LED lighting can be very powerful only if you understand it. LED are point source light unlike your incadescents that which throw their 5% light AND 95% heat in every which direction. Therefore, to BEST answer the question, "Best Solar Walkway Lights?", depends partially on their use. What do you want to do? If you want to mark the walkway, the LED light system is designed differently then if you want to completely illuminate the walkway. How long do you want to mark or illuminate the walkway? How do you want to control the light system? Most retailers, especially the big box but even those who appear savvy in solar LED lighting, will not have the appropriate answers. Therefore, you will not know which are the Best Walkway Lights. If you are considering solar, you add another variable to the equation. Regardless of the type of solar panel, you need visible light, LOTS of it. The efficiency, today, of the BEST solar panel is less than 15%. You will hear and see different, however, you will not hear or see the losses involved in the equation. Also, after you do the calculations, you may discover that solar is not a good option. Battery technology has severely lagged. Most users of batteries, and there are millions upon millions of battery users, know very little about batteries. You must size your battery respective of the job you want to do. Solar LED lighting is premised purely on math, IF you seek the BEST. You have to know exactly what you want to achieve and you need to know the math. Landscape gardeners, artists may not want to focus on the (expensive) light fixture, rather, the quality of light. Why then, shell out your hard earned money on these (hideous) light fixtures? The point here is, is that LED lighting does not need to be expensive. If you have more money then you should have, then yes, buy this stuff. If you want to showcase your gardening, your landscape, and want the BEST Solar Walkway Lights, and do it the way that makes cents, then first figure out what you want to do, then, learn and follow the math. Best regards, Al Toman

DH is all about the lights, bout the lights, trust me we are a house of lights, our house can be seen a block or 2 away, we have low voltage Malibu all around the house and solar out in our gardens, DH has tried so many and found the best ones lately at of all places K-Mart and they were on sale, he found them online but went to the store, they are bright but not blue looking, and they last a good 8/9 hrs. they are plastic and we are in FL. so we'll see how long they hold up?

Instead of path lights I recommend a wall mounted solar light. Below is a screen capture of an Amazon customer's uploaded photo. These are generally brighter than path lights. Some people say motion detection distance was increased when the light was mounted higher. Some models allow various operation modes—ON only when motion is dectected, or ON dim all night switching to bright when motion is detected. At least 6 hours of daily sunlight is needed to give all night coverage. Does not charge as well on cloudy days. At least one full day of solar charge is needed to use the light. These use rechargable batteries only, and a Reliable Brand should be bought when the original batteries give out.

Here's a shot of the post and hanger. Hose goes on the other side. I'm thinking maybe do the stained glass hummingbird one. I looked around some more at some local home and garden shops and all the solar lanterns look rather flimsy to me. I don't need more broken junk around. The stained glass one is the same size as my other lantern, 6x6x11+. On the plus side of that one is I can fill the lantern box with a battery powered light set if the solar one goes bust. I have a set of small battery powered lights that I use for an outside wreath at Christmas. Also it will look good during the day when not lit. Plus I like the idea of a hummingbird. I could hang an actual hummingbird feeder there, I've tried that, but the hummingbird that inhabits our yard is so aggressive it will chase any other hummers away from anything in both the front and back yards. I know they say if you space them you will avoid this and I've seen other places awash with hummers. We just happen to have a particularly badass hummingbird I think . . . so we have our feeder in the back where we can watch it almost all the time. I tried one in the front and one in the back. I could see that hummingbird swoop over the roof to chase any other hummingbirds that were thinking about coming around right out of the yard. On the downside, it might be too busy with the rabbit and the bird and all the designs. I think it might be OK though . . . I'm open to other designs. I think a cut painted steel one would be too close to the cast iron look. That might even be a worse pattern overload.