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Looking for battery powered LED stand light recommendations for use on a portable stand outside after dark this summer.

I've been happy with the Mighty Bright lights, though there are plenty of alternatives. For more compact use there's http://www.amazon.com/Mighty-Bright-518 ... tand+light with 2 LEDs in each head, two light levels for each head, and an included power adapter.

The best I've come across by far is the Mighty Bright Orchestra Light with included case and adapter http://www.amazon.com/Mighty-Bright-Orc ... tand+light. The Orchestra's adapter has an unusually long cord, which makes it much more convenient to use. It also has 2 power levels, and the brighter one is VERY bright and has great light distribution. LED lights don't have the heat issues of incandescent lights. Both lights can be run with batteries instead of the adapters.

I used the Amazon links for convenience, but these and other lights can be found in many places. There are cheaper lights than these, but I particularly like these two.

When my vintage 'Lampcraft' stand lights bite the dust I'm going to buy the Mighty Brite ones mentioned above. I've seen them and they appear to be the best thing currently out there.

IF you ever run across any new old stock of the Lampcraft 'Concertlight II' stand lights, I would like to know about it. They were around about ten years ago and incorporate a metal halide lamp and use a rechargeable camcorder battery. Quite expensive at $129 but mine have really been through the mill and still working great.

This is the best one I have seen by far. It lights the whole stand from far left side to far right with no gaps.

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I have the Mighty Bright Duet lights. They are ok. They use 3 AAA batteries. When the power gets low, only 1 of the two lights will work.
The Mighty Bright Orchestra light is much brighter- you could flag down a plane with it! It is a bit bigger and heavier and uses 3 AA batteries. I would have bought one of these had I known about it before I got the Duet Lights.

Whoa, there's an adapter cord? (Not like I'm ever near an outlet, but still...)

I second the recommendation for the Mighty Bright Orchestra light. It has 9 leds which give off a nice even coverage of light. It also has a black flange that protrudes down some to keep the light from shining into the audience. I've had three different models of the "mighty bright" stand lights and this one is the best!

EDIT: I was mistaken in my earlier post on the subject.

I haven't seen one in person yet; but these look interesting (and expensive): https://www.tripletlight.com/.

I see cords in the pictures and no explanation as to power source. Does anyone know if the tripletlight can be battery powered?

tbn.al wrote:I see cords in the pictures and no explanation as to power source. Does anyone know if the tripletlight can be battery powered?

The designer & inventor of THIS product (NOT the Aria as I incorrectly posted earlier - I was mistaken) came to 'my' orchestra some months ago (maybe nearly a year ago?) to demo the product for me when it was still in the prototype stage. At the time, they had one model and it was really, really expensive at more than $200 each considering that I can buy 'universal klip lights' for $20 each (retail) and get them closer to $15 each if I buy them direct in bulk. Triplet is an incredible light that's very well built and lights the page very well, but it's too expensive to buy them to outfit an orchestra where I would need to order at least 120 units to cover everyone and have some spares on hand.

I told them at the time that while they have a great product, it is simply too expensive relative to the competition in the market and that, generally speaking, the much less expensive competition is "good enough" for most users. Based on their website, it seems that most other orchestra administrators feel the same way.

They version they brought me had an AC adapter for power.

I used to use the Mighty Bright and was happy enough with it in various gigging situations (dim rehearsal halls to onstage with rock band).

Then I found this, the Super GigLight: http://www.amazon.com/Hal-Leonard-Super ... roduct_top

No going back. This is a serious light. But you better be using a real music stand (Manhasset or the like) 'cause it's heavy.

Trevor Bjorklund wrote:I used to use the Mighty Bright and was happy enough with it in various gigging situations (dim rehearsal halls to onstage with rock band).

Then I found this, the Super GigLight: http://www.amazon.com/Hal-Leonard-Super ... roduct_top

No going back. This is a serious light. But you better be using a real music stand (Manhasset or the like) 'cause it's heavy.

Aha! This is the same light I purchased from LampCraft a number of years ago as the 'Super GigLight'. It has been my go-to portable stand light ever since. LampCraft now sells a 'Fermata' portable stand light that isn't nearly as convenient to fold up and transport because it's a goose neck design, is as expensive and bright with again 4 AA batteries, and is well supported (they just replaced mine when poor battery contacts caused overheating and melted the case.) I wondered why they discontinued the 'Super GigLight', and now I know. They must have sold their entire inventory to Hal Leonard who blurred the photo in the ad just enough to obscure the 'LampCraft' trademark beneath 'GigLight'.

I just compared the 'Super GigLight' and 'Fermata' outputs and they're very similar, although the Fermata has three brightness settings whereas the Super GigLight has none. Even the 'Might Bright Duet Super LED' with only 3 AAA batteries can't hold a candle to either of the 4AA workhorses. The number and size of batteries determines the maximum output from these LED stand lights. They are always hooked up in parallel, so the voltage remains the same but the wattage increases as more batteries are added.

A few years ago I destroyed my original LampCraft battery/AC powered stand light when I tried to adjust the angle of the light and cracked the case beyond repair. A search led me to the Aria Diva which is darn-near perfect as a permanent stand light. I don't want or need to carry around a full-sized battery powered Brio, but it's an expensive option for those who do. Here is a comparison chart of Arialights' offerings.

If blinding the audience is not a factor, I use a headlamp. When we do our "play and run" Christmas caroling all over the city, going from house to house, we use these. The people are usually off to the side, and the headlamps are very easy to deal with, lighting up exactly where we are looking and we don't even have to take them off when we pile back in the car.

schlepporello wrote:They came in this week. One of them worked fine right out of the box, but had a mini-screw rolling around in the lamp head. Quick fix with a micron screwdriver. The other one had a red wire that had come loose from the battery pack. I whipped out my CB radio approved soldering iron and got that fixed. Now I've got 2 great lights!

I bought two lights off Ebay. I had to reglue one of the lamps heads back into the body. After that... both lights and power supplies worked fine but one of the power cords was a dud. It's a damned shame that this Chinese crap doesn't work right out of the box. http://www.ebay.com/itm/261325063359?_t ... EBIDX%3AIT
Can't expect much for $10 I guess.

I still like my ConcertLights by Lampcraft best but those have not been available for many years.

I've used the Mighty Bright Duet, the Orchestra model, and another that hasn't been mentioned--the Encore. The Duet model didn't light things up as much as I would have liked. I use the Orchestra Model all the time at home and it's great. I pack an Encore model (which has 6 led lights instead of 9 like the Orchestra) in my travel bag. It's smaller than the Orchestra model, but bathes the music stand with light nicely. It comes with the long power cord adapter, but the batteries really last a long time, so I rarely use it. And it's cheaper than the orchestra model at $36. I couldn't find it on Amazon, but is available at Musicians Friend: http://www.musiciansfriend.com/accessor ... et="_blank

Tom

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I have been using this light for the past 2 years without ANY problems at all.
Great quality & you can't beat the price!

The Encore light with 6 LEDs is available at Amazon here. (~$28)