Lights for stables with no electricity

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Hello lovely people of HHO! I'm sure this one has been done before but I wasn't getting much luck with the search function. This is a question for those of you without electricity at your stables - have you found any decent, battery powered lights? My ponies live out generally but I brought them in last night to give them a break from the rain as they can't have free access to their stables (unless I want my summer field to turn into a mud pit). Because they aren't used to being in, I got them in fairly late (7pm) so that they wouldn't be in for much more than 12 hours before going back out again. I have a good head torch, but it really struck me how handy it would be to have lights on the stables too. Any and all recommendations welcome :)
 
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At my mums stables we have solar lights and a car battery with led lights. Think its been up about 7 years now and the car battery has only be charged once. My dad did it but basically the solar panel on the roof helps charge the car battery and the led lights use hardly any power. Its was all bought with stuff off ebay and was less than £150 total. Led lights are bright but quite shadowy however think they are better now but its fine for mucking out and checking over and then a head torch is needed if a horse has a cut etc
 
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We don't have stables just a barn with a feed shed inside it. My husband fitted strip LED lights round the inside and outside of the feed shed which run off a leisure battery. Give excellent light in the shed and help a lot in the barn. I can really recommend the LED lights but make sure they are for outdoor use. The first ones we put up didn't last and had to be replaced.
 
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We have solar powered lights in our stables, even though the horses are at home. The yard lights are also solar powered. We did have electricity to outside until we had the house rewired, when it was discovered that the arrangement was unsafe and a new system would have required digging up the yard. We have had a vet giving an IV injection at midnight (colic) by the light given, so it is effective.
 
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Car battery and 5v LED lights, they are really bright. We put all the wires up properly with cable trunking and have a outdoor switches. TBH we find it cheaper to just take the battery home and charge it when it gets close to dead than buy any solar charging. It lasts a couple of months at least before needing a charge.
 
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I've got a couple of old UPS batteries (think Leisure battery on steroids haha).
One is hooked up to 4 12v led bulbs inside my stables, with a solar panel connected to trickle charge. In the summer, I actually use that battery to power the electric fencing, again attached to a solar panel.
The other is hooked up to one 12v led bulb in the barn, and a 12v flood light on the yard outside. The wiring is in place to hook up a second flood light, just need to get Dad up to do the finishing touches. Plan to get an outside switch for the floods, and to finally get around the hooking up that battery to a solar panel.
 
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No stables here but a big shelter and same sized shed.

Bought these. They're a lot smaller than I was expecting but had good reviews, and I didn't realise they're motion sensors, but hey ho, am sure they'll do ifne. Will have to give some thought to where they're sited as they have their own solar panels, therefore they'll have to go on the entrances and point inwards.
 
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We have a solar panel that fires up a leisure battery and powers 16 LED lights and the electric fence. Been in place for about 7/8 years now and works brilliantly.
 
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Amazon sell a £12.99 light ( it cane recommended from here) and it’s BRILLIANT. I bought three, one for my tack room and two for pony’s stable-the tack room I leave on motion sensor and the table ones I switch on and off and honestly, they are excellent.

USB charge lasts two weeks, they stick using a magnet so you can bring them in and charge. Can’t fault them!

Amazon search motion sensor light and they are long skinny bars ?
 
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Bedazzled aren't doing the torch powdered system currently, their supplier for the torches no longer manufactures them. They do say they're looking for alternatives though.
 
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Ranyhyn said:
Amazon sell a £12.99 light ( it cane recommended from here) and it’s BRILLIANT. I bought three, one for my tack room and two for pony’s stable-the tack room I leave on motion sensor and the table ones I switch on and off and honestly, they are excellent.

USB charge lasts two weeks, they stick using a magnet so you can bring them in and charge. Can’t fault them!

Amazon search motion sensor light and they are long skinny bars ?
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this is what I use too and they are excellent. Also cheap and easy to recharge.
 
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