Last holiday season I had broached the subject of making your own Christmas lights. This year I’m going to do a series of posts that break this down into doable steps. When you are building your own solar Christmas lights, you have an awful lot of flexibility as to the size and design of your system.

Remember LEDs make the best solar Christmas Lights- Unless you want this

Now don’t get the wrong idea, I don’t have anything against buying a pre-made sets of solar Christmas lights. It’s just that some people prefer traditional sized Christmas lightbulbs and there are LED bulb sets which can be purchased. There is also a chance that someone really wants to go all out with the decorations and using ready-made solar Christmas lights would limit their creativity. When you are making your own solar Christmas lights it is important that you have all the important parts of your system worked out. You, of course, will need a solar panel and there are quite a variety of solar panels available. So you will have to make sure that you select an appropriate solar panel for the system that you are planning to build.

Here are some LEDs for your solar Christmas lights.

You, of course, will also need strings of LED Christmas lights. So you will have to select the quantity and size of the LED bulbs you want to be using. There are many places where these can be purchased and I will suggest a half a dozen or so, but realize there are many more including possibly your local drugstore. Now there are a few things that will have to exist between your solar panel and the actual strings of solar Christmas lights, unless of course you only want them to shine during the daytime. You will need a battery and possibly a device for controlling the charge of the battery, making sure your battery doesn’t overcharge and is charging correctly.

You are in charge, be creative.

Building your own solar Christmas lights will probably run you a little more than buying them off the shelf. So if you do it, do it to be creative, not to save money. I’m not saying that you can’t save money, especially if you have parts to make your own solar panel and use an old used car battery, and basically salvage the parts, but other than doing something like that you probably will spend a little more money. In exchange for the added expense however you will have complete control over your design and quality. You also might find that you would have to use for the individual parts of your system throughout the rest of the year. All of this however I will take up in later posts. I will probably do one post for each part of the system, and will probably start with the solar panel.

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