- In front of me today, I have the DeVos LightRanger,
and this is one of only two things that I bought
at the Outside Adventure Expo in June.
And today, I'm gonna show you why.
Before this, I had two lighting solutions for camp.
The first of them is my headlamp,
it's a little Petzl headlamp,
and actually this thing is fantastic.
I'll put a link to this in the description as well.
If you don't have one of these, I do recommend it.
I will be keeping this and using it.
It's super bright, rechargeable battery,
lights up where you're going or where you looking.
So if you're going on a you're walking in the dark,
you're looking through your tent,
looking through a vehicle at night, this thing is great.
But after the fifth moth has flown in your face,
it gets old.
It also only lights up where you're looking.
So if your camping with multiple people,
you're setting up a tent somewhere with someone else,
it's not a great area light.
And that's where my other light comes in.
This light cube that I bought.
This sits on the ground, so it solves the moth problem,
but unfortunately it's quite blinding.
And unless I have something to hang it off,
it also only lights the underside of surfaces.
Now you might be wondering how does something
as small as this solve those problems?
Well, it's because it comes with this,
which is an extendable pole.
So this light just latches onto the top
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like that.
You can then turn it on and extend it upwards
up to nine feet above you.
Now here, I've got eight foot ceilings,
so I've just hit the ceiling, but it shines a nice,
bright light over a large camping area.
And because it's high up,
you don't have the issues with the bugs,
you don't have it blinding you.
It just casts that light over a wide area.
So it's great for if you're setting up a tent,
you're cooking, or just hanging out at camp.
It's actually also great for video at night
and that's why I bought it.
On the bottom of the pole you get a tripod
that you can spread out for a good stable base,
or you can take that off.
We'll move it up and use this stake,
dig this into the ground,
and it gives you something that's gonna be secure
in the wind and storms, and because this thing is,
IPX-4 rated, you can actually leave it out in the rain.
A little over three feet long,
it does take up quite a lot of space in the vehicle.
And obviously when you're on these
long overlanding trips, space comes at a premium.
I found on my last trip, I was out for three weeks,
it got in the way quite a lot.
That being said, it's definitely worth it.
I'll be taking this with me on every trip I go on.
I just wish maybe they did it into four sections,
or if they make a revision in the future,
they have it retract into four sections,
so it doesn't take up quite as much room.
The light itself is entirely controlled
by a single power button on the side.
And with that, you can switch between
three different lighting modes and different brightnesses.
With one push of the button,
it lights up all four sides providing 360 degrees
of illumination and 1,200 lumens,
which is more than double your typical camp lantern.
If you wait a second and then push it again,
it turns the light off.
If you want to change the lighting modes,
you just push the button more than once in a row.
So if I push it twice,
it's now only lighting up two sides of the lantern,
the other two sides are off.
If I turn off and then push it three times,
it's only gonna light up the one side of the lantern.
That means if you only need light in a certain direction,
you can save battery.
Now if you want it duller, you turn it on,
and then you push and you hold the power button,
and you'll see that it will
slowly cycle down the brightness.
So if you're in, maybe you're inside your tent,
just reading, you don't need
the full 1,200 lumens right in your face.
You can turn it down
so you can just see the pages of your book.
The LightRanger has a 10,400mAh power lithium ion battery,
and that gives a 16 hour runtime
with just the one light lit up.
When you have two lights lit up, that's reduced to eight.
And with all four of the lights on
you get a four hour runtime.
To find out how much power I have left,
all I have to do is turn the light off,
and then I push and I hold the power button
and you will see a little green light comes on,
which means I've got almost full battery.
If the lights flashing, or it's a different color,
then maybe it's time to charge it up.
And to do that, you use the provided USB cable
in the bottom here,
and it takes about eight hours
for a full recharge from completely dead.
I found I charged this every few days and it never died.
The thing I love most about this though,
is just the versatility.
Because it can be detached from the pole,
it's small and it's light yet, seriously bright,
it's got a bunch of uses.
One of those is thanks to the hoop on the top here,
you can put a carabiner or a small loop of string around it,
hang it up in your tent or under the hood of your vehicle,
if you're working on your vehicle at night.
If something's going on underneath your vehicle
and you need to work underneath, you can turn it on,
flip it upside down and just lay under your vehicle
and admire your skid plates.
Or let's say you're playing poker at camp,
just set it on the table.
This also has a built-in powered USB port
on the bottom that you can use to power other devices.
So if you were using this in your tent
to read or whatever,
then you could charge your phone from it at the same time.
Or if you wanted more light around camp you can hang it up,
put it on the pole and plug in some USB fairy lights.
Now when I bought this,
they did have a special price for the Expo,
so I paid that price.
Unfortunately they don't offer it anymore,
but I've been in contact with DeVos
and they have actually offered us a coupon.
So I put a link to this in the description
along with the coupon code, they'll give you 10% off.
And if I've done the math correctly
when you buy two of these,
you're actually going to pay less than I did.
If you have any questions about the light
definitely let me know.
And as always, thanks for watching.