These lights give off a great amount of light to illuminate a fence, making a nice triangle of light that reaches the ground below. Very easy to install. Just 2 screws. Trace it onto paper with a pencil to create a template, and it is even easier.

Sadly, 1 of 4 turns off within 2 hours. The remaining 3 turn off over somewhere between 3 & 4 hours. The one that last the shortest amount of time actually gets the most direct sun....6+ hours of direct and 4 hours of indirect. I tried new batteries, but that didn't make a difference.

This is disappointing because the cheap color-changing yard ornaments that are in the same garden and get even less sunlight are just as bright before sunrise as they were when they went on the night before.

In 2014 we had to replace our whole deck. The old one was small and in really bad shape. We designed the new one to last... and to make it really attractive and safe, we installed solar lights on each step, on the landing and around the railing. This particular model went on the railing. They were purchased in September 2014 and installed in December that year.

The best rechargeable AA batteries (like would be used in this) only have about 1000 charge cycles before they give out. And that's Nickel Metal Hydride (Ni-MH)... Nickel Cadmium (Ni-Cad) are the worst! If you get Ni-Cad batteries in a product, do yourself a favor and replace them right up front.

Anyway, it's mid-2017 and these lights are starting to fail. No problem, change out the battery, right? Wrong. While the battery compartment has a little rubber seal in the door to keep moisture and humidity out, the rest of the light isn't as fortunate... and guess what? The manufacturer used ferrous hardware for the switch inside! That's a $20 word for "magnetic", which means "prone to oxidation", which means "RUST". So I replaced the battery with a brand new one, fully charged up - but the damage was done. That switch was not going to work again. Everything else inside looks okay, except for the switch. Photo attached.

In summary, these are great looking lights and they will work great... until they don't anymore.

The lights look great and the light they give is perfect for our needs. However, these lights are faulty. We mounted two on our picket fencing entry, one is above our address light - as other reviewers have mentioned, the battery housing evidently doesn't hold the batteries tightly enough - sometimes they light, sometimes not. Sometimes a "knock" will get it going, sometimes not. Sometimes it's one of the two lights we got, sometimes the other. No clue as to why. Can't return them now, it's been too long unfortunately. We'll try taping the batteries in tighter, or adding a piece of foam. Sheesh!

These lights are exactly what I was looking for!! Only thing that could make them better, is if the mounting points were closer together to make them directly mountable to a wood fence post. I had to cut some brackets for them to mount as shown in the picture.

Edit: ordered 2 more from the same place as the first two, and the color of the light output on the new ones is a cool white.

I bought 6 of these for use during the summer of 2014.... they perform flawlessly and are weather proof.. what is nice about these is they are removable. They are held in place by two screws which you mount on the deck railing but leave the head slightly exposed, slide these down on the screw heads and that's it. In the fall when I take them down for the winter I just push up the unit and it comes off and the screws stay in place to pop them back on again in the spring. Some people have mentioned they last a couple of years and quit. What quits is the Ni-Cad batteries which wouldn't take a charge any longer. This is normal... these batteries have a life, they can only be re-charged so many times and that's it. Just go out and buy two AA Nicads, take the old ones out, put the new ones in and enjoy the light for another couple of years. By the way... these come on at sunset and stay on till I go to bed around 1 AM.. how long they stay on after that.... who knows... I like these so much I just bought 8 more so I can line them up for the entire length of my deck railing ... I put them about 6 feet apart.. Try them, you'll like them.