- Hey Snowys fam, it's Lauren here
with Explore Planet Earth LED Area Light Kit.
One of the most popular camp site area lights
with a whopping 2,400 lumens
and it also comes with a wireless remote control.
So I've already unpacked the Area Light Kit,
but it will come in this storage bag.
And I love it when a company
does do a good quality storage bag.
This one that is reinforced here
with some hard panelling on the outside,
it's a nice heavy duty material.
We've got this webbing strap
and on the inside, it's really well padded also.
It's pack dimensions are 75 centimetres long,
by about 15 centimetres tall,
by about six centimetres wide
and it weighs one and a half kilos as well.
So as I mentioned before,
I've already unpacked the components
and I'll run through them with you now.
The first lot I'll go through is the cabling.
So we've got this first little section here
with the LED controller stamp on it.
This is actually where your little wireless
remote receiver is housed.
Then we have our piece of extension cabling here as well,
which will get you up to five metres
with this piece of extension.
We've got the 12 volt terminal
which this little red plastic bit on the end here underneath
also has a merit plug connection as well
if you've got that in your system.
And then we've got some alligator clips
with that 12 volt receiver which you can plug in
like so if you wanna connect these
straight onto your battery terminals.
So we've also got, as I mentioned before,
there is a wireless remote control.
Now, when you do get this one,
it will have a little insulator
between the included battery,
so make sure you pull that out
before you trying to run that remote.
You'll get a couple of different instructions here,
both with the setup of the light,
all the different components
and also your little wireless controller information
as well.
You've got a couple of elastic, not elastic, sorry,
Velcro anchor straps which is for anchoring the light pole,
which we'll get to in a minute.
And we've got the light panel itself,
which is nice and light.
And it's covered with this lovely sort of silicon bumper
cover on it too.
This is our aluminium pole, the light pole.
And we've also got our little anchor thing,
which reminds me a lot if you're a fishermen
or you've been fishing before of,
you know, like your fishing rod holder.
So this spike will go into the ground.
It's like a padded-coated steel.
So that's gonna go into the ground like so,
and then your light pole,
extendible light pole is going to sit in
and that is anchored up for you.
So the light pole itself is aluminium.
It's got this nice sort of foam handle here
if you need something that you wanna carry around with you.
Now, the extension of the pole
will take you up to two and a half metres.
There isn't a locking inside the extension pole,
so we'll take a little bit of muscle to pull it in and out
because that way the friction will hold it in place
make sure the pole is not collapsing.
But as you can see here,
it will just pull out like so.
So you can obviously extend this the full way out
to the two and a half metres.
You can use it fully clothed or closed,
sorry, not fully clothed.
Hopefully you're fully clothed when using it,
but you can also use it at any length that you want set to.
So when you are setting up your light,
so we're going to screw this little bolt here
into the end of our aluminium supporting pole like so.
Now, just while I'm doing this,
the actual light panel ahead itself here
is 23 centimetres tall by about 12 centimetres wide as well.
As you can see it's like super thin.
And once this one is fully screwed on,
we've got this little adjustment point here
which will allow us to alter the angle of the light,
which it gives you like that full range of movement
there as well.
So I'm gonna tighten that one off.
And then I've actually off-camera beforehand
have connected the 12 volt to the extension,
to the little wireless receiving cable.
And I'm going to attach the wireless receiving end
into our light head like so.
Now, it's probably worth mentioning while I'm here
that these light connectors are fully water and dustproof
or weather resistant as Explore Planet Earth say,
but they're not provided with an IP or an IPX rating.
So I'm going to plug this one in here.
We've got this portable power pack I'm gonna use here.
Now as you can see, when I plugged this in,
the light will give a little bit of a flash there.
So I'm gonna unplug it and re-plug it again,
that's completely normal.
It's just the light letting you know
that the power has successfully gone through to the light
and it's recognised there.
So because this is also a wireless remote,
that's a really handy thing for you to have too.
So once your unit's plugged in, it's hooked up to the power,
we've got our remote control here,
that we've just got a simple on and off button
and we've also got these little arrow buttons
to run through the dimming settings.
So I'm gonna just turn it on.
Now really popular question
that we have with this one as well,
and with a lot of the lights that we sell
is will I be able to set it at a particular dimmer setting
and then turn it off and will it remember?
It definitely will.
So as you can see here,
I'm just adjusting the setting turning it off,
turning it on again and it remembers
the previous brightness setting that you've got it on.
So the light itself is a 2,400 lumens,
which is an absolutely massive amount of power
or bump it up to the brightest setting that we've got here.
This will light up approximately 15 metre area.
So it is really quite a huge campsite light.
And especially on that 2.5 metre pole,
you've got a lot of output.
So the arrows as I'll run through,
this is the absolute brightest setting.
So I'm gonna run through with my arrows down
to the lowest setting
and you can see it's not super smooth
but it does sort of jimmie its way up and down.
And there's approximately, I tried to count them before,
but it seems like there's approximately 15 different
sort of brightness levels that you can set it up.
So if I try and jump down slowly,
we've got one,
two, three, four and so on.
So it's just very incrementally.
but if you do wanna just tailor it,
you can either push or hold the button down,
or you can just press it to cycle through.
So either way will work.
So if you do happen to misplace your remote control,
they are available as spares,
but generally a special order item because the light itself
has no ability to be controlled in brightness setting
without this particular remote control.
The other nifty thing is,
is if you have a huge campsite area,
maybe you go group camping often
and you need to light up a lot of space,
you can use several of these lights
and they will be controlled by a single remote
because they're not coded.
So that may be a benefit to you,
but it also could be a bit of a con in some situations.
The other thing to note is that the light draws 2.5 amps
on its absolute brightest setting as well.
So that is about it
for the Explore Planet Earth LED Area Light Kit.
You can get this at snowys.com.au
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