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[Help Me] Looking for a lighting setup to use on Scouting campout to illuminate the “stage”. Ideally controllable brightness, only need an hour or two of battery per night.

Campfires we do skits, songs, awards and flag retirement ceremonies. While a fire only makes for some cool lighting, some skits need the full “stage” area and are hard to see without out. In the past we’ve had a leader bring some home made stage lights out of rain gutters, with LED light strip tapped inside and with several ran in series connected to a lead acid batter.

This has worked for the most part, but its cumbersome to pack and assemble/dissemble in the dark.

Last campout , someone had one of these https://www.amazon.com/Coleman-Lantern-Lumens-4-Panel-Water-Resistant/dp/B079NTXHSD/ref=sr_1_5 - and it got me searching and looking for some panel style LED’s that are independent and rechargeable. These particular panels when removed are only 100 Lumen - which I don’t think would be enough … maybe it is?

Anyways looking for some recommendations of a directional flood light to be able to setup in a semi circle that would be easy to dim or brighten as needed by the skit? With the rain gutters, we had 3 of them and they were each about 4 ft long with a single stripe of LEDs in the middle. No clue the quality or brightness though :/ I thought about the dewalt ones since I already have several of those batteries, but they seem pricey for what I’m getting and not sure how “configurable” the light is on it.

Posted Sep 29, 2021, 8:30 PM UTC

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