Luminiser Thermoelectric Oil Lantern; Converts Heat into Electricity to Power Bright LED Lights. For Camping, Power Outages, Reading and Hiking

Love it. Years ago I designed something similar that worked quite well. However, mine was an ugly stepsister to this sleek product. The device generates electricity via a thermoelectric generator using the heat from a liquid paraffin candle and lights LED lights. It is very effective! One of the liquid paraffin candles burns for many hours with very little odor. The LED lights can illuminate a room enough to move about without tripping on everything. Or, you can choose a set of LED lights that can shine down on a book for reading. At first I was unhappy that I couldn't use regular tea lights as the candle, but soon realized that the liquid paraffin light is way more consistent than a standard tea light. You are tied into using their proprietary candle, but they are fairly reasonably priced. Since I have these for emergency light during a power failure, I'm not concerned so much by the price of the candles. If you wanted to use these for every day lighting, you may want to find a way to refill the canisters. I was a little disappointed in the construction, the body is plastic, and a bit flimsy at that. However, I'm still happy enough to give the whole thing a five star rating. I have burned one for several hours with no issues or failures, I see no reason that mine won't keep working in the future. One nice feature of the thermoelectric generator is that when you blow out the candle, the LED lights will remain on for a minute or so due to the remaining heat in the system, then they slowly fade out. That can be handy if it is the last thing you turn out as you go to bed, you have a few moments of light left as you crawl under the covers. As others have mentioned, it is a bit difficult to change the candle. The candle cartridge has tabs that fit into slots in the lamp body and you twist the cartridge to lock it in place. Though, once you know how it works, it's not difficult to change the candle cartridge. All in all, I feel comfortable recommending these for emergency lighting. They really do what they claim. I have several for myself and have happily given them as gifts.

Works very well once you get the hang of it.I started off with a high flame...more heat = more light...however, it also means it will collect soot in the vents and block the heat thereby dousing the light within a short period of time. The soot can be removed with a pipe cleaner, once cooled, and it's good to go again, but it was frustrating to see it failing within an hour the first few times. If you fail to notice that the LEDs have dimmed, the heat reflected back to the oil container will melt the top of it and sink the wick holder into the oil which is definitely a recipe for disaster.With a smaller/shorter flame there's been no buildup of soot and it will go for hours with more than enough light to show the way.I found that it was not stable enough on a camp table with the legs extended. It is fine hanging by the handle or with the legs in the folded up position, which is how I have been using it.

gefällt:- das Öl stinkt nicht, somit ist die Lampe sehr gut Indoor geeignet- LED sehr hell (dafür das die Lampe mit einem Öllicht/Teelicht betrieben wird)- Lampe sehr kompakt, kann aufgehängt & mit 2 Höhen (Beine) aufgestellt werdengefällt nicht:- es gibt leider die Nachfüllflaschen nicht zu kaufenHabe mir daher aus Teelichthaltern (Zubehör Weihnachten) einen Adapter gebaut --> funktioniert bestens.PS: habe mi eben eine zweite Laterne bestellt

Admittedly, I bought this for the novelty of it. That said, this worked perfectly, right out of the box, and delivered far more light than I expected. Above you can contrast the lit lantern, with the light you get from the candle alone.The TEG unit itself -- the electric generator -- looks very solidly built. Lot of metal there. The rest of it, not so much. But seriously, for a $20 thermo-electric generator unit, what do you expect?The weak point is the disposable oil candle. But there are ways to avoid running through boxes of disposable oil candles. First, temporarily, it's easy enough to drill a couple of holes and refill that oil candle, as a stop-gap. Second, permanently, an internet search for Luminiser and mason jar will turn up instructions on how to a mason-jar oil candle that will run this lantern quite effectively.The third picture below is my Luminiser, running on a mason-jar oil candle base. I have removed the flimsy plastic legs as well, so mine is now basically a table lamp, sitting on a heavy oil-filled mason jar.It looks like this is on close-out, so I bought a second one (here), and a couple of packs of the "disposable" oil candles (from elsewhere, they don't seem to be offered here).FWIW, if you do the math (I did), this is a vastly more efficient light source than an Aladdin lamp or a Coleman lantern. Which would be your closest competitors for making light out of oil or kerosene. The combination of TEG plus LED is that much better than burning the oil directly for light. .

Es ist ein Thermogenerator, der aus der Energie eines Petroleumlichtes mit Peltierelementen soviel Strom generiert, das es für helles LED-Licht reicht. Man konnte bis vor einiger Zeit solche Thermogeneratoren im Internet unter dem Stichwort "Teelicht Thermogenerator" finden und auch erwerben.Wenn der kleine Behälter mit dem Petroleum aufgebraucht ist, kann er wieder mit einer Spritze und Kanüle aufgefüllt werden. Leider gibt es keine Halterung für ein Teelicht, man kann da aber sicherlich improvisieren ...Leider ist dieses Gerät nur schwer zu finden, weil die Titelbezeichung keinen Hinweis auf das Funktionsprinzip gibt ...Aus 2 Gründen daher nur 4 Sterne :- fehlende Teelichthalterung- keine lesbare Anleitung (englisch/deutsch etc.)Ansonsten klare Kaufempfehlung für solche Thermogeneratoren mit Peltierelement !