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sleepyol

29/8/2008 at 7:33pm
Location: Nottingham
Outfit: Vango Aspen 700DLX Outwell Virginia 5

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Hello,

What do people use for mains lighting under canvas ? I've seen the two outwell lights; merope and tauri. Are these good or do people just tend to buy a cheap'n'cheerful inspection light and use that ?

milly91

29/8/2008 at 7:37pm
Location: barnsley
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we have one of these its great. has a little hook so we can hang it on hook in the tent

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PaulDG

29/8/2008 at 7:40pm
Location: Milton Keynes
Outfit: Pennine Pathfinder + Rhyno Lite

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We use a cheap clip-on light from Wilkinsons. About £1.99 IIRC.

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Sam Coleridge

29/8/2008 at 7:54pm
Location: Somerset
Outfit: Khyam XL Excelsior 2007

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Ikea "NOT" uplighter with reading lamp £9.99 - 20 watt fluorescent in main light, 7 watt fluorescent reading light. It packs away in the small box it came in, is very stable, and you can attach all sorts of things to the pole - including the EHU.
The reading light is at the right height to aim into the bedroom.

Ikea clipons in bedroom(s) - clipped on the Ikea clothes rails

with 7 watt fluorescents.

Ikea compact fluorescents have an outer globe - making them that much less fragile.

8 watt linear fluorescent inspection light on the off-chance the weather enabled outside cooking in the evening ...

Personally I like the principle of not attaching things to the fly.
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dadsbeaniemad

29/8/2008 at 8:19pm
Location: Cumbria (Upper Eden Valley)
Outfit: Cabanons SunValley Michigan Khyam ABI

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We have one of the clip on ones and a 2 tube flourescent rechargeable one too - one or two tubes battery or plugged in with a stand or handle to hang it from.

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fatbloke28

29/8/2008 at 9:04pm
Location: None Entered
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one inspection lamp with a 60watt compact in in the awning and 2 12v flouro's in the bedrooms.
the inspection lamps flex was renewed with 5 mtrs of flex plus a rocker switch which sits just outside the bedroom door
we had to find a spiral compact the ordinary ones were to long

petebod

29/8/2008 at 9:05pm
Location: Kent
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Something that has worked well for us is to use clear(white) light christmas fairy lights run arround the roof of our trailer tent. You can use normal bulbs or newer L.E.D types as they are transformed down to low voltage so should be safe and gives a great cosy light effect in the tent.

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Sam Coleridge

29/8/2008 at 9:24pm
Location: Somerset
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Yep - I wouldn't be without my mood lighting - ropelight and fibre optic. I didn't have time to get a compact black light. No room in car for any of my disco lights.

snackman

30/8/2008 at 4:20pm
Location: Caldicot
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we use 2 bulk haed lights £1.50 each and ran cable to the right lenth of where we want them and just used hooks to hang...

we also have blue outside lights along the top of the tt

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KevRayner

30/8/2008 at 4:21pm
Location: Lincolnshire
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We bought a little self contained light from Wilkinsons, with small flourescent light in it. cost £7.95, i think, comes complete with bout 6' of lead & plug. Has a handy little tab that pulls out so as you can hang it.

Gives off plenty of light, well worth it.

Kev

AngelicMinx

01/9/2008 at 12:29am
Location: Netherlands
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Hubby made a proper light fitting and put a shade on it which works really well but only in a tent with ties to hold the cable out of the way

The Coleman weathermaster has those ties but as he is not refusing to camp in anything poly it is no good :(

Can you sell hubbys on ebay"? lol

Ange

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