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[Closed] Solar powered motion sensor lights for shadier spots

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Very moon on stick territory, but the gathering gloom of an evening is highlighting how many barely visible steps there are around the house/garage/sheds.

Just need something to give enough light to see the hazards as we get near them, but a lot would be on walls that wouldn't get much light through the winter when we need it most. In my head I'm imagining a small light with a solar rechargeable battery to see it through a normal (Midlands) winters night.

Do any of the eBay/Amazon bargain offers actually work all that well?


 
Posted : 15/09/2020 11:15 am
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How often would they light up? We have four little solar lights on a NNE facing wall down a side path which seem absolutely fine all year, but they only come on a couple of times every few days. They don't stay on long, but they're pretty bright. They are the angled sort from Amazon with the panel facing upwards and the light facing downwards, a bit like these. They were certainly an awfully lot easier to fit than wired lights; I figured it was not much effort wasted if they didn't work, but they've been fine and I would do the same again.

At a previous house we had a solar light (one with a panel at the end of a wire rather than built in) by the bins which was fine unless a cat decided to sit on said bins, which meant it was often dead when we wanted to use it...


 
Posted : 15/09/2020 9:36 pm
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I've got one like those linked above, albeit about two or three times as wide, handy for above the garage door to see the keyhole. It works really well and I've had it a year or two now.

The worst thing was ploughing through the hundreds of options on amazon to find the best value one with the most LEDs/battery capacity for the money.

I'd happily recommend mine but inevitably they don't stock that particular one any more but I bet they all come out of a few factories and get labelled up differently.


 
Posted : 15/09/2020 10:12 pm
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We've got 3 battery operated lights - one near the front door as the step is in darkness, and two at our caravan to light up the rear. These last about a year on 3 C cells.

They weren't cheap though - £30 each. I've had mixed success with solar PIR's. One just filled with water.

Current solar one at the back of our garage is an Aldi one. It does have a standby light on it which just drains the battery - I'd rather it didn't as the spot is bright.


 
Posted : 15/09/2020 10:30 pm

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