Product Features
- Durable and dependable plastic construction is ideal for outdoor use
- Clear glass lenses deliver unfiltered illumination
- Adjustable light install in the ground to deliver targeted spot lighting
- Solar spolight that is waterproof and corrosion resistant for durability
- Includes one 400 mAh Life PO4 battery
Spot On I wanted something solar and bright to light up an outdoor Mr. Potato Head at night. This Malibu light caught my eye here, but at the time isn’t/wasn’t available on Amazon. As luck would have it, I spied this product on the shelves of Home Depot and bought one there.According to the package this light is 12x brighter than a standard 1.2 lumen solar light and lasts nine hours with a full sunny day charge. A ground stake (not a ground steak) is included, and it even is backed with a two year LIMITED warranty.So how is this solar spotlight with its advertised 15 lumens of light output. It is spectacular! Before planting this light in the ground, I carried it around the dark yard as a flashlight. It throws off more light by far than any other solar light I’ve ever owned. In fact, I am so impressed by the powerful output of this light that I may buy several more to avoid turning on the bug attracting back porch light when I let the dogs out.I highly recommend this spotlight that has exceeded all of my expectations.
Nice warm light, but…. We wanted to illuminate some new trees in our back yard. I did not want to run low voltage wire and deal with power transformers so I started looking at solar landscape lights. We did not need them to be very bright since they are just to create a nice effect. More important than brightness was “color”. We don’t like the bluish white light that most led lights emit. It seems cold and harsh. These Malibu lights are one of the only solar lights i have been able to find with a light color of 3000 degrees K., which is a nice warm yellowish color. Most solar led lights produce a color around 6,000 degrees K which is bluish white. (here’s a link to a Kelvin color temperature scale– […] ).My problem with most of the lights with the solar panel mounted directly to the light is that optimal light placement and optimal panel placement are rarely the same place. In our situation, the preferred location for the light did not provide good sun exposure for the panel during the day. I know there are solar kits with separate lights and panels, but none of the ones i found had the color light i wanted. Therefore, I modified these lights by removing the panel from the light housing and putting a 10′ wire between the light and the panel. I modified some old tent stakes to mount the panel on. Now i can locate the panel in a nice sunny spot while keeping the light where my wife wants it. So far, they are working nicely. We will probably purchase a few more for the front yard. Hopefully someone will come out with a kit with separate lights and panel that use the “warm white” led’s.
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