4 Pack Solar Snowflake Pathway Lights, White LED Yard Stakes

Description

Four stake lights, each topped with a lit snowflake, wired in a single run and powered by a solar panel on its own ground spike. Each stake stands 24.4 in tall overall, made up of a 6.3 in snowflake, an 11.8 in clear pole and a 5.3 in ground spike. The stakes sit 37 in apart, with a 55 in lead from the panel to the first one, giving a total run of about 166 in, or 13.8 ft.

The look

The LEDs are cool white throughout, in the snowflake head and along the pole, which gives a continuous lit line rather than four separate glowing points. Cool white reads as icy rather than cosy; if the rest of your display is warm white, these will not match it, and that contrast is either the effect you want or the reason to pick something else.

Assembly

Each light goes together in four steps: the pole pushes onto the ground spike, the snowflake head pushes onto the pole, and the assembled stake goes into the ground. No tools. The sections are a friction fit, so seat them firmly, and take them apart again for storage rather than pulling on the wire.

Solar in winter, honestly

This is a solar set, so there is no cord and no outdoor socket to find, and the display is entirely dependent on what the panel collects during the day. In December that is nine to ten hours of daylight, often overcast and always at a low angle. Put the panel where it sees open sky to the south, not under the eaves and not behind a shrub, and brush snow off the face after a fall, because a covered panel produces nothing at all. Cold also cuts the battery’s usable capacity, so a set that lights the path until bedtime in November will often go dark earlier in January.

What the supplier does not publish

CJ publishes no battery capacity, no charge time and no run time for this set, and the main product photograph does not show the solar panel at all. The supplier’s artwork claims eight lighting modes and an IP44 weather rating. We have quoted those figures as the supplier’s rather than as verified specifications, and we would rather say so than invent numbers. IP44 covers rain and snow but not standing water.

At 13.8 ft the run suits a short front path or one side of a driveway entrance. For a longer path you would need two sets, and they do not link to each other.

Ships from a United States warehouse. Handling is 1 to 3 business days, transit 5 to 9 business days. For delivery before Christmas, order by Monday December 7.