12V Night-lights?

Hi Brew,

I reckon the rechargeable lanterns you get for the gardens (in Bunnings and other hardware stores) may just do the trick. You spear them into the garden and just leave them....you know the ones. Keep them in the sun during the day and they will emit dimish light all night.

Cheers, Trevor.

hi brewman,
in our camper for our kids they have a buzz lightyear night light that uses 2xaa batteries,we bought it from coles and it works great.

shad..

Hi Brew69,

As a night light in the campertrailer we have used a LED light (a headtorch but a torch version would also work). These lights are great because;

they use hardly any power
can toggle the number of LED's on
the light seems "soft"
good for an emergency toilet run

We also use rechargable batteries in ours (12volt recharger)

Cheers,
Jezza.

What about some of the LED flexi-strip that we have in our Kimberley Kamper:




A nice light for lighting up the room, with a short 1/2m or so (as attached in the gullwing cooking/storage area) would suffice. From their website:

LED Flexi-Strip™ Energy Saving

Our Flexible LED lighting strips use less than 3 Watts per meter of 12V power. The light is cool white and very pleasant to the eye. It is integrated in the inside bow of camper roof so that it is permanently in place. The strips are maintenance free and impervious to moisture.

Would like to know where else to get the stuff from though......

Andrew

ahhaha buzz lightyear night light.....

i think i might know the one you mean....



its not mine....i swear!

they do work a treat, come in cindarella and winnie the pooh, available from coles and bi-lo supermarkets,

but also you can buy the camping night lights, theyre usually $15-$20 at Kmart, BigW and the like and are usually magnetic also so no mounting is needed and run off 2 to 4 AA batteries

dean

Brew,

I have a Coleman "Northstar" fluro lantern, which has both low and high settings for the main light. When you turn the rotary switch in the other direction, you have a little yellow night light, which gives out enough light to see by, but not bright enough to disturb your sleep if left on.

This lantern is powered by eight "D" size batteries and lasts ages between battery replacement. It's all we need for inside the "Spirit". Hangs up next to the bed on the adjustable frame's "wing nut"

Bloody beaut it is!

Other than that mate, just make sure Dawn drinks more before she goes to bed:-)

Just checked the Coleman WEB site and the current equivilent is the 8D Retro Spiral-tube Lantern with 12v lead and built-in night light. Looks like with this one, you can run on batteries, or plug in to a 12 volt power source.
Model Number is 5312-700A

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Buy her one because you love her!

We use a battery powered 6 x yellow led lamp from Jaycar. It incorporates a motion sensor and we set it so that it illuminates when somebody gets up. Its a soft light and goes out when we go back to bed. Batteries seem to last forever. It will also activate a buzzer with the light but we haven't used that.

As a permanent light a red rocker switch with a led inside which illuminates when the switch is 'on' provides a surprising amount of light in a dark tent.

Cheers ......... Alan

Hi,

What about just mounting a LED somewhere out of the way, connect them to 12v via a switch......you can even pick your colour, dependant on your mood.

I use a couple of blue LEDS - they look great and cost a dollar from dick smiths...should last a very long time connected to a 12v car battery!

Different colours do have different power requirements: Night light

Rod

What about some Neon lights mounted under the bed frame....i hear they are all the rage with the bling-bling car crowd :-)

Andrew

You can connect three white LEDs and one resistor so that they will only draw one-fiftieth of an amp - a car interior light light draws about one amp.

So if these LEDs are run for ten hours a night, they will use about one three hundredth of a car batteries capacity.

You can spread these LEDs throughout the camper. Each LED will cost about a dollar.

Mike

LED LIGHTING is fantastic. Everybody is using it nowdays, anyone have a catalogue on the stuff, would love to get a hold of one.

How about a 100mm cold cathode fluro from Jaycar?
100mA power consumption and only $14.
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Ed

If you check out an electronics spares catalogue or check at (Jaycar) you will find that you can now get led's mounted on many different types of 12 volt lamp bases eg. screw type (ES) or push & twist (bayonet cap) and several different sizes also. I have fitted these as direct replacements in indicator lamp sockets on big machines that were always blowing lamps due to vibration - no more lamp failures.

I also use led's mounted in light switches around the house. when your eyes are acustomed to the dark you can walk around the house easily by the light of the led's or find a light switch if you need it.

Thanks all for the replies................i will post my decision with results after the next trip .

3 White LEDs mounted on a flexible PC board and ready to connect to 12 volts - $6.95.
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Also available in Blue for that bling look and in Red for ?????

Mike