HULPPRE Upgraded 2-Pack Solar Shed Lights with Remote - 136 LEDs Brighter 4+1 Leaves Design, IP65 Waterproof for Indoor & Outdoor Use - Perfect for Barn, Chicken Coop, Workshop, Ceiling, Pendant Light - Ideal for Patio, Garden, Yard, Gazebo Lighting

I just got this dual LED solar panel light. I intend to use it for emergency lighting when the California wildfires shut my power off. It has enough light to brighten a room in an emergency or in a campsite while camping. I'm able to put the solar panel in a greenhouse window in my kitchen while being as unobtrusive as possible (see picture). With only one powerful solar panel for two LED lanterns, I can minimize the footprint in my house. The only thing missing is motion detection. I like the solar LED lights where it is dim in the evenings until it sees motion then it goes to full brightness. Nevertheless, with the big batteries inside and a 10 Watt solar charger, it's suppose to last all night long. I'll test to see if this is true.Remote control didn’t work, but the seller was quick to remedy the issue.Using the lighting unit in my large chicken coop.Very happy with the light output.I needed a set of solar lights for my remote shed. I have a similar, but single light setup in my remote carport and that has worked well. I also have a 100W solar panel, two car batteries, 5W bulb and a 50W floodlight on my remote garage. So, I am used to solar lighting! I saw these in my Vine list and thought they'd work well too. I liked the design and the larger solar panel to match the twin lights. As an Amazon Vine reviewer, I am offered new-to-market products, if I want them, at no cost to me, in exchange for an honest, objective, and comprehensive review..Overall, the construction and design of the light units is very good, and reflective of the $63 price tag (a little high IMHO).The cable connectors are O-ring sealed and threaded together, though the junction box on the back of the solar panel is not sealed at all, with a large open hole where the cable comes out. Each light has a pivoting quadrant to direct light where you need it.The cheapest part is the thin and flimsy mounting bracket for the solar panel. The worst part of the design is the knurled screw and loose nut for mounting the panel to the bracket..I charged the lights for a whole day before installing them. The installation is simple as the lights each hang off a hook (not supplied) via a loop of wire. The cables are plenty long enough for a shed. I didn't need the anchor bolts, which are designed for brick, and used exterior wood screws with washers for attaching the mounting bracket to my wooden shed.I gave up trying to use the knurled screws. The small nut has to be held inside a very narrow U-channel in the solar panel frame. Too small for your fingers to fit in. Trying to hold the nut, the solar panel and line up the knurled screw in the bracket was impossible. There was also no spring washer to stop the nut coming loose. I ended up using a longer screw, inserting it from the inside of the solar panel first and using a nut on the outside of the bracket with a spring washer. Fortunately, I had all those in my workshop. MUCH easier to install. A captive Rivnut would have been much better.The strip making up the bracket is pretty thin and flexes too easily. The solar panel is easily moved, bending the strip bracket if you're not careful. I would have preferred a thicker, stiffer bracket for the price.The solar panel orientation is not like as shown in the manual. The narrow bracket forces it to be in Portrait mode, not Landscape, which would be the expected arrangement. At least this means the junction box on the back of the panel (NOT IP65!) can be positioned with its cable hole facing down to avoid water getting inside. I also made sure to have the cable held via a cable tie, in a loop to ensure water drips off the cable before getting near, or into, the junction box..Each light is controlled by the same TV remote-sized remote. Place the remote close to a light and it sets only that individual light. I'm not sure what the blue LED lights indicate, possibly battery charge level? On receipt, one of the 4 LEDs was not lit on both lights, but they've all been illuminated after charging..The lights are quite bright, but it's a shame you can only reduce the light to 50% brightness minimum. I'd have liked to set each light lower in intensity to lengthen the overnight battery life. My plan is to have the lights on all night, Dusk to Dawn, to discourage mice from nesting in my equipment, particularly over winter. As it is, I turned one light off completely. I haven't yet checked how long one light on 50% brightness lasts after a cloudy day.The manual claims the batteries will last 5 years..CONCLUSION:.This is a nice light package. The overall perception of high quality is unfortunately let down by the flimsy bracketing and ill-conceived mounting screw arrangement. That said, it is perfect for a remote shed where you need some lighting either at night or in the daytime or both.This is actually my first set of solar anything, even though I've had ambitions of using solar and batteries and all that jazz. Without going too deep, I wanted to give this a try, and I wanted it for a shed I just got about a year ago that has no lighting nor electricity to it. First off, the instructions for this were horrendous, I wouldn't depend on them at all. I'll give you my experience so far upon putting them in.So, these are LED light that are operated by a remote control. I don't like this idea, I would MUCH prefer there to be a switch on the light itself. The reason being, if I didn't want to leave them on all the time, I have to use the BATTERY powered remote control. I can foresee grief in the future, as I now leave this remote inside the shed that gets well over 100 degrees in Arizona, and at some point months down the line I may want to use the remote, only to find the remote is dead, meaning I can't control the lights! To me, it creates an area of failure that I just don't like, God forbid you lose or break the remote.As far as construction, the lights seem okay. For some reason, I thought there was some metal, but the lights are ALL plastic. As other people mentioned, the solar panel construction is shoddy at best. Mine had caulking spewed around on the bottom underneath and you can tell some poor soul on the other side of the planet probably tried to push the caulking in the corner, but couldn't get there finger under the lip because it's bunched and dried up not even in the corner. The other thing is the solar panel doesn't look nice and neat like in the pictures. There is WAY more open space not occupied by the actual solar parts on the panel, they could've made the panel much smaller, or made more of the solar squares. The good news is, it seems to work.Due to the poor construction of it, I didn't want to make any permanent attachments or mounts for the panel. As you can see from my pictures, I just set it on top of my shed roof on the side that receives all of the sunlight. I used two outdoor spring clamps to hold one end of the panel on the drip cap, and I believe that should be strong enough to hold it through any winds, but we will see. I routed the wires through one of the grooves in the shed wall that intersects with the upper air vent, fortunately, the wires fit nicely to go in my shed. Although I still need to use some staples to keep the wires up towards the top, there was more than enough wire for my 10' x 16" shed. I simply used a screw-in eyelit on the rafters to hang the lights.Part of my confusion, is the directions say to turn on the light and charge. I do not know if they will charge when you turn the light off. To turn them on, you push the ON button on the remote, and there are 4 blue lights. Each of them had three steady on, and after plugged in, the 4th one blinking. After several hours, the 4th one I see is now steady on. Although there's no explanation, I believe this means it charged while the lights are on. You can turn them completely off so there is no blue light, but I don't know if they would charge in that mode.I think it is pointless to have these turn themselves on inside of a shed when I'm not in there, but I may leave them in this auto mode just to see how it fares with the solar charging.Another thing I had to learn, is that the remote is actually an IR remote, not a radio frequency remote. You must point it at the light, like a TV, to turn on each individual light. My ceiling fans all have a remote about the same size as this remote, but those operate off a radio frequency, and it doesn't matter where the remote is pointed. I spent a little while being angry thinking my remote buttons weren't working well, but after pointing it at the light, I found that to be the case (again, instructions were no help with this).Overall, the lights on this are decently bright. There are 4 levels of brightness, although it's kind of hard to see much of a change between each step, the brightest setting is easy to tell that it is brighter than the dimmest setting for sure. The objective was to create light in the shed after dark, and this accomplishes that, which is a plus! Right now, this gets the job done, we'll see how it stands through weather and time.