Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I love these lights! This is an unsolicited review, I receive no benefit from this; I just think this is a great product and I want to support them. We bought 10 sets of the warm white lights (200 LEDs each) for a wedding reception at our house, and people said that they gave a magical feeling to the evening. We strung 6 sets around the back yard in the trees. We put them up in August and took them down in December just before the snow was expected. We also strung 4 sets of these lights in the trees in front of the house in August, and they are still up and working fine, even in the snow and with dark winter days. If the days are really dark and overcast, they may be on only for an hour or maybe two in the evening, but generally they are on in the winter until at least 10 or 11 pm. If the days are clear, they may still be on at one or two in the morning. In the summer they would be on all night. We also bought four strings of the bright white lights, which I use with my regular Christmas lights. They are a bright white, with a blue cast to them; we preferred the warm white for the summer evenings. It gives a more relaxing glow. I don't care for most of the flashing modes, so I leave the lights set to solid. There is a twinkle mode, which is fine, but in the winter any of the modes, except solid mode, tend to cycle through all of the modes. If I were the manufacturer I would skip a lot of the modes. I would want solid, twinkle, flash, and 'always on'. In the evening gathering, we had also strung cafe lighting over the backyard, and those lights were too bright for these solar lights. An 'always on' setting would have been nice. Instead, I cut squares of black paper and taped them over the solar panel to make the lights go on when it was too bright, so we had the solar lights on in the trees around the edge of the yard, and the small cafe lights above. The clack squares worked for the evening, but then I had to take them off so they would recharge. The other thing I would like is a clamp to hold the solar panel to a tree branch. They come with a spike for the ground, but I want to mount them in the tree, which means I have to tie them to the branch. We have found these to be very robust and have not had a problem with them. They have been up in sun, shade, rain, hail, sleet, snow, below zero degrees freezes, and they are great. One solar box slipped out of the tree and fell into the stream. It sat under water for a couple of days until I noticed it, but after charging it continued to work perfectly. The lights have been up for about 6 months and they are still working. I recommend these!