Product Description
- Uses 6 unbreakable super bright Nichia® LED flashlight bulbs that last 100,000 hours or 10 years!
- Batteries last 15-20 times longer than with regular flashlight bulbs & makes a great Emergency flashlight!
- Excellent rechargeable flashlight if you use new technology NiMH AA batteries inside!
- Waterproof and Shockproof camping flashlight with unbreakable polycarbonate lens
- Small, lightweight, yet heavy duty aluminum anodized finish provides best year round protection
Were sure you'll love this heavy duty 6 LED Camping light from Aitec® flashlights. For 18 years Advanced Industrial Technologies (Aitec) has been a leading manufacturer of the brightest, highest quality LED flashlights in the world. The AT1400L is no exception, with 6 Super bright Nichia® LED bulbs and a heavy duty switch, this Camping light is the ideal light for hiking, camping, tenting, hunting, emergencies and year round use. The tough, yet lightweight (7 oz) aluminum camp lights smart 3 position design allows for perfect lighting however you want it. It can be hung in tent or from a tree, sit on a table pointing up or you can use the fold out stainless steel stand for 45 degree angle light from any flat surface. Aitecs Camping Light uses a 4x AA battery holder, so you can use the worlds most popular & easy to find AA size alkaline or rechargeable flashlight battery, rather than expensive & heavy C or D size batteries. Includes free batteries & bonus carry pouch. Aitec® 6 LED Camping Light lasts 100 hrs on 4x AA flashlight batteries. Its a lantern, table light or hangs & lasts 15-20x longer than regular flashlight bulbs. Use new rechargeable NiMh AA batteries for 1,000 charges. Waterproof, unbreakable lens.
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Great compact flashlight & lantern.
First, I've found all LED lights that make outragous claims of average battery life of dozens to hundreds of hours is either misleading or totally wrong... no matter what brand or where you bought them from. They either go totally dark in much less than half the rated time, or have gone too dim to even read large print with the light pressed closely to the page. To even get close to half the rated life, skip the alkalines, you must use expensive lithium or the highest capacity NiMi rechargables available on the planet.
This light is officially rated at 60 hours of battery life using ordinary alkalines.
The first test I did, I used 2000mah NiMi rechargables. They're only a few weeks old, & been fully charged & discharged only a couple of times. I used 4 of these in a 25 year old 6-watt fluorecent light, & it stayed lit for over 5 hours before it got noticably dim. The best alkalines would only keep it lit for 75-90 minutes.
The same type of batteries in the LED lantern kept it at nearly full brightness for 8 hours. It stayed bright enough to be very usefull for 11 hours. Then it started dimming rapidly. By 12 hours, one could barely read large print with the light almost touching a page. End of test.
Next test. I used 2500mah NiMi rechargable Sonys. The most powerful NiMi AA batteries currently easily available in the world. I deliberately slightly overcharged them to get the maximum power out of them. They are also only a few weeks old & only been charged & fully discharged 4 times. My 25 year old fluorecent light lasted almost 6 hours with them.
The lantern stayed at nearly full brightness for 11 hours. The light was still usefull enough up to 12 1/2 hours before it started dimming rapidly. By the 14th hour it was just barely bright enough to read newspaper print at close range with.
So they all lie about or misrepresent your actual battery life. I'm sure many of them, if you put the most expensive batteries in the world in them, run them almost to their rated battery life, if you take them into a fully darkend room, & hold the light to your face, you will find the LEDs are still glowing very faintly... but that's not useful light.
That being said. I love the light. The brighter the light is, the less battery life. The less batteries they use, Or the smaller they are the less battery life. I've seen brighter, but the light was surprisingly bright for the real, tested useful lifetime. I'm an engineer. I use it as a work light, but will be taking it camping too. It's well built, sturdy, heavy, & strong. I think I can park a car on it, but won't try. The adjustable stand/hanger is also very useful. It's easily removed too. I'm thinking of making a different one out of wire coat hanger & making a belt clip for it too. I'd bet this thing would sell like hotcakes for the handyman if it came with a good belt clip. It's about the diameter of a 2-D-cell flashlight but only half as long.
Note the batteries fit snug & won't rattle around inside. High capacity litium & Ni-Mi (like 2500mah Sonys) batteries are slightly oversized compared to ordinary AA batteries to squeeze as much power as possible in them. You may have a problem squeezing them into the flashlight. The bottom end threads on the light may scrape off the plastic insulation/coating on the side of these high capacity batteries if you're not very careful & take your time. If the exposed bare metal of these batteries make contact with the inside metal of the flashlight, it'll short out. It can start a fire, the batteries may burst or leak, or the plastic inside will become a burnt molten mess.
These oversized batteries are tight in the holder as well. The tension springs may not overcome the snugness to push the tip of the batteries to make good contact. After you put the batteries in the holder you may have to push them forward so the tip makes contact or the light won't work.
That slight extra millimeter or so clearance needed for high capacity & lithium batteries & the real shorting danger that can occur because of it is why I didn't give it 5 stars.
The only LED light I ever found that probably doesn't mis-represent battery life is the "Streamlight Stylus". It uses a single LED & 3 AAAA alkaline batteries that can be obtained cheap from many sources. Slightly longer than an oridinary pen, I take it everywhere, & is always with me at work. I've used it several times daily for over 6 months with the original batteries. I thought it might be getting a little dimmer so recently put fresh batteries in it. Although it got brighter, not significantly, so I put the old batteries back in. This light just won't die. Lot's brighter than any keychain light, it's as useful as most big lights. It fell 14' from a ladder onto solid concrete, into puddles, snow, & got paint & glue on it. Using harsh chemicals & scraping to get all the paint & glue off, it still looks & works like brand new. I don't know what they used to paint that light with, but there's not a scatch on it anywhere... no dents yet either. Best $14 I ever spent!