I have bought a few of the new westinghouse solar LED landscape lighting sets. I actually have two differnet kinds. They are both of the top teir category of brightness that westinghouse sells which is "bright" "brighter" and "brightest".
1. This set has a big solar panel on the top and 4 solar panels that are angled on the sides of the top that are about 1/2 the size as the big one for a total of 6 solar panels. The angled ones will help catch light in different positions of the sun during the day. It uses one LED that I believe is some kind of cree with a reflecting system. It has one battery which is a 18500 3.2V 600mah Lithium Ion battery.
2. This has one biger solar panel which looks to be equal to the one big solar panel above and 2 of the smaller solar panels. So it is lacking in the equivalant of 2 of the smaller solar panels. Also since the big panel is only on top it wont catch sun as well in different positions during the day. This light uses one AA battery. It came with a 1500 mah rechargable battery which I promptly replaced with a 2450mah energizer rechargable battery.
They both look to be about the same brightness which is much better than old generation solar lights which pretty much dont light up the ground at all just show you the light to be seen. These actually light up a medium patch of ground.
My question is which battery will last longer? The 18500 3.2V 600mah Lithium Ion battery that also has 2 more small solar panels or the 2450mah AA battery? My assumption is the 18500 because the battery itself is bigger in size and it has more solar panels.
Thanks!
Light #1 with the 18500 battery:
Light #2 with the AA battery:
I couldnt get the guts of the 2nd light with the AA battery opened without the possibly breaking something so I didnt try. Also to note the box for #2 says it has 6 LEDs per light, but it really only looks like 1. Light #1 I believe it said it had 1 CREE LED, I'll have to look for the box.
1. This set has a big solar panel on the top and 4 solar panels that are angled on the sides of the top that are about 1/2 the size as the big one for a total of 6 solar panels. The angled ones will help catch light in different positions of the sun during the day. It uses one LED that I believe is some kind of cree with a reflecting system. It has one battery which is a 18500 3.2V 600mah Lithium Ion battery.
2. This has one biger solar panel which looks to be equal to the one big solar panel above and 2 of the smaller solar panels. So it is lacking in the equivalant of 2 of the smaller solar panels. Also since the big panel is only on top it wont catch sun as well in different positions during the day. This light uses one AA battery. It came with a 1500 mah rechargable battery which I promptly replaced with a 2450mah energizer rechargable battery.
They both look to be about the same brightness which is much better than old generation solar lights which pretty much dont light up the ground at all just show you the light to be seen. These actually light up a medium patch of ground.
My question is which battery will last longer? The 18500 3.2V 600mah Lithium Ion battery that also has 2 more small solar panels or the 2450mah AA battery? My assumption is the 18500 because the battery itself is bigger in size and it has more solar panels.
Thanks!
Light #1 with the 18500 battery:
Light #2 with the AA battery:
I couldnt get the guts of the 2nd light with the AA battery opened without the possibly breaking something so I didnt try. Also to note the box for #2 says it has 6 LEDs per light, but it really only looks like 1. Light #1 I believe it said it had 1 CREE LED, I'll have to look for the box.
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