Category Reviews & Testing

The solar fountain with lights is one of those products that sounds better in theory than it performs in practice,…

I have been running four different solar flame wall sconces on the exterior of my house for just over six…

I have a love-hate relationship with solar step lights. They solve a real problem, lighting a staircase that turns into…

I bought a “1000 watt” solar flood light off a marketplace listing for nineteen dollars. It arrived in a plain…

Four Minutes and Thirty Seconds I bought a set of solar path lights advertised as “1000 lumens, 12-hour runtime.” Sounded…

I hate drilling holes. I hate it enough that I’ve put off mounting a motion light on my garage for…

I bought a set of RGB solar spotlights last spring for the garden path. Out of the box they were…

Let me set the scene. It was late May, and my backyard had become basically unusable after about seven in…

I live in central Florida. That sentence carries a specific weight during hurricane season, which runs from June through November…

I bought my first set of solar hummingbird lights on impulse. Three years and roughly a dozen different styles later,…

I first noticed solar ground lights at a friend’s house during a summer barbecue. Little glowing discs embedded flush in…

They’re not a replacement for a real security system. But they’re not useless either. About six months ago, I mounted…