LED camp lights have without a doubt taking the camping scene by storm! Just about every single campsite setup in Australia now runs LED camp lights, because there are so many benefits to led camping lights over ‘traditional’ halogen camp lights or even the old style gas-powered lights. It’s easy to see just how bright you can light your camp with one of the different types of led camp lights from 4WD Supacentre, but here’s a few other reasons why led camp lights are the way to go around camp. It’s no secret that we love LED lights here at 4WD Supacentre, and with good reason!

1.THEY DRAW BUGGER-ALL POWER
The thing that really sets led camp lights apart from halogen camp lights is how little power they draw. Old-style halogen lights literally convert electricity into light by pumping it through a small filament, with a huge amount of that power being lost as waste heat. LED camp lights use a tiny percentage of that power to simply ignite the tiny diode that creates the light, with very little electricity being wasted through heat. That’s why you can leave LED camp lights on all night you won’t flatten your deep cycle AGM battery anywhere nearly as quickly as you would with halogen camp lights. You can even get away with running a strip or two of LED camp lights off a starter battery if you only have one battery in your vehicle, without seriously risking not being able to start your car in the morning. We still advise that you should sooner or later invest in a dual-battery system though.

2.WHITE LIGHT’S GOOD FOR YOUR EYES
It’s a scientific fact that white light is cooler on the colour spectrum than yellow light, and the cooler the light is, the better it is for your eyes. If you suffer from eye strain or wear glasses or contacts, then LED camp lights can substantially reduce the strain on your eyes around camp. If you like to kick back after dinner and read a book or the newspaper then this will be very much noticeable. Compared to the yellow light that halogen camp lights puts out, you’ll see the difference (no pun intended!) that switching to LED camp lights has after your very first night’s camping.

On the spectrum of light colour(Kelvin), a typical halogen bulb ends up being somewhere near 3200K which is a warm orange colour, however the closer to 6000K light is the more like midday sunlight it is, meaning your eyes aren’t strained trying to make out details in the shadows.

3.THEY CAN KEEP BUGS AT BAY!
We all hate camping around bugs, and we can’t always camp inside a mozzie net either! If you’re camping up through the Top End or just anywhere that lights attract bugs, then you’ll want to take a look at a brand new product we’ve just released here at 4WD Supacentre. The new Orange LED Camp Light Extension Kit plugs into our four or five bar led camp light kits and provides you with an orange light for around camp that will attract substantially less bugs. That’s because they can’t see the orange light as clearly, meaning your camp stays bug-free for longer!

4.THEY DON’T ADD TO THE HEAT
When you’re sweating your way through another breezeless night camping, you don’t want to add to the heat! Halogen and gas-powered camp lights are notorious for emitting immense amounts of heat when they’re being used. Hands up if you’ve ever walked past your old halogen camp lights and felt the beads of sweat instantly appear? That’s because so much energy is being wasted by a halogen light, turned into heat instead of light. The end result a sweatbox of a campsite, but it doesn’t have to be! LED camp lights create very little heat during their operation, definitely nothing anywhere compared to halogen or gas powered camp lights. That means your campsite stays cooler without having to turn the lights off!

5.THEY’RE INCREDIBLY EASY TO BUILD UPON
The beaut part about the four and five bar LED camp light kits from 4WD Supacentre is that they are all modular, and they plug together. That means if your mate has one of our led camp light kits, you can join them together to light up an entire campsite! Run as little or as many as you want, and dim them or brighten them to your own liking with the included dimmers.