12 Pack Outdoor Garden Solar LED Copper Post Cap Fence Pathway Landscape Deck Square Light Lights + Free Bonus 12-Pack AA 600 mAH Replacement Rechargeable Batteries Bundle Deal

Arrived in good shape and well packaged. They work very well. Copper look is nice but a little bright. Plastic construction is typical of outdoor solar lights. Tops secure well enough when done correctly. Attachment to 4X4 Post can be an issue if you do not have a way to screw it down flat on both sides of post to the top of the railing as that is how they are made. For corners and railing endings, I cut the bottom flap piece with a utility knife as needed to remove the screw flaps and drilled new holes through the sides. Cutting was not difficult. It should go without saying, If you do not drill it first before trying to put a screw through the sides, you will not like the result. If you do not use the bottom piece, you will have too much room between the post and light, with a lot of play, so you will need to make a few adjustments by cutting off screw down flaps bottom piece in those situations where they do not make sense. I added pics showing on flap still on and the other cut off. You will get it....

O.K. Why five star? First, if you want to flood the yard with light, shell out a grand or four for landscape lighting. Solar is much lower intensity, and if you are in the light pollution of a city solar will be VERY wimpy. In a darker environment, like our place in the mountains of North Georgia solar solars are adequate and (to quote my wife) “pretty”. Four of these interspersed over twenty feet light the deck surface for about ten feet around with color and intensity similar to a full moon on a clear night – and if you never see the light of a full moon on a clear night, it means your location may be inappropriate. No good blaming the manufacturer for that. Having said that, I have bought from Amazon several sets of solar lights, and none but these merit the “full moon” comparison. Light pattern is important. Most solars veer either toward light directly down (the small pool of light) or sideways (points of light). These, for us, find the best balance, a wider spread while shining rather brightly (and prettily) sideways. Also quantity helps. I have installed 24 and am ordering another dozen. I have read a criticism that the plastic is brittle. Not on ours – quite flexible and no breaks. As for longevity – our first set are four months old and perform as new. Also the set comes with a pack of replacement batteries. But some tips:• The bronze effect is nice, though a bit brash, but at a distance not too bad and so far is not weathering. The set comes with little chrome screws that catch the eye against the bronze to a surprising degree – makes it look mechanical and slipshod. Best buy some brass screws from ACE.• As always the instructions are a mess and I had a learning curve. There are two methods of fixing. 1) On top of a deck rail – the units come straight out of the box with side flanges ready to be set on top of the rail and screwed down into the wood. 2) Set on top of a post. What the instructions do not say (except by a picture without explanation) is that the bottom section with the flanges is an inverted tray, the same size as a four-inch post. If you like, the unit has its own imitation post that you pull out and discard. I did not realize this at first which led me to push the tray down on the post. This requires breaking out eight supports on the inside of the tray, but has the advantage that if you have slightly undersized posts give a tight fit. But other commenters complained that the unit was too small for their posts – I suspect they had not pulled out the tray. The point is, look at one light, pull out the tray and see what works for you.• You have to pull off the top lens-section to switch the unit from OFF to ON. It pushes back down into four loosey-goosey clips. Wind blows it off. So I put it back with a dab of hot-glue on each of the four clips. Seems tight enough now. If I need to replace the batteries with the spares provided I guess I will have to break and replace the hot glue – but that is manyana .So five stars? Sure. They could do better for a few bucks more and it would be worth it. But nobody would buy because it would be a few bucks more. And cheap is good. If I need to replace them every two or three years it will be less than the maintenance on that landscape lighting. Also in practice they fail one-by-one, so I am keeping several spare in case designs change.

They look nice but don't expect to get more than a year out of them. 4 of the 12 failed after the first year due to bad switches. Also the solar panels became frosted over which surely cut into solar charging efficiency. The extra set of batteries that were included came in handy.

Bought previously from a different vendor and I have these mounted 4' high 4x4s buried about 1' and connected with the yellow plastic chain from here on Amazon. I removed the flush mounts which are not needed for 4x4 mounting used two screws two make sure they don't blow off during storms. These are on my U-shaped driveway to keep people from driving on the lawn and at night they have a soft blue/white glow that really looks great. Mine are lasting all night but they are in full sunshine all day and that may change as the batteries age. Even comes with replacement batteries. Make sure you turn them on with the switch located on the bottom of the light as mine arrived with the switch off.

These lights are very bright! Not the soft white color we were used to with our former solar post lights . Also the copper color that they come in has faded back to white in just a few months and looks terrible now with our brown deck. They are good enough, but I won't order them again.

Expect to replace all in about a year. That's about all I got out of them and I bought a few dozen

Sturdy and long lasting. The only caveat with these lights is how to get them on the posts. They fit perfectly on my posts, however there is no way to secure them properly. I took them to three different hardware stores to see if they could help me figure out how to secure the lights and none of them could figure out the design of the lights and securing them with hardware provided to my posts.

They looked really pretty at first but the colors faded fast. Also, they have no way to secure the top to the base and are easily blown off or stolen.