Solar Powered Garden Lamps
Lamps and lights are always present in the history, dating back to 70,000 B.C. The lights are a part of all decorations and celebrations. When it comes to our gardens, the lamps and lights make them brighter and pleasant place after the dusk till dawn. Whenever it comes to decorating any outdoor places with lights, the things that concern us is the cost involved in its installation and of course, the electricity bills. The use of solar powered lamps to decorate our gardens, pathways, lawns is the best solution to the above problem faced by any garden owner, who is looking for a cheap and lovely way to light their garden at nights.
Parts Of A Garden Lamp Powered By Solar Energy
There are a lot of varieties and types of solar lamps available in the market to cater to the demands of all. However the basic concept and build-up of any solar lamp is the same, the knowledge of which is essential to have them assuredly to give their benefits on a long run. In general, any solar powered garden lamps has the following components:
- The solar panel
- The Light Emitting Diodes (LED’s)
- The Back-up Battery
- The Light Sensor
The solar panel is an array of semi-conductor devices, which converts the solar energy to the electrical energy. The solar panel should have direct sunlight, which is directly proportional to the amount of electricity produced.
The electrical energy drives the Light Emitting Diodes, to emit their glowing light, which comes in a variety of sizes and shapes.
The Back-up battery is used to save the solar energy collected during daytime to be used during the dark hours.
The Light sensor detects the ambient light and automatically switches on the solar powered lights in your garden, to make them glow automatically at the set of the sun.
Things To Consider
The solar lights can adore your garden with many added advantages like low installation and maintenance cost, pollution-free, renewable source which is available free-of-cost and there requires no wiring. Anyhow, the choice of solar lamps has to be made, by taking number of factors into consideration. The voltage range of a solar kit must be checked to get the required ambient light necessary for your garden. Also you must consider your domain’s climate and weather as the solar lamps gets charged by direct sunlight. A fully charged solar powered lamp can glow for eight to ten hours, which would be sufficient for a full night’s glow.
Varieties Of Solar Powered Garden Lamps
The solar powered garden lamps and lights, comes in a variety of types, sizes and ranges to cater to the requirements of any garden. Some of the varieties that are commonly available in the market ranges from small rock lights to light houses, which can give sufficient amount of energy to a larger garden. Apart from this there are spot lights which can light any statues present in your garden, floating pond or pool lights which decorates your garden water body, deck lights to adorn your lawn and garden pathways, rope lights which are a series of LED’s which can decorate your garden during parties and celebrations.
