Pine Top 508-0011 Plastic Solar-Powered LED Lighted Address Sign, Black

Originally baught one of these about 10 years ago, and although it had ceased lighting up a long time ago, chose to get a similar one when a car drove through the first one. Thought that improvements would have been made over the years so it would stay lit longer with better batteries and solar collectors, WRONG! Although the description states 3 batteries, it only requires 2, as did the original. This one, however was much flimsier and needed gluing on my part to hold it together. Also, many of the tabs were broken off on the numbers, and it arrived without a baseplate for mounting on a flat surface. It is like they swept up the manufacturing floor and threw what they had into a box. It only stays lit, about 4 hours (8 pm to almost midnight) during the bright, long hour for recharge summer day. I remember the original did not get enough light during gray winter days to even turn on during the winter nights. The first year, it did start turning on when summer came around again, but I guess I got use to it not turning on, so never changed the batteries in it and it just served as an unlit adderess sign after that. It seems criminal the decrease in quality of an item that could have been made exceptional with even modest improvements over the many years of production by people who cared. Obviously they don’t.

While it looks nice in the front yard, it's very poorly made and I don't expect it to make it through the winter. I mounted it about 6' above ground but, the plastic is so thin and flimsy, that I think just the cold weather will crack it. But, it gets worse from there. The unit gets at least 6 hours of sun, this time of year and, after it gets dark and the light turns on, it lasts about 2-3 hours.Apparently the batteries or the charging unit itself is made as poorly as the entire unit. So, by 9 o'clock at night, the unit no longer is lit. I should have just packed it up and sent it back but I didn't need one more thing to deal with at the time. I also don't trust the solar cells to stay watertight either.I'll try a couple GOOD batteries in it and see if it makes a difference, if not, then I'll gut it and wire in a small light that plugs in and goes on with a timer.Bottom line - over priced for what you get.Changed to one star due to the fact that, now it stays lit about one hour even after several hours in the sun.As an addendum: after buying a pair of GOOD ni-cad batteries, the light stays lit all night. So, if you order this, buy some good batteries to go along with it, you'll be glad you did.As a further addendum: Had a couple issues with this item and customer service was outstanding! So, with that, I added two more stars.

We live in a rural area with no street lights and needed some way to mark our driveway for day and night. This works pretty well but only has one bulb right in the center. Wish it had one on each end. It''s bright enough and the solar collector works well. It is visible and we're happy with it!.

Its as nice as the one i had before. But it doesn’t stay on all night like i thought it would. And it gets full sun.

Very difficult to put together due to poor design - and cheap plastic material. You must press REALLY hard to get it to "click" together even if you fear it will break - which I guess it could. It was the only solar address sign with enough characters - so I went with it.

This is the worse purchase I have made in a very long time. It is not only plastic, but cheap plastic. The packaging was battered when it was received, and not from the shipping. Most of the number tabs were broken off when I opened the box. One panel was only partially secure and most of the screws holding it on were stripped out and completely through the panel. Yes, I should have sent it back but didnt, instead I repaired what I could of the panels. The batteries never charged to light at night even though it is in a sunny place during the day. This product is bad, bad, bad.

Sign is great for the price. Three stars because the rechargeable AA batteries are cheap ... don't last but a few hours. I replaced them with Sony AA - 2500 rechargables which last the night. Now it workds great.

This product is decent and works well. I did find it to be a little cheaply made. However, the cost was very low and now people can find my house. Overall a good product. Because of lower quality is why I didn't give it 5 stars.