Do solar landscape lights have an on/off switch?

Question

I am talking about the low end pathway lights that you might get from walmart... do they have an on/off switch, or do they ALWAYS come on at night?

Answer 1

No.  Full all day Sun charges battery, battery lights light for 6 - 8 hours after dark.  If you want them off, keep them out of the sun or remove the batteries...to do so kinda negates the entire principle of having them in the first place.

Answer 2

Almost all that I have used have an on and off switch.

Answer 3

No, I have yet to see one with an on and off switch. Even with the higher end ones. You can take the batteries out though. I do when I store them in the winter, or I am having a party in the backyard when I am using paper lanterns or floating pond lights.

Answer 4

you can find some with an on/off switch but a majority of them don't. I think you'll find that the ones with a switch will be just a bit higher in price. All solar lights do have a photo cell though, when the sun sets the lights will turn on the light for as long as the batteries have enough power to run them.

I think it's a shame that more people don't use the better quality hard wired landscape lights. The light out put is so much better and if you notice the color of the LED light dulls and changes the color of what ever it is trying to light (usually only a 1 foot circle around the light fixture). It's more of an illusion of light, you can see the light is on but they don't really light anything.

Well, best of luck

Answer 5

The  solar  ones  have  an  internal  switch  that  comes  on  when  the  photo  sensor   trips  for  darkness .

It  is  possible  to  have  an  external  switch  but  since  next  to  no  one  wants  that ,

They  will  be  a  low  volume  item ,  hence  much  more  expensive probably .

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