OOKAS IP68 solar flood lamp review: the 240,000W problem

The OOKAS IP68 solar flood wall lamp is our Best water rating pick: an IP68 claim with a separate panel on a cable, at around ₱339, with 2,485 raters. It is also the lamp whose listing says 240,000W, so let us deal with that first.

About that 240,000W

It is not real, and no amount of charitable reading makes it real.

A genuine all-in-one solar street light runs roughly 10W to 120W of real system power. That ceiling is set by physics: a panel this size harvests 15W to 20W in good sun, and a battery you can hang on a wall stores what it stores. The Philips BRC010 in our roundup publishes 15.2W and is a perfectly good lamp.

What sellers print instead is a theoretical peak of the LED chips, multiplied until it looks impressive. 240,000W is roughly 2,000 times what this lamp could physically consume.

This is not a reason to avoid the lamp. Every house brand in this category does the same thing, and the OOKAS lamps are well rated by thousands of owners. It is a reason to ignore the number entirely and judge the lamp on the parts of the listing that describe actual hardware.

What is the actual hardware?

Two things worth having at this price.

A separate panel on a cable. This is the good design decision. All-in-one lamps have the panel bolted to the body, so the lamp has to face the sun and that dictates where the light points. Here you mount the panel where the sun is and the lamp where the dark is. Under an eave, in a carport, or on a shaded wall, that is the difference between a lamp that works and one that never charges.

An IP68 claim, which is one step above the IP67 most lamps here claim: fully dust-tight and rated for continuous immersion rather than temporary. Like every claim at this price it comes with no test certificate. The indirect evidence is the rating: 2,485 raters at 4.6 with 10K+ sold means a housing that flooded in the first wet season would be visible in the reviews.

Beyond that, no lumens, no battery capacity, no charge time. Treat it as a wall, gate, or path light.

Is this solar street light sulit?

Around ₱339 as of August 27, 2026. Check the latest price on Shopee.

For a wall lamp with a cabled panel, that is good value. The other OOKAS lamp with a separate panel costs around ₱619, so this is the cheap way into the flexible mounting arrangement, and the IP68 claim is a small step up on paper.

The comparison to make is against the OOKAS 3-mode wall lamp at around ₱309, which scores higher at 4.7 and has switchable modes but an integrated panel. If your wall gets sun, that one is the better buy. If your wall is shaded, this one is the only one of the pair that will work.

At ₱339 the risk is small either way, and buying two to space along a wall costs less than one mid-tier lamp.

Who this solar street light suits

Buy this if you need to light a shaded wall, a carport, or a spot under an eave and would rather not pay ₱619 for the flexibility. It is the right choice when the sunny spot and the dark spot on your property are not the same spot, and the IP68 claim is a bonus rather than the reason. If your wall gets good sun, the cheaper 3-mode OOKAS scores better and does the same job.

Other solar street light options to compare

If the mounting spot gets direct sun, the OOKAS 3 modes wall lamp scores 4.7 with switchable modes at around ₱309. If you want the cabled panel on a larger body with far deeper owner feedback, the OOKAS IP67 sensor lamp has 10,935 ratings at around ₱619.

See how it ranks against the rest in our best solar street lights in the Philippines roundup, or read why the wattage claims are fiction in our solar street light buying guide.