Solar Lights- Solar Security Lights A Must For Every Home!

Solar Security Light

Solar lights, specifically solar security lights are a must for every home. These nifty little lights can be used in either a remote or local area to protect outdoor and indoor landscapes. You may have stumbled across at least three varieties of solar lighting. These lights are excellent for home or business owners who are in dire need of lighting, on a tight budget not allowing for the additional expense of wiring and service to a dark spot. This is the reason why solar lighting is so extremely beneficial.

Today lighting manufacturers are able to . . . → Read More

Solar Christmas Lights

Solar Christmas Lights

Once again, the holidays are upon us. That means it’s time for gathering with your loved ones around the fire: exchanging food, stories, gifts and good will. Before any of that happens, though, it is time to decorate! Have you thought of using Solar Christmas Lights?

If you are like most of us, you likely have a space in your garage rafters or in the basement where you keep all of your old Christmas lights. Every year, you take them out and sort through the jumbled wires. You plug them in to test for burned out . . . → Read More

Solar Lights Reviews

Solar glode light

So you have decided that you want to get some solar path lights for your walkway or solar accent lights for your garden. Maybe you want solar security lights to ward off potential trespassers. You have read my guide on how to choose outdoor solar lights, so you have a really good idea of what type(s) of lights you need. So where do you buy them?

I know this reads like a sales pitch, but stay with me here. I have no problem with you going to your local home improvement store and picking out your lights. Occasionally you . . . → Read More

Industrial Solar Lighting

solar street lights

I touched on industrial solar lights in the Hybrid Solar Lighting Technology article, but I would like to go into a bit more detail about some of the uses of solar lights in commercial application and some of the companies that are on the cutting edge of solar technology.

There are a number of companies that are leading the way for commercial solar lighting. One of those companies is Solar Cynergy. “Solar Cynergy manufactures high end architectural solar LED lighting for homes, developments and cities” as well as “an OEM line of Solar Photovoltaic Panels.” They are primarily . . . → Read More

How to Choose Outdoor Solar Lights

Solar Landscape Lights

When choosing outdoor solar lights, it is all about application, application, application. This is the biggest consideration when deciding on a particular light.  Let’s consider what goes into a solar light.

First, you have a photovoltaic cell that captures the light. The bigger the cell, the more light it can capture and convert to energy. Size is not everything though.  The biggest factor when dealing with solar cells is the efficiency.  That is where the biggest advancements in technology are happening.

Next, you need something that stores the energy. Most solar lights use nickel cadmium batteries for energy storage. Next you . . . → Read More

Indoor Solar Lights

solar skylight

Up until this point, we have mostly discussed outdoor solar lights and the different applications for them. In this article, I would like to discuss indoor solar lighting. Yep! Indoor solar lights! Most of us find that even during the day, the rooms of our homes can be quite dark, unless the windows are left open. This means we either sacrifice our privacy, or turn on the lights. Lights = electricity, right? Not necessarily.

One great way to light up the inside of your home during the day is with a “solar skylight”. These aren’t actually solar . . . → Read More

Outdoor Solar Lights

outdoor solar lights

Out of all the different kinds of solar lighting that you can install around your home, outdoor solar lighting is by far the easiest and safest to install. That makes it an ideal first project for the do-it-yourself solar lights enthusiast.

The good thing about outdoor solar lights is that (in most cases) there is no wiring involved at all. With low voltage  landscape lighting, wiring is needed to run from the lights to an external power source in order to function,even though the voltage level is very low and relatively safe. But solar lighting is powered entirely . . . → Read More

Hybrid Solar Lighting Technology

hybrid solar lighting dish

With the increased use of solar lights in residential and commercial applications, there is a push for more advanced technologies to integrate indoor solar lights into more and more applications. One such technology is called “ hybrid lighting technology”.

Artificial lighting accounts for the largest percentage of electricity use in commercial buildings in the United States. Hybrid solar lighting provides a promising new way to reduce energy consumption while also delivering increased benefits associated with natural lighting in commercial buildings.

Hybrid solar lighting contributes to meeting the requirements set by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 for renewable energy consumption by . . . → Read More
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