Add solar led lights to the garden statues and you now have classic elegance and the beauty of showcasing that landscape and flower bed at night, with sun charged solar light.

Solar garden statues can be placed anywhere that receives full sun, or sun for at least five to six hours each day. No wiring or electrical is needed. Just imagine what a beautiful sight it will be to see your geraniums, petunias or pansies growing around an angel, fairy or cherub solar garden statue. When the sun goes down, your flowers and solar statue will light up. My favorite is the Cherubs with the solar fountain. The solar led lights flow down the fountain bowls to create a continuous solar sun fountain. Click on the image to see the solar fountain in action in a new window.

Solar garden statues also make great gifts, and can be shipped directly to your friends or family that you are honoring with an elegant, yet fun, garden statue gift.

To shop and buy your solar garden statues, solar animals, outdoor solar lights, and indoor solar lights, visit Natures Solar Lights.

Give your family and friends a special greeting this year with indoor and outdoor solar lights they can admire. Start off their special day with a Solar Grizzly Bear to put a smile on their face even before they enter to the delicious smells of Thanksgiving dinner. Show off your favorite flowers, cranberry sauce, cheese and fruit with a rechargeable LED color changing Vase and Bowl. Help them relax and digest after dinner with solar landscape lights and deck lights to set a soothing mood. End your successful and delightful day with solar path lights to guide your happy guests back to their cars in illumination and safety.

Thanksgiving and solar lights, indoor or outdoor under the stars, together will add that special touch for you and your holiday guests.

Solar Light Casing: The casing of an outdoor solar light can be manufactured in many different materials; brass, bronze, copper, stainless steel, durable plastic, etc. Even the durable plastic is strong enough to last absolutely years. Any casing should be wiped down with a damp cloth periodically to remove layers of dirt.

Solar Panel: also called solar cells, or photovoltaic (PV) modular cells, which is a group of cells electronically connected and packaged in one frame. Solar cells are created with silicon which has impurities added to it, to allow electrical current to pass to the diode, also known as doping. Silicon crystals are expensive to make and the major expense of the solar light. The solar panel converts sunlight directly into electricity, charging the NiCd or NiMH rechargeable battery, then transferred to the LED diode. Solar cells are wired directly to the battery through the diode, which prevents the battery’s current from flowing back through the solar cell at night.

NiCd or NiMH Rechargeable Battery: Nickel-Cadium (NiCd) or Nickel-Metal Hydride (NiMH) batteries are designed to operate from fully charged to fully discharged. An AA size NiCd battery produces about 1.2 volts, and can store a maximum of approximately 700 milliamp-hours. NiMH batteris are a type of secondary electrochemical cell similar to an NiCd. NiMH uses a hydrogen absorbing alloy for the negative electrode instead of cadmium. As in NiCd cells, the positive is nickel oxide hydroxide (NiOOH). A NiMH charging voltage is 1.4-1.6 volts per cell, and can have 2-3 times the capacity of an equivalent size NiCd. A good quality NiMH will generally last up to 1,000 nights.

Photoresistor Cell: Located on the exterior of the casing, sends input to the controller board that darkness is occurring.

Controller Board: Accepts power from the solar cell and battery. When the photoresistor indicates darkness to the controller board, the controller board activated the battery. The three-transistor circuit turns on the LED light.

Light Emitting Diode (LED): A diode is the simplest possible semi-conductor device, and allows current to flow in one direction, but not the other. Basically, a diode is a one-way turnstile for electrons. One LED emits roughly the same brightness as a 2 watt incandescent bulb. The tiny LED bulb fits into an electrical circuit and illuminates solely by movement of electrons in a semi-conductor material, and lasts as long as a standard transistor. There is no filament to burn out, which is why LED lights have a lifespan of 100,000 hours, which is over 25 years.

That is how solar lights work, very simple, very few components, and the energy to have light outdoors at night is supplied completely free of charge, by the sun.

There actually is a fair, easy and cheap solution to dark storage sheds, work shops, boathouses, greenhouses and other outdoor buildings. Installing an indoor solar shed light will light up your outdoor buildings without the expense of an electrical source, wiring, or added cost to your monthly electric bill. One initial purchase price for the solar shed light, and there is no more expense until the rechargeable batteries need to be replaced in two to three years.

Indoor Solar Lights are easy to install on all types of material; metal, wood or plastic. The solar panel is installed on the southern exposure on the exterior of your building, the LED light fixture is installed inside, and constant, energy efficient light is yours! You won’t even have to change light bulbs anymore (another savings) since LED bulbs last around 100,000 hours, and that’s at least 25 years!

Some models of indoor solar lights even come with a compass to help you find the true southern exposure, and a night light to guide you to the indoor fixture to turn it on. Now no one needs to hop around while their toe is hurting. How can solar indoor shed lights not be the best solution for lighting your outdoor buildings?

Bright outdoor solar path lights typically have 3 to 6 LED bulbs to put the light where you need it, and stay lit for 8 – 15 hours, depending on the quantity of bulbs, which use more energy, and quality of the solar light.  Some solar lights will also light for 3 nights, even with cloudy conditions. They illuminate a dark path or walkway, highlight a special garden feature, and add ambiance to your landscape. There is nothing more beautiful than seeing the warmth of solar path lights along your walkways.

Make your home and outdoors a showplace for gatherings. Create safety and security with low profile solar path lights as you stroll in the evening and walk up those steps. Whichever design you choose, your outdoor landscape will be more beautiful, day and night, with the green energy of outdoor solar lights.

Outdoor solar path lights are so easy to install, with no electrical or wiring cost or hassle, and can be placed anywhere that receives sun for charging. After a full day charging by the sun, enjoy the warmth of light every night. Rearrange your lighting design at will, since outdoor solar path lights can be moved over and over again. Solar path lights are generally available in sets or individual lights to customize your every lighting need.

That is one of the wonderful benefits of solar outdoor lights. A simple concept with few parts, nothing much to go wrong, the sun does all of the real work, and everything else falls in line. Solar power is probably the cleanest, most viable form of renewable energy available.

Today I will lay out the basic location of individual parts within the confines of an outdoor solar light. The detailed information on each component of the outdoor solar light will be explained in Part II.

Solar Panel or Solar Cell: Located at the top of the casing, needs only periodic wipe down with a damp cloth to remove dirt.

Photoresistor Cell: Located on the exterior of the casing to detect darkness, and communicates with the controller panel.

NiMH or NiCd Rechargeable Battery: Generally AA, sometimes AAA size, is located on the interior and is easily replaceable.

Light Emitting Diode (LED): Basically a semi-conductor located on the interior, the bulb lights at night, and has a lifespan of approximately 100,000 hours, which is over 25 years. The LED bulb is not replaceable in solar led lights.

Controller Board: Located on the interior, and accepts power from the solar cell and battery.

Casing: Made out of many different materials, brass, copper, stainless steel, durable plastic, which will all last for years and not deteriorate.

Okay, for all of you who have now said, yup, that’s enough information for me, thanks for visiting my Blog. And for all of you “must know more” visitors, I will cover the details in Part II.

Go solo (but he might get lonely), set up a pure bred family, or a group of solar powered dog friends. Throw in a solar powered rabbit or solar squirrel to give the dogs some daily excitement.

Each solar powered dog holds a solar LED lantern, with 100,000 hours of lighting use. That’s 27 years of enjoyment without changing a single light bulb. No electrical source or wiring is needed, so set your solar dog light family anywhere that receives sun for solar charging.

Every garden can use a bit of charm and fun. Solar dogs can add those touches to your outdoor solar lights and landscape.

A Gnome solar garden statue will make you believe you are in the enchanted forest, with a solar garden spotlight to safely show you the way. An adorable Grizzly Bear holding a Solar LED Lantern will greet each and every guest with his own welcome smile, which is bound to put a smile on everyone that comes to your front door. Butterfly and flower solar LED garden decor will make every day feel like spring. Your special garden areas can either add glow or illuminate your outdoor yard with solar LED spotlight statues.

Only your imagination will limit the special area you can create with groupings of solar powered dogs, daisy and lily solar lights, solar owls, color changing statues, turtles, gnomes  and fairies. Your children and grandchildren will believe you created a fairy tale wonderland just for them!  They don’t need to know you did it for yourself!

Compared to other categories of solar lights, accent lights have a lower output of light by design, and the light will generally last for more hours each night. Some models last as many as three days without being fully recharged by the sun. This feature can be very valuable in areas of the country that go days seeing only clouds.

Solar accent lights are available in white or colored LEDs, for an even softer glow and more enticing look in your outdoor landscaping. Amber, green, blue, red, and even color changing LEDs, are readily available to add enchantment to their already beautiful design and glow. Colored LEDs will use less energy than white, and a quality solar accent light will generally light your outdoors for at least 10 hours a night.

Since outdoor solar accent lights do have less illuminations, they are the most affordable solar lights available. With so many garden features in a normal outdoor landscape, you can afford to purchase solar accent lights in sets and transform every area of your outdoors.

LEDs are a semi-conductor device that emits visible light when conducting current.  They are like miniature light bulbs that are installed on an electrical circuit. The light emitted by the LED bulb is the byproduct of electrons moving through the semi-conductor material. LED bulbs do not have a filament to burn out.

One LED bulb will last up to 100,000 hours. If you use the light for 10 hours per day, 3,650 hours a year, your LED bulb will last a total of 27 years! How many incandescent or fluorescent bulbs would you have to replace in a 27 year span?

LED bulbs do not generate heat, and stay cool to the touch. Another technological wonder for those of us that live in the sunbelt. When it’s 118 degrees outdoors, who needs more heat being generated by incandescent bulbs?

With the improvements to LEDs recently, differing light intensity can be achieved, based on color (amber, green, blue, red, white), super bright, ultra bright, and  how many LEDs are grouped, or clustered, into the bulb. That is why LEDs are perfect for solar lights. Choose between a glow and ambiance, or brighter security lighting for your outdoor landscape, and still reap the benefits of using the same LED bulb for the next 27 years.