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Creating a Fairy Tale Yard with Solar Garden String Lights

by linkroll

posted in Home Improvement : Solar Energy

Solar LED string lights have come onto the market as a way to light parts of the yard at night without the cost of having them run for hours on end. Solar garden string lights come in many different forms and lengths, and even come in festive colors for the Christmas season, such as reds and greens. These solar garden string lights are versatile and can be placed anywhere in the yard that the individuals desire since they are not attached to a power source. These lights are a way to beautify the yard while still remaining environmentally friendly by using solar power rather than a traditional AC power source.

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Some of these solar garden string lights can be used to wrap around fences or arbors to give some lighting. Often, a gazebo is lit at night through the glow of these solar garden string lights, creating a mystic appeal to the area. The bulbs of these string lights are often LED, which gives them strong lighting capacity and also long lasting life. The bulbs are also extended in their life when individuals buy solar garden string lights that have sensors in them. The sensors detect the difference between day and night so that the lights are not burning all of the time. Often, with the use of string lights, users will forget to turn them off in the morning since they blend into the landscape. This is wasteful of energy and also the bulbs' life, so a sensor helps to alleviate this issue.

Another option in solar garden string lights is to buy some that are hand blown bulbs, with decorative glass in colors that can be found to match the décor of any yard's design. These solar garden string lights that are hand blown are often larger than the lights that are on the regular string lights. The bulbs have to be larger to show the decorative colors and designs in them, but they are still placed in certain intervals on the string that holds them. These lights are often hung and draped rather than wrapped around things since users will want their visitors to see the bulbs themselves as they light the area. Besides these hand made bulbs, there are other string lights that contain many bulbs per string, thus containing over one hundred bulbs on a solar garden lighting string. These lights will cost about seventy to eighty dollars, depending on the length of the string and the features that the strings have.

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