A couple months ago I wrote an article on another blog about how long my solar powered fence lights were lasting. We originally took solar powered walkway lights and removed the bases in order for them to fit down the 1.25″x1.25″ shafts of our fence. Once in a while a good wind storm would cause them to fly away but year after year they survived the beatings and provided us with service. This spring I commented on how they have lasted 5,6 or 7 years (my memory is bad) without the solar panels or the batteries failing. Last night I looked outside and noticed that not one of them worked anymore!

This morning I transplanted 10 of the solar lights from our front yard to replace the lights on our fence. This spring I added 20 lights in our front yard and everyone feels that I might of added to many. None the less, our front and back yard are equally balance with ten solar lights each.

My next project is to attempt to revive our dead lights and use them on our back lower yard which is currently without any solar powered lights. I’m not sure if they died because the solar panels grew a black film over the panel or if the batteries got tired of 5-7 years of charging and draining cycles.