Freeplay Indigo 'wind up' Lantern

A really nice hand wound LED lantern. No power required.
Be aware some of the poor copies are of no comparison - I am not an employee by the way.
More info at:
http://www.gotwind.org/freeplay_energy.htm

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[gotwind2]

Maximum Brightness cluster - 12 minutes wind gives you one hours light.

As a night light, (dimmest cluster setting) - 30 second wind gives you one hours light.

Single LED - 60 second wind gives you one hours light.

[thebluebunny1]

cool

[RationalConclusion]

If somebody could somehow incorporate this technology into the lighting of our homes and make it a little more practical (ei less winds) it would dramatically cut peoples electricity bills.

[zombie19844891]

i got the smaler version, but the battery wat is insite can you open the battery and replace those battary's with full battery's?

[CanItAlready]

Whoops. Just double-checked. I paid $9.

[CanItAlready]

These seem to retail for between $35 & $40 U.S.

Keep your eye out and maybe you can find it for less. I found mine completely by accident at Target at the clearance price of... $8. No joke. Guess they were getting rid of old stock of the non-USB version. And they only had one or I'd have grabbed at least one or two more..

[CanItAlready]

According to the instructions that came with mine:

60 seconds of winding gives you 3 hours of light on the dimmest setting (LED cluster) or 6 minutes at the brightest setting.

60 seconds of winding gives you 1 hour of light from the direction LED on the front of the lantern

Full charge gives you: 70 hours of night light (dimmest setting of cluster) or 2 hrs 45 mins at max brightness

Full charge gives you: 40 hours of light from the front LED

I keep mine charged.

[jellofast]

i'd rather use a solar or hand cranked flashlight... batteries is back in the old days unless you can charge up the batteries with energizer's solar charger. but that would take time

hand crank ftw!

[mongballs]

good info, i'll get one but how much?

[MuhsinTheMomin]

nice ...cost....>?