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Product Features
- High-Grade Stainless Steel Construction and Finish
- Bright White LED never needs replacement
- Rechargeable NiCd battery included with each solar light
- Polymer lens
- Each light comes with 2 mounting options: ground stake AND flat mounting hardware for easy installation
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Beautiful, Inexpensive, Driveway Lights We have ordered stainless steel solar driveway lights in the past, but always from another source. They usually lasted for a couple of years or so, when something in the electronics failed. Either they quit charging the internal battery, or would no longer turn off, so that the light would be unable to bring the battery to full charge during the day, etc. They are not repairable, so when they failed, they had to be replaced. The included NiCd batteries usually lasted about a year.This time, we investigated the s.s. lights offered by Amazon. What a difference! Not only are the Amazon lights less expensive, they are brighter, better looking, and are of much higher quality. For example, they use two batteries instead of one, (still NiCd), the electronics are enclosed in a molded box. The batteries are easily replaced via removable covers.The previous lights had to be disassembled to replace the batteries. There was no internal protection of the electronics from the weather, like the molded box provides in the new lights, etc. We expect these new lights to operate for many years. The batteries will still have to be replaced, but that’s the price you pay for the convenience of solar!
Bigger and brighter than those others like this Most of the lights like this use one AA battery but these come with two NiCd batteries so are brighter. The downside of course they’re bigger and more expensive but it’s worth it.I purchased several sets and had them for a month now working in temperatures ranging from 60F to 3F and they’re holding up nicely. I also put Eneloop batteries in some and the Eneloop XX batteries in some and left the original batteries in some. It seems in the 60 degree weather and night comes they’re all just as bright. The NiCd batteries are never on by the morning but the Eneloop types are usually on and relatively bright, depending on the sun from the previous day. In 30 degree weather or so the regular Eneloop batteries start off the night dimmer than the others and die sooner than any of them. The cold doesn’t seem to affect the NiCd batteries at all and are pretty bright in the evening as are the Eneloop XX batteries. The only difference being the XX batteries are still on into the morning.From my tests if the weather is nicer I would definitely change out all the batteries for the regular Eneloop batteries with its 1500 cycle capcacity but in the winter change back to the NiCd unless you want to purchase the much more expensive Eneloop XX batteries. The XX batteries also have a 500 cycle range so wouldn’t last a year and half.Make sure your top is on correctly. Last night we had extremely high winds and one of my lights was missing when I came home. I found it about 10 feet away. I put it back and it’s been there since so I’m guessing I didn’t snap it closed as well as I should have.The one thing I wish this had was a way to tilt the solar panel. It would be nice if they came on a little hinge so you could tilt it up more towards the sun. Sure it wouldn’t look as sleek but I care more about efficiency.Update: Feb 19, 2013The Eneloop XX batteries haven’t been working as well lately in mostly 20 degree weather. I let them warm up and placed the batteries in my charger and one was only charging up to 540mah then displaying full while the other was good. I ran discharge/refresh cycles on it and now it’s good. However a couple of weeks later it happened again with a different pair of XX batteries. Oddly the NiCD batteries are working perfectly reliably every night and have been brighter than the XX ones. I have four with regular Eneloop batteries in them and they’re also all working very well. I’ll make sure I get two verified fully charged XX batteries in one again and see if it happens again. For now I would conclude weather in the highs of 20 or colder these lights work better with the NiCD batteries but swap them to the Eneloops when it’s warmer. The XX batteries don’t seem to like the frequent charge/discharge cycles and without a battery refresher you’d be in trouble.
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