Winter Care of Your Solar Lights
Author: Jerome Sturgeleski
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 doesn’t 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 isn’t, chances are you won’t 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.
Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/landscaping-articles/winter-care-of-your-solar-lights-348542.html
About the Author
Jerome Sturgeleski is an avid outdoors person and loves to stay out in his yard after dark. He lives in Minnesota so time outdoors is limited to just a few months of the year. After completing a landscaping project he thought the must be a way to light it up so he could enjoy in on those evenings out. He added some solar lights and liked it so well that he decided to start a website and sell solar lights so others could also add them and enjoy their outdoor spaces well into the evening. He started a website in May of 2005 called http://www.solarlightspro.com to allow people to see what types that are available.
 |
Moonrays 91515 Turtles on a Log Solar-Powered Outdoor LED Light List Price: $18.90 Sale Price: $13.62 Used From: $14.37  |
|
Polyresin construction. 3 turtles rest on a log, shells glow at night with 3 amber LEDs. Rechargeable battery included. |
 |
Moonrays 97125 Rechargeable NiCd AA Batteries for Solar-Powered Lights, 4-Pack Sale Price: $4.99 |
|
Pack of 4 "AA" rechargeable NiCd replacement batteries. For use in all solar fixtures. |
 |
12 Flickering Candle Set Runs on Batteries Flickers Like a Real Candle Battery Operated Tealight Candles Flameless Candle Wedding Tea Light One Dozen Long Lasting Batterry Life Sale Price: $4.98 Used From: $10.00 |
|
Flame free, smoke free, worry free candles (set of 12) Battery operated (batteries included) Flickering LED light realistically simulates burning candle These tealights will fit in any votive or tealight holder... |
 |
Machine Visions List Price: $17.49 Sale Price: $16.76 |
Music Tracks
Binding: Audio CDArtist: Solar Dream Light Machine
Format:
Number of Discs: 1
Manufacturer:
Original Release Date:
Tracks Disc Number: 0
Tracks:
 |
Solar Light / Sea Of Tranquility Used From: $4.98 |
|
World Pacific 77926 |
Music Tracks
Binding: VinylArtist:
Format:
Number of Discs:
Manufacturer: World Pacific 77926
Original Release Date:
Tracks Disc Number: 0
Tracks:
Entries (RSS)