Brightown Solar String Lights, 2-Pack 200LED 78FT

I was skeptical based on the price, but since the reviews were good I decided why not. These are so easy to set up and work great! I have them along our side fence and they look great!

I ordered multiple solar Christmas lights to try and determine which one to ‘standardize’ on for our yard. Installed them all along our row of trees, and then took survey of peoples favorite.
These from Brighttown were the winner. The reasons given were the richness of color (they are a more vibrant and deep color hue) and overall brightness.
Comments included that these looked the most like an ideal Christmas tree lighting vs the other ones were fainter and more ‘twinkly’ vs deep rich colors.
I agreed with the votes btw, these are my favorite as well.
Some general notes to help:
1 – These are on a raw copper wiring. Be very careful unrolling/untangling. If you pull too hard you can kink the wire when it’s twisted, and with a few twists going back and forth to unravel, you can risk snapping it from bend fatigue. Didn’t happen with this set, but on similar style battery ones, I wrecked the whole string b/c it snapped as I tried to work it out of a kink. Lesson learned.
The positive is this is bendable wire, so you can wrap it around things and it will stay put.
2 – These come rolled into a loop, vs others came with it wrapped around center cardboard. Thus unrolling requires careful attention as it’s easy for a loop to go inside an outer loop and as you pull, the outer loop will bind into the inner one and see point 1…you will be untangling very slowly and carefully.
It is helpful if you have two people to unravel as you can pull it out into a line and then apply. Otherwise go slow and realize you may have to manually expand a loop to allow an inner loop to come out..if you just pull more and more w/o paying attention, it will just tangle up even more, and see point 1.
3 – Solar aspect works well. Even on a dark rainy day with least daylight of the year (winter solstice) these lights still put on roughly 2 hours of display. Obviously they go longer with actual sunlight charging but was impressed they could still kick on with nothing but cloudy day ambient light.
I was running about a $15/two week bill with the battery powered equivalents (10 strands), so really pleased to be able to switch to solar now and have them look even better than the battery ones.
4 – I find that each strand will cover a single 5 foot tree (think tapered small hedge type evergreens, < 1 foot diameter). I tried to use one strand and cover two trees, but got negative feedback that it only covered the tops of each one or looked skimpy…so plan on ordering more than you may think if you want a richer display.
Summary- pretty amazing how good these look and running purely via solar is outstanding.

This review is only after two days. My house is south-facing so gets as much sun as Saskatchewan can provide so I figured if solar lights were to work anywhere they’d work there!
In the picture mine are wrapped just around my railing to match the plugged-in ones on the roof.
They are so cute, have a bunch of different modes where you can have the cool colours or the warm colours or both, the wire is easy to roll out and wrap.
I’ll update this review if my opinion changes, but these work great and stayed on all night until the sun kicked them off.

You guys! These are the lights you want! First of all, they are affordable. I am cheap and couldn’t find a better price with decent reviews. Second, they stay on!! I start my work day before sunrise and they stay lit until the sun comes up! I’ve never had solar lights do that before. I will absolutely be buying more strands for my yard.

Easy to use and looks beautiful. Definitely great for garden lighting, beautiful for summer nights or any evening lighting!

I was worried that it may not work well in cloudy days but turns out it does. Although It may turn of earlier than when it’s fully charged, it’s enough to cover from sunset to roughly 10-11pm in cloudy days.
The brightness is as good as batter powered one(second photo tree on the centre)
The solar panel can withstand light snow, snow will melt upon contact with solar panel as the unit has some heat.
The only downside was to get it untangled. They’re so thin and they’re bound to get tangled when you unpack it. It’ll be terrific if these fairy lights come rolled in some kind of paper role or something. Just a suggestion.

Great for yard decorating when you don’t have an outlet accessible