Post #382924 by TikiTres on Wed, May 28, 2008 8:42 AM

I've been lurking on these forums a few days, but I ran out to Lowe's yesterday and picked up a 4 pack and single of the Malibu version after reading about them here (thanks to all for the tip!) They are on sale for 44.00 for the 4 pack (singles aren't on sale and run 14.88). Every purchase over the Memorial Day weekend at Lowe's had a 10.00 off coupon (for a purchase of 50.00 or more) at the bottom of the receipt, so I used that to bag them for even less. I had originally intended to mount them such that the "head" is all that is exposed out of the ground, IE like a replacement for a low voltage tier light. But they are kind of big for that, so I used the extension poles to place them at various heights around the pool. The little plastic spike that comes with them was definitely not enough to anchor them in the clay soil we have, so I took the tip off the bottom rod extension and used a rubber mallet to drive the lowest extension about 12" into the ground.

I'm impressed with the quality of these and they do have a very convincing "flickering" to them, looks a lot like a candle. They don't put out much light as others have said, but they're great for some added ambiance.