6 Tips for Choosing the Best Solar Flood Lights

Solar flood light is a kind of green energy lighting fixture, it does not need additional power supply, it can work as long as there is sunlight. Solar flood lights feature a wide beam high intensity light for illuminating outdoor play areas with extreme brightness. The floodlight's solar panel will absorb sunlight and store it as solar energy in its built-in battery to power the lights at night. Most modern solar powered flood lights are powered by LED technology and come in a variety of shapes and uses such as security, outdoor sports at night and lighting up billboards. Compared with traditional floodlights, solar floodlights have the advantages of no need to lay cables for installation, energy saving and environmental protection, no power consumption, safety, and low voltage. In the current outdoor lighting construction projects, more and more projects will choose to use solar floodlights. This is determined by the advantages of solar flood lights, but there are many factors to consider when choosing to buy solar street lights to ensure that you can buy suitable solar flood lights.

Yi Can Lighting, as a professional solar flood light manufacturer, tells you what factors need to be considered when choosing the best solar flood light:

Brightness and Coverage of Solar Flood Lights

Most solar flood lights will state the lumens in the product description. The intensity of the light is measured in lumens, the higher the lumens, the brighter the light. For comparison, a standard 100-watt incandescent light bulb produces about 1,600 lumens, and an indoor night light produces about 20 lumens. The width of the beam also has an effect on the overall brightness of the light: the narrower the beam, the brighter it will appear. Solar flood lights typically cast light in an arc of 50 to 280 degrees outward from the light itself, so when choosing, consider how large a street or yard you will be illuminating. To illuminate a larger area, you can choose a floodlight with more lumens or a greater number of floodlights.

Dusk Till Dawn With Motion Detection

The solar powered floodlights come on in the evening as the sun goes down, and they stay on all night from dusk to dawn, or until the internal batteries die. They are a great option if you want to illuminate your property with continuous light. But the downside to solar floodlights that stay on all night is that their batteries may not charge to their full capacity if the previous day was cloudy or rainy. If this happens, the floodlights may only be on for a few hours before dimming and going out. Motion detection lighting would be a great solution to this problem. Motion detection floodlights only turn on when motion is sensed and stay on for a predetermined amount of time, usually 20 to 30 seconds, before turning off. Because motion detection lighting uses less battery power, it's more likely to work through the night. So it is recommended to consider its motion detection function when choosing a solar flood light.

Battery Type and Capacity for Solar Flood Lights

The solar flood light has a rechargeable lithium-ion battery that charges during the day and uses the stored energy to power the lights at night. Batteries are internal and rated by their capacity in milliampere hours (mAh). The higher the rating, the greater the capacity of the battery. Most solar flood lights are rated from 2,000 mAh to 3,600 mAh. To choose a solar flood light that suits you, you can consult a professional designer to determine the type and capacity of the battery. Yi Can Lighting can provide you with the best solution.

Charging and Runtime of Solar Flood Lights

Solar flood lights need full sunlight to charge and typically take 6 to 8 hours to fully charge. Once charged, the battery will power the light for 3 to 8 hours, depending on whether the floodlight is running continuously or only turning on when motion is detected. Dusk-to-dawn solar lights require high-capacity batteries. They also often have oversized solar panels, which allow them to absorb and store as much solar energy as possible during the day so they can keep running all night. Different models of solar flood lights from Yi Can Lighting provide a variety of charging and running times to meet your customized needs.

Bulb Types for Solar Flood Lights

Virtually all of today's solar flood lights are equipped with bright light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that cast an intense beam of light without generating heat or using a lot of power. That's why LEDs are the perfect choice for providing a strong safe light. Yi Can Lighting is produced with ultra-high brightness Epistar led-SMD5730 176pc, A-grade lithium battery, large capacity and longer battery life.

Protection class of solar flood lights

How well a solar flood light's outdoor light resists debris and moisture damage is called its Ingress Protection (IP), which is a two-digit number. The first number indicates how resistant the lamp is to damage by solid objects, on a scale from 1 to 6, with 6 being the tightest seal, able to hold out even fine dust. The second number, ranging from 1 to 8, represents the water resistance of the light. A rating of 8 means it's completely waterproof. Most flood lights are rated 65 to 67. Yi Can Lighting is a professional LED solar lighting manufacturer integrating R&D, production sales and after-sales service. We are always committed to providing customers with the safest and highest quality solar flood lights.

Solar Flood Light Supply

Yi Can Lighting (Guangzhou yi can Lighting Co., Ltd) is a professional solar flood light supplier with 12 years of production and sales experience. We supply high quality solar flood lights and complete solutions for your lighting needs.