Solar landscape lighting can make your home look as attractive as a soft summer night with a full moon. A solar powered LED landscape lighting system adds beauty, safety and security to walkways and gardens, and is easy to install as a DIY project. These landscape lights are relatively maintenance free and they cot nothing to operate. They automatically turn on at dusk and off at dawn. These LED lights are safe for pets and children, and they attract fewer insects than incandescent bulbs.

In addition to providing lighting, these lights add a lot of curb appeal to your home. Solar landscape lights are a better choice than using regular electrical power landscape lights. They use a small solar, or photovoltaic (PV), cell to charge a battery integrated into the light fixture. After being charged all day by the sun, the battery then provides the electricity to illuminate the solar landscape lights after nightfall. Because each solar landscape light has its own battery, there is no need to run wires.

Like other landscape lighting, solar landscape lighting comes in a variety of styles from various manufacturers. Some new decorative models are made of die-cast metal for durability and styling detail. It is important to consider where you place the solar lights and the surrounding geography of your home. The key factor for any solar lighting is that the PV panel used to charge the battery be in a place where it will receive adequate sunlight.

Most solar landscape lights will run for about eight to 10 hours, based on the amount of sunlight they receive during the day. This means your solar landscape lights should run all night during the summer, but don't expect them to do so well in the winter in northern latitudes. There just isn't enough sunlight to charge the batteries enough to get through a long winter night.

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