Review on Mademax Solar Bird Bath Fountain Pump: 1.4W Upgrade with 4 Nozzle for 🐦 Free Standing Floating Solar Powered Water Fountain in Bird Bath, Garden, Pond, Pool, Outdoor by Damian Lousteau

This simple solar fountain works much better than anticipated. Although it is exceedingly simple to assemble and operate out of the box, I can only give it 4 stars for two main reasons:1.) It's very sensitive to the amount of solar light it receives and will not operate if even a touch of a shadow crosses a portion of the panels.2.) It's prone to user error, especially in the application I had intended it forI wanted a shallow bird bath for my front yard to prevent the local birds from pecking and nibbling my cacti for moisture, so I set up a small pan with this Mademax solar fountain inside. When I first ran it I used one of the attached fountain nozzles but this caused too much water to spray out of the pan and the fountain ran dry very quickly. I then removed all attachments and the resulting stream was fine in that it landed on the black solar panels and was contained within the pan, but I could see how a strong gust of wind could blow water out. I then attached just the funnel shaped "connecting pipe" and placed a marble inside of it which limited the outflow to a trickle and that was just perfect! Quite frankly I wasn't expecting much of this item but it certainly has lent my yard some nice ambience and was super easy to set up. I would recommend that you use this in a deeper vessel than I have it in (or just be super vigilant about the water depth) and that you experiment with all the nozzles and connectors until you get what you need. I live in Arizona so we get abundant sun, but I can see how those who live in cloudier areas might not be happy with the solar fountain's extreme light sensitivity. Four stars from me, but I can easily see how the aforementioned might give this only two or three stars.