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Westinghouse Solar Garden Lights

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

Westinghouse solar garden lights are one of the most respected names in the entire sector of solar lights. They may even be the best. One thing that’s for sure is that they offer up a bunch of different and interesting lighting sets, which we will profile here. Though this list is not complete it represents some of Westinghouse’s best and “brightest”.

It is important to understand how many advantages this type of light in general has over traditional outdoor lighting. It is as energy efficient as it gets, convenient, and provides very nice mood type illumination. Costs have come down considerably to where they’re essentially competitive with traditional lights, and over the long run they save homeowners a ton of money in electricity costs. Finally, it is so much easier to not have to deal with vast amounts of complicated and annoying wires. Without further ado, here is the lineup from Westinghouse.

Solar Mosaic Garden Lights

These ones you have to see to really understand why they are so great. They are not your typical solar garden lights. They are colored bulbs, spherical in shape, which rest fairly high above the ground relative to their stakes.

The mosaics are really the greatest offering for anyone who wants to get “funky” with their colors. These are glass, not plastic which a lot of people have mistakenly judged them to be. Many happy customers have relished the phenomenal light display given off by the solar mosaic garden lights by Westinghouse.

Stainless Steel Set

If you want to go with a stainless steel garden lighting scheme, then Westinghouse’s solar offering is a very viable route. These come in packs of six, which is perfect for three on each side of a front walkway. This is the first place most people start when they get into solar lighting for their outdoors or solar patio lights.

Black Set of 8

Finally there is a set of eight which are all black. These will hide themselves essentially at night. All that passersby will be able to see is a hovering light which is very cool. This is another angle that Westinghouse has covered well in the solar garden lights arena, which they do so well. In shape these are much more like the typical solar lighting that you have likely either used before or seen neighbors or others using. I personally would favor the above two types above these black ones but there is certainly a market for these as well.

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Solar Garden Lights Ideas

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

More and more people are discovering the virtues of using solar garden lights to illuminate their landscaping. After all, without some sort of lighting you are bound to lose the great effect and vision of what you have worked so hard on as soon as the sun goes down. The fact is that many people will drive by your house after dark and see what is lit up. Also, you will want to be able to enjoy your own landscape work at night, too.

So now why not use solar powered landscape lights to cause this same effect? If you think about it you will realize that this is a great way to save money over the long haul. Beyond that it is very convenient for obvious reasons such as having no mess of wires running underneath the ground. These can be dug up too easily and pierced with shovels and hoes. It is simply more simple to go with the new and revolutionary solar garden lights. Especially if you are not currently lighting your lawn, or are looking to replace your old fixtures, this is a perfect time to go solar. Just within the past year or two the technology has finally caught up to a rational price. And it has also evolved in efficiency to a point where it is reliable at a reasonable price.

So some of my ideas for the use of these include first and foremost lighting the front path up to your front door. This is the number one use of solar garden lights from what I have seen. You can by even just a handful to test them out. Simply place a couple on each side of your pathway so that they cast a nice glow on the edges of the bordering lawn. Remember: all you have to do is stick them in the ground and they will power themselves. As long as they are in the path of sunlight for part of the day this should be sufficient to at least power them through the night. Like I said, the technology has evolved into a much more efficient setup of late. In this area at least, going green is no longer an impractical pipe dream.

After you have done the front walk thing, you can experiment with placing solar garden lights sporadically (or orderly) through the rest of your garden and flowers. Here let your own intuitive sense of style be your guide. At nighttime check out the results of your work.

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Solar Garden Lights and LED

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

Have you ever wondered how solar garden lights are able to create such a sustained source of light for hours upon hours every night just based on what that little panel picks up during the day? The secret lies in understanding light-emitting diodes (LED) and their role in this new technology.

If it weren’t for LED, solar garden lights would require a much bigger solar panel in order to put out the same amount of light that they do as it is. Or else, you would just have to be satisfied with a much more pathetic light-source. Neither of these options is very appealing. In fact, without LED technology it is likely that this form of landscape lighting would probably never have become as widespread as it has over the past few years.

Who would want a bunch of big ugly solar panels taking up half the area of their garden? It kind of defeats the purpose of having a cultivated plant life and flowers in the first place, don’t you think? The economy has proven again and again that people basically don’t spend money to try to save the environment. They put out their hard earned cash in cases where they are going to get something good in return. And if these lights weren’t giving much illumination at all then also people wouldn’t buy them.

The fact is that LED low voltage lighting allows functioning at only 10% of the necessary energy levels of their normal counterparts. They are really the breakthrough into viable and useful solar lighting that we have always been waiting for. With them, you can have a solar panel that is essentially small, if not tiny, and is therefore unobtrusive to the natural beauty of your garden. Yet it still gives off just as much light. Thankfully lots of scientists are continuing to make developments just like this everyday.

So in the end we can clearly see that solar garden lights have now become completely practical. Not only that, but they are very affordable now, too. No electrical cords, no increase in electricity bills at all, no real maintenance other than the initial installation: it is really quite a good deal. Every year that goes by you will see more and more people jump on this bandwagon. For all those who would put down the new energy economy, they might want to take a lot at their neighbors’ gardens and tell me what they see.

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