Solar Powered Motion Sensitive Security Light.

[Jennykenny]

Anyone recommend one of these? Found footprints on my garden wall recently and an attempt had been made to move my bike.

[woofgang]

i find my solar powered lights ate no good at all in the winter, only really effective April/May to september

[janbee]

I echo what woofgang has said.
There are plenty of really good and very effective security systems. Look into the choices available online.
Good luck and stay safe. xx

[douglas9401]

Morning Jenny. I fitted one of these to illuminate a dark doorway a few weeks ago and it's working fine, even in these dull winter days in Scotland.
It's lightweight, compact and easy to install.

http://www.ledhut.co.uk/led-flood-security-lights/solar-flood-light-pir-80-lumens.html

[Old_Geezer]

I'm amazed Doug; almost makes me want to try one.
Just 1 Watt too; not quite a 500w Tungsten Halogen then :-)
It just occurs to me that what lights a doorway so you may find your keys might not flood the whole garden. Still any light might make the bad guys scarper.

[Jennykenny]

Thanks Douglas. (Assume you are a fellow Scot.)
Spotted the exact same light in Maplins about an hour ago, £12.95, so I'm raring to go.

[douglas9401]

Born and bred Jenny. :-)

There's a fair old bit of light from it O_G. A bit like the 4w LED replacement for the 50w halogen GU10s. Very effective especially if the area's in full darkness.

[Jennykenny]

Morning Douglas. Having bought the solar light I'm having problems getting it set up.
I appreciate that with this terrible weather it's not going to charge up for a while, but how do you get the light part to stand up? The solar part has screws/ screw holes in the bottom, but the other part, sitting on the window ledge, just keeps falling over. It's impossible to attach it to anything.

[douglas9401]

On mine there's a flat plastic bracket that you have to remove from the base of the light, Jenny. That gets fitted to the wall or whatever and the light head slides onto it and locks in place. A bit fiddly but it comes away.
Another thing that wasn't specifically mentioned when I got mine was that you have to switch the light 'on', let it go out as it's designed to and then it's ready for motion detection and automatic operation.

[Jennykenny]

Thanks will try that. At the moment have got them tiedtogether with elastic bands(!) looks very messy.