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Solar Powered 50 LED Rope Lighting

Solar Powered 50 LED Rope Lighting for $12.99

Feb 18, 2013 3:08 AM

Solar LED Rope Lights are ideal for lining walkways, windows, trees, gazebos, architectural details, stairs, deck railings and any other outdoor object you can imagine. Created for using sunlight for power, Solar LED Rope Lights help reduce expensive electrical bills by harnessing the suns power. Flipo Solar LED Rope Lights eliminate the inconvenience of messy wires or nearby outlets. Solar LED Rope Lights will stay illuminated for 8-12 hours depending on lighting conditions, and turn on/off automatically via the built in light sensor. 50 extremely bright LED lights that make a definite night time statement, and are rated at over 100,000 hours of life.

•Rechargeable 600 maH AA Ni-Cd Battery
•Solar Cell/Electronics Box
•Mounting Brackets and Instruction Manual
•Lumens: 10 lumens
•Voltage: 1.2
•Requires 1 Ni-Cd 600 mAh AA battery
•Solar Panel: Pollycrystalline

PRODUCT DIMENSIONS: End to End 23 ft; Light to Light 16.5 ft; Lead 6.5 ft

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Overall pretty good reviews:
http://reviews.homedepot.com/1999/202583832/16-ft-solar-rope-light-with-led-lights-reviews/reviews.htm

A couple reviews mention the battery life being not-so-great, but since others rave about it, I'd say they just got crappy Li-Ion rechargeables. Looks like it takes a single standard AA, so it's easier to replace it than send back, IMO, if there's a problem. Eventually you'll have to anyway - rechargeables don't last forever - so it's good to know the battery is relatively cheap & easy to find.

One tip: the tubing is described as "coiling like a snake". This is because the plastic has memory. Once you get it strung (or while it's held straight on an uncarpeted floor, try heating it with a hairdryer to relax the plastic out of its coils. Make sure the rope switch is set to OFF, because LEDs are very sensitive to temperature while operating!

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Also: Amazon has them (or another brand) for twice the price, with slightly worse reviews. Some people seem to be expecting a miracle product, so some of the bad reviews are "It's too big!" (it's described as a "rope", not a "thread", you dummy!).

http://www.amazon.com/Solar-50-String-Garden-Outside/dp/B002AYXSH6

joemarfice joemarfice
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OK, last post, I swear! And I have no connection to Home Depot; in fact I usually prefer Lowe's.

From the Home Depot reviews I linked above, it's clear this brand is far better than the Flipo brand that sells everywhere else:

"i have some other rope lights off amazon by flipo, and these flipo lights were less expensive in that they were the same price, but 30 feet long -- so literally half the price. but these latter lights are not nearly as bright as the home depot / hampton bay ones. and i probably would not have even noticed or minded, had i not noticed how much brighter the home depot / hampton bay ones were. plus, on my other sets by flipo (i have 3!), the rechargeable battery (just an AA) died after about 2 months on each (i replaced it with them with sanyo enercell AA's from costco!). the home depot set however, has lasted longer and burns brighter."

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