Solar lights are a popular garden decoration. Of course, they’re available cheaply from most hardware and garden stores, but if you’re more of the DIY type, you might like to build your own.

Plug-in solar has remained in the shadows because of a lack of safety standards and often costly requirements imposed by ...

Good outdoor lighting dramatically extends the hours when you can enjoy your yard. It can make things safer by highlighting paths and walkways, or you can use it to showcase standout features like a ...

This solar birdhouse light is an economical circuit of a mini solar lighting system circuit is presented here. At the heart of the circuit is a mini 6V/2W solar panel. Here, this solar panel is used ...

This post introduces the design of a little solar disc light. It is based on a handful of electronics components. By “solar disc light” I am referring to a compact light source in the shape of a flat ...

Solar lights are a popular garden decoration. Of course, they’re available cheaply from most hardware and garden stores, but if you’re more of the DIY type, you might like to build your own.

Solar lights work by storing the power of the sun during the day for use at night. Because these systems are small, they don’t require much energy to work and are usually pretty cost-effective.

Each solar light is left hanging in our test garden over multiple winters to reveal which ones last, and more importantly which ones don't. Deep freeze As if the great British winter isn’t bad enough, ...