Choosing Good Quality Solar Fairy Christmas Lights

This article provides a checklist for choosing LED Solar Fairy Christmas Lights for the outdoors, weddings, parties and any festive occasion. Solar Fairy Lights are perfect in situations where plugging into mains power proves difficult, or you just want to do your thing for the environment and reduce your power use over the Festive Season.
Christmas is fast approaching and so is the festive season. LED Solar Fairy lights provide a perfect outdoor lighting solution to help create the perfect atmosphere for a party. No mains power is required so they can be hung anywhere outdoors.

Solar fairy lights are also perfect for other outdoor lighting requirements, in the garden, decorating restaurants and cafes, pergolas patios and verandahs, camping, weddings, birthdays, and any other special celebration.

Please find below a useful guide to selecting the best quality Solar Fairy Christmas lights.

Choosing Solar Fairy Lights Checklist

1. Check the grade of LED used to ensure your solar Christmas lights shine brightly at night – look for the description "ultra bright" LED’s.

2. Does the solar powered light unit have extra features like a timer switch or different lighting modes? These assist with flexible lighting solutions.

3. Ensure your solar fairy lights are powered with Ni-MH batteries which last up to 3 times longer than Ni-Cd (lead acid) batteries. They can also be disposed of more safely than Ni-Cd batteries. Ni-MH batteries have a "non-memory effect" which means they will continue to charge on cloudy days. The battery performance will not be diminished by partial charges as can occur with lead acid batteries.

4. Ensure the use of original solar cells & not fragmented pieces that come in cheaper solar christmas light models. This ensures consistency of solar cell operation & faster charging times enabling your solar fairy lights to last longer.

5. Bigger is definitely better for the solar fairy lights panels: look for 10+ solar strips to ensure efficient fast charging solar lights.

6. The solar panel should use EVA laminated encapsulation, which has strong UV-resistance and a lifetime of 10 years. Cheaper solar christmas lights often use an epoxy resin: average life span of 2 years.

Check out http://www.solarpartyshop.com.au for solar fairy lights that meet the criteria above.

If you are looking for an easy way to light up your next celebration, wedding, party, Christmas in July (or December) or to add something a little different to your landscaping, veranda or patio, then Solar Fairy Lights are a great choice.

By Jenny Craig
Published: 8/21/2009
 
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