Need to know: 3m to the first bulb followed by 3.9m of bulbs, 40 bulbs, warm white light Only available at Lights 4 fun: £19.99 (out of stock) Get your garden party ready with our fire pit buying guide, our pick of the best barbecues, the most efficient patio heaters and the best gazebos and pizza ovens LED String lights Crystal Ball You also have the option to charge the lights with a USB charger, if you want to top them up during the darker months. These lights were often still shining at midnight, even in January. They are expensive, but you do get 30m of cable the solar charger is also good enough to keep the lights on throughout winter. They've also survived every other durability test we've thrown at them, including sharp tugs of the wires, a deep freeze at -16☌, repeated soakings and lots of bashing against a fence post. We added these fairy lights to our test in 2022 and they survived one of the coldest winters in recent years in our test garden. Need to know: 300 lights, 30m long (2m to the first light, then 28m with bulbs evenly spaced), USB-chargeable as well as solar, eight light settings, warm white light. Our verdict: The best warm white fairy lights we've tested 200 light strings are available from the Solar Centre for £29.99 and 100 light strings for £19.99. Also available at Homebase (unavailable). The bulbs on other lights we tested tended to fill up with water over time.Ĭheapest price: £64.99 at The Solar Centre. They don't stay on as long as the PowerBee lights, but on most nights, even in winter when it gets dark early, they last for at least eight hours.Įach bulb has a tiny hole drilled into the bottom, which allows any water ingress to drip out – an excellent design feature. They also work in low light conditions over winter. After all of this, the lights still work and there are no visible signs of damage. Subsequently, they've also survived three years attached to a garden fence, in all weathers. These lights survived five consecutive days of sub-zero temperatures, a night in the deep freeze at -16☌, being bashed against a fence, firm tugs to the wiring, a five-minute heavy deluge in a shower, and being fully submerged in a bucket of water for an hour. The traditional style plastic bulbs may look delicate and sophisticated, but that hides an inner steel. Need to know: 20 lights, 14.4m long (1.9m to the first light, then 14.4m, with bulbs spaced at 80cm), USB chargeable as well as charging from the sun, claimed battery life of 12 nights from a full USB charge, eight light settings, warm white light. Our verdict: Best bulb-shaped lights we've tested Best Buy: Lumify USB Solar Vintage Bulb Lights - set of 20Ĭheapest price: £69.99 at Amazon The Solar Centre This is the best set of LED solar fairy lights we've tested, and based on how they've fared in our tough tests, with more than three years outside, we think they're durable enough to make it through even extreme winter conditions. You get 2m of cable before the first light, and then 200 LED lights over the next 20m of cable. These lights have been shining brightly around a tree in our test garden for three years now they're often still shining brightly in the early hours of the morning (6am), even in the depths of winter. PowerBee says this larger solar panel means the lights should stay on for longer, and that they'll work over winter, which not many solar lights claim. This set of garden lights comes with a large solar panel, which is a little bigger than an A4 sheet of paper (twice as big as most others we tested). Need to know: 200 lights, 20m long (2m to the first light, then 20m), claimed battery life of 8-12 hours in the summer and 3-10 hours in the winter, eight light settings, white light. Our verdict: Our top pick, shine all through winter The smaller 100 string set (which comes with a smaller solar panel) is available in white or multicoloured for £24.99 or £29.99
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