I currently reside in Florida, so I figured to take advantage of all the sunshine and decided to buy some solar lights and solar decorations to make the front yard look wonderful at night without having to use electricity . I found some good sites online, particularly www.officialsolarproducts.com but I am still searching for some great solar products for a bargain price. If anybody knows a good place to get some solar lights and solar decorations, please let me know.

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I want to throw away my old Solar Landscape lights. Can I throw them away in the garbage? Or they are considered e-waste?

know where I can get solar string lights with spacing between lights that are at least 3′ apart, with a long string to the charging solar panel??? I guess they use these for driveways? Xmas path lights? Thank You!!!!!!!

Just thinking thing over. Want to install a 120 volt AC to12 volt DC converter, as the ones found in most RV’s. The 12 volt would be used power 12 volt light fixtures as one found in RV’s, and Marine crafts. The 12 volts could be used with a solar panel. The solar panel would be used to charge a 12 volt battery(s), and the 12 volt battery could be used to power the lights during the night.

I thought of using resistors for each light within the low voltage lighting electrical wires to control even distribution of lighting.

The 12 volt distribution panel http://www.bestconverter.com/assets/imag… can as a battery charger when needed. This panel is rated a 50 amps.

A few more 12 volt recessed lights http://www.swego.com/12_volt_recessed.ht… mostly rated at 10 watts and these are xenon lights.

The electrical lines would be anywhere from 10 feet to the longest run of 70 feet. The electrical wire would be 12/2 CL2 rated for low voltage wires.

The 12 volt distribution panel will power the lights and can be used to charge a 12 volt battery when needed.

I would then add a toggle switch to shut of power to solar panel when not in use.

The reason I choose the 12 volt distribution panel because this system had the built in led lights for the blown fuse detection and the fuses are a safety feature in case things go bad with lights or 12 volt fixtures.

There for twelve of the 10 watt recessed lights will add up to 120 watts. 120 watts divided by 12 volts will equal to 10 amps. This would still leave 40 amps for landscape light or other 12 volt lights.

There are options on adding 12 volt fans, and 12 volt appliances. If needed I would add extra auxillary 12 volt transformer to power the heaver amperage fixtures …. etc…

I’m thinking this setup would pay for it self with a short time once in use.

what do you think?
"Hope this helps explain why 12 vdc systems are not economic or practical on a residential basis." please elaborate on this answer.
This will be for walkway lighting, nice and low lumens. This will be for areas that just need a little lighting.
I guess I should of added that my house will be wired for 120 volts thru out the home and outside of home. For the better lighting and lumens.

The 12 volts would be for general and walk area lighting.

They have a portable hoop with the back facing my property. When the ball is missed it lands on my property whereby the children constantly walk through my grass. My landscaping includes solar lights, pebbles and lava rocks, trellis’ and most recently flowers. Two lights have been broken and rocks repeatedly scattered. The father said on 3 occasions he realizes the problem and he will build something to keep it from occurring. He said this over a year ago. Th e wife said she realizes it looks terrible but I "just have to deal with it." The police said there is nothing they can do if it is not intentional. Community relations has only sent letters and not been very helpful. I think it is common courtesy not to offend your neighbors property, intentional or not. This is exactly why we have backyards and parks for playing basketball. I did not expect this to happen in the suburbs or anywhere that people are trying to keep up their home and property.It is frustrating for me to repeatedly spend my time and money because of someone else’s actions or lack of. They were even given the suggestion by police to turn the hoop the other way. There response was we don’t want it to mess up our lawn. But I guess it’s o.k. to run through your neighbors.

i am wanting to buy a combintaion set of lights for two trees in my yard and to light up my flower beds, there are so many out there it is hard to choose from, does anyone have or know of good affordable lights low voltage, not solar landscaping lights.

I am debating between a low-voltage malibu light system and solar-powered for my backyard. I heard the solar-system is easy to install, cheap but the lights are very weak. My backyard is already pre-wired to use the low voltage system but I am not sure how much it would add to my electric bill. What’s your opinion?

Is solar powered landscape lights any good. If so, which brand would you recommend?

I would like to buy landscaping lights that put out some good lighting. I prefer the solar but I have seen them in action and they have very poor lighting. Does anyone know of a good quality landscaping lighting? Thank you for your answers.

can I use a solar panel that might be purchased for landscape lights and then somehow wire christmas lights to it instead?

Many I’ve looked at get bad reviews because they arent bright enough.

I’d like to wire LED lighting to put under a lip at the top of my new retaining wall. A lot of the actual landscape light fixtures I’ve found are big/fancy/expensive. I’d like to wire something that will be solar powered and have the effect of strip lights–either by buying inexpensive waterproof LED strips and connecting them to solar power, or by going one step deeper and wiring individual LEDs to suit along the edge. I’ve found dealextreme.com for some parts, but does anyone know of a good resource for instructions on assembling this type of thing?

yes i need to repair some old lights and i also want to make my own. are there any websites or books on the subject.
Thanks

Excpet the sun is there any other way to charge the batteries of solar lanscape lights?
I bought some and it is cold and rainy they never charge.
I was thinking about a charger but I can’t just use a simple one to charge the Malibu batteries right?
Any suggestions?

I would like to know how I can replace the motion sensor with a regular switch…