How to Choose Outdoor String Lights

String (sometimes called strand) lighting, which is basically a series of light bulbs connected by a wire in series and connected to a power source can be used inside or outside of buildings and various areas like decorating shrubs or trees in the front of a house, lining the edges of a restaurant or store’s front face of building or a house.

They can also be used to line the top of fences or wrapped around poles or around a Christmas tree for the holidays. The use of string lighting is limited only to your imagination and constraints of length and power source.

String lights come in all types. They come in incandescent bulbs historically, but increasingly they are now made with LED bulbs. LED is 10 times more efficient thus they will save you energy meaning savings on your electric bill. If you want to increase that savings so that it will not cost you anything beyond the purchase, then the best solution is to buy string lights powered by solar.

Solar string lights are perfect for giving you no cost lighting throughout any area that receives sun during the day. There is a small solar panel on a stake or bracket with 1 or 2 AA rechargeable batteries inside. From there the wires go to a series of 20-102 LED bulbs. Usually each bulb is 1 or 2 watts which is equal to about 10-20 watt incandescent.

The LEDs are covered usually by a white or color casing and sometimes the LEDs are programmed to change colors or blinking patterns. Some solar string lights come with more elaborate covers like animal shapes or other unique covers like mini Chinese lanterns, hummingbirds, butterflies, dragonflies and ladybugs.

So whether you need to decorate a yard for a birthday party, the front of the house for Christmas or 4th of July, a boat, boat house, barn, tree, entry way of a restaurant, hotel or store there is most likely a set of solar string lights that will work. Our solar store has a one of the largest selections to choose from. Feel free to check them out at Solar Strand Lighting.