Can Anyone Recommend Good Solar Lights For My Garden?

[Galaxy1965]

Can anyone recommend good solar light for my garden. I have some at the moment with rechargeable batteries but I seem to have to recharge the batteries myself nearly everyday and I a getting fed up doing this all the time. Thanks in advance.

[KARL]

Solar powered lights need (surprise, surprise) sunlight to replenish lost energy. If the lights are movement triggered and there are frequent On periods (humans, animals, vehicles, even vegtation blown about by the wind) then in the British winter there will very possibly be insufficient sunlight to recover. Remember that cloud reduces sunlight too. Most solar lights are designed to be perfectly adequate in other countries, with unrestricted sunshine more than 25% of the time or simply further south. You could try to increase the capacity of the batteries (expressed as mAh) in case the existing ones are not maximising the opportunities for recharge but if this does not work you will have to accept that for you solar lights will only work reliably and unaided for part of the year.

[Gizmonster]

Karl has said near enough the same as what I was going to say.

Check the mAh of the batteries in your lights. Low mAh means that they don't hold much charge - the higher, the better. I'm guessing that they'll be quite low, prob around 700mAh. Ideally you'll need 2000+.

Also the days are getting shorter, which means less sunlight hours, plus the sun isn't as strong. This means the charging time is less and the lights will be on longer whilst it's dark. I'm assuming that they're like ours and simply come on when it goes dark and switch off when the sun comes up??

We have a solar powered door number on the wall.
I've noticed that the days are getting shorter recently, because in the summer it usually stays lit all night; but I recently noticed that it now comes on in the evening but never lasts all night. It runs off one 2100 mAh battery, but there's just not enough daylight to fully charge it ......