Electrifying a Solar Light (Updated)

 How many of you have a solar light like the one shown below?

We bought ours's years ago, same color as the above but it didn't work anymore. The solar panel was "cooked" and the light had a lot of Alge/moss on it. They are cool looking lights, but the biggest complaint is the light is really dim. It's pretty much worthless as a light other than for decoration.

So, the plan was to clean it up, paint it black, and to electrify it. My first plan was to use a small 15-volt bulb and a small transformer like you use to power a lot of things these days. The problem was, the bulb holder's I had neither of them didn't work, which I still don't understand why they didn't. The spring-loaded center post wouldn't get no electric through it. Anyways... in the end I went from 12 volts DC to 120 volts AC.

In the end everything came out pretty good. At first, I used a 7-watt bulb but ended up putting a small 40-watt bulb in it until I see how it looks. I didn't see it yet when it was dark out, so I might be going back to the 7-watt bulb or something in between.

I also have it plugged into a timer so it will come on around dark and stay on till around 12-midnight.

Here's a picture of it mounted on the outhouse where it's always been.

See it on the top left had side? 

I'll update this post later this evening with a picture of it with the light "on"

Here are two pictures of the light at night. It'd kind of hard to see and kind of looks like two being there is a shadow from a pole light off to the left of the outhouse. You can see it shines a nice lighted area under the light itself.