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Solar Driveway Lights
Solar-powered driveway lights are one of the best buys on the market as far as
improving home security, minimizing accidents, and beautifying your
landscaping; as well as formng part of an overall plan to make
your home a model of energy efficiency.
What
Are Solar Driveway Lights?
There are a variety of solar-driven driveway lights and you can choose
which will best enhance your landscaping and fit your outdoor lighting
needs.
These lights will store the sun's energy during the day and use it to
light your driveway at night.
There are two basic
groups of solar-powered driveway lights:
- Pole-type solar powered driveway lights
- Ground-hugging solar power driveway lights
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The pole-type lights
are attached to posts or poles that are driven
into the ground and are best suited where ground cover or other low
plants might block a ground-level light.
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Ground-hugging,
or flat driveway lights, are probably more popular, as
they blend in with the edge of your driveway and don't detract from
low-lying landscaping, lawns, or paths that usually are found next to
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These flat lights can be located on top of the driveway
surface or partially embedded in it.
Why
Should Solar Driveway Lights Be Part of your Home Security
Plan?
Have you ever been
through an electrical blackout during the night?
Most of
us have and it is not an experience that makes us feel real safe. Since
any kind of security lighting we have is likely run off the local power
utility, when it goes off, we are "in the dark" in more ways than one.
Solar power driveway lights will add to the security you feel when everything
else is blacked out.
What about thieves?
It is well known that lighting around the exterior of your house, even
to a small extent, deters thieves. They would much rather find a house
where the shadows hide their movements rather than being exposed in the
lights from any type of garden.
Since there are no wires to cut and each driveway light generally works
individually, it would take a lot of time for a trespasser to try to
douse these lights.
How
Do Solar Driveway Lights Prevent Dangerous Accidents?
In the same scenario as above where there is an electrical blackout,
solar driveway lighting also prevents what could be serious accidents.
Can you imagine pulling into a dark driveway durng a blackout and
having to navigate your way to the front porch in total darkness?
Where children or older
people are concerned, this is certainly a risk you just
don't want to take.
What if you don't ever
have blackouts? Well, even when there is electricity solar
driveway lighting will probably be your very best choice, since there
is no complicated wiring or installation needed as there is in
conventional lighting of this type. You can place the lights wherever
you want them!
Solar
Driveway Lighting Costs You Little and Saves a You a Lot!
Does the thought of how much it will cost to buy and install a solar
driveway lighting system cause you to hesitate?
Actually, it likely
far
cheaper to purchase and install than you think, and these
are one of the few things that pay for themselves in the long run.
There are a number of reliable companies with a range of prices and
designs to choose from.
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