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Subject Topic: Are wind up torches any use????
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16/4/2010 at 12:32pm
 Location: Northamptonshire
 Outfit: Vango Diablo 600 - Wynnster Curluw 6
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I and my BH have a few of the three LED bulb windup torches; we keep some round the house for power cuts, in the car encase of emergences and with our camping gear. Because of the no batteries we don’t have to be concerned about dead touches when we need them and they are cheep.

When camping under canvas we tend to use a multi fuel lantern for light (it also throws off heat that can be useful on those early or late session camping trips) but we have found the windup torches great for finding our way round sites, illuminating to see were you are going but not flooding the area like the search light in the ‘Great Escape’ keeping others awake.

 The only problem is it steps through switch one LED on/off, switch two LED on/off or switch all three LED bulb on/off, so if you just had three on it reverts back to one LED bulb.

 



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John & Carole



16/4/2010 at 12:55pm
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We've found they're good for the kids. We have those animal ones with a button that you push instead of actually winding. They have lasted ages and the kids like them.


16/4/2010 at 12:56pm
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. . .and just to add it's good because the kids can fall asleep with their torches on and it doesn't waste batteries.



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