Solar lights: a modern solution that everyone will like (30 photos)

Autonomous solar lamps are becoming more popular every day. Original high-tech solutions make our life more comfortable, and everyday nuances are simpler and not intrusive.
Solar-powered lamps for giving have long ceased to be something unique and inaccessible. Now they can decorate the exterior of any site.

Scope of use

Solar-powered lighting devices are used most often in places where it is impossible to use a wired type of lighting. In some situations, it is advisable to use mobile and miniature devices in luxurious landscape interiors, where an abundance of wires will greatly degrade aesthetic performance.

The most common places for installing such lighting:

• Stairs
• Paths in the garden and in the yard;
• Edge of the pool;
• The edges of the fountain;
• Pergolas
• Recreation areas;
• Various sections of the relief, which differ in sharp changes;
• Alpine slides;
• Shores at an artificial pond;
• Recreation areas near the font for a bath or sauna;
• Separate areas with plants or flowering shrubs.

In fact, you can decorate the site as you like. Solar lamps will simultaneously perform a decorative function, and will illuminate those areas that need it at night.

Benefits

Choosing the most optimal lighting options for the private sector or summer cottage, you always need to correlate the number of pluses and minuses of this or that equipment, analyzing the appropriateness of applying the most relevant options. Use of solar lamps is preferred by economical people who use such lighting exclusively for a practical purpose.

Main advantages:

1. Simple installation on sites of any level of complexity;
2. It is necessary to spend money only once, acquiring a summer "equipment". You do not need to pay for electricity during the operation of the lamps;
3. There is no need to turn to electricians, lay trenches, spoil the appearance of the site with wires;
4. The need for regular replacement of bulbs disappears;
5. LED lamps, solar lamps of any design are convenient to use, easy to clean;
6. This is the perfect fixture for the streets. The lamp does not lose for a long time, neither its aesthetic content, nor its functional potential, being even for a very long time in the open air;
7. Any LED solar-powered lamp can decorate the landscape design of a summer cottage.

It is worth noting that street lighting impresses with a variety of types, forms and additional functional qualities. Practical and aesthetic devices will last as long as possible, despite the fact that their operating conditions are very extreme.

disadvantages

Against the background of such a solid list of advantages, the disadvantages seem completely small and insignificant, however, they are worth mentioning. Solar-powered streetlights are completely unrepairable after a radical breakdown.

Logic batteries for solar lamps work only from solar energy. Cloudy weather is the time when appliances will not receive the necessary energy. There is also a great risk that during the cold season lighting fixtures may malfunction for a while, even if it is sunny on the street.

Features of fixtures and a variety of devices

A large assortment allows you to choose the product at your discretion, taking into account your own solvency and taste preferences. To make an ideal purchase, it is only necessary to set certain priorities in a timely manner and pre-study the species diversity of the product.

According to the materials from which the lamps are made

Lamp housings are made of high quality plastic, glass and even wood. Any material is prepared for the fact that the aggressive environment of the streets will harm the coating. To protect devices and to preserve their “freshness” for a long time, manufacturers use a whole range of special compounds for the full processing of goods.

For metal, powder paint is preferable; for wood products, impregnation from decay, protection against scattering of paintings and the “rodent repeller”. Plastic may not be processed at all if the material itself is of excellent quality.

The traditional material for the manufacture of shades is glass:

• Smooth materials with a particularly high throughput;
• Reflex options that do not reflect direct sunlight. This type of backlight is most often used precisely for cloudy weather;
• Tempered glass, characterized by special strength, reliability and excellent performance.

It is worth mentioning the fact that LED lamps with tempered glass are not much more expensive than other types of shades. However, this particular type of material is most preferable for the street and beneficial in all respects.

By type of batteries

Solar-powered garden lights can be equipped with different battery systems. The most common types:

• Nickel-cadmium - a classic option;
• Nickel metal hydride is a more expensive battery. Differ in longer term of operation.

For the photoelectronic elements of the modules, various types of silicon are used: polycrystalline (as in the cheapest batteries), multicrystalline (with proper use it can last more than a year), single-crystal batteries (the most reliable option).

Lamps by type of placement

Decorative and functional qualities are equally important for street lighting. By the type and nature of the placement of the lamp can be divided into several global categories.

Wall models

Wall fixtures are the most common. They are often used to illuminate large gardens and park areas. You can place them anywhere. The main condition: sunlight must fall on the device.

If you follow this simple rule, a fully charged battery is capable of delivering light energy from 8 to 10 hours. The light intensity from the moment of dusk until dawn will change (radiation will gradually decrease), however this will be enough to illuminate the area efficiently.

Lawn analogues

Solar lawn lamp is used for local lighting of lawn areas. Typically, the designs of such devices look particularly stylish and modern. Compact and colorful products, if necessary, can be transferred to another area, to change the composition of the “light pattern”.

At the time of mowing the lawn, watering or processing with specific substances, the devices are simply removed for a while from the site. They are not equipped with wires, so getting confused in additional devices is simply impossible. A particular advantage: they do not "beat" with current.

You can decorate it with cute cute lamps, both the lawn itself and individual fragments of landscape design: bushes, flowers, paths, part of the veranda and many other points. Lighting design in the landscape composition of a summer cottage or park area is a real art. Just a couple of flashlights can bring a special atmosphere of beauty, magic, home comfort and harmony to the evening exterior of private estates.

If solar-powered garden lighting has been carefully selected, the evening view of the summer cottage will be truly exclusive and luxurious. When buying your favorite lamps, you need to familiarize yourself with quality certificates that must accompany goods of any profile and purpose. Compliance with this simple rule will save many potential buyers from mistakes and problems with lighting devices in the future.