This episode walks through the solar lanterns, crank lights, and backup power sources I actually use on the river and in the woods. You’ll hear the pros, the failures, and the honest field results so you can build a lighting setup that keeps your camp safe and workable at night.
SHOW NOTES
• This Fundamental Friday expands on Monday’s podcast and breaks down each lantern demonstrated on-camera.
• Gear covered: Luci / BioLite solar lantern, LuminAID Titan, the unnamed crank lantern, and the Blavor power station lantern.
• I show how each device works, how bright it is, what it weighs, how long it runs, and where it belongs in a primitive camping setup.
• These are the exact lanterns I use at Camp Wut Da Heck for night work, safety, and comfort.
• If you want to support the channel, grab them through my links below.
YOU NEED TO ADD THESE LINKS TO THE SHOW NOTES
• Amazon link for Luci / BioLite lantern
• Amazon link for LuminAID Titan
• Amazon link for LuminAID standard model
• Amazon link for Blavor power station
• Amazon affiliate storefront link
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Welcome back to the Primitive Camping
and Bushcraft Podcast.
Today is Fundamental Fridays,
and we use this time to
go over fundamental skills
that you can use to make
your primitive camping trips
better, more fun, and more interesting.
So hang tight, pull up a
chair, and let's get to it.
All right, welcome back
to the Primitive Camping
and Bushcraft Podcast.
Today is Fundamental Friday,
and today is Friday, the
day after Thanksgiving.
And I just want you guys to know
that I have so much to be thankful for.
And let me know in the comments below,
what do you have to be thankful for?
What are you so thankful for in this
Thanksgiving season?
Now, as you know,
today starts Black Friday.
Black Friday and all the
shopping season for Christmas.
It's almost like they're
skipping over Thanksgiving.
They're trying to get rid
of Thanksgiving all together
and they just go straight
to the Christmas season.
And notice I didn't say holiday
because I believe it is Christmas.
We're gonna keep Christ and Christmas
here at Spirit Outdoors
and Primitive Camping and Bushcraft.
And I'm sorry if you don't like it.
I will see you sometime in the future.
But anyway, I wanna go
over a lot of stuff today.
And all the stuff that we
talked about in the podcast Monday,
I wanted to just go
ahead and break it all down
and show you exactly how it works here
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So anyway, we're gonna go first up.
We're gonna go basics.
We're gonna go down to the beginning
and I'm going to show you guys
what it means to have a solar lantern.
Now, I have done videos on this lantern.
I have taken this lantern
all over the country with me.
I have taken this lantern
to so many camping trips,
so many places that it is amazing.
This is the Luci M-Powered.
Now they have since changed
the name to Luci Bio-Light
and it is solar chargeable.
It has a little solar panel right here
that recharges this thing.
In about seven hours,
you can have a completely
solar charged battery from dead.
Then it has a little
lightning bolt right here
which tells you how many,
how much charge it
has is one, two, three.
So it's not charged, it's
half charged, it's fully charged.
And then it has your on
and off switch right here
which will be from not so
bright to bright to blinking.
And I have two
different variations of this
is the reason why I keep looking at it
because the blue one is it only has two
settings and a blink.
The other ones have three.
It has a low, medium,
high and then a blink.
So, and then it's off.
So here you go.
And what you wanna do is
you want to grab this little,
it's an inflator part.
Like if it was a swimming
pool floaty for your kids,
it's the same exact thing.
You wanna squeeze it and you
wanna just open that dude up
just like that as best you can.
Don't rip it apart, don't pull it apart
and then go ahead and
blow it up and inflate it.
There you go.
That thing is now inflated and you can
hang it from a tree.
Now what I have done
with these in the past
and this is a little cool user tip
is get you one of those
cheap little dollar carabiners
or whatever from the big box store
that starts with a W and ends with a T.
And you know, you can
hang it up in your camp
or you could just put some bank line
or some paracord or something like that
and just hang this dude up
and it will eliminate your entire camp.
Now I wanna show you some
clips of what this lantern does
and how bright it really
is in the great outdoors.
So right now what you
should be seeing is me
in the great outdoors at
night setting everything up
for you to enjoy a good camp.
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Now next up is gonna
be the Lumenade Titan.
These are the bigger versions.
These were I think $75 a piece
but there are the same
versions that are $32.
These are worth every
dime you will ever spend
on these things.
And they have a handle that Velcros
and you flip this around
and you can hang this up
no matter where, say
this is a tree branch,
you can hang it up on the tree branch.
Just like that, all right?
So now you open it up
kind of like the bottom
of the other one, but
you don't blow into this.
You just twist it and it
automatically inflates itself
like that and then you just close it off.
Now what it does is this
plastic is kind of like
a frosted color to where
it will actually eliminate
and you can see how it's eliminated now
and it is a very cool, so that's low,
that's high, that's medium, that's low,
and then a super low and then a blink
and it's blinking and then it's off.
Now it has a larger solar
panel and you can open that up
and just set it on to the sun
where it will allow
this solar panel to charge.
And it also has where
you can open this up
and charge it by the wall or USB.
And you can use this as a battery bank
to charge your celly tellies
or whatever cellular devices,
your GPS, whatever you wanna use
when you're in the great outdoors,
you can use it to recharge it.
I do not do that
because I need this at night
to eliminate my camp, right?
So that's what this is gonna do.
And I have more than one
and less than three of these
and this is them, the
Lemonade Solar Liners.
If you're looking for
something for Christmas,
these dudes are the way to go.
If you have a camper in your life
and you're really
looking for the great something
to get them for Christmas this year,
go to my links page and right here,
I'll leave the link in the
description of this video
and the show notes on the podcast
and you can get it from my Amazon store
and these things are amazing.
Any of these items right
here are going to be amazing
for you to give a gift.
And it helps me out because I get a
little bitty commission.
I get like 2% commission
if you buy one of these.
So, you know what?
I get 14 cents, 20
cents, something like that.
I don't know, whatever it is.
Who knows, who knows?
I'm not mathematically superior.
This little dude right here,
and I showed this on the podcast Monday
and I do not have a name for this thing.
It is a...
Golly G. Willikers.
This is a...
It's like a emergency solar lantern,
emergency backup flashlight.
Okay.
That's what I said.
That's what we're gonna go with.
(laughing) That's what we're sticking to.
So you're gonna flip these
little dudes up right here.
If you're not watching the video
and you're listening to the podcast,
there's little arms and
you just pull them up.
And when you pull
them up, it gets bright.
It actually, it will
light up your kitchen.
It'll light up your house with this
in the event that there is
a storm or a power outage.
Now I do not use this camping.
I will always use this at my house
like I explained in the podcast.
So this little dude
right here is amazing.
It has a flashlight on the bottom of it
where you can actually use
it in the yard or you can...
When I filmed this, I was in my yard
and I filmed the video for
this and I did it in my yard
and you can see it
from a hundred yards away.
And it was actually a
pretty bright little flashlight.
So, and then the part that I
really love about this thing
is the fact that you can
actually pull this little arm out
and you see this little red light?
I don't know if you're
gonna be able to see it,
but it should light up.
You hear it winding up.
Sounds like one of those old stompers
whenever you was a little kid,
you could see those little cars.
Well, anyway, you can just sit there
and wind that puppy up like that.
And you have yourself a
charged battery in no time.
And when it starts dying down,
you give it to one of the kids
and one of your
little ADHD levelings there
can sit there and deal
with the ADHD and charge it.
And then, bam!
So you killed two problems.
You actually solved a lighting problem
and you gave them something to do
where they weren't driving you insane.
So anyway, I don't have a name for this.
I'll try to find it and put it
in the description of this video.
Next is what we're using
to run the camera off of.
And this dude is called the Blavor.
And if you didn't see Monday's podcast,
this thing is pretty cool.
Now, it has a lantern in here.
This is gonna be a tabletop device.
This is not something I'm taking
to hang in the trees with me.
I might, I might do that.
I don't know.
I can't tell you I can't do that
because I'm gonna try it.
So one of the things that I
did not demonstrate before
was the fact that you can lay
this, your cell phone on top,
and it will charge your phone
while you are without a cord.
So it does that wireless
charging for your celly tellies.
And it has a flashlight here.
Not a flashlight, but a lantern.
And so one, two, three,
I just got a low, medium, and high.
And I'm gonna be
doing some videos on this
and running it through all the paces
in the upcoming weeks for Spear Outdoors.
And then you can charge the battery
and then it'll charge
your devices and everything.
So I'm gonna give you all
the input, all the output,
the whole nine yards.
It has a nice little
carabiner handle here.
And you can take this, I
mean, it's not very heavy.
A couple pounds or so to that effect.
Let's see.
It has some of the
specifications right here
that it is a wireless output of 7.5, 10
watts, and 15 watts.
It has LED light that is four watts.
And it is a 16, the battery
capacity is 236.8 watt hours.
So it's a battery backup is what it is,
basically for
charging your mobile devices
and stuff like that when
you get out into the woods.
One of the biggest things
that I have a problem with
whenever I go outside camping
is trying to keep all
my camera gear charged.
It's hard, it's a nightmare.
I have three different cameras,
not to mention my celly-tilly I use,
and using all these items to really,
to keep them charged, you have to.
And I've used big,
heavy, bulky things I've used,
but I'm really interested to see
how this is gonna work out
because it allows me to
plug in four devices here
and charge four different
devices at the same time.
And it's got two USB-Cs
and then two of the USB-As.
And not everything is
converted over to the USB-C yet.
So, you know, we still got
the big, bulky stuff anyway.
So, but that's it.
Then for fundamental Friday,
we're talking about candling devices
I wanted to run through
and show you everything
that we talked about on Monday,
you know, with just a
video for this stuff.
And I hope you enjoyed this.
If you did, like I said, Amazon,
I'll put my link to the Amazon store
in the description of this.
So if you're interested in
picking up one of these items
for a loved one for Christmas,
if you don't mind supporting the channel
and just go ahead and
pick one of these up.
And I gained a very small commission,
2% commission on all these items.
So, hey, remember in all
your ways, acknowledge him
and he will direct your paths.
I'll see you in the next video,
the next podcast or blog post.
God bless you.
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