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I know the ones you mean but I've googled all over and can't find one.

Why not get one of those £2.99 jobbies from Poundstretcher that are like a big plastic bulldog clip, and use a low energy bulb in it?

Quote: Originally posted by bordercaz on 23/9/2006

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I know the ones you mean but I've googled all over and can't find one.

Why not get one of those £2.99 jobbies from Poundstretcher that are like a big plastic bulldog clip, and use a low energy bulb in it?

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Yeh - or the £1.49 ones from Ikea - I'll show you mine on Saturday!

OR get a  standard fluorescent tube and fit a torpedo switch to the flex. 

My pound shop has just got them in......One went straight in my basket!

Lidl occassionally sell remote control sockets (I'm assuming here that the fluorescent light is 240v from an EHU rather than 12v?). You get 3 sockets and a remote control for about a tenner. Plug the light into the remote control socket (its a standard UK 3 pin mains type)  and then into the EHU socket. You can then turn your light on and off from inside your inner tent using the remote control. Handy when you get back to your tent late at night too. You can turn the light on from outside. Trouble is, the kids keep getting hold of the control.

Maplin sell similar, but much more expensive (about 4x the cost of the Lidl ones):

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=42504&criteria=remote%20socket&doy=28m9

Hi marynov, we have a 12v twin light which has 2 x12" 8 watt flourescent tubes , you can have one or both switched on (and off ), it has a hook on the back or it's magnetic, it cost us £13.95, we run it off of a 12v battery, we got ours from Go outdoors in Oxford.