One of the courses I work on came up with a rather novel approach, they were looking for under eaves and ceiling lights for several buildings (washrooms mostly) out on the course where there was no electricity, or running electricity was just too expensive in terms of tearing up existing landscaping.

The solution was to install flush-mounted LED truck lights, they are powered by a small deep-cycle 12v. battery which is maintained by a small solar panel. They even went so far as to wire up two differenbt circuits hooked to a motion sensor, certain of the lights are two level, marker and signal presumably, the higher intensity circuits and the interior lights come on when motion is detected, the rest of the time it is low level outside lighting only.

It seemed pretty weird at first, but it works fine and the amount of light those little things give off is pretty impressive given the low power consumption.

I thought about using them myself, since the lower power draw means I could run far more of them from a single power supply.

Best of luck.

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