Bill R expounded:

Most of the time when solar lights fail it is due to bad
batteries. Most of them use AA rechargeable cells that are
available from many places and are very easy to replace.
You can put higher capacity batteries in the units than the
ones that ship with them (usually cheap 600 ma AA cells).
This spring I put 1800 ma cells in a couple of mine and on a
day with full sunshine they will stay on all night.

Thanx, Bill, but this one failed out of the box, I want a new one!!
G I knew they had batteries in them, I've got rechargeable ones I
can try out if/when they go next time (I've heard they last for a year
or so). Mine do, however, stay on all night. Which isn't that
important, I'm using them more for decoration than lighting.

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Ann, Gardening in zone 6a
Just south of Boston, MA
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