So I bought two sets of Aldi solar lights prior to Christmas, one was icicles and one string lights. They both worked great for the first week, they would still be on about 3-4am after coming on at 830ish, so 6ish hours.
Then in the second week, the icicles only lasted for about 3 hours. I took them back and swapped them for another box. The new ones worked great for the first week, then same issue. The solar panels were slightly different so I just assumed the icicles were just poorer quality and refunded them.
Now, the string lights don’t seem to be lasting long either. On the sunniest of days, they’ll be off by 11pm-midnight. So 3-4 hours. There’s also an issue with the on/off button, as I have to push it a few times, or it kind of just unclicks itself (If I used sticky tape to hold it down it would stay on).
I’ll probably be taking these back too, but I’m mostly wondering if anyone else has had similar issues with their Aldi brand solar lights, to understand if it’s a common problem, or if I’m just really unlucky?
Does anyone know any better brands for solar lights that won’t have these issues? The Aldi ones were $18 for the icicle and $12 for the string lights, but I’m happy to pay more if they’ll actually last more than a month!
Thanks.
tl:dr Aldi solar lights not lasting as long as they did at the start. Was 6 hours, now 2-3. Is the brand flawed?
I've had multiple solar lights from ALDI, from mulitple years. All are still going except for one set of candy canes. Admittedly, I did have to change the el-cheapo rechargeable batteries in them after the first year. Mine all took standard AA sized rechargeable cells. I fortunately never had the issue with the dodgy switch.