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Subject Topic: Does this Camping lantern exist Post Reply Post New Topic
12/5/2010 at 11:41am
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I am needing to replace my camping lantern and was wondering if one with the following features exists:

1) Can be recharged by plug/car socket

2) can be recharged by winding up

3) has a remote control

4) Can run for at least 15 hrs on one charge

Any help\advice greatfully received

 



12/5/2010 at 5:41pm
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In answer,

1) No

2) No

3) Yes

4) Yes

We bought a Sunncamp LED camp light which runs on 4 x AA batteries mainly cos of remote (dead handy at night)

Would recommend. Guess you could use rechargeable batteries but these say they will go on for 30 hours. Price is about £10.

Hope this helps.

PS they also do non-remote ones



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In answer,

1) No

2) No

3) Yes

4) Yes

We bought a Sunncamp LED camp light which runs on 4 x AA batteries mainly cos of remote (dead handy at night)

Would recommend. Guess you could use rechargeable batteries but these say they will go on for 30 hours. Price is about £10.

Hope this helps.

PS they also do non-remote ones



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Not too sure you'll find one with all these features, and sure you'll not find a rechargeable from both car and wind-up. Wind-up / hand generator types generally only run for relatively short times.
I used to have a Coleman 11w lantern which charged off mains and 12v vehicle socket, plus had remote, but those type usually have a lower running time of 7-8 hours, such as this one here, so I think you'll need to re-think and compromise somewhere.

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12/5/2010 at 7:08pm
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There are plenty that will do 1&3 or 1&2. I'm not aware of any with 1,2 & 3!

You might get the 15 hours running time, but that woul donly ever be from a full charge in the car - from experience they'd need an awful lot of winding to achieve that length of time.

Glen



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Thanks for the your help. I suspected as much. My wife has found this

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Silverpoint-Basecamp-Wind-up-Camping-Lantern/dp/B001AH5YH6/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&s=sports&qid=1273700131&sr=1-11

We have decided that (1) and (2) is more important than (3) and (4)


12/5/2010 at 11:50pm
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we use one of these (we have a the Cyberlite branded one, but it looks exactly the same). will do 1 2 and sort of 4 I guess.(sort of as the light output will be getting pretty dim )

I can't remember if it came with a mains charger, probably not. But since it's just a 12V input I just use a standrad 12V wallwart power supply.

Light output is ok - as is the way with these things really. bit dim for lighting up a whole tent well. Ok as a lamp on the table. We mostly use ours in the sleeping comaprtment when the kids go to bed. Frankly I've not really yet seen any of these such lamps that really give out a decent enough light (they could, but I suspect thast the cost of enough decent LEDS and a decent battery would make them more expensive)

Design not bad, the top slides into the bottom so failry compact. I keep meaning to change the battery pack to a higher Ah one for a longer run time. Windup function a bit of a gimmick though really for this application - you'd need an awful lot of winding to get the charge backup to a level to give a decent light

We prefer gas for electric free area lighting - headtorches whn you want light just in front of you. For a battery lantern I'd prefer replaceble batteries as it can be used with a stash of rechargable batteries and change them when needed (with the modern low self discharge NiMH you can have some charged up and ready without worrying about them losing the charge if you don''t use them for a couple of weeks). Couple that with a 9-11W fluorescent tube and you'd have a decent light.

For me, LED's are there yet in terms of giving a good light and a sensible price



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