Convert Christmas Lights To Solar

If you have purchased led christmas lights a 12 v panel should be enough.

Convert christmas lights to solar.

It s also a good idea to replace the incandescent bulb in your fixture with an led bulb. By converting your current christmas lights to run off solar power you will be able to enjoy your christmas lights without increasing your electric bill. Hang the lights if you are hanging them outside the house make sure you use a weather resistant electrical cord. For a few thousand you can run the xmas lights.

Then either stake the kit into the ground or simply mount the panel. This page was the original hook up on the web for battery christmas lights. If you like your outdoor light fixture but you don t like paying for electricity it s possible to convert it to solar without replacing it. A 10ft cord also allows you to conceal the solar panel and position it for optimum performance.

A simple way to convert battery powered string lights into plug in powered string lights using a transformer that you may have laying around. The qedertek led solar christmas lights do not emit polluting substances into the environment during charging like a few other led solar lights out in the market. If you use the lights inside the house power them up with solar rechargeable batteries or a solar powered outlet you already fully charged. Create solar power to operate your christmas lights.

The sun will do the rest. To do this you ll need a few system components besides the solar panels that will ultimately provide the power. Qedertek 200 led solar powered christmas lights. What were will be doing is upgrading some old battery powered mini lights to leds and then using.

This instructable will require no electronics knowledge and no programing. Making a basic solar powered string of led lights isn t too difficult. Plug them into your solar power outdoor outlet. Now you will need to cut the cord on the christmas lights.

Simply connect this conversion kit to your lighting fixture. Make your own solar powered led string lights. Way back in the 1990s this page showed readers how to re wire christmas lights to run off batteries since battery powered xmas lights were extremely rare the article also turned readers on to led xmas lights which were new and extremely rare at the time. Beautiful decorative string lights perfect to hang anywhere for a stunning lighting effect.

If you re using separate solar panels you will need to purchase batteries. Just to do the lights you will need a 500 to 750 watt solar panel 80 amp charge controller 500 pound 1000 battery and a 200 watt inverter.