UCOStakeLight Tent Stake with LED Light and Emergency Strobe

They're definite keepers.In addition to lighting the tent area, these do a GREAT job of making tent stakes and guy lines visible at night. No more 'line paranoia' and cursing when you step out of the tent into the guy wires in the middle of the night.The stakes are V-shaped and don't bend like cheap stakes.The top of each stake has holes for a guy line as well as a hooked head to handle any rope/guy-line need.A FEW TIPSIf you strain to pull the rubber-enclosed lamp off the stake, be easy on it. No need to squeeze it so hard. It should slide off gently. But there's enough resistance to keep its place during use.There are no instructions on the package to insert the 1 AAA battery into each lamp. The web site has a single sentence, but I'd replace it with: 1) Pry the black rubber housing away from the white plastic lamp. 2) Do it gently so you don't unseat the black rectangular, piece within. Both minor tips. But if you only buy one, you don't have a clue which direction the two-toothed piece should point if it pops out (tip: the teeth go toward the stake, not toward the battery). I wanted to take off a star due to this confusion, but the rest of the product is too good.OTHER THOUGHTSLike most real stakes, these are too wide to fit into the small, pencil-sized holes on many tents. Use them like real stakes to tie your guy lines through for strong, solid mounts.They'll run in strobe mode for 24 hours. Always-on mode for 10 hours.The white lamp assembly is completely enclosed in black rubber sealing it from even the worst of rainstorms. The lights are bright enough you probably wouldn't want to point them inward toward your tent. But the light dissipates enough that you won't be illuminating the neighboring campsite when turned outward.Overall - a good buy for illuminated stakes that are also remarkably sturdy.

Love these , very bright!

ok.. just got through a weekend camping trip with these. Make sure you don't hammer them down too hard cause if you hit a rock, they bend. In my opinion they should have left out the holes at the bottom of the stake. That's exactly where two of mine bent hitting a hard spot as hard as I usually do with my ground hog stakes. I sorta straightened them out with a multitool but you can tell the aluminum was weakened. I'm just going to relegate the stakes to backup or loaner duty. So the stakes for me were meh. The lights were what I really wanted anyway. They aren't perfect but they work really well. There is a plastic insert that plugs up the rubber housing behind the battery compartment. Not sure of it's use but it falls out easily. I might glue it in. Not sure what it's really for other than to fall out when changing batteries. I think it's to keep water out but why have the hole in the first place? On strobe mode my buddies say it looks like a airport landing strip. (I purchased 2 sets) Makes it real easy to locate camp too. In the end.. I ended up not using the stakes but running some paracord hitched through the light housing along with a cord squeeze lock and caribiner. I can now attach them anywhere like my hammock ridgeline or off my ground hog stakes. So.. to be fair, just taking one off for the stakes. They are serviceable if you are careful but the lights are real handing in not tripping up on guy lines, finding camp, etc. I can't comment on battery life since the batteries I used were suspect and it was very cold outside. I may update the review after a few trips with the lights.

Good light very easy to see helps keep the campsite safe at night would buy again!!

Helps to have a night light around the tent

Awesome light. Single AAA battery, which is so much more convenient than 2032's. Flash mode is bright and truly a flash, unlike most which cycle 50%. Installed a couple Kam-snaps on the light and dog's collar for the best dog light anywhere. Stake is large and thus heavier than would normally be carried, but as a cat-hole digger, it's ok (19g).One suggestion would be to use a clear lens for less diffusion? One supposes a tent-stake light requires less light and more diffusion, but most other applications clear would be better? Second suggestion, lose the little plastic bar behind the light. It doesn't work, is fiddley and worst, it breaks any possibility of waterproofness.

Safety is always my concern when camping, and this SEEMS to show promise. But it will only be useful for soft ground/turf, such as a suburban back yard. In all the campsites I've ever encountered, the local rocks magically migrate to your precise tent site.I now direct your attention to a comparison of the product photo and my picture. Notice the attractive designs at the point, which completely negate the stability of the point. A STEEL stake designed this way would be nearly as likely to end up like my picture, and this was taken AFTER I attempted to straighten it.That being said, the light that attaches to the stake is a good balance between bright and night-blinding. Although I can imagine no circumstance where the strobe would be useful - on or off only, please. Or possibly on-white/on-red/off.Just -- let's put the light on a USEFUL and sturdy stake, please.

siempre en algun momento te tropiezas con las estacas y hasta peligroso es, en este caso van a estar iluminadas, dan la sensación de seguridad y se ve cool.

Absolutely great concept for stopping people tripping up on your guy ropes.

Just took these away for a week camping, to use as markers for tent pegs and guy lines. They work pretty well for that, but they are not really area lights. What I did find is that the switch on these is VERY sensitive - DO NOT carry these in your gear with the battery in place, even bumping them together is sometimes enough to turn them on, so if you don't want to be carrying a great load of spare batteries with you, carry the battery/s separately (say, in a zip lock bag) then only put them in when you are going to use them.

Klasse Beleuchtung für so kleine LED. Die Batterie hält zwar nur zwei Tage aber dennoch klasse. Habe die Dinger auch im Regen getestet. Einfach klasse👌👌👌

普通のペグ通り簡単に使えてかなり良かったです！ライトもなかなか明るくて申し分ない！