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Patio Solar Light Hack
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I came up with this idea to get these lights higher for better light distribution. After several ideation drawings and sourcing components, I arrived with this pretty professional looking solution.
Materials:
-U-Bolt wedged into drilled holes on fixture
-cable management clips to mount to fence
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I bring all my solar lights in for the winter & remove the batteries (no point in putting them through that abuse, plus the backyard gets no sun in the winter anyway). Its now time for them to go back out, I've been testing batteries...any that my charger shows as not holding much of a charge will be going (it has a 'test' feature that will show how many milliamp-hours a battery holds)
@Mike: those ones that become dayburners, and the ones that won't charge even with a known good battery. Its generally not the solar panel, but the little charging circuit... from the ones I've had fail & taken apart which is multiple, most common thing is that water gets in & rusts things out, other times some part has failed (I don't bother trying to diagnose or fix). These days so many of those little lights are like anything else, very cheaply made....