PowerBee ® Solar Ray Solar Shed Light 48 Superbright led's Motion Activated Mains equivalent for your garden shed, garage or outbuilding

Pros:1. Once charged the light that this puts out is excellent. It's enough for me to be able to work on a bike in my shed at night.2. It requires very little power to operate.3. The PIR is great - I don't even have to remember to turn it on an off, it just works.4. Comes with mounting screws for brickwork.Cons.1. Only has mounting screws for brickwork. There's no alternative provided.2. The Pivot on the solar panel only goes 90 degrees3. Does not include and rubber hole covers or similar items.Workarounds:1. I used Sticky back velcro to fasten it to the roof of my shed - this works well.2. There's nothing stopping you from mounting the panel upside down, so whilst 90 degrees seems restrictive at first, it's actually OK. You can mount it so that the mounting bracket is at the bottom and the panel will lean back, or put the pivot at the top and the panel will lean down.This gives plenty of options for being able to mount the light in different ways.3. I mention this as you need to get the wire from the light to the solar panel. In my case I need to go through the wall of a metal shed and have to drill a hole. In other cases, I'm sure that it'll be possible to run the cable through existing holes.I'm giving this 5 out of 5 as these issues are more to do with my needs, than the product itself. I'm already thinking about getting a second one of these lights so that I can double the power of the illumination in my shed. I'd highly recommend this for a small shed (5*7)Update: (a year later)Purchased a second one of these to install and boost the overall brightness of the light in the shed. After having problems with the lights falling down (the sticky tape didn't hold properly on hot days) I switched to using powerful magnets to hold the light up to the roof.There is space in the battery box to be able to place the magnets in the space next to the battery. I've taped them to the back of the battery cover. The whole thing is now held neatly in place without the need for tape.I can confirm that one light is a great solution for lighting an area for occasional use. Two of them makes for an area that you can work in for a while. I'd highly recommend this solution.

We wanted something to go in the garage that would light up when motion was detected, this was to save turning on the large fluorescent tubes when a quick visit was made. After looking at a range of products we went for this one.The solar panel involved drilling four holes for the bracket to be mounted, the screws supplied were not the greatest steel as the heads wore when screwdriving, so I used my own instead. The cable was fitted through a gap in the garage door fairly easily, the end of the cable has a 90deg fitting on the end so does need some space to fit through a hole. The light panel has two slots in the back of it to slide it onto to screw heads, again I found these screw heads insufficient so used my own 4mm diameter screws. The light is designed to go flat against the wall and I wanted it at an angle at the ceiling of the garage so fashioned a block 45 degrees out of wood to suit this purpose.Once all was installed and connected we were amazed at the brightness of the light, completely sufficient for lighting up a single garage with enough light to see objects and ways through the garage, but not too dazzling. The light turns on if it is fairly dark in the garage, so some light around the garage door is fine; however if the side door to the garage is open in the day then light remains off. The light instantly senses movement in the dark and switches on an remains on for around 40 seconds to a minute. The battery is replaceable so if it does become faulty then we should be able to get a replacement.

Having read many other reviews on solar powered shed lights I was unsure whether this one would come up to scratch but it does, a very bright and almost blinding light if you look at it. My shed is 10ftx8ft and it gives plenty of light for doing simple jobs, as soon as I open the door and enter the light comes on and stays on for as long as I am in the shed, I have no idea how long it will run before the battery is discharged but would guess it's well over an hour. The instructions could be a little better but there is little to go wrong. A jack plug fits into the light itself and is permanently connected with a couple of metres of two core wire to the small solar panel. I managed to find a gap in the roof of my apex shed to thread the jack plug inside the shed and plug it into the light. If you cannot do this then you will need to cut the wire to thread it through a smaller gap or hole and reconnect with a connecting block and remembering to make sure you reconnect them the right way around. The light fitting is mounted by measuring the distance between the two slots at the back and fitting two screws that distance apart to the wall or ceiling, the light fitting then can go over the screws and be slid sideways to hold it fast. A surprisingly small solar panel is fitted at 45 deg to a wall fitting to maximise exposure to the sun. If you mount the wall fitting first then it is difficult/impossible to slide the panel onto the fitting when it's flush with the wall, this could have been better designed. You either mount the wall fitting onto a block of wood mounted to the wall so the fitting stands proud and gives you more room to slide the panel on or prefit the solar panel, pre drill the holes for the wall fitting and use a right angled screw driver for the tight space to work in. Other than that I am very pleased with result and the performance, a great automatic light for the price.