Charlie Pridham wrote:

To be worthwhile, I am not considering solar-powered devices, and
imagine that a low voltage distribution system would be the way
to go.

The very cheap solar lights I find have poor batteries which normally fail
after a short time, and low power lights look very pretty around the pond
or
such but actually produce nearly zero light for illuminating steps say.

Surely low-voltage LED lights can be bright enough?

--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland