Repairing Your Solar Garden Lighting
Repairing Your Lights: For the most part maintaining your solar lights is painless and requires little to know effort. Once you have taken them out of their packages, set them up, and they get a full days charge, they pretty much take care of themselves. Every now and then you may notice that one or two of them is not working. Well, this may be fixed very easily depending on what caused the malfunctioning.
Readjust the Position of Your Solar Lights: The first thing you should do is to make sure that your lights are positioned where they can get direct sunlight all day long. This will ensure they carry a full charge during the p.m. hours. You will know if they are not getting enough direct light because they will appear dim at night while the others shine bright.
Replacing Broken Stakes: If any of your lights end up with a broken stake, this will probably prevent the solar panels from getting direct sunlight. Simply put, all you need is another stake. We suggest shopping our manufactures to get the lowest pricing and keep in mind that you will probably need a few more in the future when the same happens.
Fixing Cracks: Depending on the type of solar lights you purchase you will probably eventually end up with a cracked solar light. This is a quick fix. The crack could have been from a number of things but luckily fixing it will be pretty quick and easy. Use what is called liquid plastic resin to fill in the chips and cracks.
Change the LDR: If you find that one of your lights is staying on during the day, this means that the LDR (light Dependant Resistor) is malfunctioning or broken. The function of the LDR is to sense when the sun is setting and when the sun is coming up. The LDR tells the interior components of the light fixture when to begin storing light energy from the sun (during the day) and when to begin giving off solar light at night. Try drying off the LDR because it may have gotten wet during a rain and if that does not work then it needs to be replaced through one of our manufacturers or retailers. We offer manufacturer direct pricing.
Replacing Batteries: Once you have had your solar lights for an extended period of time, your batteries will no longer hold a full charge and begin to give off dim light at night when it should be bright light. If you have your lights position correctly and they are getting direct sunlight and have no other damages, then it is the solar batteries that need to be replaced. They are not expensive and manufactures offer them pretty cheap.