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[QUOTE="TerryK, post: 117221, member: 32169"] Hi Peter. Welcome to ACL. Kate and Mark already mentioned the solar cell and battery. I have a few colored solar lights I put out at Christmas and keeping in mind the shorter winter Ohio days, I obtain about 4 or 5 hours from them. I have in a couple installed a larger battery (1200mah) and cannot see any significant difference in those. My opinion is, for better performance one would need to up both the photo cell and battery capacity. Without knowing a bit more about the solar cell lights you have, the LED driver in the ones I have (a YX8050) seem to drive the battery to a full discharge condition. As such, the photo cell has to try to complete a full recharge during daylight hours. Dead ones I have disassembled almost always have a leaking battery (from the recycling deep discharging I suspect). If you or someone in the parish is good with electronics, something you may try is to exchange out the battery with something larger and add to or replace the existing photo cell to obtain an increased recharging capacity. Something like this perhaps? [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07BLP238X/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.amazon.com/1200mah-Rechargeable-Battery-Button-10pcs/dp/B00S64CYY2/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=1200mah+battery&qid=1615655200&sr=8-3[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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