My wife is an avid gardener. She enjoys working the raised beds that we keep in the backyard, tending to native plants and a handful of edible plants, including tomatoes. She also plants a variety of flora in our front yard, accenting our landscaping.
When we first bought our house, we purchased some solar lights to add a little evening ambiance to the front yard. Those lights eventually wore out and were tossed, but I’ve always thought it would be cool to bring some lighting back. I’m not interested in wired lights — more work than I want to take on — so I’ve kept alive the idea of adding solar ones. A few weeks ago Aldi brought such a light set to store shelves. I finally caved and bought them to try out.
Belavi 4-Pack Solar Disc Lights (Product Code: 708582) are an Aldi Find. That means they’re a limited-time buy, and once they sell out, you won’t be able to find them in stores until they come back, which could be next year or not at all. Because you often can’t order Aldi products online, if you can’t find any in your store, you’re likely out of luck.
At the time of this post, the 4-pack costs $14.99, or about $3.75 per light. This appears to be about on par with prices I can find on Amazon. The lights are made by Questwood, a Taiwan-based company that deals in solar lighting and has supplied other Aldi lights we’ve reviewed in the past. Questwood backs the lights with a 2-year warranty through phone number 1-888-280-7088 and email service@questwood.asia.
Warranty information. (Click to enlarge.)
According to Aldi, the lights’ features include:
- 8 warm white LEDs per light
- 20 lumens
- Up to 8 hours run time
- Multi-purpose use in soil, grass, on concrete as low-profile path lights, or mounted on fences, walls, or steps
- Includes stakes for use in ground and mounting hardware for use on walls and fences
- Solar-powered
The lights come out of the box with the following:
- 4 disc lights
- 4 connecting boards
- 4 ground stakes (left)
- 4 ground stakes (right)
- 16 screws
- 16 plastic anchors
Contents of the box.
The manual comes with instructions for soil ground mount installation, concrete ground or wall mount installation, and (non-concrete) wall mount installation. Soil ground mount is the easiest of the four, as it just involves assembling the lights and pushing them into the ground. If you want to mount the lights on concrete or on a wall, you’ll need a drill and a screwdriver in addition to what’s in the box.
We planned on putting these into the soil, so for us putting them together took just a few minutes. The connecting board was already attached, so all we needed to do was fit the left and right stakes together, then push them into the receiving holes at the bottom of the connecting board.
Before pushing them into the ground or mounting them, it’s important to flip a small switch on the light from “OFF” to “ON.” That switch stays on at all times. It’s also important to remove the plastic film from the top of the solar light.
Two of the lights in the ground.
So how do they work?
They’re cool. They kick up more light in the air than I would expect and they also cast a halo of light a couple of feet around them. I can see them easily from a distance, and when close they do well illuminating both the landscape and any nearby ground.
The Verdict:
The Belavi 4-Pack Solar Disc Lights are a fun and simple way to accent a space with ambient light. They serve as bright markers in the dark, lighting up a couple of feet around them in a stylish glow. Better still, they are low maintenance. We’re not sure yet about longevity, but the attached warranty adds some peace of mind.
