No electricity - what do you find the best option for lighting stables

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At the moment laying on electricity will be next year and I have to get through this winter.

I want to provide lighting for 2 x 12 by 12 wooden stables, what do you use and found to be the best option.I want it as light as possible as I have a rodent phobia!
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CANDLES! (haha, no totally joking!)

Ermm.......... if its just whilst you are working in the stable, you can buy battery run laterns which give out loads of light!

why are you not getting leccy?!
 
My friend has solar panels on her stable roof,cant remember the make etc,but they do give a lot of light she has 3 stables and a tack room and a plug socket for a kettle.
 
I used a small generator until my electric was connected. I have tbh in that I didn't get on with it as it was so loud. You can get silent ones but I didn't want to spend the money on something so temporary.
 
You can run a 12 volt LED or halogen lighting system off a car battery (either recharged with a photovoltaic cell or have two and take one home and charge it up). Our friend who lives in the sticks out here has this lighting for his whole house! Checkout camping and caravan websites -or if you or someone you know are handy, you can knock a system up very easily with a set of those halogen lights that have a transformer for use on a 240V system.
 
hi, we haven't got electric and just use headlamps that you can get from camping shops. they are very useful & means that you are hands free !! horses don't seem to mind them either.

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Hubby rigged up an old car headlight in the roof which clipped on to a car battery. It lasted for weeks before needing charging, then we just took the battery home and charged it in the shed overnight.
We got the battery from our local garage out of a scrapped car.
The light was brilliant..... the horses did'nt mind and it cost us nothing.
 
Oooh thanks for those ideas,

Lucy-Nottingham, not having electricity is down to funding at the moment, I have just splashed out on 3 acres of land , 2 stables plus tack room, as yet I haven't found a money tree.
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but i keep looking !
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I've tried a few things, but the bestest ever thing is my headtorch. Everything else is just inferior, particularly when hunting out poo pellets that his Lordship has walked into his bed! Ponies don't seem to mind Mum have a glowing head and I don't have to bother switching things off and on as I move around from stable to feed room etc.
 
I find a halo works well although the saintly behaviour required along with the incessant need for prayer can be a bit of a draw back. If the halo slips or dims just say a few hail maries and be kind to some orphans. Hope this helps..Vetman
 
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I find a halo works well although the saintly behaviour required along with the incessant need for prayer can be a bit of a draw back. If the halo slips or dims just say a few hail maries and be kind to some orphans. Hope this helps..Vetman

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Top idea!!!!!
 
Maplin do an inverter circa £30 which clips onto a spare car battery and then you can plug in any normal 3 pin 240volt lights/clippers etc
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We also run our mains electric fencing off it and find it lasts around 4 days before we need to recharge it
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Anything designed for campers worked best for us when at old yard, now have smelly loud gene but it'll all wired up and gives us floodlights so i'm not complaining!
I had a miners headlamp last winter to muck out with on my head, made everything that little bit brighter!!
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I got a generrator and a set of 10 lights on a very long cable.
cable and lights were enough to light 3x 12x12 stables and a large store ( light set purchased from Arco) about £55. with bulbs and protective cages.
They are fab and extreamly light had them up for 2 yrs now and no problems at all.
Good luck.
 
the neighbour has a generator, she has proper lights insidfe and out, but before she got the genny she had wind-up-powered lannterns you get from camping shops etc
 
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