“Yeah, multiple candles around the house including bedrooms. WTF could go wrong????”
I’ve already said one would have to be smarter than a flower pot to use this. Evidently, you are not. I have gobs of jar candles and am smart enough to know no candle is left by itself - I will be where the lit candle is or it is not lit.
IIRC there was mention on this site that you had posted a very useful thread or post on rechargeable small batteries. If so maybe you could repost a link.
Anyway, here’s a lessons learned tip.
We get frequent power outages in our area that have nothing to do with storms. Just outdate equipment and lines designed for 1950’s home, not the power hogs of today.
For just lighting went through candles, kerosene light, propane camping lights. All combustion lights have there drawbacks, fuel storage hazard, smell, CO. & CO2 potential.
Then came the cheap LED puck lights. First generation pretty shoddy. Newer ones much better. Installed several under kitchen cabinets, roughly no mare than 15” apart. It’s very bright at counter level. And the are always there. No panicked rummaging and every one knows exactly where they are. Every bookcase has 2 with light directed upwards.
Thing is that the lose effective working light levels but there’s still juice in those AA’s & D’s. So I worked out a cascading system swapping batteries from high effective power use to medium to low.
Example LED patio light uses 8 D cells, lasts about 3 months with light usage. As light level dims, the slightly used batteries go to 30 year old radio casette player. Five D’s run radio only 10 to 12 hrs a day for more than a week. Used AA’s go to smaller radios
Than the price of solar patio LED lights dropped like a stone, less than $5 each. Usually powered by NiCad AA.
I swapped out Eneloops for longer life. But the really cheap lights were better used indoors as night step lights. With the AA now at the bottom of the food chain, in these cheap fixtures they provide low level amber colred light fot 10 to 12 hrs before they’re completely depleted, that’s non-rechargeable throw aways. Light enough not to step on the home critters and a small soul heartening glow. The same circuit that activates the light at dark works well inside.
When we throw away a battery there’s not enough juice to seduce a firefly.
That’s my strategy for what it’s worth.
Oh, a roll of Visqueen and a few rolls of painters tape work better than tea candles. Apply to inside of window as additional thermal/draft barriers. Then add combustion heat as required. In any casr one will need far less. $30 Coleman camp propane heats a 20x20 room to 58 degrees in zero degree weather. Fourteen hours on 1 lb bottle. Not toasty but it’s winter isn’t.