Environmentally Friendly Garden Solar Lighting

Solar garden lights are examples of outdoor lantern lights that are becoming more and more prevalent as they are easy to install and won’t increase your electricity bill. There are a wide selection of garden solar lighting to choose from including lantern lights, pathway lights, hanging lights, globe lights and lighting made in the form of flowers and butterflies. Some come with a stake to effortlessly set in the earth. They all use rechargeable batteries which employ solar energy collected throughout the hours of the day to charge them and they usually come on automatically at dusk.

Some Advantages of Solar Lighting

Solar garden lights do not require any wiring so there are no trailing wires that can be a danger to kids and animals or that require extensive burying underneath the ground. They are extremely easy to put in, simply fix the stake in the earth, or suspend them from a suitable tree or post. You can set them to switch on automatically at twilight, and they don’t use any electricity so they are very inexpensive to run once purchased.

Disadvantages of Solar Garden Lighting

The major shortcoming of solar garden lights are the rechargeable batteries which tend not to be able to store adequate energy to continue throughout the hours of darkness and have to be changed every few years. Furthermore they have only a very minute area of solar panels that can only gather a small amount of sunlight. The energy that can be stored gives only a small number of hours of illumination which tends to decrease as the batteries become old. On the other hand if all you really require is lighting for the evening they will most likely be adequate. The benefit, that they need no wiring or involved putting in, turns into a disadvantage, as what is effortlessly put in place can be just as simply detached. This makes them at risk of pilfering unless you fasten them in place as you would a conventional wired light.

They make use of solar energy so they require a certain amount of sunshine to recharge the batteries. They can’t consequently be used in shady places, or on walls that are in the shade for part of the daytime. They only work really efficiently when there’s plenty of daylight so can work inadequately through the winter months.

Is Solar Lighting Environmentally Friendly?

In some ways! They do not use any electricity, as a result there is no effect on the environment there. They do use rechargeable batteries which require replacing and disposed of. However we would conclude that they are definitely more environmentally friendly than electricity powered lights.

Conclusion

If you require lighting for only a small number of hours in the evening in part of the garden that is in complete sunshine throughout the daylight hours, solar garden lights would be suitable. Be ready to swap the batteries every couple of years and if you consider your garden is vulnerable enough for theft to be an issue you might need to set them in place more firmly than normal.

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