I don’t know why, but for a long time I would buy one of these $1.25 solar yard lights, for my yard. IDK why. It just seems cool to look out in my yard hours after the sun goes down and see a light. When it stops working after a few months… I buy another one. Well around October of last year they replaced these lights with seasonal lights. You know pumpkins and ghosts, and later Christmas themed lights. I don’t want to see, lights that greatly outlast the season… for months. The haven’t yet brought back the regular lights.
So yesterday while at Home Depot, I thought I’ll just spend a little more and buy one of these lights. They were around $5. I noticed they sell replacement LiFePO4 batteries, for these solar lights for about $10. The appeared slightly bigger than AA batteries. Now 2 things come to mind
- If you had many of these, perhaps to light your driveway it would be expensive to replace them, just buy another light
- I found it interesting that they were using these advanced LiFePO4 batteries. I only recently became aware of them because of portable power stations.
OK, now that I think about it why would you need to replace LiFePO4 batteries. They are supposed to take many more charges than regular lithium-ion batteries.
Just so happens that later this day I went to a different Dollar Tree and they had the Solar lights for the yard, that I was looking for. So I got 2… big spender.