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Shipping Container Solar Lighting Kits

Shipping Container Solar Lighting Kits provide lighting in shipping containers and storage areas with 2 days of battery technology for cloudy, rainy, or snowy days with 8 hours per day of run time. Prewired turn-key kits with Bluetooth technology for smartphone viewing of system data are easy to set up, reduce wiring and labor costs, and are an efficient alternative to generators. LED lights are rated up to 100,000 hours and the fixtures have magnetic mounting.

About Our Solar Kits

Sun-In-One LED lighting fixtures for shipping container solar lighting kits provide you with enough light to get equipment or supplies out of the container, up to high-quality lighting, and allow you to use the shipping container as a workshop and have enough light to do fine detailed work. The shipping container lighting kits are designed to match your needs based on your needs. Also, if you need 110 or 230-volt AC power in the container, we can include our Sun-In-One Shed Kit base unit to include AC and USB 3.0 cell phone charging. If you do not see a kit that fits your needs, we can build custom configurations for you. Just call us for a quote.

The Power of our kits

Choose from a variety of LED lighting options, ranging from single bulbs to vapor-tight fixtures with tube lights to LED exterior lighting fixtures with or without motion sensing.

  • Our 95 CRI (color rendering index) diodes are of the highest quality on the market and will provide you with clear, bright, high-quality light.
  • We can also provide AC or DC power kits for whatever you need, from heat lamps to ventilation fans and air conditioning.

The solar shipping container lighting kits come pre-wired and ready to install so it can be set up in half the time! This means low installation costs, unlike a grid-tied system that requires expensive trenching and electrical work.

Our kits use a Bluetooth-enable MPPT charge controller, giving you maximum efficiency while also allowing you to monitor and control your solar production and battery usage. Simply download the app and connect to the charge controller.

We have two options for the solar panel: roof mounted or pole mounted racking, however, we do not provide the pole for pole-mounted systems. This is because you will be able to find a pole at your local hardware store or building supply store for a much lower cost than what we can provide and ship one for. We will provide the specifications for what type and size pole you need.

We can include a USB Charger built into the battery box.

Then we need to know the size of the batteries you will need to charge, and whether you’re charging the batteries in the daytime or nighttime, and how fast you need to recharge those batteries.

We can charge your vehicles through our system, though depending on what you’re needing charged, there are various customizations that can be done through a custom order.

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Solar Shipping container kits

That depends on how bright you want it. Here are some simple guidelines to follow:

(1) 20 ft container – 1 to 3 lights.

(1) 40 ft container – 1 to 4 lights.

(2) 40 ft container – 2 to 8 lights.

(3) 40 ft container – 3 to 12 lights.

(4) 40 ft container – 4 to 16 lights.

(5) 40 ft container – 5 to 20 lights.

(6) 40 ft container – 6 to 24 lights

We can engineer your solar kit to operate multiple containers at the same time, but those containers will need to be placed right next to each other. If they’re not next to each other, then you will need more than one kit. One of our kits can light up to 6 shipping containers sitting in the general area.

Yes, our Solar Power and LED Lighting Kits can run the lights and provide AC power at 120 volts or 230 volts ranging from 250 watts to 3KW of power.

The size of the kit is directly dependent on the usage.

If you want to know the size of the kit, it will be based on your load and how many hours a day you are going to run that load.

An Example:

250 Watt load for 8 hours a day is 2000 watts per day
500 Watt load for 6 hours a day is 3000 watts per day

Your Sun-In-One engineer needs to know what type of equipment you need power for and the specific wattage and voltage of each component so that we can properly design the system to meet your needs.

Best Type of Storage Container Lighting

Shipping containers are 20—or 40-foot-long and 8-foot-wide narrow spaces with relatively short ceilings. We have designed a sufficient linear LED lighting system with a magnetic mount for the fixture. These 4 FT linear LED fixtures are ideal for this space as they quickly lighten up a much larger area, with the spread-out light beam reflecting and bouncing off the side walls of the containers.

A good secondary option is to have Solar kit-powered LED Floodlights shining into the container. They are mounted on the twist-tight lock with magnets to provide external lighting around the Shipping Container.

We also offer vapor-tight and explosion-proof LED container lights and LED Floodlights.

Our Lighting Kits

Shipping containers are not very large spaces with relatively low ceiling heights. Therefore, you do not have to overpower the space with powerful lights. We use both 2 FT and 4 FT Vapor Tight light fixtures with 1 or 2 LED light tubes in each fixture.

Why is it important that you know how long you are going to be in the Shipping Container each day?

We customize every solar kit we build to meet the number of hours you generally use the LED lights in one day or two days’ time. The size of the solar panel and the amount of battery storage depend on how much you will use the lighting in a single day, the actual location of the installed system, and the historical weather data for that area.

The longer you use the lighting system daily, the more solar power and battery storage will be needed to operate the LEDs. If you use the system for more than four hours per day, you will need three days of battery storage to support the need for lights during inclement weather, such as cloudy or snowy days.

Solar shipping container lighting kit

External Shipping Container Lighting

Can I Have Lights On The Outside Of My Shipping Container Storage Unit?

Sun-In-One can design a system with lighting on the inside of your shipping container and Flood Lights mounted to the twist Lock at one or up to all four corners of the container.

Types of LED Flood Lights for the outside of the Container:

10 watts
20 watts
30 watts
50 watts

Number of Operating Hours for Exterior Flood Lighting Each Night

8 hours
Dusk to dawn
Motion sensing

Internal Shipping Container Lighting

The number and type of lights are all based on your actual lighting needs inside the container.

  • If you are using the containers just for general storage and do not have to read the fine print on items, then one or two fixtures might be all you need.
  • If it’s a more significant 40 FT container, 3 or 4 fixtures might be the solution.

The number of hours a day someone will be in the Shipping Container, and the type of work they will do inside the container will also help determine the type of LED solution.

20 FT Container
General storage: 1 to 3 light fixtures
Working 1 to 8 hours: 2 to 4 light fixtures

40 FT Container
General storage: 1 to 3 light fixtures
Working 1 to 8 hours: 3 to 4 light fixtures

Magnetic solar lighting for shipping containers

Types of On/Off Light Switches

2-Hour Timer Switch – a magnetized box that can be mounted just inside the container, provided for containers within and out daily or weekly foot traffic, nobody working for long periods

6-Hour Timer Switch – a magnetized box that can be mounted just inside the container, provided for containers that are used for longer periods of time in one stretch during the day.

Light Switch – is available but not recommended because there is no auto shut-off of the lights, and if the lights are left on your battery can be completely drained.

Motion Sensor – gives you the auto shut-off, but if you are working in the back of the container your lights can shut off while you are in the container because motion is only detected from limited direction.

LED Wet Location and Hazardous Materials Storage Lighting for Shipping Containers

We provide LED light fixtures that are rated for wet locations—IP65 or better. You should always be aware of your fixture’s IP rating and ensure that it will withstand any moisture issues.

If you store products in a storage container that produces an explosive vapor environment, you should use explosion-proof lighting fixtures. If the vapors are corrosive but not explosive, a vapor-tight light fixture should be considered. We have these fixtures available if needed.

Key Features

  • Super bright white lights for greater visibility
  • Immune to brown-out or power failures
  • Plug-and-play design means a simple, low cost installation
  • No monthly utility bills
  • Controllable lighting times lets you choose when lights turn on and off
  • Reliable LED lights: no flickering, last over 50,000 hours
  • Waterproof and durable enclosure with water resistant hardware
  • Environmentally friendly

Warranty

  • 5 year warranty on LED lights
  • 5 year warranty on the battery
  • 25 year limited warranty on the solar panels

Installation Tips

  • Make sure your intended location for the solar panel sees no shade between 9 AM and 3 PM.
  • When installing the panel, make sure it is facing solar south. South on Google Maps is solar south.
  • If you intend on installing the panel over 20ft from your light, please let us know in the contact form.

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Shipping Container (interior)
Shipping Container Side Pole
Shipping Container Roof Mount
Shipping Container Side Pole Mount

Solar Zones

Our Solar shipping Container lighting kits are designed for greater than two days of autonomy. To do this, we design for the number of hours of peak sunlight a certain region gets in a day. Use the map to determine which zone you are in, and include that information in the contact form. If you are not sure which zone you are in, we can help you figure that out.

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Irradiation and Zone Maps

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