Have recently bought the outdoor revolution 6.0 xtr tent and would like to purchase some LED lights, but as the tent is so large was wondering if anyone had a solution. Thanks in advance Catblue
I have made in the past 1mtr led strip lights with a 3mtr lead with cig lighter plug. I hung the lights off the rafter pole. They were very sucessful and used very little battery power. In fact I sold a few dozen on Ebay the problem was the costof materials and what I sold them for I wasn't making any money.
------------- if your car could travel at the speed of light and you turned on your lights what would happen?
I have one of these and find it gives plenty of light. They do a 500 lumen version and even a 1000 lumen version I believe. The same lamp is produced under several different brand names so search around for best price. I got mine from Amazon and paid about £11.00 I think.
It can be stood on a table with the diffuser fitted or hanging from the roof by a hook on the bottom. Remove the diffuser when hanging otherwise the top creates a shadow.
Quote: Originally posted by Bob61 on 18/8/2017
I have one of these and find it gives plenty of light. They do a 500 lumen version and even a 1000 lumen version I believe. The same lamp is produced under several different brand names so search around for best price. I got mine from Amazon and paid about £11.00 I think.
It can be stood on a table with the diffuser fitted or hanging from the roof by a hook on the bottom. Remove the diffuser when hanging otherwise the top creates a shadow.
Problem is these are usually a cold white and not very nice to have in the tent.
I think most people prefer a warm white LED and these can be harder to find.
I bought some LED lights from B&M and they have a relatively warm output, 2 brightness settings plus a flasher mode. Batteries seem to last quite well in them
Yes, that is one problem with LED, they do seem to be a bit dazzling although I have found the lamp I linked to at 300 lumens fairly reasonable.
I always used an ordinary table lamp but found it cast shadows everywhere...normally under the table where you need the light to search your equipment box - lol.
I did once buy a mains powered two metre strip of warm led lights but it only had a lead of about 18" I believe so it was difficult to find somewhere to hang it and still reach a source of power without having cable running all over the place.
Hence, back to battery powered lamps which, with LED, last quite a long time.
If you want something cheap and are not interested in a warranty other than the pretense of one, this link might be an option if you order in plenty of time.
https://www.aliexpress.com/popular/led-strip-lights-camping.html
I'd recommend a dimmable warm white as natural white & cool white are very harsh colour temps especially if you want a light you can relax under inside the tent in the evening. Warm white is more like the 40W incandescent bulbs of bygone years.
I'd definitely steer clear of dimmable multi coloured LED's because the wavelength band for each colour is very narrow so yellow packaging can look red, and red can look yellow when cycling between the Red Green & Blue led's, plus when all 3 are on, in theory you should have white light but when we fitted some to our bathroom in an attempt to create some mood lighting, it just did our eyes in, it wasnt acceptable so end up using plain ol' dimmable warm white led's and go for the dimmable option because they can chuck out quite a bit of light especially if the you have enough strips of them.
IP66 rated (for bathrooms) dimmable led strips like these
https://www.switch-lighting.co.uk/dimmable-led-tape-warm-white_596
can come in runs of up to 10metres, 5,12 & 24 volt options mainly and then need an AC driver to convert to DC if you cant find a battery pack to hook them up to.
The bathroom one's come in a clear plastic rectangle tube and are designed to be cut to length with caps at the end to keep them water tight whilst allowing for cables to pass through so you can wrap them around corners in a room.
Having something like a loop and stringing them around the inside of the tent like Xmas tree lights might be an option, or failing that maybe some battery powered outdoor warm white xmas tree lights might be easier to string around and less expensive?
Quote: Originally posted by HighSlayer on 19/8/2017
Quote: Originally posted by Bob61 on 18/8/2017
I have one of these and find it gives plenty of light. They do a 500 lumen version and even a 1000 lumen version I believe. The same lamp is produced under several different brand names so search around for best price. I got mine from Amazon and paid about £11.00 I think.
It can be stood on a table with the diffuser fitted or hanging from the roof by a hook on the bottom. Remove the diffuser when hanging otherwise the top creates a shadow.
Problem is these are usually a cold white and not very nice to have in the tent.
I think most people prefer a warm white LED and these can be harder to find.
I bought some LED lights from B&M and they have a relatively warm output, 2 brightness settings plus a flasher mode. Batteries seem to last quite well in them
For a mains one then I use a standard camping light to which I have fitted a switch and replaced the energy saver bulb with a warm white LED one
For general in tent lighting cool white doesn't really bother me.
However I have 3 of the type of lamps that Bob61 links to. When I bought the original one, they were one of the few decent output battery lights around ISTR (beucase the use D cells, as opposed to AA cells I think). Nowadays more effcient LED's means higher output from smaller AA lamps.
However, it's still my favourite lamp.
We have a later version which is 1000 Lumen and also has a warm white setting as well.
lots of solar fairy lights make for nice 'relaxing' light
we have used the Outwell Corvus strip light since it came out and we love it. Ours is the 1200 100% polyester 14 Watt, 1150 Lumens, 2700 Kelvin 6cm (W) x 125 - 165cm
It has a dimmer switch too so you can leave on at night as it it goes so dim. It has velcro straps so it can be attached anywhere and 2 hanging clips
I purchased 5 Metres of flexible LED light https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00JQV6U7Q/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1, and cut it in half to make two lights. Using a cigarette lighter plug, cable and inline connectors https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00JDAONHO/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1, I connected each to remote switches, https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00GUBNDI4/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1.
We used these lights one in the awning and the other in a gazebo. Although it may seem novel the light switches are useful as you can dim the lights to save power as well as being able to switch on or off from up to 15 Metres away. The lights are also compact to store by using the original supplied reel. At full power each strip uses 36 watts and is very bright.