Solar-powered garden lights represent a new word in country lighting. They do not need to connect wires, do not consume expensive electricity, that is, they do not require such care as conventional lamps. However, it is worth considering the issue in more detail in order to understand what advantages and disadvantages these lamps may have.
Such solar garden lights are best installed in places where it is not possible to stretch an electric cable, but there is a need for diffused light. It is appropriate to use them on alpine slides, on the surface of reservoirs in the coastal zone of the pond, on the edge of the mixborder. These lanterns give off very low light, which does not prevent them from being used for a wonderful decorative effect.
Solar garden lights can be installed in just minutes: all you need isstick a plastic pin into the ground. It is important to remember that they should not be placed in the shade, since sunlight must certainly fall on the battery panel during the day, even if it is cloudy outside. That is why solar-powered dacha lamps should be installed where the foliage of garden plants will not obscure the sun. If you can’t see the scattered pale flicker of a flashlight from the path or from the porch in the dark, you need to change its position.
Lamps for solar-powered cottages work on a very simple principle. The accumulated charge of the solar battery with the onset of darkness will automatically turn on the diode bulb equipped with a mirror reflector. From a distance, these lamps are very similar to fireflies. The devices are equipped with nickel-cadmium batteries capable of providing about a thousand charge-discharge cycles. Expensive models of lamps allow you to receive lighting up to 10-12 hours when the battery is fully charged. If the day was cloudy, then the lanterns burn not so brightly and not so long.
It is important to understand that solar-powered garden lights should not be considered as the main permanent source of light. They are not able to adequately illuminate the most important places in the garden, such as stairs, retaining walls or a bridge near a pond. These devices are more decorative load. At the moment, the range of such lamps is quite limited. They are mainly produced in the form of gaslantern, flowers, animals, spheres. There are original models made in the form of soap bubbles, as well as beautiful floating solar-powered dacha lamps. Transparent or matte floats that emit light look quite harmonious, attractive and very unusual on the surface of water bodies.
Using such simple devices as lamps, you can make your garden really beautiful and graceful. Landscape design lovers have long appreciated how impressive any corner of the garden looks with them at night.
