Free Emergency Lighting From The Phone Co.

[AE5JU]

Have you seen those LED yard/garden lights that are solar powered?

Just get a few to put out in the yard. Power goes out? Get those lights and bring them inside.

http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1...atalogId=10053

[K8ERV]

Originally Posted by AE5JU

Have you seen those LED yard/garden lights that are solar powered?

Just get a few to put out in the yard. Power goes out? Get those lights and bring them inside.

http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1...atalogId=10053

I tried that, but couldn't get them spiked into the floor.

TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo

[AE5JU]

You Dummy! You're supposed to stab them into the couch.

[K8ERV]

Where were you when I needed you?

TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo

[KI6J]

I met a man who was a mining engineer and he told me they would recharge batteries by setting up a large coil under high voltage power transmission lines and rectifying the result. I also heard, somewhere, that a power company sued a man who lived under their power lines and had such a device on his roof- and the power company lost.

[AE5JU]

Originally Posted by AE5JU

Have you seen those LED yard/garden lights that are solar powered?

Just get a few to put out in the yard. Power goes out? Get those lights and bring them inside.

http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1...atalogId=10053

BTW, I would like to thank my wife for such a great idea. She thought of it first, then saw a suggestion for the same thing in the newspaper a month later.

[KD8LWX]

Originally Posted by AE5JU

Have you seen those LED yard/garden lights that are solar powered?

Just get a few to put out in the yard. Power goes out? Get those lights and bring them inside.

http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1...atalogId=10053

Been there done that.
I think I came up with the idea before anyone else.
I am on my second set and this set probably needs new batteries.

[AB9LZ]

I'm usually not one to point out the obvious, but candles have been solving this very problem quite nicely for I dunno, five to ten thousand years, maybe more....

73 m/4

[AE5JU]

It's a shame to burn your house down due to candles or worse, kerosene laps being knocked over by children or dog's tails.

Power outages are temporary. Burning houses are a real tragedy.

[K8ERV]

I checked out candles for Y2K, even made some with 4 wicks. Found they really don't give out much light.