, polls, flowerbeds and other landscapes in your garden. Solar powered landscape lighting can be set up anywhere, where the sun shines in the daytime in your garden. Many of the units can be placed on the walls and polls with the use of brackets. Photo sensors will make your landscape lighting automatically turn on in the evening, shining until the morning. Throughout the whole day, the units will be charging, and then they will start shining on the next evening. Most models come with an integrated button to switch your lights on and off whenever you wish to do so.

Other advantages of solar powered landscape lighting are that solar-powered lights will never burn out, they require no maintenance, as well as, they do not use any electricity. Installation does not require wiring or expensive landscape works - simply stick the lights in the ground or hang them where you want them, and they will start working as soon as the battery gets charged. This landscape lighting does not get damaged by rain, fog or snow, as well as it withstands temperatures from 14 F (-10 C) to 122 F (+50 C), and serves for more than 10 years. Solar powered landscape lighting is practical, decorative, autonomous lighting, allowing you to implement your most creative landscape ideas. - 30228

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