I love these lights, they've been up for 2 weeks now and they look great. I would be interested to see how they hold up in the long term. I heard about Brightech form my neighbor, who has these string lights on his porch. I thought they looked great so I got them too. I would recommend you use an extra wire for support and not the string of the lights itself. I'm planning to take these with us on our camping trip next week that's why I got the solar ones. Excellent find!