Solar Christmas Light

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No solar light will work if covered in snow or ice . Solar lights optimum environment is in a place where it gets at least 4 hours of sunlight. The recommended operating temperature range for most NiCd batteries is -4F to 140F for discharging, 32F to 113F for charging, and -22F to 122F for storage. Unfortunately, in the northern half of the United States where we get snow, cold temperatures and short days, this doesnt really work out. In this kind of weather it is best to simply bring the fixtures indoors.

If you are using your lights to outline a garden, the garden is now dormant anyway. If you line your walkway with solar lights, chances are it has mounds of snow along them. If you have them as decorative pieces in your backyard or patio, that area may be covered in snow and even if it isnt, chances are you wont be sitting out and enjoying them any way. The beauty of solar lights are that, like your holiday decorations, your garden hose, your outdoor furniture, you pick them up and bring them inside for storage.

Storing solar lights indoors allows you to clean them up for the next season. The batteries, unless they are old, more likely than not will last a few months without being recharged, but to be on the safe side, get a battery charger and charge them up.

Taking care of your solar lights during the off season will allow you to use them again once the snow is gone and the warm weather returns. Spring will arrive and once again you will be able to put them outdoors again. If a particular arrangement worked well the previous season, you may want to diagram where each piece was before pulling them up. Sometimes a new arrangement may work out better. That is the beauty of solar lights. , you can move them around to wherever suits the mood.

Frequently Asked Questions

  1. QUESTION:
    how can I make my own solar christmas light string?
    can I use a solar panel that might be purchased for landscape lights and then somehow wire christmas lights to it instead?

    • ANSWER:
      I doubt it. These use the panels to charge a battery. They disperse to a low energy bulb. Your strings of lights are for 120vac i am sure and will drain the batteries fairly quickly.
      You would have to go large scale solar panels with large battery packs and a converter. Expensive.

  2. QUESTION:
    Will my new solar Christmas light strand work on an indoor tree?
    I just purchased these (in the spirit of "An Inconvenient Truth"!) and they do indeed work outside, where the solar box collects direct sunlight during the day. But will sunlight through window glass be enough to power the strand? I'd like to use indoors on a large ficus tree. Thanks for any help!

    • ANSWER:
      it should work try it

  3. QUESTION:
    Can I connect solar powered christmas lights to a normal christmas light set?
    Do you know how christmas lights can connect to other lights so that you only plug in one wire in the outlet? So do solar panels have an adapter so you can plug in normal lights in it.

    • ANSWER:
      Hey Genius there is only one way to do it, but first let me explain what you up against. Most solar Christmas strings that I have worked on run on 6 volts, though many are other low voltages, such as 3 or 4. Household power in the US is 120 VAC, other parts of the world 240. I have never heard of a solar Christmas light set with a household adapter, that would defeat the entire purpose. Now if you are real handy with wiring, you can do this. Disconnect the solar lights from the solar/battery housing. Now take a couple of D batteries, and try connecting them across the two wires that come from the end of the light string. Start with one battery (1.5 volts) then 2 (3 volts) and so on until the string lights up the correct brightness. Once you achieve this, count the number of D batteries and multiply by 1.5, this will give you the string voltage. Now if you want to get a converter that will run that string on AC, just write down the string voltage, and go to Radio Shack, and look for a wall pack that has the same output voltage in DC.

      I'm betting this is not convenient, but maybe a good hobbyist project if you like that sort of thing. If so, you probably have a wall pack around someplace with that output voltage. There are simple ways to convert 12 volt DC from your car to the lower string voltage with some simple inexpensive diodes and run the string on your car, but there isn't sufficient space here to explain it, try google if you're interested.

      We sort of learned this the hard way because I had some solar strings that quit, and discovered the battery packs had all gone bad. Now we run them on a lawn tractor battery that is kept charged with a 30 watt solar panel hanging on the fence. Works quite well. Good luck, Rudydoo

  4. QUESTION:
    How can I make indoor christmas light strings solar powered?
    I want to put up stringed christmas lights around a room where the ceiling meets the wall. How can I do this using solar energy so they come on when its dark? Any ideas?
    Thanks for you help!!!

    • ANSWER:
      buy a rope light put it on a timer
      cheaper,
      buy the time you get a solar panel, an inverter, a Battery storage,

  5. QUESTION:
    Solar Christmas Lights in southern Cali?
    when can i buy solar christmas lights in southern california? please do not give me internet sites. i just want the name of the places that sell these. thanks.
    sorry for the typo. i meant WHERE can i buy.
    I want to buy these lights in-store.

    • ANSWER:
      I saw some in a catalog called Taylor Gifts -.98.
      Maybe Home Depot has them?


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