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Clever, lightweight tent lantern design

Fri 05 Feb, 2016 10:25 am

Clever, lightweight tent lantern design, turns your headlight into a lantern. Made by Sierra Designs but would be any easy MYOG project.

https://vimeo.com/153295389

Re: Clever, lightweight tent lantern design

Sat 06 Feb, 2016 10:53 am

That is a neat idea. For a DIY you could even put a bit of flexible reflective material inside that top piece to get a bit more efficiency out of it.

Re: Clever, lightweight tent lantern design

Sat 06 Feb, 2016 12:12 pm

On our most recent camping trip my mate simply used his frost Nalgene bottle along the same lines, with the headlamp sitting beside the Nalgene not in it :wink: . It worked surprisingly well.

Re: Clever, lightweight tent lantern design

Sun 07 Feb, 2016 12:08 pm

Clever , simple design.
Maybe at 75g the Luci Emergency light (solar powered) could be better after a few days of use.
The difference in weight is probably similar to the extra batteries needed for the headlight and you have a spare light in case something happens to one of them.

Re: Clever, lightweight tent lantern design

Sun 07 Feb, 2016 12:31 pm

It is a clever option, simply a bag. Sierra Designs make some good gear.
If, to buy something (rather than myog), the petzl e-lites are great! You do need somewhere high to hang
but something like 45hrs on a low, diffuse setting (not a lot less on high) and 25g's, plus the fact that you can have red :) , they're a classic

Re: Clever, lightweight tent lantern design

Sun 07 Feb, 2016 3:01 pm

kitty posted something similar, but much lighter in my thread on a DIY lantern diffuser - the Montbell Crushable Lamp Shade (or Crushable Lantern Shade in the US) that weighs around 5g. viewtopic.php?f=15&t=20636

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I use 1xAA torches rather than headlamps so my DIY lantern diffuser using a Berocca style tube comes in at about 15g (less if you don't take the lid), but I use it as storage for my matches and flint when not using it as a lantern.

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