[RE-wrenches] Tree lights

[RM You]

Hi Dan, the application is for a small municipality that wants to light up trees on a street. Running low voltage DC lines would be a good solution except for the cost of running/hiding the wires. I don’t really see a good option here.

Ron Young
earthRight Solar


> On Jun 3, 2017, at 9:06 AM, Dan Fink <danbob88 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Is this lighting the tree itself as a landscaping highlight, or stringing Xmas lights in it?
> For the latter, all I've seen is cheap Costco stuff.
> For the former, I'd go with a central PV/battery location and run low-voltage lines to each tree, with a commercial-grade LED light. The placement of individual PV for each tree would be problematic and likely more intrusive visually than a nicely-sited PV/battery box, and all the individual tree systems I've seen were low quality.
> And your client could still tell everyone that his accent landscape lights are solar...
> 
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> On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 10:12 AM, Ron Young <solareagle at solareagle.com <mailto:solareagle at solareagle.com>> wrote:
> Hi Wrenches, I have a client that wants to light up trees in his yard using solar packages in each tree. Haven’t seen this except for novelty lights. This client wants something sturdy & long lasting. Has anyone done this or have suggestions other than parting together the individual components? Thanks!
> 
> Ron Young
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