Moonrays Verona Solar, Black, 8 pk.

Solar yard lights make it easy for a homeowner to do an instant yard upgrade at a relatively affordable price (better when you get these lights on sale). These Moonray solar yard lights (made by Woods) are bright when fully charged, so they are brightest during the early hours of nightfall. If you check the lights during the predawn hours, they will be dim or out, depending on whether they received a sufficient dose of sunlight during the day. These lights are attached to plastic tubes that in turn are attached to spikes to be secured to the ground, or they can be placed in a plant container. However, since the sun moves in different parts of the sky during the year, the lights will probably need to be moved to different locations to catch the most sunlight for a given season. Rain and sprinkler water will also leave the photovoltaic cell heavily water-spotted, though that doesn’t seem to affect performance. One of the eight solar lights did fail within a couple of months, but replacement was quick and easy by calling the tollfree number on the instruction sheet. All the lights in the kit need to be assembled by the owner. Once you get one light done, the rest are easy. The hardest part is getting all the packaging off the parts. As parts, the plastic lens and the part containing the photovoltaic cell may seem to flex too much, but when the parts are tightened together they have a sturdier feel. The photovoltaic cell charges a single AA-size nickel-cadmium battery, which the instructions say may need to be replaced yearly. When I look at 12-volt yard lights in my neighborhood and compare them to houses that use solar lights, the 12-volt lights definitely cast more light, and of course the light will be evenly-bright for the entire time that they are on. But solar lights are “green” so that makes them appealing.

These lights started off great but after about 2 months they steadly started to get dimmer and dimmer until they didn't give off any light at all. I was not very impressed by these lights for my walkway