- This is the Lighted, Instant Up, NorthStar
Four Person, Dark Room Tent from Coleman.
A quick pitch tent with a darkroom coating
that keeps it cooler and darker inside
and an integrated LED strip lighting system.
I'm gonna take you for a walkthrough, so let's get started.
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Ben from Snowys here folks, down
at the Brownhill Creek Caravan Park on a warm day.
Its down at Adelaide's leafy eastern suburbs,
not far from the Adelaide Hills.
15 minutes from the city.
Great place to park your caravan.
Set up your tent and just relax for the weekend.
I've got some Coleman products here today.
This is the Four Person, Lighted, Instant Up,
NorthStar Dark Room Tent.
It's got a long name.
It's quite a versatile, little tent
with a quick pitch frame,
integrated lighting system,
and all this kind of storage
and a bit of versatility at the front.
I'll take you for a walk through,
but we'll start with the fabrics.
Now the flyer sheet is a 75 denier,
185 thread count, ripstop polyester.
It's got a 3,000 millimetre water head
and it's got this black, dark room coating
on the inside here,
which blocks out about 95 percent of the light
that comes through it
and can reduce the temperature inside the tent
by just a little bit.
I think Coleman claim about five percent.
You can, if you hold this right up to the light,
you can kind of see just little spots
come through here and there,
but it does actually give a pretty good coating
right throughout the tent
and we'll show you later how dark it makes it.
Stepping to the inside of the tent here.
The inner tent is also 75 denier polyester.
This is a breathable polyester right here.
Now over here, the frame is a steel frame.
So it should be with steel frame
and there are plastic components.
So the knuckle under here is a plastic
or sort of a nominal, glass filled plastic.
Same as the hub at the top of the tent here.
It's a plastic hub.
Moving down, the doors and um,
or the mesh doors and the windows
are a nice, ultra fine mesh.
Whether it's midge-proof or not
is yet to be proven,
but I think it would do a pretty job.
It's much finer than many meshes.
Moving right down to the floor of the tent,
we've got a 420 denier, poly oxford PVC.
Now this isn't the crinkly sort of feeling fabric
that many polyethylene floors are.
It's a softer feel.
It rolls up easier.
It's nicer to walk on and it's really durable still.
You got a little doormat that comes with your tent.
Now this is just a polyethylene mesh here
with peg-points on here,
so that you can have a bit of a place
to put your shoes or wipe your feet
before you step into the tent.
That's pretty much all the materials.
Before we step inside and look at all the features in here
and talk that vestibule, I want to show you the
side and the back of the tent and the windows around me.
The first thing on the outside,
these little, cone-shaped things here.
Now this is a part of a circle ventilation system,
so up underneath here is a little vent
that's adjustable from the inside
and this just helps a bit of ventilation
at the low level of the tent
down where you sleep to get air movement throughout.
Up above that, on three sides of the tent,
we've got these windows.
At the moment, this is zipped closed completely
for full storm protection.
Just one way to set it up and there are two other options.
If we unzip the sides here,
and use the guide ropes that are attached
to the corners of the window here, we can peg this open
as a little weather protected vestibule
over the top of the window here.
So we can keep the rain out
and let a bit of air flow through.
The other alternative is to roll it right open,
use these tabs at the top here
and secure it all the way up.
Just like we've done with the window
at the rear of the tent there.
You can do that on all three sides.
You get ventilation right throughout the tent.
That's pretty much all the features
at the rear and the side of the tents.
Let's just check out the vestibule
and the awning at the front here.
Now the front of the tent here,
we've got a few different set up options.
At the moment, I've got this set up in four, I suppose.
So this awning here forms the doorway when it zipped close
over the front of the vestibule there
for full weather protection.
You get two awning poles and guide ropes
included with your kit
and enough pegs to set this up as a shade awning
at the front of your tent here.
As you're stepping back here,
for this was zipped closed,
we've got all this weather protected space here.
This comes about 1.3 metres out from the tent
and I'm 185 centimetres, so under here,
I can't quite stand up upright,
but as I get into the vestibule here,
I can just stand up with the fly touching
the top of me head here.
There's enough room in here for some Eskies,
a few bags, keep your shoes.
You can stand up in here and take some wet clothes off
before you go in the tent, if you needed.
And that leads to a double door here.
Now this does have both mesh and solid panels in it,
so you can just zip the mesh open,
it will leave the mesh panel, if you like.
Which, if you've got the other windows open as well,
allows tonnes of ventilation.
Or you can zip both of them up
to maintain a bit of warmth and privacy inside the tent.
And that, then obviously, allows us to get inside the tent.
So let's step in and have a look in there.
So, I first talk about head height inside the tent here.
Now, as I mentioned, I'm 185 centimetres,
so you're about 190 centimetres to the peak here,
so you can stand quite upright as I move to the side,
my head does start to hit the edge here.
Features inside at the very top in the centre here
we've got this little gear loft.
It's just a little mesh loft.
You can remove it, it you like.
It's just little clips on the side here
to take it off. And if we take that away, we can see
that we've got a nice, heavy duty lantern hook here.
So we can hang our own lantern in the middle.
Not necessary in this tent though
cause each side you can see these strips here.
These have the integrated LED strip lights inside of it.
I'll show you shortly where that's operated from,
but that means we don't actually need to have a lantern
inside the tent cause it's all integrated inside.
As you move down the side of the tent, you see
we've got the windows that we talked about on the outside.
They've got internal privacy screens.
This one's zipped open.
They just sit inside their own sort of little pocket there.
On this side, I've got it zipped up.
Now we've got control over this
of just having it partially zipped open
or I can zip it open all the way if we like
for maximum ventilation.
That also features at the rear of the tent here.
Another window there.
And as we move right down to the bottom,
just on the sides, but not at the rear
is the little vent that we talked about
with that circle ventilation kinda on the outside there.
So if we unzip that, there's little tabs down here
that we can use to secure it open
and that allows ventilation across the tent
at a very low level here.
Other features inside,
we've got storage pocket on this side.
Two solid fabric panels and a mesh panel in the middle.
Diagonally opposite is more storage pockets
and the control panel where our lighting system works from.
Now, inside this pocket here, we've got our battery pack
where we would put four D cell batteries in there.
I've actually got my own USB power pack here at the moment,
so I'm gonna plug that in.
I can put that in there so it's outta the way.
And above this is the switch.
Just a single button there.
Now there's four settings to this switch.
A low, a medium, a high, and a glow setting
that allows you to find the switch at night.
I'll show you a little bit about how that works shortly.
We'll zip the tent closed, so you can see how dark it is.
One other feature inside is down in this corner here
you do have a power access point.
So you can get 240 or 12 volt power in here
to run, say a fan or your lantern if you like
or you don't want to use the integrated lighting system.
Now in regards to the space you've got inside the tent,
Coleman say about 240 centimetres by 240 centimetres.
I measured just under that,
at around about 230, 235 centimetres.
I do have a few air beds that I'm gonna throw in here.
Two XL singles and I've also got a double high queen.
I'm gonna put 'em both in here,
throw it all at the same time
just so you can get an idea of how you can use the space.
Our first up is the double high queen air bed.
Now this measures about two metres in length,
bout 150 centimetres in width
and it's about 50 centimetres in height.
Now this works, so you can fit two people in here.
You've got a bit of storage down the side here.
You haven't got much room to do
anything else inside the tent,
but hey, that's gonna work for say a touring couple
or just a couple away for the weekend.
Probably works better if you've got two single air beds.
Let me go and grab those and show you how they fit.
Now these are XL single sized air beds
so they measure about 190 centimetres in length
and about a metre in width.
They're just up against the edge there,
so I've got about 30 centimetres of space
down the middle here at the highest point of the tent
and then a bit of storage space at the end
of each bed there.
So it's a pretty comfortable two person tent.
You could fit four people in here
if you had smaller hiking mats, but it's comfortable for two
or I'd say for a mom and a dad with two small kids
are gonna fit pretty comfortably in here.
That's pretty much all the features I want to show you
apart from showing you how dark it is inside
when everything's zipped up.
Now the tent is set up in full sun here today
so we're not gonna make it pitch black,
but what I'm gonna do is close all the doors,
all the windows, we'll come inside
and show you how dark it is
and then also show you how the lighting system works.
Now I've closed all the windows and doors and vents.
I've even got the privacy screen's closed on the inside
to try and block out as much light as we can.
Now, most of the light that we see in here now
is coming from underneath the tent.
Remembering, it's set up in full sun light
here at the moment.
But it is a nice, dim light in here right now.
Good opportunity now to show you the lighting system.
Say, if we just come across here
and make sure our power pack's plugged in.
We go to the switch and we press it once
and our LED lights across the top there light up.
Second time is the middle setting.
Third time is the brightest setting.
If we press it once more, it then goes to the glow setting
where by the actual switch here glows
which makes it easy for us to find it at night.
That is all the features of the
Coleman Lighted, Instant Up, NorthStar
Four Person, Dark Room Tent.
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