Indoor lighting when there is no Electricity

OhioMan said:

Like many here I have oil lamps, candles but I have recently changed my focus in this area to those solar powered lawn landscaping lights. I bought a dozen of those cheap $5 ones at homedepot.

I am trying to find a way of making them slighty brighter, I switched out their cheap Chinese batteries with some quality lithium rechargable batteries. We put 5 of them across the fireplace mantle with a mirror behind them and they lit the room pretty good but I wonder if there is anything else I can do

Is anyone doing this and have any ideas or any thoughts on this?

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I use white LED Christmas lights in the basement. They are always on. 12vdc can run off rechargeable battery power for a long time. Solar, wind is the choices here. Grid when it’s up.

LED's are safer than open flame and ANY light is good when its pitch dark in the basement.

OhioMan said:

Thanks kev, I should have known you had a video on this!

I took out those cheap batteries but there is no "mill amp hours" written on the new ones I bought. I bought "Energizer Ultimate Lithium" rechargable batteries.

I'll check again

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I think the highest you can get right now is 2600 mAh NiMH. I will check the site I order from. Or better yet here you go:

http://www.batterymart.com/

drive through any parking lot on a sunny day and you will see those cardboard dashboard covers protecting the interior of the sheeple’s car.

Simply replace that cover with a foldable solar panels and keep your battery tip top charged, cigarette lighter plug will do it. Want to run a fan all day long to keep your truck aired out? This is the way.

If you’re driving or flying put this:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/giftsunder50/c5a7/

in a window towards the sun and charge it up, clip it to your backpack on a day walk, all you need is sunlight, it contains a battery that will run your cell phone or iPod or flashlight. After the initial cost its all free portable energy.