Solar Power For Your Home

Solar Power For Your Home   

                                            Posted on September 21,2013 by Blue Viper 

                                                                              Among its many other uses, solar power can be a fairly cheap and effective way to add extra lighting to any outdoor area. Whether you're looking to beef up your home security with a powerful floodlight, illuminate your garden, pathways or add a special touch to your landscaping, there are a huge number of maintenance free, easy to install solar powered products that can help. The majority of these products are quite inexpensive and need only minimal sun exposure to generate hours of light.

Landscaping with Solar Power

 When looking at landscaping, very few things can add more than lighting, and when it comes to yard and garden lighting, solar power is the only way to go. Solar powered walkway lights usually stick straight into the ground and can be placed anywhere you need a little extra ground lighting. Along sidewalks and paths or spread throughout flower beds or the garden. Like many other solar lights, the better products even come with a timer, allowing you to shut the lights off at whatever time you wish. Or if you want to make sure people can find your home at night, you might think about solar powered house number signs or a solar light above your existing numbers. Solar powered fountains, globes, waterfalls and the myriad of other products mean you definitely shouldn't ignore solar power.

Solar Security Lights and More

 One of the most popular types of solar lighting has to be security lights. Solar security lights come in a variety of shapes, sizes, and styles, but all designed with one goal in mind giving you the extra light you need to keep your home safe from intruders. These security lights usually come with a motion sensor and/or timer and can be installed nearly anywhere in just a few minutes. On many of the better security lights, the light itself is attached to the solar panel by a long cable, allowing the solar panel to be placed wherever it will get the most direct sunlight exposure, and thus ensuring it always works properly. At the end of the day, the uses of solar powered products can have around the home are nearly endless.