Solar stable lights

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Maiko

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Looking for recommendations for decent, bright, and functional solar stable lights. I need to light three stables, and one or two outside lights, preferably with individual light switches so that the lights are not all on at the same time.

If anyone on the forum has done this, can you please let me know what you bought and where from, and also a rough cost. I have been internet researching it all, but I am bamboozled by so many different products, and would prefer a personal experience recommendation!

Thank you.
 
I have solar at my stables. Its a block of three stables and a tackroom. I have a 150w (I think) solar panel on the roof and that is wired to a charge controller. From the charge controller it is wired to two leisure batteries (One large one would be enough). Each stable and tack room have a LED strip light each and those wires are fed individually to the charge controller so they have their own light switches. I also have the same for outside the stables, one switch controls 4 spot lights under the overhang and a spot lights over the yard.

I have wired in the inverter cable so i can at some point buy an inverter and be able to have plugs for 'stuff' but for now its just lighting and it works brilliantly.

There is a website that you can enter details into and it will calculate what you need so for example if you need 2-3 hours of light a day you would want the above (150 solar panel, control panel, 130AH leisure battery, low volt LED lighting)

You can go to companies to buy kits but we did it ourselves but its a few hundred quid, I think at a guess ours came to £5-600?
 
Maiko said:
Thank you, thats a super helpful answer. Where did you buy your stuff from?
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eBay, amazon and some lighting online store for the LED strip lights and spot lights which needed to be 12v obviously. Good luck, I love my lights and its invaluable during the winter and I had no issues with running out of power in the depths of winter.
 
We use the solar mate system, i have two strips in each stable (2 stables) to a hub. I think you can set it up to turn each one on individually but we have it all on one switch. I'm not sure it would meet all of your needs but might be worth a look.
 
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