Maintenance Tips to Keep Your Solar Lights Operating At Peak Performance

Solar lights are an excellent light source to illuminate your outdoor space.

Benefits like environmental friendliness, all-night brightness, and low running costs make solar lights appealing to homeowners and businessmen. Plus, installing lights doesn't tamper with your existing structure, so you can keep the aesthetics of your home or business.

However, investing in solar lights requires proper maintenance. While solar lights have low maintenance requirements, maintaining them ensures they can function at high performance and give you the best value for your money. Hence, it makes sense to always look after your solar lights.

Here are key maintenance tips to keep your solar lamps operating at peak performance:

Clean the Panels

Cleaning your solar light panels is crucial to maintaining your lights. The efficiency of a solar light depends greatly on much sunlight the panels can capture, and solar panels don't perform at full capacity when covered with dirt.

Hence, it is imperative that you clean your solar panels regularly whenever you notice dirt and debris on them.

Soak a non-abrasive cloth in soapy water to gently wash your solar panels, while you can use a soft-bristled brush to remove stubborn debris.

Another point of importance to cleaning your solar panels is that it keeps you informed of damaged parts so you can make repairs early. Remember, attending to damages early helps prevent potential costlier repairs.

Inspect Batteries and Connections

Batteries are an essential part of a solar light system. They help store D.C. for future use. Unfortunately, while they are built to last a remarkably long time, like other parts of the system, solar light batteries don't last forever and get damaged too.

Therefore, it is important to inspect your batteries regularly to monitor their physical status. Corrosion is a common sign that your batteries are approaching the end of their lifespan.

Since not all batteries show physical signs of damage, you should also watch out for bad battery performance, such as intermittent failures. If your light struggles to keep operating for long periods of time, is dimmer, or won't work at all, you have enough signs of bad batteries, and it is time to invest in new ones.

Similarly, always check the connection of your solar light, especially the wires. Wires are a vulnerable part of a solar light, easily damaged by outdoor animals. Ensure that every connection is intact.

Keep the Area Clean

Cleaning your solar light is not enough; you also want to keep the entire environment clean. If the area of the installation is full of debris, dirt, and leaves, your solar panels may experienced reduced access to sunlight and give you less power.

It is, therefore, your duty to keep the surrounding of your solar light clean by pruning nearby tree branches and shrubs and picking up debris to keep your solar lights operating at peak performance.

Invest In High-Quality Lights

Let's face it: the journey to having the best of your solar light starts from investing in a quality solar light. The performance level of a solar light is tied to the quality of the unit.

Investing in a solar light from a reputed solar light manufacturer like ALLTOP Electronics with products built to last long gives you the guaranty that your light will serve you long while giving you the best lighting performance for your investment.

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Choose a New Location

The location of your solar light plays a significant role in its performance. Therefore, if your solar light is not performing as expected, you may want to switch locations.

Solar lights need maximum exposure to sunlight to function optimally, and any obstruction between the panel and sunlight will hinder your light's performance.

If your solar light is installed in an area with shade, your panels will receive less sunlight, hence low performance. This is why you want to ensure your light is moved to an area void of shades.

Similarly, if your light is broken due to falling tree branches or any other objects, it is time to ditch the existing location for a new one.

A simple relocation can make a huge difference in your solar light performance.

Charge the Batteries Before Use

One common mistake most new solar light owners make is to turn on their light on the package is delivered to them without charging the batteries. This is wrong and should be shunned.

The best practice is to charge your battery before switching your solar light on. If you are just receiving your package, ensure you expose the panels to several hours of sunlight to charge the battery before turning on the bulbs. With this, your battery can serve you as expect for a long period.

Similarly, avoid letting your battery go uncharged for an extended period. Leaving your battery uncharged for days or even weeks reduces the battery's lifespan and affects the overall performance of your light.

Take a Break from Your Solar Light

Once in a while, letting your solar light have a break and rest is a great maintenance tip you don't want to skip. Of course, you need your light to illuminate your space every night, but if you can squeeze out a few nights without using solar light, your solar light's health will appreciate it.

During this time, only leave the batteries to charge while the bulbs are switched off. This will help strengthen the performance and lifespan of your system.

Turn Off Solar Lights When It Is Rainy

It is a good practice to manually turn off your solar light when it is raining. Although your solar light can still operate under a cloudy atmosphere, the panels struggle to capture enough sunlight to feed the batteries. Hence, leaving your system on lets the bulbs continue to drain the battery, which is not good for your light's performance.

Turning off your solar light helps preserve your battery life.

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Conclusion

Solar lights are not cheap and you want to do all in your reach to get the best value from your investment, hence the need for adequate maintenance.

Cleaning your solar panels, replacing damaged batteries, and considering a new location can optimize the performance and lifespan of your solar light. You should also buy your light from a supplier with quality products.

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