Solar Garden Lights Light Your Yard And Are Eco Friendly
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I’d like to get some small lights (LED???) that can work off their own solar panels and made so that they could be just set out everyday to be charged, then brought in at night.
I see no reason that at least minimal solar generated lighting cannot be practical today.
I have a yard ornament: a "lighthouse" whose roof and area around the cupola ("room" where the light is) is a solar panel. The light burns all night long.
I’d like something like that, say, on a stand about like a downturned flashlight. Its sides could be the panels that charge it, and a small rechargeable battery could be somewhere therein. (The light would be in the top end, and at night, I’d just bring them all in and scatter them about the house to burn all night.)
Does something like this now exist? (Is there a company you know of that would be willing to manufacture and sell them?)
I’m not wanting these as alternative or substittute light sources. I’m just wanting the equavalent of the little "night lights" like kids like in their rooms at night. Mainly just so I can walk through the house without breaking a toe. If I want full light, I’ll just turn on the room light.
I have one of those round black poles about 5" tall in my yard and the electrical wire going to it was cut several years ago. Some time back I put a solar light on top of the pole and it didn’t put out enough light to even mention. How would I go about putting a Solar panel in the yard and a decent light that would put out something along the path of a 100 Watt bulb? I could make a box to put a tractor battery in to store the energy.
To run another wire out there would mean going under a brick paver walkway.
I have a solar panel that lights some garden lights. However, I’d like to use this to power a small 9 volt device. Will the 4.5 volt panel slowly recharge the 9volt battery, or doe sit not work this way?
The solar panel is useless, and a lot of the garden s usually in shade anyway, so is there a way to power the lights using a motorcycle/car battery or will it be too powerful? I did attach the battery briefly to the lights, but they seemed to burn REAL bright, and I could tell the cable was getting too hot, so I disconnected it right away!
Thanks Nanda, that’s helpful, can you point me in the general direction of the type of transformer I need to buy please? I’ve checked on the lights themselves, there’s no info whatsoever about wattage/voltage…
This seems simple enough but nobody knows how to do it. I need to make a lighting system for a boat. I want it to be solar powered. All I need is a way to get a solar panel attached to a battery for storage and then a switch so I can turn it on at night. The boat is wired for battery power and I have yet to find a simple lighting system that I can just make my own light fixture for. There are so many choices if I want it for a garden but for marine applications they will rust. please help,.
We bought solar lights for the front garden and have started to use them around the inside of the house.How would you devise a system that used an outside source that could use these lamps inside coming from the one outside solar source.I don`t want to use a huge solar panel outside as we`re trying to Design something that`s movable(for renters).It doesn`t have to be an all night source and even be wired through the gaps of the doors,with instead of an on/off switch a (male/female adaptor)That you can unplug manually.We just want to use less and teach our kids smarter ways.Thanks for any help and any smart ass answers are more than welcome as long as they have some smart.Thanks guys/gals
Sorry guys,by an outside source i also ment the roof(i didn`t want it on there(renting and movable reasons).I understand that the sun only shines for so long on any given side of the house.
I needed a circuit diagram on how to connect my siemens s75 solar panel with the controller and an inverter to my battery bank. Kindly help me with the easy diagram cos i want do it myself. I wanted to use the solar for my outdoor light and garden . Net consumption is 600watts. The inverter is 800watts and bank is 200A/H
I want to buy a set at walmart for a small garden but the garden has a spray sprinkler system and I want to know if they are water proof, by looking at the design the bulb is but im not sure about the actual solar panel thanks
Thinking of replacing the transformer with a 12 vdc 50 Ah battery charging via a regulator and 30 watt solar panel. At most, maybe four 20 watt lights.
Thanks for the answers! The purpose is to temporarily put a few 20 watt low voltage spotlights out in remote areas of the yard to highlight small areas with pools of light without weaving a web of extension cords thru the yard. Mainly for Halloween and other yard events.
Hey, I need an opinion of whether this will be possible or not. We have a bunch of individual solar sidewalk lights outside out house. a few of them smapped loose, but the electronics work perfectly still, so I figured I would try to do the following:
Each solar panel in the lights puts out around 4.3v on a good bright day, and then I have a few other ones that put out around 3.5v on a bright day.
So I realized… my laptop charger uses 18vDC to charge… So my electronics-stupid brain though "Well that means I can just hook a bunch of these together to get around 18 volts, hook up the 2 wire plug and there we go!"
Now I am assuming I am missing something, likely a shortage of amps, or something like that… but what would I have to do to hook these small panels together and make it work? (if possible)
Also, even more out of likelyhood, I have a 10vDC-15vDC to 120vAC 60Hz converter for my car lighter port, that gives me two regular AC outlets. What are the chances of me hooking that to my small solar panels?
how many of these tiny panels would I actually need to power my 18vDC laptop? or say, my 5vDC PSP?
I’m interested in purchasing some LED icicle-style light strings to go around the house and was thinking it would be nice if they were solar powered to cut back even more on energy consumption. I’ve seen icicle-style LED strings with a regular a/c plug and single-strand LED lights attached to a small solar panel on a garden stake but no solar powered icicle-style LED strings. Is there an easy way to get both the solar power feature AND the style LEDs I want? The icicle-style LED strings draw about 5w each and I’m not sure how many I’ll need, probably 4-6 strings. Thanks!
I want to make solar powered fountain for my husband’s birthday. However, we do not get enough direct sun all day to power a "direct sunlight" solar panel. I would like to use a solar fountain pump and add a battery system to it so that the battery will charge and accomodate for periods of shade during the day. (Kind of like how solar garden lights power up all day and then run at night.)
I’ve seen systems and kits you can buy, but they seem ridiculously expensive and I’m sure this can’t be that difficult to do. Can anyone help me out w/ a How To?
I do have a basic understanding of electrical theory and wiring, but I am not an engineer, so please try to keep it simple. (I know about wiring, watts, volts, amps… I can install outlets, fix lights and understand balancing an electrical system to make sure the source is providing enough power and that the lamp won’t blow up, etc…. to give you an idea of where I am coming from.)
Thanks!
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Is the material used to make the solar panel in the picture above (of a solar-powered garden light) multi-crystalline silicon? Or is it something else? If the latter, could someone please tell me what it is?
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i am making a solar usb charger as a weekend project. i am using 4 solar panels out of a solar powered garden light when i open the solar panel i noticed there are two wires one was green and the other was red i am a bit confused because there are normally one black and one red wire so can you tell me which wire is which. for example is the green wire negative and the red wire positive or is it the other way around
thanks please get back to me a soon as possible
