Solar Lights for the Holidays

For many of us, it is time to begin decorating our homes in preparation for the holiday season. If you are like most of us, you still have the old, traditional Christmas lights that you have been using for years. The Halloween decorations are likely just as old and tired. This may be the perfect time to think about upgrading to solar holiday lights.

Traditional holiday lights are a hassle. You always wind up running extension chords all over the place, burned out bulbs need to be replaced; you have to worry about short circuits due to rain, the huge electricity bills… Yea, it’s a pain. Solar holiday lights completely eliminate those hassles, but how do they look?

Recently, the growing development of solar lighting technology has opened the door for manufacturers to offer more styles and options than ever. Solar Halloween and Christmas lights are no exception. Some Christmas lighting examples might be:

Solar Net lights – These lights are solar LED lights that are arraigned in a net. They are used for covering bushes and shrubs. They have daylight sensors that turn them off during the day and back on when the sun goes down. They have about an 8 hour light span.

Solar Christmas string lights – This is a string of 50 solar powered LED lights that can be strung around lamp posts, trees, mail boxes, banisters, etc. They also have a sensor that turns them on at night and off during the day and run for about 8 hours.

Multicolor Solar Christmas Lights – These lights are the multicolored counterparts to the regular string lights. They also have a day/night sensor and usually come with about 50 LEDs.

Solar Blue Snow Flake Lights – I personally have these and I love them. They are really bright and very pretty. There were a couple of bad reviews on Amazon from people having a problem with the lights shorting out after a while, but I have had no problems with mine. They are only $8 for a string of 20, and the seller has great feedback, so for me, it was worth trying.

If you’re looking for Halloween decorations, you can choose:

Solar Lighted Halloween Jack-o-lantern Decoration – This is an 8″ diameter solar powered, smiling jack-o-lantern ornament that you can put in your front yard or porch. It comes with a daylight sensor that turns it off during the day and on at night.

Halloween Sound Activated Rocks – These are rocks that charge during the day, and at night light up with a “Go Back” or “Boo” (depending on the model). These rocks are about 9.5″ by 6″ by 4″. They also have a daylight sensor and are solar powered (of course).

Solar Powered Halloween Skull Decoration – This is a “skull” version of the jack-o-lantern decoration. It’s about 10″ in diameter.

Needless to say, they all come with the benefits that we have come to expect from all solar lighting products, like: ease of installation, energy efficiency, versatility, etc. Not to mention, most traditional lights need to be either turned on and off manually, or attached to a timer. All of these solar holiday lights come with daylight sensors. It doesn’t get more trouble free than that!

These are but a few of the types of solar powered holiday lights. I hope that these examples gave you some new ideas.

Find all of the lights in this article at Steve’s Easy Solar Lighting Blog, as well as many more easy solar lighting projects.