Friday, May 27, 2011

What are the Different Types of Solar Landscape Lighting?

Among various ways of beautifying your home and garden, landscape lighting is essential to improve their beauty. It provides your home with safety and security. It also adds the appeal and value of your property.

Solar landscaping is one way of landscape lighting which saves much money and protects environment. Solar landscape lights have small photo voltaic cells or solar powered cells. These are used to charge the battery integrated into the lighting fixture. The battery is charged in sunlight during the whole day. So it gives continuous lighting to your landscape throughout the night.

There are many ways of using solar landscape lighting. Solar floodlights or pole lights are placed on the corners or side of the home. They can also be placed around the pool or anywhere in the yard. They are used to lighten a larger area. The other type of solar landscape lighting includes use of hanging solar lights. Hanging lights are in the shape of a lantern and are found in different colors. They are used to light patio or deck. There are certain step or path lights used to light up driveways or paths to garden. They are alsohttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif meant for lighting the stairs of your home. The other type of solar lighting is to use streak solar lights. They are designed to lighten all sorts of ground both soft and hard. The streak lights are mostly used around mailboxes and in flower beds. The benefits of using solar lights is that they do not need electricity. So they do not require wiring for installation. Thus, it is much economical to use landscape lighting for your home and garden.


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