bought my led lights from e bay, imported from japan thought got bargain untill my freind got hers from pound land gutted.now all of my camping mates have them .
i was silly i only broughtone from poundland just in case it was rubbish......... and it was brill. It lit up the whole living area of our Indiana 8, not very well but it is a big area, and we was only using when we came back from pub, to sort ourselves out for bed. Wish I'd got more, but our poundland hasn't had any more in. Really wanted another one, so we could put one at each end think that would work really well.
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we got 2 from our local pound shop in stretford and seem quite good,but havent tried them camping yet,only lit up the garage.we might get a couple more coz pound shops tend to buy in a few hundred of something then when theyre gone thats it.whilst we were there we did buy a couple of things to stick on the flagpole.always have a quick mooch in there when we see one.
Well - my OH found some in Poundland in Ipswich...thanks for all the tip-offs!
I can't believe they were only a quid a pop - VERY bright for the diminuitive size - one hanging from the central loop in our Khyam XL Classic will more than light up the living area I reckon...
The light spreads out quite wide - when we tried one last night, it lit our bedroom (2.4m x 3.6m) up very well. It should def. be OK in a 3m x 3m space.
I bought five of the lights supplied by Poundland,a and they are brilliant - but in the wrong way! There's no limiting resistor inside so the leds are really overdriven making them hot, and inevitibly a few will start flickering and burn out with only a few hours use. It also chews up the batteries giving you nothing like the 30 hour lifespan you'd expect. It runs really hot and wipes out a set of modern rechargeables in about an hour... unless you get your soldering iron out.
You've got two choices - you can solder a 4.7 ohm resistor in line with the power switch or if you want to you can solder a piece of wire across one of the battery holders and just use three batteries, which will drop the voltage to a more reasonable level.
On one I bought I did the latter, but even with three fully charged nihm batteries you're running 3.7 volts across each LED. Even after two full hours running the voltage across the LEDs is 3.4 volts - you're looking for them to be running at about 3.3volts to make sure they're getting their ideal current. This was with three 2,300mAh rechargeables. The resistor solution lets you still use all the batteries and is actually the way to go, I'd say, but getting your hand on a 13p Maplins resistor isn't always that easy in some places.
Maybe the Netto or Morrisons versions have regulating circuitry inside them.
I bought five of the lights supplied by Poundland,a and they are brilliant - but in the wrong way! There's no limiting resistor inside so the leds are really overdriven making them hot, and inevitibly a few will start flickering and burn out with only a few hours use. It also chews up the batteries giving you nothing like the 30 hour lifespan you'd expect. It runs really hot and wipes out a set of modern rechargeables in about an hour... unless you get your soldering iron out.
Maybe the Netto or Morrisons versions have regulating circuitry inside them.
i had several from robert dyas that behaved just like that!
i took them back and finally got a couple that didn't overheat.. although i gave up using rechargeables as i thought that may have been the problem.
Quote: Originally posted by Angu2you on 29/9/2007
£4 from Ebay, no burn out, and I get 20 odd hours at full blat from rechargeable batteries.
Does it take 4 batteries, too? Just being geeky, but can you tell if there's a resistor in the back somewhere? The poundland ones just have the wires going straight to the ring.
No idea about the resistor, but they feature an inner ring of 4 (I think, going off memory here, might be 8) which is your first click, then the outer rings all light up with the next click of the button. Click again to switch off.
Has a magnet on the back, which was ideal for fastening to and lighting the whole gazeebo, and a loop which I fed a bedroom pod toggle through to light the inside of the tunnel tent.
Found it! This is the one I bought, from the seller I bought from. Can't fault it. This is the Ebay item number, 280159121490
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