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Battery powered safelight
I wanna turn the toilet in uni into a darkroom. Do battery powered safelights exist or did I dream it up?! They must surely, what should I be looking for?
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Have you considered using a battery powered light, covered with amberlith or rubilith?
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I use a red Petzl headlamp sometimes which works well (http://www.petzl.com/en/outdoor/head.../-elite/signal). Also, some people have had good luck using LED bicycle tail lights.
Jobo has made some battery powered safelights as well.
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My sister had a battery powered wall light, when she died I was given it, it would be easy to fit inside a safelight housing, they sell in the UK quite cheaply.
Ian
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Change the batteries after each seesion if you go that way. Be a bummer losing your light source halfway through a session. But it's a great idea.
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Use rechargeable batteries 
Ian
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I used a red led bike taillight (as someone mentioned) in a dark red plastic bicycle water bottle (do you see a theme?). It worked really well. Just the tail light produced some fogging, in the water bottle housing it didn't and the light got more even. They have a good life span, those small leds.
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Do you not have a darkroom you can use at the university?
Tom
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 Originally Posted by Tom Kershaw
Do you not have a darkroom you can use at the university?
Tom
Yeah, but its on a different campus, not the site where the studio is. It's 5 mins up the road. Seeing as I'll be doing collodion speed is of the essence! I'm going to buy one of those cycling/fishing headlamps but it'd be nice to have another less directed light source besides. Some of these ideas are real good cheers.
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There is a British battery-powered LED safelight that one wears around one's neck, but I can't remember who makes it. Maybe someone else will know.
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