Flickering Electric Lantern?

1502 Views 7 Replies 6 Participants Last post by TwistedDementia, Jul 1, 2007

Eric Striffler

Discussion Starter · Jun 29, 2007

I'm hoping to have the guy at the entrance to our exhibit this year have a lantern, but it would be cooler if it flickers as though there's a flame inside! I can live with a regular steady glow, but yeah haha.
Do they sell these? I'm assuming they do, but they're probably realllly lame looking.
Or is there any other way I could achieve this effect (short of a real flame lol)?

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Frighteners Entertainment

· #2 · Jun 29, 2007

Erick with no K, I think I have a few left.
Here's a link to making one yourself and a short vid clip to show what it should look like.
http://www.thefrighteners.com/FlickerLantern.htm

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Otaku

· #3 · Jun 29, 2007

There's lots of ways to do this. Do you want to use 110AC bulbs or LEDs?

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GOT

· #4 · Jun 30, 2007

They sell LED candels now (not very bright but if one of those would fit, it would be fast and easy).

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Otaku

· #5 · Jul 1, 2007

I use the LED flickering tea lights. I change the wimpy LED to a 10,000 mcd and cut in a 4AA battery pack. Some are really easy to hack. Use some small colored diffusers to spread the light around. If you use a spray-on glass frosting coating it'll look good, too.

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Sickie Ickie

· #6 · Jul 1, 2007

I bought out walgreens when they had the led tea candles. They actually had them cheaper than the maker sells them for!

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Otaku

· #7 · Jul 1, 2007

Dollar Store has some that cycle through 3 different colors. That'd be kinda strange for a lantern, though.

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TwistedDementia

· #8 · Jul 1, 2007

You could always hack a McDonalds led toy.

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