- This is an orange and white camp light kit
from Hard Korr Lighting.
LED lights that you can string around your campsite
so you can keep going about your business
without bugs bugging you.
Let's check them out.
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- Hey guys, Ben from Snowys here today
with a Hard Korr LED light bar kits
in the orange and white, in particular light bar kits.
They come in a two bar or four bar, which I don't have here.
And also a six bar kit.
Now I've got my own personal to buy a kit here today
to show the content so I'm gonna explain to you what extras
you get in the four and the six as we go along.
But when you buy the product,
it comes in this little neat case here.
So this bar I've taken out that here, this case,
and it's got little locks on there too,
in case you want to lock it the case or inside,
but there's another a way
to store it inside your forward drive.
There's also a little bit of extra space inside here.
So you can add to your kit,
or I like to keep my head torches
and some spare batteries and things inside there as well.
Now show you what comes in the toolbar kit here.
Now, obviously, if you get a four and a six bar,
you're going to get a lot of extras.
I'll show you some of what you get
when you buy those bigger kits.
But with a two bar kit, you get two orange,
white light bars here.
You get a five metre cable.
Now this has obviously been used.
I've just stuffed it in here,
which is why it looks all tangled,
but a five metre cable to go from the cigarette port
in your car to the first light bar,
or sorry, the dimmer switch.
This is also got a little cap
on the end that you can remove to turn it into
a merit plug if you like for your preference.
And then you also get two, three metre extension cords
that can go in between the dimmer in this case,
in between the dimmer and the first bar,
and also between the other two bars.
So you can put them in two different locations,
three metres apart.
And you just get a few other extras is the case
that I mentioned before.
This is the dimmer switch that you need to use.
Now it has to be an orange, white to dimmer switch.
This has got both a push button on off function end,
a dimming function here so that you can,
by switching between white and orange light and dim it,
you can't just use a standard dimmer switch
with that guy there.
And you also get some clips to be able to attach
it to a pole so these clips here slot
in the back of these light bars here,
you can put two on there.
They go in one way, give them a twist.
So they lock into place.
You can then clip that onto a tent pole.
If you like to hold it in place
on your upright to the awnings or gazebo,
whenever you want attach it on.
And you also get a clip for the dimmer switch too
so you don't have to leave the switch, just hanging.
You can use this clip.
This side here attaches to the pole,
and then this just clips around the dimmer switch like that.
So you can also attach this to a pole
or awning anywhere in the camp.
So you've got the switch at hand rather than
it just dangling around.
Now, just put these clips inside
and I just want to show you the back of the six bar
here to show that you get a few extras
when you buy a kit with more lights.
So this is actually got four 48 centimetre light bars,
which is what these ones here are.
They're 48 centimetres.
It also comes with two 30 centimetre light bars.
So it's a total of six, four longer ones, two shorter ones.
And you also get a lot more cables.
You also get to dimmer switches, four extension cables,
you get splitter cables here.
What that means is that you can switch
these sort of independently.
You can have some on white, some on orange,
if you like by putting the dimmer switch
in a different point in the whole circuit.
So buying a six bar kit, it gives you versatility.
If you don't want all that,
you can just get the two bar kit here,
which is the one I just showed you,
which you get this in
and you can just buy extra 30 centimetre light bars
and add to it if you like,
or you can add a demo switch to this
if you want to have one white and one orange,
you need to put an extra dimmer in it.
If you got to run them on different colours.
So there's lots of options, abit of
a plug and apply type scenario where you buy
the accessories you want to make up the light kit you want.
I started off with a two bar light kit,
cause that's all I really need but it's easy to add to it
if I want to change my light set up in the future.
So let's start to string this together.
We'll just put the cables in the order that we need them.
So this is a power source over here.
We've got our main power cable here.
That's going to go in our cigarette port.
That will then team up with this at black
end here with this side of the dimmer switch here.
So we'll put that one there.
From there we've got a choice of either putting
an extension cabling if we like.
So we can go another three metres
from where our dimmer switch is
and then put a light bar in here.
From that light bar,
I'm gonna put another three metre extension cable
in between so I can put
the second light bar some distance away.
Before we string all this together,
I just want to cover off on a few details
of these light bars in particular.
Now these have got a diffuse that it's actually removable.
We can take these black caps off the end here,
and actually pop that diffuser off if you wanted to.
Underneath that, you can see the little LED light strip.
Well, I actually find to be plenty bright enough
to leave that diffuser on in the campsite,
it's not as harsh on your eyes.
And if we flip it over on the back here,
these little metal bits on the end, they're actually magnet.
So on top of those clips that I showed you before
that you can use to attach it to a pole,
maybe an alloy pole.
If you've got steel poles or a steel surface,
you can just put them straight onto that surface.
And they hold into place with those two magnets.
So lots of mounting options with these lights here.
Now, depending on the size of the bar,
the lumens are going to be different.
This 48 centimetre bar gives out about 590 lumens
of white light, about 350 of orange light.
So you can bond them together.
Obviously you get more light output.
You can put up to about six bars together,
more than that and the current draw starts to get a bit much
and performance starts to be affected.
Now, each of these is a few different statistics
that I've seen around,
each of these draws something like 0.4 or 0.6 amps.
I've seen two different stats there.
So I work on the 0.6.
That way I'm not saying I'm underestimating my system.
So with two bars in the system
about 1.2 amps is what it pulls in there.
IP 68 rated as well.
All the terminations here
have got little rubber seals on it.
And sleeves that screw it up over the top
to make sure that no water gets inside and the terminations
on the end of all of these have all been sealed.
So you can leave them out in a bit of rain
and they're not going to be effected.
What we're looking at these plugs on the end here,
these orange ones indicate the orange white light kits.
Now there's four prong plugs here are specific
to the orange white light kit.
So you can't go and add just a standard white light bar
to the kit here.
It's gotta be compatible with these, four prong switches
here are the orange ones, the ones that hardcore use.
That's gonna make sure that the dimmer
is able to switch between orange and white
and orange light and white light, and also dim properly
so just make sure if you're adding extra bars to your kit,
that you're getting that orange plugs here
that are gonna be compatible.
Now, each of these bars weighs a little bit over
a hundred grammes and the kits themselves weigh
from about two and a half kilos up to a bit under five kilos
for everything together with the storage box and all.
So let's start to string this together.
Now I'll start with a power pack over here.
So they operate from 12 volt.
In this instance,
I've got a 12 volt portable power pack here.
Now this is a five metre cable
that goes straight into the power pack.
I'll plug that in shortly
once we've got everything else connected.
Now this first connected here needs
to go into the compatible connector on the dimmer switch here.
So we've got the four prong one.
This is on the orange, on the light bar side.
This is just a standard plug.
This is just 12 volt power going in.
We put that together.
There's a little rubber seal on there, do it up
and that sealed up and weather proof
and now we've got a dimmer in the system here.
From there, I'm gonna grab
my first three metre extension cords
gonna put these together.
There's a little notch in one side of these plugs,
that lines up with the notch inside there.
So we just slide them together, push them together firmly.
Once again, do it up so that they are weather proof.
We've now got our dimmer and our first extension cord
in the system. Now connect to our first light bar here.
Now I've just noticed on top of the notches inside,
there's actually little arrows on here as well for slide
that does an arrow this side and this side
If we line the arrows up and the notches inside line up as well.
So we do that one up and we've got
our first light bar in the system.
Now we could actually plug that into the power source
and this one light bar would be working for us if we wanted now.
Now, I've got a few options here.
I could put another three metre extension cord
if I wanted this light bar to be a long way
from this light bar, don't need it in this case,
I'm just going to join the light bars directly together.
So once again, lining up the arrows or the notches
there and doing this firmly.
So that over the top and it's weatherproof
and now a light system is set up now.
Could actually leave this out of the system if I like.
I don't have to have that there
if I've got to set up in close proximity in the tent,
I can remove this extension cord altogether
and just join the light bars directly to each other
or directly to the dimmer switch, sorry.
If I wanna, I can do that up there.
Now that creates a bit of a cleaner system
for us to look at here.
So I've now got a five metre extension cord here
and the two light bars connected directly
next to each other.
Now we'll plug this into our power here.
So I've got my 12 volt power pack here.
I'm gonna use it in the cigarette lighter mode,
the plug on the end here.
So we'll push it in there.
Battery is charged up there, 12.5 volts,
and now we're good to go.
We can see now on our little dimmer switch gear,
a little green LED light here,
which indicates we've got power coming into the system here,
but we haven't got it turned on at the moment.
All the control happens through this dial here.
So at the moment is turned right around anti-clockwise
there towards the off, the words written there off,
you can barely see it.
And then on this side here, so to switch it on,
we turn this around clockwise
and immediately it delivers power to the light.
So now that's on low.
The further round we turn it, the brighter it gets
until it goes far as we can.
Now when that's turned, as far as it'll go.
Each of these lights is giving out about 590 lumens
on the white setting.
So combined about 1180 lumens.
Obviously if you add more light bars to it,
you're going to add another 590 lumens
for every 48 centimetre light bar.
But if you add a longer or shorter light bar,
they're gonna have a different amount of lumens
that I can all add up.
And obviously the amount of light is kind of depending
on where they're situated.
If these are four metres apart,
they're not each giving 1,190 lemons,
they're giving 590 lumens in two different locations.
Now to switch from the white light to the orange light
is a push of the doll here.
So if we push this down, we can hear a click
and it flicks to orange light there.
That is also a demo that's as bright as it will go there.
Now I can then turn that down to deem the orange light,
and it's gonna go right down to off as well.
Et's bring that rod back up bright again,
now these are giving out about 350 lumens of orange light.
Same scenario is that the white light, 350 each.
So together this is giving out about 700 lumens
of orange light at the moment for admiral buzzing,
there's gotta be more lumens.
And the benefits of having an orange light
is that even though you'd
be walking around around orange camps,
so this light is not gonna attract as many insects.
So you can go about your business without being bothered
or having a million insects attracted to the light
that's up in the top of you at your tent or awning
so it gives you that flexibility of both.
If you're inside a bug proof shelter,
you can use the white light
and the bugs are gonna be on the outside anyway.
Now you can actually run these independently.
So I have an orange one
and a white one running at the same time,
but you actually need a second demo.
So when you get it, so the six bar LED kit,
you get two demos and you then need to place a second dimmer
in between the two bars here.
So you can use the first dimmer
to switch this one to orange or white
and then the second dimmer independently switches
the second bar so if you had a six bar system,
you could have potentially have three lights on one dimmer
and then another three lights on another dimmer.
So you've got two different light settings in the system,
but for me to do that here now I'd have to buy another one
of these dimmers in order to have them running
on different light colours at any given time.
I just want to touch on current drawer again for these.
Each of these drawers we're looking at is 0.6 amps.
So at the moment with these two combined 1.2 amps,
if I was to add another 48 centimetre bar to the system
is gonna add another 0.6 amps to the draw
on this system here.
So I really like current where you can run it
for a long time off at 12 volt battery.
Now these are made to last a lifetime.
The grommets in the end here are reinforced.
It really well terminated it and reinforced it.
And this is an aluminium extrusion backing on here.
That's really tough, you can't flex them.
So they're made to last a long time
and they come with a really good warranty.
Hardcore offer really good warranty on these lights here.
These are a great way to light of your campsite.
If you've got a spare cigarette, a socket,
particularly on an auxiliary battery
or a portable battery pack like this,
then you can light up big areas you can sort off
on these to be enough for a family of four.
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