Help me find a Nice, Warm, Night Light

Unless a LED bulb is advertised as being ā€œflicker-freeā€, assume itā€™s got a nasty 120Hz flicker of about a 5% or less duty-cycle.

No fix. Might not run on DC, canā€™t really crack one open to add diodes/caps/etc.

I did an extensive search in 2015 and settled on this gem:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002VF9POY/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

It has a dusk-dawn sensor AND a motion sensor. So the bathroom is dark unless someone walks in. You then have 60 seconds to sit still before it will shut back off. It is flicker-free and 2700K too. Oh, and they cost me $8 each :smiley:

5 years old and still loved :smiley:

https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1fvywm/this_pretty_much_sums_up_my_relationship_with_the/

Maybe Iā€™ll get the joke when I am older. Right now I look at it and wonder why heā€™s waiting for something to happen :stuck_out_tongue:

Heā€™s sitting on the bowl, motionless. Motion-sensing light turns off after a while, and heā€™s gotta wave around to light it up again. (Sometimes you just got time to kill.)

I worked in a place where my office had one of those. I was shielded from the sensor by the monitor, and yeah, unless Iā€™d remember to ā€œwaveā€ every 5min or so, itā€™d shut the lights off on me.

But how could a poop possibly take longer than 20 seconds? :stuck_out_tongue:

Reading, crossword puzzles, etc. By the time youā€™re finished, itā€™s time for round 2. :laughing:

I guess bathrooms bore the crap out of me in record time :laughing:

Young peopleā€¦

I picked up one of these from Walmart awhile back: https://www.amazon.com/GE-38628-Designer-Farmhouse-Entryway/dp/B07C57YLPR

2200K. Equivalent to the old 7 watt incandescent night lights in brightness and color temperature. For a nightlight, itā€™s very bright. No idea which emitter theyā€™re using.

Iā€™m interested in any suggestions for a battery powered night light or <1 lumen as we donā€™t have power plugs in the right places. I used to use a Nitecore NU30 headlamp which lasted about 3 weeks on <1 lumen (about double the runtime specification), but the battery died after 3 years.

Need to be off-the-rack?

Preferably, yes!

These are really good. And if you catch their 2-for-1 or 40 percent off deal, which comes around fairly often, theyā€™re reasonably priced.

https://www.mrbeams.com/mr-beams-amber-stand-anywhere-light-mb750a


Not sure if anyone wanted one of these but
I had one of these as a gift and it comes in a very nice warm 3000k light. Rechargeable and has auto turn off for 3-5 minutes of light on. Found many cheaper alternatives if you hunt in the right spots in amazon.
It uses a 14mm star in my unit which I could always swap to something nicer but the stock LED is good enough for me

Just hunt for Faucet Tap Drippy Night Light Voice Activated
Usually the voice activated are usb rechargeable and the non voice activated are 3x AAA battery types.

Thanks, Iā€™ll check it out.

You probably donā€™t have kids do you?

At least not mine :smiley:

Easy ā€” Mr. Beams Step lights. Iā€™ve bought quite a few of them, most given as gifts. I have a healthy stash (~20 or so) myself. Iā€™m always on the road for work, so these often get set up in hotel rooms, usually leaving a couple on the corners of furniture and a few in the bathroom.

MB500-WHT = 4000K neutral white (looks more like 3500K to my eyes) (Amazon link)

MB500A-WHT = 600nm (~1800K) amber. (Amazon link)
The -WHT refers to the white case. Not sure if they ever made other colors.

They run on 2x AAAs, and are very happy with Eneloops. I recommend rechargeables in them as Iā€™ve had issues with alkalines leaking in them. Good for 6-12 months depending on how dark it is. Not much bigger than the 2 AAAs themselves.

Thanks for the suggestion. Looks like they ship to Australia too!

I use rechareables in them to avoid that, as Iā€™ve noticed LED lights mostly all stay bright even as the alkalines start leaking, unlike the old incandescent bulbs that went dim orange usually before or just as the alkalines start to leak.

I do wish MrBeams would redesign their lights to assume five 1.2v NiMH cells rather than four 1.5v alkalines.
Iā€™ve been wondering about wiring in and taping on an extra battery holder.

Thatā€™s because I have so many of them around the house that every few weeks Iā€™ve got to put in freshly recharged batteries on one of them.