5W Rechargeable Emergency LED Light Bulbs with Back Up Battery for Power Outage, Camping, Hurricane, Disaster Planning, 40W Equivalent, UL Certified (3000K Soft White, 2-Pack)

I wish there was a more detailed user manual but admittedly I didn't look at it thoroughly the first time either. Basically it is not as straight forward as I thought. Once I get the hang of it, it was really amazing to use. The bottom line is that it needs to stay in a "closed circuit" in order to be utilized. I cannot emphasize enough the importance of it, for example, if you put the bulb in a lamp and unplug (without connecting the prones of the plug with a piece of wet cloth), it simply won't work. However, if you keep the plug inside the wall outlet, the bulb stays in a closed circuit and will work as expected when you turn on the switch. A simple way of testing the bulb to work inside a closed circuit is to use my own fingers to connect the tip and the threads of the base of the bulb - the bulb will light up. I bought these bulbs just right before we knew a planned outage was coming (this is the first time we ever felt excited about a power outage LOL). Didn't know whether the bulbs were fully charged or not, we had to keep them on for about 10 hours (so it stayed charged) in the lamp (which is how it was supposed to get charged) then turned it off. When the power outage finally came we got all excited seeing that this bulb did work as soon as we flip on the switch. some more detailed information of this bulb: the size of the bulb is identical to a regular-sized bulb which I normally use. In most of the days I used it as a regular LED bulb for energy saving purposes and it worked great, brightness was good. It can work on its battery for about 4 hours one the power is out. There a few other cool ways to use it, such as showing a nice magic trick to my son by lighting it up with my fingers, or more practically, putting on the cook-cap and carry it around as I would a lantern. I like this quality tech bulb and would recommend it to my friends.

when i first installed my lights, they flickered. I thought it was going to have to get returned. But after about 30 minutes, the flickering stopped, and they work perfectly. I'm very happy i got them.

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Won't work with any of my lamps...Most of them are 3-way lights...and older...so maybe that has something to do with it...GREAT IDEA if they worked in older lamps...THEY FLICKER...drives me nuts!! lol It is probably my lamps and NOT the bulb themselves .

I'm almost looking forward to being the only house on the street with lights the next time a large storm hits us here in New England! Our neighbor has a generator, so his place was lit up after the last storm, but the rest of us had just oil lanterns and flashlights. Our daughter and her husband didn't have power for a week, since a tree fell directly onto the power lines to their house, so I am going to be buying some of these for them soon. I really love that they are just regular lightbulbs and charge up using the normal electrical power going to your lamp! When we loose power, all I need to do is go to the lamps and switch them to battery power now! Although we're planning on buying a generator next month, mostly because it's now winter, and our heating system won't work without electricity, I know that we are going to be using these as well! Nor'easters are no joke in Massachusetts and the rest of our New England neighbors!

If anybody has this item and knows how it works please let me know. The instructions are so daggone small I can hardly read it and what I can read is in broken English and makes no sense. This was a package of two. The first one did nothing but flicker so I take that one is bad and the other one I finally got plugged in and charged for over 8 hours and it's doing nothing. I wouldn't waste my time but maybe it's just me. Everybody else seems to think this item is wonderful. And maybe it is wonderful if you can figure out how the heck it works. Contacted the company's 24/7 customer service team and I have yet to hear from them. So much for 24/7. It also says you can contact them on Facebook but there's been no activity since 2020. I guess they don't monitor that either.

I have bought MANY different brands of emergency rechargeable light bulbs, and Houlight makes the BEST! They last longer than the others, and do not malfunction like the others. They come beautifully and perfectly packaged. You can see the pride in the presentation. They are, also, reasonably priced as compared to others. We live in Florida, where storms abound, so I just leave them on 24/7. They are inexpensive to run, since they are LEDs. At night, you can throw a t-shirt over the lamp to adjust the brightness. The bulbs are plastic, so they are, virtually, unbreakable! Thank you, HOULIGHT! 💙

Hurricane weather must have! These are great to have! I have several throughout the house and have bought as gifts for several of my friends and family. Living in hurricane territory these light bulbs have been a blessing!