News - Fully Considerations When Choosing the Right Solar LED Street Lights

One of the most significant benefits of solar street lights is their energy efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Unlike traditional street lights that rely on the power grid and consume electricity, solar street lights harvest sunlight to power their lights. This reduces greenhouse gas emissions and lowers maintenance and energy costs for your municipality. With advances in solar panel technology and LED lighting efficiency, the up-front costs of solar street lights are becoming more competitive. In the long run, they can save a significant amount of money.

You must have fully considerations when you decide what kind of solar streets could be applied for your projects, as solar LED streetlights may encounter various issues leading to failure, including:
Battery Problems: The use of low-quality or recycled batteries can significantly increase failure rates. Additionally, factors like overcharging, undercharging, overheating, power reduction or inability to maintain a charge can contribute to battery deterioration over time. E-Lite use Grade A Lithium LiFePO4 batteries, currently regarded as the best in the market. We use the 100% new battery cell, pack and test in our own factory via professional equipment in house. This is also why we could supply 5 years warranty, but most suppliers just supply 2 or 3 years warranty.

Damage to Solar Panels: Cracks, shadows, or sand accumulation on solar panels can diminish sunlight conversion efficiency, impacting overall lighting effectiveness. In order to ensure the capacity of the solar panel, E-Lite tested every piece of the solar panel with professional flash tester equipment. The regular conversion efficiency of solar panel on the market is around 20%, but the one we used is 23%. All these equipment and production line could be checked if you visit our factory, or we can have the online factory visiting. Also, in order to make the solar panel more safe during transportation and application, E-Lite has the solid but fashion design. You’ll love it at the first sight.

Controller Malfunction: Controllers regulate battery charge/discharge and LED operation. Malfunctions can lead to charge interruptions, overcharging, or insufficient power for LEDs, resulting in light failures. E-Lite supply kinds of controller choice as you’re preferred: the regular and famous one on the market (SRNE), E-lite developed easy operation controller, E-Lite Sol+ IoT Enabled Solar Charge Controller.

LED Efficiency and Stability: LED fixture may fail due to manufacturing defects, thermal stress, or electrical overload, which can results in dim or non-functional streetlights. E-Lite applies the modular design which has the excellent thermal distribution function. E-Lite collaborates closely with Philips Lumileds, the world’s leading LED chip manufacture. In order to maximize the performance of the battery and solar panel, E-Lite utilizes the high brightness LED chip to reach 180-200lm/w efficacy. The regular efficacy for solar light on market is 150-160lm/w;

Environmental Factors: Extreme conditions such as temperature variations, high humidity, heavy rainfall, or exposure to saltwater can accelerate component deterioration. E-Lite has its own tooling for the housing and the slip fitter, which is different from the one on the market. Most customers like the design, and one of our customers even said it is IPhone design. The slip fitter is very solid; it could stand with 150km/hr wind. We have a case in Puerto Rico; the lights were installed along the seaside road. Most of the street lights had been blown off, but E-Lite solar street light were still very well after the typhoon. Also with the world famous AkzoNobel power coating, our solar street lights could withstand harsh environments, such as the coastal areas with saltwater exposure.