[DollyCali]

good morning everyone. It has been great here for fall clean up (and there is plenty here on the homestead)

I have a question. This year I bought my first solar landscaping lights. About 18. I live in NE Ohio. Rough winters, lots of snow from Lake Effect.

Should I bring those inside for winter? What do you do with them? take apart? remove batteries etc.

I want to have them last as long as possible so want to winterize the correct way

thanks..

d

[Red_Devil 232]

You could leave your lights out all winter but they may not provide the lighting times you are used to during the summer. Winter - shorter (Charging time) days and longer (lamp on time) nights. Are they LED lamps and are the batteries NI Cads? LED lamps and NiCad batteries are typically what are used in the newer models.

Nothing wrong with storing them over the winter - good time to check for corrosion on connectors and such.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Those solar landscaping lights are sort of disposable. Many do not last more than 1 season. I started out with 36 and about 1/3 of them failed over the winter. There is no way to replace the batteries in the ones I had. In fact I haven’t seen any with replaceable batteries.

After the first season (where I took them in for the winter) I moved them to a new place, and another 1/3 died the 2nd year. They found a new home the 3rd year, and more died. I won’t buy them again.