Can Solar Road Stud Markers Replace Reflective Road Studs? (4)

Solar road stud markers also has limitations. Several obvious faults are below. 
1.High cost. In order to facilitate the comparison with traditional reflective road stud markers, the price of light source per watt power is converted for comparison. Considering the influence of cloudy and rainy days, the power of 1 watt bulb needs 4 peak watt battery panel for power supply. The price of domestic products (including all costs of lamp poles, lamps, photoelectric inverter, foundation, etc.) is about 60-80 yuan per peak watt. If converted into bulb power, the price is 240-320 yuan / W. In contrast, the price of reflective road stud markers without this device is much lower. 
2.Small power. Because the conversion efficiency of the battery panel is not high, and the area of the battery panel is about 0.005m2/peak Watt, the area of the 400 peak watt battery plate required by the 100W energy-saving LED is up to 2M2, which is difficult to meet the requirements of the urban landscape. To improve the lamp power, we can only hope that the conversion efficiency of the battery panel will be greatly improved.
 
3.Weather impact. The solar road stud marker is influenced by environmental factors too much, and the lighting is affected by long rainy days, which requires high installation position. Solar panels must ensure sufficient sunshine time. However, it is very difficult to evenly distribute lights on urban roads due to the high-rise buildings on both sides of urban roads and the dense roadside trees.
4.Bad landscape. There are few choices of DC bulbs matching with solar low-voltage DC power supply, high price and unsatisfactory light color. If the inverter is used to convert to 220 V AC, there are some problems such as the loss of conversion efficiency and the influence of inverter on landscape.
To sum up, solar road stud marker can not replace traditional road stud in a short period of time, but it is not inaction. As long as efforts are made in small power and special applications, the balance between cost, power and landscape can be achieved. Now the small-power solar road stud marker on the market are very distinctive and competitive.