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 05-01-2003, 14:44 Post: 54112
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Murf, this looks like a thread that was a year old that suddenly came back to life. I expect that the problem has been solved.

Tom, I have used the solar powered lights, but I don't think that they work very well. In New Mexico, I get fairly good performance during the summer. We get sunshine about 300 days a year, but during the winter, they do not charge up enough to stay on for more than a couple of hours at night. The light is dim, and the bulbs burn out quickly. Replacement bulbs are a couple bucks each.

I am moving to a new house currently, and I am not even going to take them with me. I will bury cable and put in the style of "Malibu" lights that suit the purpose at the new home.






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After posting about my experience with the solar powered lights it struck me that this would be a perfect application for white light LEDs like they are using in the high efficiency long life flashlights.

The flashlights that I have seen are brighter than the solar powered lights that I have with incandescent bulbs and they will run for 200 hours on a single battery. Being so efficient, it would seem that they might just stay lit all night.

I did a quick search and LED landscape lighting is under development. So then the only problem will be keeping snow off the solar panels.






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 05-02-2003, 09:59 Post: 54162
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White LED flashlights are really nice. I have used a hard hat mounted light that ran on 2 AAA cells. They claimed that it would stay on continuously for 200 hours. It was about as bright as a normal penlight flashlight, but had more diffuse light from three or four LEDS. It was certainly bright enough to work safely in a dark electrical panel.

There are larger and brighter versions that are the size of full size flashlights running on D cells. These sometimes combine LED light for diffuse area lighting with a halogen bulb for intense spot lighting. Most of these claim 200 hours or so continuous on a set of batteries and 100K hours on the LEDs.

Since they seem to be so energy efficient, it makes sense that they would use them for solar powered lighting. I am also a pilot, so I need to look for a flashlight that will switch from white to red LEDs. The long life is a real plus when you pull the flashlight out of your flightbag.






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Here is a link to an internet LED source. I have not bought anything from them and won't vouch for them.

It looks like they already have LED interior lighting.






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