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You don`t have an integral groundsheet, do you? If not, can you take a spare pole...a metal one, like you would use to pole out an awning, but shorter, and hammer it in somewhere there is a gap in the groundsheet cover? Then you could clip the EHU to it, and the light on top.

My Litchfield has no internal poles, btw, but I know that there is a loop or something at the apex of the dome because I hang our battery light there. I just can`t visualise exactly what the loop is really for though! Most annoying.

Quote: Originally posted by Chorleydave on 08/08/2004

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Hi, Val.

I would have thought that the loop is there for just the use you have put it to - hanging a lantern from.

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Naah...thats FAR too simple an explaination, Dave. Tent manufacturers are devious folk...it`s probably a lightning loop or some sort of cunning storm guy.

We stumbled across a different lighting solution last weekend.

In an attempt to find a reasonable light source, we had bought the combined torch, fluorescent light on sale in Homebasee for about £5. it looks like a cross between a torch and a hand phaser! with a flick out wand housing the fluorescent light.

Then in another fit of cash-haemorrhage, I picked up a set of plastic shelves from B&Q, the sort that just push together, just to get some of the stuff in the tent out of the way.

By accident, we discovered that having the torch sat on it's face (as if to use the tube light), on top of the plastic shelves - but with the torch turned on - fantastic diffuse lighting.

Dom

We have clip on lamp holders from poundland and we peg the wire along the seam of the inner tent to stop it garotting someone.

Hubby made an alluminium pole which clamps to the camp kitchen. We fasten our battery or leccy light to this!

We use our car inspection lamp. It has a hook type thing that we hang in the centre where the storm pole goes. Also have a clip on light from the poundshop and move this around especially when cooking. Our dome had a fabric loop in the middle which I assumed was to hang a light. Hubby used to sleep under it and one night in a very bad storm it started swinging and creaking. It was like being on a boat. We were both awake but would not get out of our sleeping bags to take it down.Happy to report that it did not fall, bit scarey though.

Margaret