Solar Christmas Lights Provide Safety Advantages Over Traditional Christmas Lights

One of the greatest tragedies of the Christmas Holidays are fires that destroy property and even lives because of Christmas lights and decorations. Fires can start two ways with Christmas lights. There can be a short, often caused by frayed wires. Shorts cause a lot of heat which can easily cause fires. The second way that Christmas lights can cause fires is that the heat of the bulbs against dry items like leaves or pine needles can cause.

For all lights you must check and make sure the wiring is not frayed when you put them up. If they are, do not use them.
That should eliminate the issues of shorts which can occur for any lights.

Solar Christmas lights can certainly be subject to shorts if there are frays in the wires. However, because the temperatures are very low, you can easily touch them without feeling much heat, they are not going to cause fires by igniting surrounding leaves or pine needles.

Traditional Christmas light use household current is around 120 volts AC. If a wire somehow becomes exposed it is possible that you could suffer a severe electric shock. In fact, depending on circumstances you could experience electrical burns. Fatalities from electrocution could occur under certain circumstances.

Severe electric shock or electrocution is very unlikely with Solar Christmas LED lights. The reason is that they use low voltage DC current. Usually the equivalent of a couple of AA batteries is all that is involved. For a solar Christmas light string the voltage involved will generally be six volts or less.

Solar Christmas lights use no electricity from electric utilities.
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Solar powered Christmas lights use the sun for power, meaning they are clean for the environment. It's estimated that changing from conventional string lighting to a solar led strand of lights could save as much as 200 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions each year.

Solar powered Christmas lights use leds (light emitting diodes) which will often last 25,000 hours or more that would be several years of continual operation without burning out.

Save Money. While solar powered Christmas lights may cost more on the front end, they more than pay for themselves. Traditional Christmas lights use several times more electricity. A solar led light strand of 35 lights uses about 1.8 watts of electricity -which the sun provides Traditional Christmas lights will use over three times as much electricity which you have to pay for. In addition, the longer life of the solar Christmas lights will pay for itself in replacement costs.

Solar Christmas lights can be used where there is no readily available Electric outlet.