Solar Landscape Lights

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A few years ago I decided to put in some landscape lighting and decided to make it into something that would be useful for emergencies as well by getting solar-powered lights.  I didn't want any of those dim lights that didn't do much other than act as a marker.  I wanted some that could actually, you know, light areas up!  After doing some searching, I ended up buying some lights from InnoGear.  It's been about 5 years now, so there might be some better ones on the market, but I've stuck with these since they're reasonably priced and I can get lights that roughly match the others. 

The big draws for me were: lithium-ion batteries (I believe the internal batteries are 18650 with about 2000mah of capacity), high/low output setting (around 150-200 lumen on low and 400-600 on high), and both the head and solar panel are adjustable (although only in a single plane). 

When I first bought them, there was someone from Florida who mentioned using these after a hurricane as indoor lighting.  He'd put them outside during the day, then bring them in at night.  He even posted a picture, showing them pointing up into the shades on the table lamps in his family room, so that they made it look as if the lights were on. 

I really like them. The camera brightens the pictures quite a bit, but they're fairly bright (even on low mode) and last for quite a while once they're charged (obviously they last longer in the summer when there is more sunlight). And they're even fairly reasonably priced. 

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I've lost a few to water intrusion, but the real problem is that Mother Nature appears to hate them! Four of them have been smashed by falling branches (seriously, they only take up like .001% of the square footage of my property, how is that even possible?). But the latest broken one appears to have been the victim of a cat / woodchuck / dog / skunk / raccoon / woolly mammoth (no idea what was involved, just a bunch of footprint-blobs all around a broken off light). 

Apparently Mother Nature is now outsourcing her destruction to the animals of the world! Not cool, Ma, not cool!

Anyway, just wanted to throw this out as a possible prep idea.