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The solar lighted planter pot is one of those garden products that arrived quietly and then suddenly seemed to be…

A solar wall pack is one of the few solar products where the business case actually holds up without subsidies…

Tiki torches have been a backyard staple for decades, and for most of that history the only option was a…

Solar post cap lights are one of the best upgrades you can make to a deck or fence, and they…

The promise of smart solar lights is genuinely appealing. You install a light fixture with no wiring, it charges itself…

I have a row of solar path lights in my front yard that I installed in the spring of 2020.…

A customer called last fall asking if solar sign lights could replace the hardwired floodlights on his monument sign. The…

Last spring I sat across the desk from a small business owner who runs a dental practice just outside of…

A buddy of mine works as a paramedic in a mid-sized suburb, and he told me something that stuck with…

Why a Flag in the Dark Is a Problem My neighbor put up a 20-foot flagpole last spring. During the…

The first time I installed a properly shielded solar path light, I genuinely thought something was wrong with it. The…

The package sat at my mailbox all night. I didn’t know it was there until I walked out to grab…

The first letter from my HOA arrived six weeks after I moved in. “Dear Resident,” it said, “it has come…

I’ll give you the short answer right up front, because I know that’s what most people want: solar lights will…

I have a box in my garage. It’s a medium-sized moving box, and it’s full of dead solar lights. Not…