Solar Powered Pole Light

[TwinCreek]

Hi I need to replace an outdoor pole light that had the wiring underground go bad. Does anyone have any experience with solar powered outdoor lights, particularly the LED type? Is the light any good? Will they stay light all night? Thanks for your input.

 

[jCarroll]

We have a 20' flagpole.
Circular LED light on top.
Enough light if you are within 50'
Stays on all night.

It fulfills the "legal requirement" for lighting the flag, but it's not a bright light in the darkness.

 

[banjoman09]

I have 2 solar Flagpole lights here at my place - have worked great for two yrs. There are different sizes /voltage on Ebay....I recommend them.

 

[Lucid]

Well, don't have solar leds but do have led flood lights. Them suckers are brighter that traditional floods! Have 20 cree in each panel (x2). If I'm not careful, I'll see those dual 20's burned in my retinas for a good 5min. So I'm sure a solar powered pole light would be a good deal.

 

[Geo-TH,In]

No experience with solar powered pole light.

I do have experience with solar power ornamental yard lights that may last 2 years at best.

Also have some experience with solar powered fence chargers. The batteries don't last forever and need replaced.

The problem with solar power is shorter days in winter and cloudy days, battery never gets fully charged.

I would fix the underground wiring. Underground splice kits are around $20.
LED lighting is nice, but expensive.
Many times you can't replace just the LED part, you have to replace the entire light fixture.

I was going to replace a kitchen light fixture with LED. I replace two light bulbs with LED bulbs, get more light than buying a new fixture and saved $60.

I installed an LED kitchen light for friend, it lasted 3 years.

 

[D beatty]

As said if you live in an area where days are short or snow and ice the solar panels will not get enough sunlight to charge batteries. If you want to go to LED pole light take a look at Raab Yard Blaster light. They can be had with different tones of lighting. They have 5 different types of photo cells ( one which compensates for cloudy days). The Raab fixture has a 100,000 hour life span where as most of the others only have 50,000 hour life span. I still have mercury vapor yard light but have two of the Raab fixtures and two Cooper 50,000 hour fixture in my 40x60 building to see how they hold up. When the mercury vapor goes bad it will be replaced with LED and it will be a 100,000 hour fixture because I don't like get up there that high to work on lights and getting to old to do it anyway.

 

[Bret4207]

We have 2 on the flags at our Town Hall. They came off Amazon I'm told. One worked, the other didn't and some of the perpetually indignant people were whining. I decided to check them out and tightened a screw so the solar panel on the non-working one was facing up and not at the ground. Then they both worked... :roll:

 

[D beatty]

Solar panels work fine if you live in an area that doesn't get a lot ice and snow in winter. I have one on my trailer to keep battery up for
winch. In the winter I have to clean it off after snows because snow will stick to it and build up and may last for weeks and battery doesn't
get charged when panel is covered.