Category Maintenance & Repair

Fall is the season that decides which of your solar lights see spring. The math is boring but real: a…

The same solar light battery that lasts three years in Portland, Oregon might die in eight months in Phoenix, Arizona.…

A solar light that used to throw a bright circle of light across your walkway now glows like a candle…

You walk outside one evening and notice a row of solar path lights that should be glowing, and half of…

Open up a solar light that stopped working after a year and you will usually find the same thing inside.…

Solar garden lights are cheap enough that most people throw them away when they stop working and buy new ones.…

Solar lights have one job at night, turn on, and one job during the day, stay off and charge. When…

Solar lights die for a lot of reasons. Dead batteries get blamed first. Water intrusion gets blamed second. But there…

You cleaned your solar lights. You wiped the panels with a damp cloth, maybe used some soapy water, and they…

A solar light that stays on during the day or refuses to turn on at night usually has a failed…

The wires inside a solar light are tiny. We are talking 26 to 30 AWG, thinner than a human hair…

Most solar garden lights run on NiMH batteries. A single AA NiMH cell provides 1.2 volts, which is enough to…

A cracked solar light housing looks like a death sentence for the light. Once the plastic shell splits, water gets…

When your solar light batteries finally die, and they all do eventually, you are left with a handful of spent…

The light head still works. The battery is fine. The panel charges. But the fixture is lying on its side…