Strathwood Solar Garden Path Spot Lights, Black, Set of 2

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 6.7 x 13.4 inches ; 2.5 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 3.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0031TZQ6A
• Item model number: SL-20270
  

By : Strathwood
List Price : $69.99
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Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description
Showcase beautiful landscape features with the Strathwood Solar Garden Spot Light Set. The set's two spot lights share a separate solar panel that provides up to eight hours of bright nighttime illumination. Constructed from high-quality black die-cast aluminum to withstand the elements, these spot lights are designed for years of reliable use.

Solar Garden Spot Lights(Set of 2)At a Glance:

• Set of two spot lights with separate solar panel
• Solar panel charges fast and powers lights for up to eight hours
• Bright LEDs produce 42,000 luces of illumination
• Portable spot lights can be placed anywhere you need them
• Spots made of durable black die-cast aluminum
• Sold exclusively by Amazon.com

Made with durable black, die-cast aluminum. .
Ultra-bright LED illuminates up to 8 hours. .Spot Lights Charge Quickly and Last up to Eight HoursThe Strathwood Solar Garden Spot Lights feature Strathwood Utlimax technology, making them among the fastest-charging, longest-lasting solar spot lights on the market. Each light features an LED with a brightness of 42,000 luces, producing brilliant white light. The 1-watt solar panel charges quickly with its 3.6-volt, 1,400-mah battery, and it powers both spot lights for up to eight hours of nighttime use.
Place Spot Lights Anywhere You Need ThemThese solar lights are designed to be placed in as many different outdoor settings as you can think of. Showcase large trees and shrubs, a flag pole, an ivy-covered chimney, or place the lights around the perimeter of your property for security. If you want to change the spot lights' location, simply pull the solar panel and lights out of the ground and plant them somewhere else.
Made of Durable Long-Lasting MaterialsDurable, long-lasting, and weatherproof, these Strathwood spot lights are designed for years of reliable use. The spot lights are made from black die-cast aluminum and they have sturdy plastic spikes that can be driven into even densely packed soil. Additionally, the solar panel is covered in thick weatherproof plastic to withstand the elements.
About Strathwood: An Amazon ExclusiveStrathwood is proud to offer stylish, high-quality furniture, decor, and lighting systems that are sleekly designed, handsomely finished, and built to last. Sold exclusively through Amazon.com, every Strathwood product has quality, ease of use, and casual elegance at its core. Each product is rigorously tested for durability, and assembly instructions have been standardized for simplicity from start to finish.
What's in the BoxTwo spot lights, one solar panel, and owners' manual.

Strathwood Spot Lights illuminate garden or landscaping features beautifully. Made of black cast iron for strength and durability, each light is weather and element-proof. The black finish lends itself to a variety of outdoor settings. These Strathwood spot lights utilize Ultimax technology, making them among the fastest charging lights with extended illumination time; more than most spotlights on the market today. Up to 8 hours of illumination time is achieved with the 1-watt solar panel and 3.6-volt 1,400 mAh battery. With a LED brightness of 42,000-lux, you can be assured that all your prized landscape features will be showcased with the very best.
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Strathwood Solar Garden Path Spot Lights, Black, Set of 2

 

Technical Details

• Ultra-bright spotlights for illuminating and highlighting garden and landscape featurest
• Made with black, die-cast aluminum for durability and strength each
• Each spotlight features Ultimax technology, making these spot lights among the fastest charging, longest lasting solar spotlights on the market; with a LED Brightness 42,000-lux
• Utilizes a 1-watt solar panel and a 3.6-volt 1,400 mAh battery
• Illuminates up to 8 hours

Customer Reviews

So I thought this light set may be cool thinking that solar panel tech has come a long way, along with rechargable battery tech and LED lighting. But this set disappoints.
Firstly, I don't think the design of this set is ideal. You have two lights attached by wire to a single solar panel/battery/control unit - this forces you to place the lights relatively close together (within about 10 feet) and you have to do something with the wires like either hide them behind hedges or bury them. A much better design would have been to have a solar panel/battery mounted on each light independently thereby freeing you from having to deal with the wires and distance-from-charger placement issues. It would also make the lights much easier to move around and maintain.
The only advantage to this remote panel/battery design is that you could place the charger in an area which gets better sunlight and place the lights right up against a house or wall or under a hedge in the shade as long as the distance isn't too far, unless you want to do some custom wiring. But the chances are that if you are going to use this set to light a walkway or path, this would not likely be your scenario.
Second, I was expecting that the lights would be much brighter than they are. I have a Maglight LED flashlight that works on 2 AA batteries with single LED that is much brighter than these lights are and these lights have six LEDs apiece. In addition, the lights in my set are actually different from each other in that one has more of a yellow cast to the light and the other has more of a blue cast to the light indicating that they came from two different batches of LEDs. It would have been nice if they were the same! Ummmm... quality control?
And speaking of quality control, my unit was defective from the factory in that when I switched the set on after it's initial two-day solar charge, it would just turn the lights on immediately instead of waiting for darkness! I knew this couldn't be right. So I disassembled the solar panel/charger/battery/control unit to find a loose wire dangling from the light sensor. I soldered that wire where it was supposed to go, put the unit back together and got it working correctly so that the lights only switched on when it started to get dark. That is really poor quality control - a blaring defect that could not have happened during shipping inside the sealed solar panel assembly.
The solar panel/battery/charger/control unit is plastic with a plastic strut about a foot long to raise it off the ground and a three inch plastic stake. You can change the angle of the head to best catch the sun, but the head does not rotate. The lights are housed in all aluminum bezels and seem to be plenty strong, but they are apparently not water tight as I've seen water droplets on the inside. They have what is about a 6 or 8 inch metal stake directly attached to an adjustable swivel base. They should have included strut for each of the lights so that they could be mounted higher than right on the ground where they cannot throw off much of a spread to light a path. I'll probably use a pipe on each one to raise their height to a more useful level for path lighting.
After a full charge on sunny summer days, so far the lights last for about seven hours, maybe a little more. I think they turn on too soon - when there is still more than enough ambient light available. Unfortunately, there is no adjustment for that.
Overall, this set could have been much better. Unless you have a situation where you wish to mount lights in a shady area with little or no direct sunlight for the solar cell to operate, I would recommend finding lights that have a solar panel and battery attached to each light and ditch the wires. In addition, don't expect these to throw off very much light. They throw off just enough to dimly light maybe about a 5 or 6 foot swath of pathway per light, or maybe a single hedge or a small patch of garden, but they simply cannot compete with electric lights.

Strathwood Solar Garden Path Spot Lights are, I feel, a bit below the average when it comes to spot lights. The materials it is made from seem a little bit cheap and liable to break. The cord connecting the lights to the solar collector is very thin and easy to break, also not all that long to allow you to put the collector in a sunnier spot in order to have the lights brighten a darker area where they sun does not shine as much. This by the way, is probably the only real strength to this product...the fact that you can put the solar collector in a sunnier spot and the lights themselves in the shade. Besides that I really didn't see any real quality to them. They shine different colors, which is noticeable in the dark. They do not last very long and if there isn't a good amount of sunshine, you are out of luck. Plus the wire that attaches the solar collector to the lights length makes it so you need to put the light relatively close together. Certainly you could not put one on one side of a walk way, and the other light on the opposite side or the wire would trip someone.
Ours did work though, no shorts or mechanical problems, but it does seem to be a rather cheap feeling product that does not shine as brightly as other solar lights I have along my walk way.