DIY Carbon Pole for 3F Lanshan 2 Tent

I made one myself, the weight of the major raw materials:

Finished product, first generation:

It was first tested in 長咀 and the wind was exceptionally strong!  So, it's well tested in the first time!

After initial testing, I further enhance it later like this with scratch parts at home:

It should be better for fixing on the land, and better protecting the tent on top.

New camping headlamp and fixing the old one (Nitecore)

My trusty headlamp has its mounting damaged during the last camping trip, I packed my stuff too tight.

Anyway, I tried to fix it and here's the process.

This is how it breaks, I tried to glue the broken part back, but it does not work well.

So, I took the plunge to remove it altogether, and then flatten the surface:

And then I will need to find replacement part and the plastic mounting seems to work?

So, I remove one of the mounting holes to be attached on my headlamp back plate:

Given two flattened surface, glue worked far better.

I tried to put the headlamp in different angles and the adjustment mechanism work just fine, and it stayed in place in all the click stop positions.

Of course, it's not original and it's going to fail again without warning.  So I decided to use it only for camping or stargazing, and when I won't need to depend on it for safety.

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Since reliability is important during night camping, especially sometimes I will go after sunset, so the light has to be trusty during night hiking and camp setup.

So here's my new headlamp, also from Nitecore:

This one is lighter, but the battery life is very similar.  Far more than enough for night camping or overnight hiking trip.

It has no red light mode, and it only got a single button.  The mounting plastic has a lot of holes to reduce the weight, so it's absolutely a light weight headlamp.

When fully retracted in the home position, there's a small cover to protect the button from being accidentally pressed.  Really nice!

The headlamp strap is improved as well.

Note their difference in weight:

16g reduction is significant given their base weight.

DIY Camping Lamp from useless stuff

I've found two pieces of lithium battery from old mobile phone.

A charging circuit board from a dead battery pack.



And a LED panel from a dead desktop light.



By adding a simple switch, a new camping light were born:

I made a paper box to cover the battery.

With this battery pack charging circuit, the charging speed is now faster.

I used a mobile phone mounting to fix it on a small tripod, and then to use it in actual scenario.

It has been over 8 hours and it's still up and kicking.

More than enough for overnight camping.

Weight reduction, some DIY work

Drilled some holes around the handle of my pan, forget to record the weight before.

I believe around 2-3g and maybe 5g maximum?  Anyway, it's easy and no harm to the functionality.

I am not those kind of ultra-light person, I just want more weight reduction for easier hiking, and maybe even bring more stuff or food.

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I checked the original weight from the manufacturer, and they said 40g.  So the weight reduction is 5g which means 12.5%.

凝視死亡

年紀大了，人理應更累，但睡得卻更少

年紀大了，人理應更愛惜光陰，但卻會偷例凝視死亡，或許罪積累多了

Going ultra-light, the purpose

I bought titanium cookware, even my stoves were titanium.

I bought and DIY carbon fibre stuff.

I bought ultra-light backpacks.

Of course, I could go farther, I could hike more for camping.

However, sometimes I still carry as heavy as before.

So, I know there exists as least two different purpose for going ultra-light:

1. To go farther... as you carry lighter, in that case, a smaller backpack would help.

2. To bring more stuff!  as the base weight becomes lighter, you could bring more stuff.

More camping stuff: like food, and more cookware for cooking different stuff.

More non-camping stuff: like a telescope, ukulele, cameras, or even a drone.

As a result, if you're targeting (2), don't buy anything that's light but uncomfortable, let say a small tent.

雲量與溫度

日間雲量多，遮敝日光，溫度下降；日間雲量少，太陽直射，溫度上升。

晚間原來剛好相反！

雲量增多，熱量流失減慢，溫度上升；雲量減少，熱量幅射至外太空，溫度下降。

某晚去露營既親身經歷，非常明顯既效應。

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密雲時甚至可以去到 15 度！