upon the overall light output desired in the present embodiment three such high brightness leds are utilized and are distributed radially around the assembly for even light distribution fig3 depict such an arrangement in fig3 the control assembly 106 is depicted having been removed from the housing 104 beneath the control assembly 106 is a lens 302 that shields the three leds 304 and conditions the emitted light another embodiment utilizing six leds is depicted in fig4 in this figure the control assembly is removed as is the lens 404 to display the six led 406 configuration still other embodiments containing even more such leds may be utilized to further increase the device 39 s overall brightness such arrangements are limited only by the capacity of the batteries of the device referring once more to fig1 the control assembly 106 in the present embodiment houses the control circuitry for the leds and batteries visible on the top of the device is a solar cell 108 for charging the batteries and a photocell 110 for determining the ambient light conditions fig2 provides a close up depiction of the arrangement of the solar cell 108 and photocell 110 on the top of the lighting fixture in the present embodiment fig5 depicts a schematic diagram of the control circuitry of the lighting fixture the schematic shows the solar cell sol battery bat photocell cds timer u 1 high brightness leds led 1 ledn and associated driver circuitry q 1 the solar cell sol is continually connected to the battery bat via charging circuitry that regulates the solar cell 39 s output thus the battery is constantly charging when sufficient ambient light is.