Solar Floating Lights

June 18, 2009 by  
Filed under Accessories

There is a dinner party coming and guess what, you were chosen as the host. After getting all the bushes trimmed and the lawn mowed, you now face the task of how to make your pond or swimming pool presentable. With that, you thought landscape lighting will do great in dramatically blending your pool or pond into your garden, so you searched the internet for possible outdoors lighting options. To your dismay, all outdoor lighting demanded a great deal of work; they needed to be assembled and wired into a power source. At the same web page, you saw an amazing picture of solar floating lights treatment and you thought, “Not a bad idea”.


Solar power light globes and saucer treatments are items that you can easily use for all decorating purposes. With no wires and part assembly required, you can easily drop several pieces of solar floating lights to your pond or pool and make it the center piece of your home’s landscape. These convenient light treatments can turn your pond, swimming pool and any other water feature into a unique outdoor accent. What’s more interesting is that these treatments as so easy to arrange and operate. These beautiful light treatments illuminate your pool in the most interesting of ways, giving your garden an enchanting atmosphere, to the delight of your guests.

To produce a spectrum of colors, solar floating lights make use of LED lights so it can easily produce lights rays that shine through its plastic housing. These submersible water and garden light treatments are available in a number of color selections; blue, green, red and yellow or amber. Some solar floating lights may even have light shifting features; changing its color to several hues of green, yellow, red, blue and purple. Some designs include a pedestal or weight inside the housing to make the lights easy to position on the water, in the garden or even hanged in the tree. Manufacturers caution the use of these lights on chlorinated water for it tends to cloud its plastic housing with prolonged use. On the other hand, they are great in accentuating ponds such as koi ponds.

So when do solar floating lights turn on? The answer lies on its photo sensor. During daylight, its built-in and portable solar power generator collects and converts solar energy to charge the battery. During sundown, the photo sensor automatically switches the LED lights on. From dusk till dawn, you can rely on these light treatments to stay on with your outdoor landscape, giving them and exceptional value.

Solar floating lights are the latest addition to the increasing number of solar-operated product range. It makes use of LED light technology to produce bright colored lights. This compact light assembly shines through a sphere, saucer or concave shaped translucent and UV resistant housing. As the name implies, these light treatments operate on solar power, it does not need to be wired to an electrical power source to light up. A typical design places the solar panel inside the housing to convert its collected sunlight into electricity, which is stored in its built-in battery pack.

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