FAQ about solar street lights

1. What is the working principle of the solar street light?

A: The solar street light was designed with 4 parts: solar panel, battery, controller and lamp head. Controller is the brain of the system, which manage the charging and discharging of the system.

At day time, the controller managed the solar panel to charge the battery in PWM or MPPT way, during this time, controller can choose boost charging model or float charging model to charge the battery according to the power-condition of the battery. It will protect the battery from over charging if the battery is full.

At the night, the controller will switch the light automatically, and it can be programmed to dimming the light if battery lack of power.

In one words, it is very smart and working automatically.



2.How to choose or design the solar street light?


A: We should know 3 key points to design your solar system:  

1. Height of the light or width of the road: we can choose the right power of LED light to make the lighting bright enough.

2. Installation Place: we can check the irradiation of the place to choose the right solar panels

3. Backup days for raining: we can choose suitable battery capacity to meet the lighting requirement during rainy days.


3. What is the key point of the quality of the solar street light system?


A: First we should choose good controller for the system, bzc that is the brain of the system.

2nd, we should choose the brand solar panel, good batteries and LED light which are also very important to the system.

Beside the materials, the system design is Very Very Important, good system design can make the system with long-life span.

Good design can make the battery avoid deep DOD, which can damage the battery easily.