Lights for craft fair ?

FrannyW · September 21, 2011, 11:00:22 AM

I've signed up for a couple of Christmas Craft Fairs / Markets and I'm going to need some lights for my stall. Can anyone recommend any ? What do you use ?

Thanks
Fran

elburnzo · September 21, 2011, 11:14:45 AM

i use two of these ones from ikea

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/10146337/

light, cheap, look nice and the base isnt big so it doesnt take up much room!

ScarletLeonard · September 21, 2011, 11:15:53 AM

I used to use those led battery lights. A little angled prop at the front of the stall with about 6 lights on it all shining on the lovely pretty things.

Means you don't need a power socket and to have to go through PAT testing.
It also stops little fingers touching anything that's flat on the table.

elburnzo · September 21, 2011, 11:18:44 AM

meant to add tht i also have a set of the LED battery ones for outdoor fairs or just when i cant be bothered taking the bigger ones

jammie · September 21, 2011, 11:59:40 AM

What are the battery ones like? My lights are all in various stages of falling apart and I need some new ones.

sea-thistle · September 21, 2011, 12:28:18 PM

Quote from: elburnzo on September 21, 2011, 11:14:45 AM
i use two of these ones from ikea

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/10146337/

light, cheap, look nice and the base isnt big so it doesnt take up much room!

I've got those as well they are very good, alos some clip on lights I bought from there about 10 years or so ago, they are still going strong!! You can't buy them anymore:-(

ScarletLeonard · September 21, 2011, 03:52:54 PM

I had mine for 2 years running every weekend and they still work (we moved the lights now into various parts of the house that needed the extra.)

Lotti · September 21, 2011, 04:03:36 PM

Quote from: ScarletLeonard on September 21, 2011, 11:15:53 AM
I used to use those led battery lights. A little angled prop at the front of the stall with about 6 lights on it all shining on the lovely pretty things.

Means you don't need a power socket and to have to go through PAT testing.
It also stops little fingers touching anything that's flat on the table.

Where can you get those from, I like the idea of battery, specially in places where they charge an arm and a leg for a plug and/or there aren't any!

tinker · September 21, 2011, 04:06:42 PM

You can get them from Hobbycraft with the daylight bulbs in, I think they're about £10 each though

Lotti · September 21, 2011, 04:12:16 PM

Quote from: tinker on September 21, 2011, 04:06:42 PM
You can get them from Hobbycraft with the daylight bulbs in, I think they're about £10 each though

Thanks.

ScarletLeonard · September 21, 2011, 04:39:23 PM

asda - £2-3 each.

jammie · September 21, 2011, 06:33:16 PM

Aha! Thanks.

Blue Box Studio · September 21, 2011, 06:48:40 PM

I usually use whatever Homebase has with a long bendy neck so I can get it angled to where I want. Then I discovered these http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/00169635 - and now I've discovered they are in a sale, DH will be going to Ikea again very soon. The freestanding version isn't bad either.

Steampunkglass · September 21, 2011, 07:40:59 PM

I got some clip on lights from b&q a while ago - might also be worth checking with the fair/ markets as a lot of them ask for them to be PAT tested or/and have low energy lamps to reduce the load on the circuits

Blue Box Studio · September 21, 2011, 08:05:23 PM

I get mine PAT tested, for my own safety as well as anyone elses - a big crate of lights and leads costs me about £25 a year. At least I know I am safe after they've been roughly shoved around for a year. Having said that, the last company that did them said it was a waste of time for lamps wioth 2 core flexes and the test looks for loose earth wires? I do them because I have to, but is that right?