Should i bring in my solar powered lights for the winter.
can the cold weather do damage to them?
2007-01-16 02:08:12 · 5 answers · asked by detroitremedy 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
You can bring them in but you need to leave the switch turned on and keep them in a place where they can get light to keep the batteries charged. If you turn off the switch on most solar powered yard lights it disconnects the solar cell from the batteries and don't charge. Leaving a battery discharged or allowing them to discharge over time and leaveing them in this state is not good for the batteries. about 70% of the value of the solar yard light is the price of the rechargable batteries.
So if you put them away for 6 months of the year and kill the batteries and have to buy new. And to add the batteries will only last so long anyway so Why not get some use from them and leave them out and just replace them every few years.
I leave mine out all the time.
2007-01-17 04:08:13 · answer #1 · answered by Don K 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We leave ours out all year but our winters are not severely cold.... sometimes a few weeks of freezing temps with a lot of mild days...35-50 degrees and they work just fine but they have weathered a little after 4 years.
2007-01-16 03:01:42 · answer #2 · answered by sw-in-gardener 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The cold will not hurt them but if you put them away you will save them from weathering and they will last longer.
I put some of mine up every year but they go in an unheated barn. They are out of the weather and after three years look much better then the ones I don't put up.
2007-01-16 02:20:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no solar powerd light the sun is like never out during winter
2007-01-16 02:11:36 · answer #4 · answered by Carlos G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋