jansman wrote: ↑Wed Dec 29, 2021 8:24 am
I tested our emergency lighting last night ,and was rather pleased with the results. Although we have candles ,and lots of them,they are not my favourite light source. Frankly,they are a fire hazard ,but I digress.
We have a combination of battery lanterns and work lights,all LED. I have to say that just one is enough to cut through the darkness.We also have two wind up camping lanterns,which I thought I should’ve never purchased! I wound one from zero for a full five minutes,and then switched it on to the lowest of three settings.I have to say that it gave out sufficient light for well over an hour.
This kind of lighting will never be as bright as the mains powered LED, but it does a passable job.
One of my current favourite lights is the £8 body only Lidl power tools torch with a 4ah battery on it was still showing green on the 3 bar charge indicator after 5 hours whilst I was decorating (painting) the usb "flood light" went off after about 1.5 hours....
In that pic Its got the 2ah battery on...
If your roughing it, Your doing it wrong
Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
diamond lil wrote: ↑Wed Dec 29, 2021 1:19 pm
I'm looking for lanterns, bright, LED, for the house. Can you get rechargable ones?
Plenty about have you the means to recharge a usb lantern if the power is off (car charger etc?) If not would a battery lantern be more useful giving the option of rechargeable aa/ AAA batteries or standard alkaline if the power stayed off a while?
I've got one of these from Tesco it lives on rechargeables the wife uses it as a bedside reading light nothing fancy but good for the money even comes with 4x aa batteries... https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/p ... /291466942
Thanks both of you, I like the big £30 one but also looking on amazon now at head torches. Just something bright enough to read or knit by so I dont go mad and throttle the husband.
Although it's tempting. Believe you me.
diamond lil wrote: ↑Wed Dec 29, 2021 3:46 pm
Thanks both of you, I like the big £30 one but also looking on amazon now at head torches. Just something bright enough to read or knit by so I dont go mad and throttle the husband.
Although it's tempting. Believe you me.
diamond lil wrote: ↑Wed Dec 29, 2021 1:19 pm
I'm looking for lanterns, bright, LED, for the house. Can you get rechargable ones?
Plenty about have you the means to recharge a usb lantern if the power is off (car charger etc?) [/q GBuote]
He's got a trickle charger for the bike, would that do?
Does that work if the power is off?
If your roughing it, Your doing it wrong
Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine