Or this:  100 solar LED
lights!<http://www.amazon.com/Solar-Powered-Christmas-Lights-String/dp/B0030AZ4IA>
With that, I'm glad they ran out of 12 volt lights when I wanted them!
Patti
90 Westy Automatic

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 12:01 PM, B Feddish <bfeddish@netreach.net> wrote:

> How about http://tinyurl.com/2wa7boz  ....
>
> Bryan
>
> > >
> > > Richard Koerner wrote:
> > >
> > >> Went camping recently, had shore A/C power at the campground, and ran
> > >> a string of white Christmas lights outside the vanagon laid on the
> > >> ground....just for the fun of it.... but provides just the right
> > >> amount of light for illuminating the area. Girlfriend likes it, too;
> > >> now, she wants them all the time, even when out in the middle of
> > >> nowhere.
> > >>
> > >> I have an aux battery per the GoWesty kit. So one option is to run
> > >> the Christmas lights off a 120 VAC inverter.....easy smeasy I guess
> > >> to do that. The other option is to "rewire" the string of lights so
> > >> as to directly operate off 12 VDC; my string has 50 bulbs so normally
> > >> 120V divided by 50 is 2.4 volts per lightbulb....thus need to "group"
> > >> about 6 or 7 bulbs in series across the 12 volts of the auxillary
> > >> battery. Yes, much more hassle than simply using the inverter, but
> > >> probably more electrically efficient, and I could "derate" the bulbs
> > >> by putting them in groups of 8 or 9 thus with slightly dimmer light.
> > >>
> > >> Anyway, I suppose a third option is to buy 12VDC Christmas lights
> > >> from someplace....they must be available. But that takes all the
> > >> challenge out of it!
> > >>
> > >> Just wondering if the List has any clever ideas on this; basically it
> > >> provides low-cost, pleasant, lighting around the campsite in the
> > >> immediate vicinity of the slider door area. So would candles and a
> > >> kerosene lantern I guess.....but candles blow out, and don't want to
> > >> carry 2 or 3 kerosene lanterns, too bulky.
> > >>
> > >> Rich 85 Vanagon San Diego
> >
>