Solar lights therefore come fitted with a rechargeable battery, which can store energy from the sun in the day time and then hold on to it until night time when it is used to power the lights. We need a way to store this energy so it can be used when we really do need it, when it’s dark. But you may have noticed the problem here, solar lights aren’t much use to us if they are only on in the day time, we already have the suns light doing that job for us. So if you only needed your lights to work in the day time you wouldn’t need a battery because the energy could be converted instantly. Well, the problem is that the sun is only providing energy for the small solar panel on your lights to generate electricity in the day time. You may be thinking, why do my solar lights even need batteries? I thought the whole point was that they used the suns energy rather than that for a battery?
The short answer is that in most solar garden lights you can simply remove the battery cover, take out the old batteries which came fitted with the device, and replace the battery with a new rechargeable battery of the same specification.īut which type of battery do you need? Are there any other special steps you must take? Well in this article I will explain this in depth. But that environmental benefit would soon disappear if you bought new lights every time the batteries ran out, so, for this reason, you may ask how do you replace the batteries in solar lights?
The great thing about them is they use energy from the sun, so not only does that mean you don’t have to have wires all over your garden, stretching to the nearest plug socket, but they are better for the environment too. Solar lights are a popular way of adding lighting to a garden or other area around the home to help guide people or to act as a security feature.