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Hey everyone, went to Big Lots a couple of days ago and they had their Christmas lights on sale so I took
the opportunity to get some their solar LED Christmas lights. Normally $18 for
$9 I thought it was a fairly decent deal. So what it comes with is, there is a
solar panel here
the lights themselves they're sixty to a strand
and they just connect right into the panel
there's a
notch in there so it only goes in one way
and this will tighten I assumed to keep the rain out since they are designed for outdoor use
They also give you a clamp so you could actually attach it to just about
anything that it will clamp onto, I assume a rain gutter would be the most common
they also give you
the yard stakes
this one looks like it plugged in to there
and the solar panel plugged into there
so they give you a lot of options so you can get it
just about anywhere that there is sun
the panel itself has a on off switch in the back here
it looks like a
sensor for whether it's daytime or nighttime
looked like two AA batteries that are rechargeable on the inside, I didn't take it apart or anything to look
to give you an idea how bright the lights are
that's the lights
and in comparison, they had these lights that plug in. These are the warm lights, they seem to
flicker in the camera
uh...
these were $1.50 since they were 50% off. Normally $3, 20 to a strand.
these seem to use about 1.6-1.7 watts of power
so they should last quite awhile if you run them off battery or not eat up the
electric bill as much.
According to the box they use 90% less power than
normal Christmas lights
Actually on the back of the box of the solar one it gives you a little comparison.
I assume that 600 of this C-7 lights about $100, $94.50
cost
for 45 days 7 hours a day with the average cost being 10 cents per
kilowatt hour.
And the 600 mini lights would be $7.71
but the solar one ends up being free because it uses the power from the sun.
No idea who makes it, just says distributed by Big Lots and made in China no actual manufacturer
So I assume the batteries will probably be kinda junky, but
it looks like there are a couple of screws where you could
uh...
pop them out, pop new ones in. If I remember right the directions did make mention of it. You could use regular
batteries or you could use rechargeable batteries.
So it seemed like something worth trying out for $9.00.
And if you have any questions leave me a couple of comments and I'll answer them.
Thanks for watching!