Advantages[edit]

Solar street lights are independent of the utility grid. Hence, the operation costs are minimized.
Solar street lights require much less maintenance compared to conventional street lights.
Since external wires are eliminated, risk of accidents is minimized.
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This is a non polluting source of electricity
Separate parts of solar system can be easily carried to the remote areas
Disadvantages[edit]
Initial investment is higher compared to conventional street lights.
Risk of theft is higher as equipment costs are comparatively higher.
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Snow or dust, combined with moisture can accumulate on horizontal PV-panels and reduce or
even stop energy production.
Rechargeable batteries will need to be replaced several times over the lifetime of the fixtures
adding to the total lifetime cost of the light.


Introduction
Energy efficiency and sustainability are more and more at the top of policymakers agenda. A way to
reduce power consumption and CO2 impact while maintaining the safety standards of the roads is to
use solar powered solar street lighting systems.
Interest in solar lighting systems, and particularly street lighting, is rising also for the possibility to
install them in remote areas such as rural areas in less developed countries.
Solar street lighting systems generally consist of a solar panel able to deliver about 90W, a battery
charge controller, a set of batteries at 12V and a Boost driver to control the current in the LEDs, as
shown in figure 1.

Figure 1: Solar street lighting system
ZXLD1374 Device description
The ZXLD1374 is an LED driver IC with an internal MOSFETs to drive high current LEDs. It is a
multi-topology driver enabling it to efficiently control the current through series connected LED. The
multi-topology enables it to operate in Buck, Boost and Buck-boost configurations.
The 60V capability coupled with its multi-topology flexibility enables it to be used in a wide range of
applications and drive up to 15 LEDs in series.
The ZXLD1374 is a modified hysteretic controller using a patent pending control scheme providing
high output current accuracy in all three modes of operation. High accuracy dimming is achieved
through dc dimming and high frequency PWM dimming.
The ZXLD1374 uses two pins for fault diagnosis. A flag output highlights a fault presence, while the
multi-level status pin gives further information on the specific fault.







The Design Principle Of Solar Street Light
As the Earth's resources become increasingly scarce, increasingly based on investment costs of energy
rising, and a variety of safety and pollution problems are everywhere, solar energy as an
"inexhaustible" security, environmental protection and new energy increasingly more attention. Also
with the development of solar photovoltaic technology and progress, solar lighting products in the dual
advantages of environmentally friendly energy saving, solar lights, garden lights, lawn and other
applications has been gradually scale solar power development in the field of street lighting has
become increasingly perfect. I point to experience the design of solar lights for reference.

The composition of solar street light
Solar street light consists of the following components: solar panels, solar controller, battery,light,light
pole and light shell. If the output power AC 220V or 110V, but also configure the inverter.

1solar panels
Solar lights solar panel is the core part of the solar street lights in some of the highest value. Its role
is to convert the sun's radiation into electricity, stored in batteries or sent. Among the many solar cells
in general and more practical than a single crystal silicon solar cells, polycrystalline silicon solar cells
and three kinds of amorphous silicon solar cells. Good enough sunshine in the sun east and west
areas, the use of polycrystalline silicon solar cells as well, because the polycrystalline silicon solar cell
production process is relatively simple, the price is lower than the single crystal. More rainy days in
the sun relative to the south is not very adequate, the use of single crystal silicon solar cells as well,
because the performance parameters of single crystal silicon solar cells is relatively stable. Amorphous
silicon solar cells in the absence of sufficient sunlight outside is better, because the amorphous silicon
solar cells requires the sun is low light conditions.
2, solar controller
No matter the size of solar lamps, a good charge and discharge controller performance is essential. In
order to extend battery life, it must be the charge and discharge conditions, restrictions, and depth to
prevent over charge the battery charge. In the large temperature difference, the controller should
have qualified temperature compensation. At the same time both solar street lamp controller should
control, with light control, time control function, and should have control of the load function
automatically cut the night, easy to extend the rainy day street working hours.
3, battery
Since the input of solar energy photovoltaic power generation system unstable, so in general need to
configure the battery system to work. Generally lead-acid battery, Ni-Cd batteries, Ni-H batteries. The
choice of battery capacity generally follow the following principles: First, to meet the premise of the
night lighting, the solar modules during the day and store it as energy, but also can store the night
lighting to meet the needs of consecutive rainy days in power. Battery capacity is too small not to
meet the needs of night lighting, battery is too large, on the one hand always in the loss of battery
power status, affect the battery life, also causing waste. Batteries should be solar cells, electrical load
(lights) to match. Used a simple method to determine the relationship between them. Solar power
must be 4 times higher than the load power over the system to work properly. Solar battery voltage
exceeds the battery voltage to 20 to 30%, in order to ensure the normal negative charge to the
battery. Battery capacity must be higher than the consumption of the load at more than 6 times
better.
4, light source
Solar lights solar lamps adopted whether the source is an important indicator of normal use, the
general lighting using low-voltage solar energy saving lamps, low pressure sodium lamp, lamp, DLED
source.
Low energy-saving lamps: low power, high light efficiency, but the service life of 2,000 hours,
low voltage lamp black, generally suitable for solar lawn light, garden light.
Low pressure sodium lamps: low pressure sodium lights with high efficiency (up to 200Lm /
w), subject to the inverter, low pressure sodium expensive, making the system highly, with
less.
Discharge lamp: low power, high light efficiency. The lights in 220V (pure sine wave,
frequency 50 Hz) under normal use of electricity, up to 50,000 hours life, life in the solar lights
on and the general energy-saving lamps significantly reduce the almost (because solar lighting
is a square wave inverter , solar power 220V output frequency, term position, voltage is not
compared and the general city electricity).
LED: LED light source, long life, up to 1 million hours, low voltage, no inverter, a high
luminous efficiency, domestic 50Lm / w, import 80Lm / w. As technology advances, LED
performance will be further enhanced. I believe that the LED light source as solar street light
will be a trend.
5, light pole and lamp housing
Pole height should be based on the width of the road, the distance between lamps, standard-setting
road illumination. Shell lamps in our solar lights collect a lot of foreign data, between the aesthetic and
energy saving, most have chosen to energy saving, lighting look less demanding, and the relative
utility on the line.