Solar Decking Lights
Posted by Alan on 14 Sep 2009 at 05:30 pm | Tagged as: Solar decking lights
Solar Decking Lights
Solar deck lights are an excellent means to beautifully highlight the style of your deck or patio at night. Ingeniously placed, solar patio lights and deck lights can create a very nice mood.
In addition to the aesthetic aspect they produce, deck solar lights make the use of walkways and steps safer during darkness. They will shed light along pathways, walkways and stairs where safety is an issue.
Recessed solar deck lights are designed to be installed directly into the deck floor (flush mounted).Once fitted, recessed lights become part of your deck or patio floor and can be walked on, or even driven over when used as solar driveway lights or solar path lights. It is also a great way to shed light on stairs. Recessed deck lights make perfect markers, subtly suggesting the way to go.
Solar post lights or solar post caps have to be fastened directly to the deck railing or on the top of the posts. Solar deck lights for rails and post lights, shed illumination around the area where they are installed. In addition to lighting, solar post lights also protect the top of your posts from water and moisture.
This beautiful cast aluminum post cap will keep its finish, season after season. The yellow soft and warm lighting is provided by 2 bright LEDs powered by rechargeable batteries. Most solar post caps can fit 4×4 or 6×6 Posts.
Installation wise, since the lights are solar-powered, no difficult or expensive wiring is necessary for setting up solar deck lights.
Installing recessed lights needs more precision work than usual solar yard lights that you just stick into the ground. As long as you plan it well and know how to use a drill and a screwdriver, it should not be a problem.
If you do not feel comfortable taking measurements and using tools, for sure you will find a good carpenter willing to help you setup your deck lighting system.
When positioning the lights, an important thing to keep in mind is to make sure that the beams will not disturb you and your guests when standing or seated.
Once the solar post lights installed, the solar cells begin to charge the rechargeable batteries. When night begin to falls, the LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes) integrated to the solar deck lights switch-on, giving to your deck a new dimension.
At sunrise the lights switch-off and the batteries recharging cycle start again
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