Hey folks, this is the
Coleman Instant Northstar 10P Darkroom Lighted Tent
behind me here, it's along name, it's got a lot of features,
I'm gonna take you for a walk through.
Let's check it out.
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Hey folks, Ben from Snowy's here.
I've got the Coleman Instant Northstar
10 Person Darkroom Lighted Tent set up here.
It's got a really long name cause
it's got a lot of features.
There's been a few versions of this tent.
There was the original one, then they brought it out
with a dark rimmed fabric, now they brought it out
with a lighted strip inside as well.
I'm gonna run you through all the features
but firstly let's talk about a few of the stats.
It weighs about 30 kilos.
Now the fly sheet is a 75 denier, 185 thread count,
rip-stop polyester and it's got this dark rim coating
on the other side here which is a black coating
that cuts out something like about 95% of the light
and can reduce the temperature inside the tent
by sort of about 5% I believe they say.
It is worth noting that this dark room coating,
while they say it blocks out most of the light,
if you look really closely, on a bright day,
you can see little pin pricks of light coming through.
It's a bit like sleeping unde a starry night.
You can see a bit of light but it does block out most of it.
Now the inner is a breathable 75 denier polyester.
There's no rip-stop in this one here.
The windows are an ultra-fine mesh.
This mesh also features in the vents at the bottom here,
in the doors and also in the roof of the tent.
The floor is a 420 denier poly oxford PVC.
It's a nice durable floor with a PVC backing.
It doesn't have that crinkly feel that tarp material does.
You'd also get these mats with the tent
I haven't got this pegged out
but this is just a polyethylene mesh mat here,
like a door mat.
Moving on to the poles, steel uprights
which come up to a sorta nylon knuckle up
underneath these neoprene pads here.
And then a composite pole across the top,
it's a fibreglass composite type pole
that runs right across the top of the tent.
And you also get some steel awning poles with the tent.
Now there's loads of features to show you
with this awning out the front here and also inside.
I'm gonna start with the side and the back
of the tent, get that out of the way
and then we'll jump into all the interesting stuff.
We've got a total of four doors to get into
the Instant Northstar Darkroom Lighted 10P Tent.
This is a door at the end here so this can be opened,
it can also be set up as an awning.
Now you get two extra awning poles with your kit.
So this door features at this end,
features at the other end and also features on the back
and it has these brass eyelets in here.
So you can set it up in one of three ways.
Firstly, zipped closed like I had it there.
We can use the extra awning poles we have to set it up
as a shade awning like this.
Alternatively, we can roll it right up to the top here,
get it right up and out of the way and that gives us
access into the end of the tent here.
Now I've got the door at this end opened up,
there's a double door that features here,
a mesh and a solid panel, so we can zip this closed.
Now this gives us access to this, the bedroom,
at this end of the tent.
If we want separate access ports.
Coming around to the rear, we've got two windows
on the back here, there's this window here.
In the middle of that is a door which is the same
as the door on that end of the tent.
Now it's got eyelets on the bottom here.
We can open this up, it gives us an access point.
There's another door in under here to get inside the tent.
We can also set this up as an awning
out the back of the tent.
And this one's also got little sort of gutters in here
to give it a bit more protection.
Got a second window here.
Now both this window and that window
can be zipped closed completely.
That can be set up as little sort of
weather protected awnings over the window like this.
Or as we did with the door at the end,
we can roll it right open to allow the breeze.
And also in our case, we need to let a bit more light
inside the tent so we can see what's going on
in there because it does get quite dark.
Now at the base of each of these windows,
are these little sort of conical shaped things,
these are vents that allow a little bit of ventilation
up underneath here and they marry up
with the vent inside the tent that I'll show you.
So internally adjustable vent inside.
We'll show you when we step inside.
Coming around to the other end of the tent here,
the same door as I showed you at the far ends,
this can be zipped closed, set up as an awning
out like this or rolled up completely.
And underneath here, we've got another double mesh D door
with solid and mesh panels.
That's the back and side of the tents,
let's talk about the awning.
Now it's this awning that makes this tent
super livable for families.
It's about five metres long between the far poles here
and it comes out about 1.4 metres from the tent here.
And I've got this set up in full here at the moment.
You get all these awning poles with your kit.
There's various zips and gussets in here
to allow it expand right out as far as you can here.
Another alternative would be to zip it closed completely
so in bad weather, you zip it closed.
It also blocks all the light out that way.
Now you could if you want, actually roll this awning
back up completely along the top here.
There's tabs here that allow you to secure
the whole awning right across the front
of the tent to keep the awning right up
and out of the way if you don't want shade
or anything out the front here.
Now you've also got various set up options
with these panels here.
There's three sections, one on each end
and one in the middle, divided by a zip
that runs down here.
There's a gusset here, there's a second zip
that you can sort of bring it in closer together as well.
And you've also got walls on the ends
that are also set up with zips
so we could actually take this wall down.
You can roll this back up against the tent here.
There's tabs here to secure the wall.
So now we've got an open side here
and protected at that end there.
You can take it one step further if you'd like.
If you wanna just seal off the bedroom
of this end here to make this bedroom dark.
You can close the wall on this end of the tent.
Peg it down at the bottom down here
and you've now sealed off this end bedroom
to make it dark in there while you've still got
sheltered living space and light coming in
to the bedroom at that end there.
You can do the same thing at that end.
You could just set up the awning on this side
with that one closed if you like,
you've got heaps of options with the awning
out in front of the tent here.
I think we've pretty much covered all the features
on the outside, let's set inside
cause there's tonnes more in there still.
Now the first thing I wanna show you
is the lighting system in these tents.
We'll zip it all up later and show you how bright it is
but I'll just show you all the features first.
Now there's all these cords that are integrated
into the tent here and the LED strip lights across the top.
This is where the main sort of features happen.
So in this pocket here, you get included
a battery pack that takes four D cell batteries.
Now that does have a USB port here
so I can remove this battery pack if we don't want
to use D cell batteries and use a battery pack like this.
I can plug this into here.
And I've now got a rechargeable battery pack
that I can use for these lights.
These are all plugged in here,
you can unplug these if you want.
I don't know why you'd need to do that,
but that also joins up to this switch here.
Now this is a switch for the central room.
There's four settings, low, medium, high
and a glow setting.
There's one of these switches in each room,
so if you look around the corner here,
there's another switch in this bedroom here
and the same switch features in the far bedroom back there.
So you can have the lighting as very individual
for each room and it's all operated
through their own little internal switches.
Like I said, we'll show you how bright that is shortly,
firstly all the other features.
So we'll start at the top of the tent.
Now there's the wide strip here,
that this features both in the centre room here
and in each bedroom.
Now this can be unzipped.
This is where the little LED strip light is situated.
So we can replace these if you needed or if you wanted to.
If you want to put anything brighter
or anything different in there.
And they all marry up to a little cord,
a little access point so the cords run throughout the tent.
In the side of that we've got nice big mesh panels
in this centre room here, the bedrooms have got
a solid panels on each side so slightly warmer,
plenty of ventilation through here.
As we move down the side,
we've got these little power access points here.
That one goes to the outside and this one here
goes through to the bedroom.
Partway down that wall we have
this little organiser pocket here.
Now in this one here we've got the battery pack
for our lighting and we've got three other pockets.
Each bedroom also features their own
little organiser panel like this
but it doesn't have the battery in each bedroom,
just in this one here.
And behind me here we've got that door,
the rear access door that we can open up
to a mesh panel and then there's mesh panel opens up
out to the awning that we saw at the rear of the tent then.
Now just behind me here is a little panel
that features in the bottom corner.
Now all of these features that I'm gonna show you now
are mirrored in the bedroom at the far end
of this tent as well.
This can be opened up and it exposes a little mesh panel.
If we put a fan on either side of here,
it just allows a bit more ventilation
from one room to the other to get it lots
of air flow throughout the tent.
Above that we've got an organiser panel
that we talked about earlier and a little light switch
for this room here.
That features next to a double door.
Now this can be a mesh or a solid panel,
there's two different fabrics on this door here
so we can have a ventilation
or sealed up completely for privacy.
On the side of the bedroom here, now this is mirrored
on both sides of the bedroom and also in the far bedroom.
We've got an internally adjustable privacy screen
that features on this mesh window here.
So we're gonna open up the ventilation at the moment.
If we undo these tabs, we can zip it closed completely
to give us both protection,
if we've got the outside window open.
It gives us privacy but also keeps the warmth in
if it's a really cold night.
And at the bottom here,
we've got our circle ventilation vent.
Now this opens up onto that little conical shaped vent
that I showed you on the outside here.
This can be secured open like this,
there's little tabs here to secure that open
and that allows ventilation at the low level of the tent.
So most of the features on the inside.
I do wanna talk to you a little bit about
the space inside though.
Now in the centre room of the tent here,
I've got about 190 centimetres of head space.
I'm 185 centimetres tall.
That tapers off at each end down to about 160 centimetres
and about 150 centimetres where you walk
through the door here.
The space that the tent takes up is about six metres long
and it's about two and a half metres wide.
That's on the the outside but inside here,
about 175 centimetres wide for the centre room.
And it's about 230 centimetres deep
throughout inside the tent.
Now in this end bedroom here, I've got a double high
queen air bed set up in here.
Now this is about 200 centimetres long
and 150 centimetres wide.
Inside this room, we've got 230 centimetres
in depth this way and the room itself
is 210 centimetres at the floor level
to the base of the door at the rear of the tent.
Now we've got this rear door done up at the moment
so we can push the tent right to the back
but there is a little bit of wasted space
at the back there.
This tent isn't quite gonna fit if we spin it
around this way, I'll see if I can do it.
It's a tad tight, your feet or your head
are kinda gonna be up against here
but hey, it is manageable.
You could do it that way if you like
and then you've got a bit more usable space
down this side here.
Now this end bedroom here, we've got that end door open
so you can see in here quite comfortably.
Now these air beds are an XL single
so they're about 190 centimetres in length
and about a metre in width.
So they fit quite comfortably,
plenty of space for the kids to sleep.
Bit of room for storage but you've still got
that centre room for storage as well.
That's pretty much all the features inside the tent.
The last two features I wanna show you in the tent,
we've already run through them a bit
but I'm gonna zip everything closed in the tent.
Firstly to show you how dark it is inside
and secondly to show you how much light
the light strips give you when it is dark inside the tent.
So lets zip everything closed.
Now I've got all the doors and windows zipped up
apart from this one, it is my only light source in here now.
I'll zip this closed in a sec.
You'll just see how dark it is and all you'll see
is a little bit of light coming in
around the base to the tent.
And then I'll switch the lights on.
There's a low, medium and dim setting
and there's also a glow setting that allows
just the light switch to glow so you can find it at night.
Let's zip this up first.
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So that's now all the doors and windows zipped up.
We can just see a little bit of light in
around the base of the tent, which is where
light's just escaping in up underneath the fly
and if we step over to our light switch here now,
we flick it on to the low setting,
it's just a very dim light.
And they're not really bright lights,
they give a nice ambient light.
That's the medium and that's the high setting there.
Now that's just on the room in the middle here.
If I come to the bedroom at the end here,
and turn this one on as well and turn that one
to bright and I'll go to the far end
of the tent back here too.
We'll flick this one on to bright.
And we've now got light throughout the entire tent here
so look it's not really bright light.
It would be enough to eat by or
to find your way around the tent at night.
Might benefit from still having a torch
or a reading light if you wanna read a book
or do something up close, but it is a really handy
integrated lighting system in your family tent.
Last thing I wanna show you is the glow setting
on these switches here.
If we just press it a fourth time,
the light in the roof turns off in this room here now
and there's a light in the switch that goes on
so this just glows all night.
Now they're LED lights so they're not gonna
drain the battery very quickly but you can easily
find the light switch at night.
And that is the Coleman Instant Northstar
10 Person Darkroom Lighted Tent.
Its an awesome family tent.
Tonnes of versatility with that awning to the front here.
Integrated lighting system and a darkroom feature
that helps you sleep during the day or makes the kids
sleep in a little bit longer in the mornings.
You can grab them online at Snowys.com.au
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