Category Solar Basics

Circadian lighting spent a decade as a niche concern of sleep researchers and high-end interior designers. The idea is straightforward…

Every spring, a neighbor asks me some version of the same question. “I want to put solar lights along my…

The promise of all weather solar lights is that they keep running when ordinary solar lights quit. A stretch of…

The most common complaint about solar outdoor lighting has nothing to do with brightness or runtime. It is that the…

If you have ever cracked open a solar path light after two seasons and found a swollen, leaky AA battery…

I get the question a lot from greenhouse owners: can I just run solar lights in there and skip the…

Every solar light box throws around a two-letter code like IP65 or IP67, and most buyers treat it as a…

Most of us install solar garden lights without thinking twice about the insects that work the night shift. I did…

My neighbor Rick is the kind of person who has three smart home hubs running in parallel and a spreadsheet…

I spent two years assuming the controller inside my solar lights did not matter. A solar panel charges a battery,…

The first summer I had my dock lit by solar, I nearly walked off the end of it. For years…

Something Was Off With the Tomatoes I didn’t set out to run an experiment. It just sort of happened, the…

When I was eight, I ran across the backyard at dusk with a Mason jar and a piece of paper…

A few years back, my neighbor decided his side yard needed more security. Totally fair. The problem was the solar…

The weekend I learned that “white” is not one color, I was standing on my front lawn feeling like an…