Solar Wire

Step One

Open up the solar garden lamp, and pull the circuit board loose.

The one shown here was $5 from Home Depot in 2003 or so, and has a bright yellow LED.

With the solar cell face-down so the LED is on, use the VOM to measure the voltage across the LED wires. On this one, the voltage was 2.5v. Make note of which side is positive. You can just barely make out that I marked a plus and a minus sign on the board for this one.

I figure anything between 2.5v and 5v is probably ok for the 3v Cool Neon handpacks.

On to Step Two...