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Solar Outdoor Lights vs Electrical: Can Eco-Friendly Be Efficient?
Whether you're buying elegant solar garden lights for your home or investing in estate lighting solutions and solar street lights for larger-scale outdoor areas, there is often a misconception that the environmentally friendly nature of solar outdoor lights requires a compromise. Although some solar energy-based products indeed have slower charging times or dips in performance compared to their electrical counterparts, [...]
The Quick-Start Guide to Installing Solar Wall Lights
Adding solar wall lights to your parking bay, garden, pool surround, or entranceway is a fantastic way to improve visibility and increase security, using outdoor wall lights that are powered solely by the free, clean solar energy of the sun. While fitting your solar wall lights is easy, and we provide fixings and a detailed installation guide with every unit, [...]
Performance Contrasts Between Solar and Wired LED Outdoor Lighting
The benefits of solar lights in terms of sustainability, running costs, and convenience are well established, where you can install a new set of outdoor lights in just a few minutes and implement year-round security lighting or patio lights with zero utility charges. However, exceptional performance is as important, where your outdoor lighting doesn't just look elegant but provides advantages [...]
Solar Lighting Technology: What are ALS and TCS?
Solar-powered lights have grown exponentially in popularity over recent years as we look for ways to replace unreliable mains power and reduce electricity costs, utilising free and plentiful solar energy to run outdoor and garden lights. However, as solar light innovation continues to evolve, it can be tricky to understand the huge range of terminology and abbreviations that may indicate [...]
PIR Sensors: How They Work in Your Garden Solar Lights
PIR sensors are in-built motion detectors, which add functionality and efficiency to garden solar lights. They use infrared technology to sense movement within the scope of the sensor and activate the light. There are a huge range of applications, and you very likely walk past PIR sensors every day; think automatic shop doors, lights in an office that switch off [...]
Find the Perfect Position for your Solar Garden Lights
Solar garden lights perform best when they receive maximum exposure to the sunlight – but what should you do if you’d like to install a solar security light or decorative garden lights in a shady space? To advise you on the ideal positioning for outdoor solar lights, we have put together this guide to help you decide the right placement, [...]
Can South African Businesses Claim a Tax Allowance for Solar Lighting?
There is a strong business case for companies across South Africa to consider renewable energy sources such as solar lighting, running their organisations efficiently and cost-effectively while hitting sustainability targets. One of the primary advances of solar lighting is that once installed, solar lights run with zero cost, without any exposure to downtime during national grid power outages or when [...]
4 Tips for Maintaining a More Sustainable Home
Eco-friendly living is an aspiration for millions of families - but with a 7.6% bump in the cost of living in South Africa over the last year, maintaining an efficient, sustainable home has become even more of a priority. The good news is that replacing mains power for solar, plastic for paper or even simple swaps such as using low-energy [...]