Solar street lights are a new type of energy-saving and environmentally friendly street lights. They will not retain garbage and will not affect nature. Therefore, many urban lighting projects currently like to choose solar street lights. In addition, solar street lights are much simpler and more convenient to install than traditional street lights. For this reason, some grassroots construction workers may be careless during installation and make some mistakes that should not be made, resulting in the solar street lights not being able to light up or the lighting time being very short. Today, Century Sunshine Editor summarizes several wrong installation misunderstandings of solar street lights, hoping that everyone can avoid similar problems.
1. Extend the solar panel connection line at will
In some locations, due to too much interference in installing solar panels, the solar panels and lights are simply separated by a long distance. Some customers separate them by more than 10 meters or even longer, and then just buy two-core wires on the market to connect them. Because the quality of general wires on the market is not very good, and the distance of the wires is very long, the wire loss is very large, so the charging efficiency will be greatly reduced, resulting in the lighting time being affected.
2. Solar panels are placed indoors for charging
Some customers install solar lights in parking sheds for nighttime parking, but also install solar panels in the sheds, which greatly reduces the charging effect. In this case, we can use outdoor charging, indoor discharge, and separate solar panels from lights for installation.
3. Install lights on both sides, and solar panels face to face and tilt
For the sake of beauty, installers may install solar panels face to face and tilt symmetrically, but if one side is facing the right way, then the other side must be wrong. On the wrong side, since the light cannot directly shine on the solar panel, the charging efficiency will be reduced.
4. There are too many obstructions at the installation site
For example, obstructions such as leaves and buildings block the light, affecting the absorption and utilization of light energy.
5. There is a problem with the angle adjustment of solar panels
The correct angle adjustment of solar panels should follow a simple principle: let the sunlight shine directly on the solar panel, so that the charging efficiency is the greatest. In different places, the tilt angle of the solar panel can refer to the local latitude. The latitude determines the horizontal tilt angle of the solar panel, so for different latitudes and different road surfaces, the adjustable angle of the solar panel is quite critical.
6. Not using the engineering remote control correctly
According to many on-site reports, some construction workers reported that they did not know the function and purpose of the remote control. In short, they just pressed it randomly and ignored it after the light came on. In fact, the parameters may have been set incorrectly at this time, resulting in abnormal lighting. The remote control designed by Yuanchuang Intelligent Lighting has 6 humanized working modes, which is simple and convenient, and can be switched with one button. There is no need to worry about parameter setting errors. You can switch to which mode you need.
7. The solar panel is installed under the wires, branches, lamp poles or other obstructions
Because the cells of the solar panel are generally multi-string, if a shadow appears on the cells of a string of the solar panel, and the shadow is relatively deep, in serious cases, this string is equivalent to a circuit break, and if this solar panel is multi-string and 1 parallel, this solar panel will not generate electricity.
8. There is a light source for reference next to the solar panel
For example: there are other street lights next to the solar street light. When night falls, the street lights next to it light up, causing the solar panel of the solar street light to detect the light source and mistakenly think it is daytime. At this time, the controller will control it not to light up.
The above installation misunderstandings about solar street lights are shared here. Solar street lights are the most ideal road lighting equipment in daily life, and they will continue to develop and innovate as people’s living standards improve.
Post time: Apr-15-2025