Lamps with solar batteries for garden and home - characteristics and models

Good lighting local area, garden, yard, suburban area - an important element of comfort.Bright light will not only enjoy the fresh air after the sun goes down, work in the garden or in the yard, but also scare away intruders, will keep the car and other important objects under control.But even a few bulbs of 75 watts running at night, will significantly increase the electricity bills.In the world today are increasingly being introduced street lighting and house holdings using lamps with solar batteries.

Interesting decoration or light?

Opinions domestic experts is ambiguous.Pros autonomous luminaires are obvious.

• not need to supply an electric wire to each point of light, which reduces the time and installation costs.Garden and yard will not be entangled by wires.
• If necessary, such as long-term out of the house, lamp easily removed by pulling out of the ground or removing the hook.
• lamps do not consume electricity from the centralized network, ie,after their installation costs for lighting will be reduced to 0.
• It is possible to rearrange the lights when necessary and collect them in a group, highlight the remote corners and create unusual landscape solutions.
• Lamps with solar batteries have a long life, about 10 years, and the pay off even the most expensive models for 1.5-2 years.
• LED lamps, which are used in such lamps, almost no heat, so they can be installed in any place and not be afraid of fire.
• accumulation in sunny day energy is enough for 8-9 hours lighting (this figure depends on the area and the battery capacity of the battery), iefor the whole evening and night.
• light from the LED-light white, soft and pleasant, the brightness can choose, based on their requirements.
• Most lamps are equipped with a solar-powered light barrier, and themselves are lit after dark.You do not have to walk around the yard or garden, including lighting.
• recharge such a lamp during the day on the street or on the balcony, you can use it to illuminate the house - this is a small contribution to the economy and autonomy.
• quality lamps are not afraid of changes in temperature from +50 to -30 degrees and rainy.

But there are many disadvantages

• Such instruments is not cheap.If you do not consider the simplest model of Chinese manufacturers, the one, not the most powerful lamp will have to pay 500-600 rubles.Model for lighting the front door or yard lighting will cost 3-5 thousand. Rubles.
• LEDs in low-quality luminaires can be bright enough to create a blur instead of the backlight.
• luminaires used nickel-cadmium batteries, which must be disposed of properly.Another disadvantage them - rapid discharge of the cold and the failure in continuous operation at temperatures below zero.
• Not every place is suitable for the installation of the lamp with a solar battery.The light should fall on it most of the day, at least 6 hours.If a shady place, the device just does not have time to recharge.
• winter and autumn in many parts of the lamp on solar batteries are simply useless, because the sun is not seen for weeks.Their effectiveness is reduced during the rainy and cloudy weather.

Models fixtures

looks "solar lights" is very diverse: from small balls, marking the track in the dark, to large lamps that can light up the whole yard.There are models in the form of sculptures, which is not only illuminated portion and decorate him.Conventionally, all the lamps can be divided into groups:

• small bars and balls, stuck into the ground to illuminate the tracks,
• suspended or wall-mounted flashlights,
• garlands,
• stationary street lights,
• decorative lighting sculpture.

What to consider when buying

If you decide to install the lamps and lights that use solar energy, then look at the product «Eglo Solar», Austria.This company - one of the European leaders in the production of lighting fixtures, in its model combines reliability and advanced design.

choosing a model for a particular purpose, keep in mind that, for example, to illuminate the lamp door must be equipped with a lamp power of not less than 3W, the solar cell should be at least 10W and battery 7-8 A / h.For proper operation it is necessary to comply with the requirements for the selection of the installation site as described in the instructions, and take care of the battery by wiping it from dust as pollution.

Lamps with solar batteries - a good solution for those who spend the summer in the country and does not want to hold large-scale works on wiring the courtyard and garden.And they come in handy at home as an alternative source of lighting in the summer, and in the southern regions and the whole year.There is no doubt that this technology will be developed, and a few years later a powerful and cost-effective non-volatile lights become standard houses adjoining lighting.