2 Pack Solar String Lights Outdoor, Total 80 FT 240 LED Solar Fairy Lights Outside Waterproof 8 Modes, Christmas Tree Light for Patio Garden Party Backyard Wedding Decor Warm White

Very simple but effective and bright.

So far we are really happy with these tiny lights on a string. I purchased them to decorate a series of topiary ivy Christmas trees I grew to put out in the yard to have something to look at that was Christmasy but can also be used to brighten up the backyard and frontyard nighttime view year round. These little lights did the trick. Charming, maybe even a bit magical. Of course so far I've only had them up for a few weeks and I do live in the land of sunshine (Los Angeles). Frankly I love the effect. I've reorderd twice. They were an absolute inconvenience to unspool and respool them to put them on the trees. By the second set of lights I was good at it, though. However, I was working in a circle pattern and not a straight line so it wasn't terribly inconvenient. Respooling the lights onto a round spool-like object made a difference in ease of installation. The coated wire kinks very easily so if I were going to take them down, store, and reuse, I'd again use a spool of some sort to wind them back up - a piece of pvc irrigation pipe worked great. Use scotch tape to hold the wire when you start the rewind. I sure hope they last for a few years. I keep trying to order solar lights and find many of them poorly manufactured with little or no reliability or they are miserably short-lived. However, right now, on these winter nights, I look out at midnight and they are still glowing away. About 1 a.m. they start to fade. But I'm faded by then, too.

Love my lights

Only 2 of the 3 I ordered worked. The 3rd wouldn’t connect to WiFi.

I've had these lights 2 years. I have them on my backs fence. Also on my front rails. And they are still going strong every night at dusk. They come on, they last all well over in the night, very durable. It looks so good flashing, blinking. Real good value for the money, pay this for itself over and over again. The length of it stretches all around my back friends as well as my front rails. I highly recommend this item, and when it do ever dies out, I will buy more

I cut down similar products because after a dark/dim day or two, they would revert to cycling through all 8 or so blinking and chasing modes. I bought these because they claim to retain their last mode setting, and I can report that this works. I want them to be on solid, and they come back on solid every time so far. My complaint is the same as on the similar products: From the customer perspective, they are wound backward on the spool. That is, they unwind starting from the end of the string, with the solar panel being connected until the very end. Some may not care about that, but I want to mount the panel where I want it and then extend the string of lights as far as it will go, sometimes wrapping around things the whole way. If you start wrapping with the end of the string, then you may not end up with your panel where you want it, and you have to deal with it the entire time you're wrapping. I have a solution to the wrapping problem: I rewind the whole string on an unused spool, so that the panel comes off first. Then I can mount the panel, deal with the 6' lead from the panel, and then wrap the string around whatever it's going around, with the convenience of the spool unencumbered with the panel. It's not too hard to do, especially if you can hold the original spool motionless with a bench vise. So, this is not a killer of an issue, and probably most of them are going to be wound backward because it's easier from a manufacturer perspective.

UPDATE: I am now taking all of them down as they have stopped working. Couldn’t handle one more season unfortunately but for the price, not too bad. Original review: I bought 5 orange and 5 purple. They worked great for a month and a half (I set up in mid September) and then I packed them up for storage after. When I dug them out for this Halloween season, they still had some charge from last year. Stuck them up on the trees. So far so good. Hoping I don’t need to order any more this season. PROS: Price point, solar power, easy installation, bright enough CONS: they only last about 4-5 hours depending on how much solar power they collected during the day and you have to turn on and off for them to collect energy. The mount doesn’t turn very well when repositioning for sunlight. The wire is brittle if pulled too tight so it could snap, or you send a staple through it with your staple gun when decorating trees like I did. Just be aware of where your wire is and how wide your staple is. HOW IT COULD BE BETTER (for manufacturers): make the cord from the lights to the power bank longer and black (not clear or white) - put solar panels on at least 2 sides if not all 4 for optimal energy collecting or make it so the mount will swivel left or right when needed.

They're just not quite great, but they're good... Light is not very bright. Looks pretty good at night. The bulbs are tiny. Doesn't turn on until it gets completely dark. No way to force them to come on until they're ready. Kind of annoying to lay them out because of the metal wire that wants to kink and coil on you. Seem durable enough in the elements, but not sure about packing them up and bringing them out each year with that flimsy metal wire. We'll see.

A bit nervous about unwinding as it's like copper wire but they look very pretty when lit.

Compact and yet powerful , they look great and are easy to install . With a sunny days charge they set for the evening and into the night , when they run out of charge they go off, when the sun comes around they charge and are ready for the night ahead . Even on a cloudy day they charge a little but don't last as long. They have different flash settings all the way to solid on all the time these lights are sofa king cool buy them. I plan to get more colors I have the blue, I want green, but I also like the red, I will probably get both . Cheers !

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Lights are pretty. I like how I can set them. The lights were smaller then I thought but still bright enough to work. It is a very thin wire with tiny lights. Packaging was not great, they fell out of their boxes in the shipping bag in transit. Probably should have been shipped in a box.

I have ise this item for my porch