One of the joys of living with out electric lights is just laying back and enjoying the world getting darker and lighter. Lights are nice to have if I want to read a book or cook somthing but it’s not mandatory that everytime it starts to get dark I have to have light.
Though I have a small solar system, the only thing it runs is my laptop. For light I use a L.E.D. headlamp
. With it I can read, cook, clean up, bring in wood, ect. This one has a really super bright spot light for when you need a lot of light and three not so bright L.E.D.s for other times. It takes 3 AAA batteries. I also bought this one
at Wal-mart for 13 dollars that has 2 white LED’s and one red one; you can switch between the white and red. I wanted a red one so that I could look at a star chart without losing my night vision. I’ve been happy with that headlamp as well and it’s nice to have in case of company or when I need to change my batteries in my other headlamp.
I just got this battery charger
so that I don’t have to buy so many batteries. It is dual voltage for international travel and comes with an ac cord, a dc cord and a USB cord so that you can recharge your batteries through your computer. It says that it will charge 4 AAA’s
in 22 minutes.
If I have company or I just want some nice light to hang out with, I use oil lamps or tealights. I use Ultra-pure lamp oil in my lamps; anything else will stink up my cabin. It’s expensive, Wal-mart sells it for 4.49 for 64 ounces which is much cheaper than anywhere else.
