Solar powered light.

[Cab-over Pete]

Aye-up,

We have a block of three stables where we lamb our sheep. There is no mains electric to them so I'm wondering if there is a decent little solar LED floodlight sold anywhere so we can install a couple.

It's a right faff trying to do everything by car lights or torch.

Cheers, Pete.

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

You could; (a) get some rechargeable portable LED work lights and then just recharge them back at main supply as needed or

(b) do a semi-permanent install with some separate 12v LED floodlights (10 or 20W) and wire them back to a leisure or old tractor battery with a solar panel to keep the battery topped up.

 

[akaPABLO01]

A mate of mine picked some up from aldi for his stables otherwise, you could look at MPOW 3in1. When you chose an LED just buy 1 and try it out before buying a block

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Thank you, I'll have a look.

 

[Steevo]

I use these for outbuildings that have no electric and minimal use. If not enough light can use a couple of them like I have in some toilets. Not sure if PIR will be helpful or a pain for you though.

http://www.thesolarcentre.co.uk/products/Evo15_Solar_PIR_Utility_Light-357-78.html

 

[Landy Nick]

I have a couple of these loft lights in a garage that isn't on mains.
They are quite bright and seem to last forever on a couple of D cell batteries. I can easily seen what I'm doing with these lights.
Instead of screwing mine up, I just wrapped a couple of cable ties around them onto joists.

http://www.wickes.co.uk/Loftleg-Easy-to-Install-Loft-Light/p/143352#close

 

[Warp Land Farmer]

What about a little suitcase geni Pete?

 

[PostHarvest]

Screwfix sell a 10 Watt rechargeable worklight for £30 or a 5 Watt one for £24. They will recharge from mains or 12v supply. Shouldn't be difficult to hook one up to a solar panel. I made my own electric fence units with solar panels, 12 v battery charger modules and old car batteries. Straightforward, cheap and work well

 

[Cab-over Pete]

What about a little suitcase geni Pete?

I thought about that but expected it would go walkabouts.

 

[Warp Land Farmer]

I thought about that but expected it would go walkabouts.

There very light tho so I was thinking you could take it with you when you head home.

 

[suffolksmallholder]

We have two 5.0 metre strips of 12v warm white led's in our camping area. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/5M-5050-W...557375?hash=item5d5bf230bf:g:RLkAAOSwnLdWtAeL. They run off a leisure battery and this can be charged up with a solar panel. There is plenty of light produced and the system works for at least a week without a charge. I have been meaning to get a solar charger but simply haven't got round to this yet.
SS

 

[Landy Nick]

On a about generators. I've have one of these little Honda 2 stokes for years. Not much bigger then a 5ltr petrol can and will run for a good four hours plus on a litre of petrol on half run.
I use this to run a few led work lights in the garage when needed.

 

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[Chasingmytail]

I use these for outbuildings that have no electric and minimal use. If not enough light can use a couple of them like I have in some toilets. Not sure if PIR will be helpful or a pain for you though.

http://www.thesolarcentre.co.uk/products/Evo15_Solar_PIR_Utility_Light-357-78.html

Thats good for £20 be ideal for polytunnel

 

[JCfarmer]

I use these for outbuildings that have no electric and minimal use. If not enough light can use a couple of them like I have in some toilets. Not sure if PIR will be helpful or a pain for you though.

http://www.thesolarcentre.co.uk/products/Evo15_Solar_PIR_Utility_Light-357-78.html

Steevo the solar lights you have, do they stay on constantly while in the shed as they keep detecting movement? I tried one from screwfix and it would keep going off after 30 seconds and then back on which was a pain so it went back.