URPOWER Solar Spot Lights Outdoor Adjustable Spotlights, 4 Pack Warm White

Why it's worth it

The URPOWER spotlight puts an adjustable 200-lumen head and an independently adjustable panel on one stake, with wall-mount hardware in the box. It's the pick for up-lighting a tree, a flag, or a house number when the sun and the subject aren't in the same place.

Up-lighting is the fussiest thing you can ask a solar light to do. The tree you want lit is usually in shade — because it's a tree. The URPOWER solves that with two joints: the lamp head swings 90 degrees, the panel swings 180. Point the panel south at the sky and the beam sideways at the trunk. That flexibility is the whole reason this set works.

Four lights, 2200 mAh each, two brightness levels: about 6 hours on high or 10 on low, at up to 200 lumens. That's spotlight territory — enough to graze a trunk or wash a stone wall, not enough for a driveway. Set them low unless you actually need the punch. You'll get more nights out of the same charge.

From our review of 8 outdoor solar garden lights, by Genevieve Dubois, Home & Living Expert

What we like

• +Up-lighting is the fussiest thing you can ask a solar light to do
• +Four lights, 2200 mAh each, two brightness levels: about 6 hours on high or 10 on low, at up to 200 lumens
• +Longevity is the real argument here
• +It also mounts two ways

What to know

• –The panel coating is the known weak point
• –At 200 lumens it isn't a security light