hey guys welcome to the channel so my backyard's got a few dark areas where it gets really dark
at night and i can't see anything around the corners of my backyard when i'm walking around
back there these areas currently don't have any hardwired lights so i decided to pick
up some solar powered battery lights for those areas so i can actually walk around
and do some stuff back there in the yard when it's dark so i found these solar lights on amazon these
amazon lights are pretty affordable these days and they're basically throwaway lights they're
good enough for motion sensors and just a quick doing stuff in the backyard or in areas where
you need them so i picked up the cenoton lights i think they were rated at like 1800 lumens with
2200 milliamp hour battery which is basically like a double a battery and it's got a solar
panel on it that basically charges it during the day we're gonna go ahead and unbox it today
see how it's built and then go install it in my backyard so stay tuned i picked up three of these
just because i have three problem areas packaged pretty well as you can see here they tuck
everything and fold it up nicely so it fits in the box it's got a foam and everything that helps
protect it during shipping so it looks like all the lenses so you basically got individual surface
mount leds all over that you got the motion sensor and it looks like a little switch that turns it on
and off there the solar panel itself it's got a plastic solar panel it doesn't have the glass
or the hard solar panels that you see in more high-end stuff and it looks like it only mounts
with little two little things back here that kind of just slide into the screws and then this thing
looks like it pivots and it turns to wherever you need it to be so that's pretty good there
and then these lights on the side here they actually go back and forth so you can aim it
wherever you need to inside the box it just comes with two screws and some anchors and then it comes
with some simple instructions and some specs so i was mistaken about 1800 lumens these are actually
1200 lumens they've got a 2200 milliamp hour battery like i said that's like a basically a
double a battery there and then the solar panel is a one and a half watts with 21 efficiency 50 000
hour led life that's kind of normal it's going to take eight hours to charge these i think there's
like three different options to set this to uh as far as the motion goes they're staying on at night
and then of course it has the photocell where it only works at night and turns on at night
the battery looks like it says 500 recharge cycles and then the rest of it kind of shows you how to
set your different options as far as the motion goes so if you get these lights you can just read
through that and see what these things do so we're out here we're gonna go ahead and install it on my
shed right here since i don't have a light on the house right here on the corner and i want to light
up when i use the shed at night i want to put a light right there on the shed i'm gonna put one
on the side right here to illuminate the side of the yard over here in the playground i've got some
other solar lights installed on the playground but i just want to light this area if i walk over here
i do have a plug-in motion sensor light over there but it's too far away and it's being blocked by
the shed over there so adding these solar lights really helps me with the illumination over here in
this area so to install this right onto here i'm just going to go ahead and mark the spot i want
to do it right here and right on the edge and then this tin is pretty strong so i'm going to
drill a pilot hole before i put the screws that came with it into there to make it easier
i've got the first hole i want to go ahead and just stick this in there and
get that lined up so i could line up for the second hole
all right once it's mounted up let it charge for a day or two and then come out here and see if
it works at night you use this little switch right here to turn it on and off one here on the side of
the shed i'm going to install off camera we'll go ahead and install the other one on the soffit on
the other side of the house and complete the three lights i'm gonna install so we'll go ahead and
mount this onto the side here so that way i have good exposure right here for the
solar panel to charge i clear my gutter over here and then i have a wood stud to screw in over here
so i just go ahead and mark where i want this drill the pilot holes and then put the bolts in
the beauty of this thing is you could rotate it and turn it so you could turn it and aim it where
we need to on this side and then i'll leave this one up so that way i can light this way and that
way that way the sensor picks me up coming from both directions all right let it charge
overnight and here's what the illumination looks like not bad for some solar lights
the one thing you need to do is hold down that button for like two or three seconds
to turn it on though so we're here in the dark just sort of hold down the on button for like
three seconds and it comes right on and it should be in the default setting once you get it on
hey guys thanks for tuning in for this qrik install video on those solar lights
as you can see from the output and everything they are decent for what they are i guess for
15 you really can't complain as long as they last me for a couple years i should be good with those
if you guys need any of these products go check out the links down description i'll link you to
these particular lights make sure you choose the newer ones they have an older set and a newer set
on the same listing right now on amazon so just choose the right ones and you should be good
but for 15 for a solar light it should be a no-brainer if you really need it remember guys
for all these different projects whether it's on the car on the house or in the garage if i
can do it you guys can do it i want to thank you for watching and i'll talk to you guys next time
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