Our verdict: Best bulb-shaped lights we've tested Best Buy: Lumify USB Solar Vintage Bulb Lights - set of 20Ĭheapest price: £59.99 at Amazon, also available at The Solar Centre This is the best set of LED solar fairy lights we've tested, and based on how they've fared in our tough tests, with more than three years outside, we think they're durable enough to make it through even extreme winter conditions. You get 2m of cable before the first light, and then 200 LED lights over the next 20m of cable. These lights have been shining brightly around a tree in our test garden for three years now they're often still shining brightly in the early hours of the morning (6am), even in the depths of winter. PowerBee says this larger solar panel means the lights should stay on for longer, and that they'll work over winter, which not many solar lights claim. This set of garden lights comes with a large solar panel, which is a little bigger than an A4 sheet of paper (twice as big as most others we tested). Need to know: 200 lights, 20m long (2m to the first light, then 20m), claimed battery life of 8-12 hours in the summer and 3-10 hours in the winter, eight light settings, white light. Our verdict: Our top pick, shine all through winter The smaller 100 string set (which comes with a smaller solar panel) is available in white or multicoloured for £24.99

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