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Post by lucanidae25 on Sept 9, 2011 4:32:41 GMT -8
It's easy to do light triping with in your country but It's not possible to bring a generator to overeas, I want to know how others do their light triping overseas with out a generator?
I use 125W MV light with 10M extention cord, 3x 12" 8W Handheld UV Blacklight that uses 8x AA batteries each 24x AA all together, also a twin 60mm 20W rechargeable fluorescent light.
Raymond
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Post by africaone on Sept 9, 2011 5:07:37 GMT -8
I try to find someone who has a genarator in the country where i go.
Otherwise I buy a low cost one that I let there after (generally offered to the guide). The low cost one is just enough for a trip (as it becomes very quickly unefficient !)
Thierry
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Post by lepidofrance on Sept 9, 2011 5:23:41 GMT -8
 Two possibilities: I either carry one with me on the plane, provided that the generator is new and have never contained fuel. or I buy a cheap (almost always is a Chinese) in the country of destination and offer someone the day I left (in Indonesia, I let a local correspondent for the next travel). If a go to french Guyane, I know that most of the forest lodges offer such opportunities for night collecting ! Anyway, you must carry the bulbs, generally difficult to find and buy in the collecting country ! 
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Post by lepidofrance on Sept 9, 2011 5:32:56 GMT -8
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Post by lucanidae25 on Sept 9, 2011 6:18:50 GMT -8
My front and back packs are already more than 24kg, just all collecting equipments. It's not possible for me to bring another 20kg generator and traveling on bus in Asia. I know the Chinese one is cheap but it's just too heavy to bring plus my back pack.
Raymond
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Post by timoinsects on Sept 12, 2011 8:49:53 GMT -8
overseas night trap with out a generator,you did not ever thought to use the electricity from the local people's home? butt the electricity power socket perhaps are different types from different countries? as you have been to some asian countries,the socket were all same? or different so how do you slove this problem?
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Post by lucanidae25 on Sept 12, 2011 16:37:42 GMT -8
I do use electricity from the locals but their electricity go up and down, switchs my light on and off all the time. Power socket isn't the problem, the real problem is back out in the remote places. I had 3 days back out in Yunnan China this year but luckily I had the 3 Handheld UV Blacklights.
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Post by Khalid Fadil on Sept 12, 2011 21:37:02 GMT -8
I just hope the place I'm going to has a power source! ;D I've been lucky so far...
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Post by Chris Grinter on Sept 12, 2011 21:48:22 GMT -8
Whenever I'm facing an overseas trip with uncertain power I always bring UV lights with my small sealed lead acid batteries that you can fly with. They run about $35 apiece and 2 batteries connected together will run a 15w light for two nights of sheeting or 8w light for 4 (provided you don't stay up all night). This way at the least I can have batteries to keep me going for 4 nights - and then you have to find to a hotel to charge up again.
And if you get lucky and have main power you can run the big light there and use the smaller lights for remote sheets/sample different habitats. Or just keep them for backups when that tropical rain busts your mercury vapor gear.
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Post by lucanidae25 on Sept 12, 2011 22:45:34 GMT -8
In some countries small lead acid batteries are banned on flights all togrther ie India.......
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Post by africaone on Sept 12, 2011 23:01:37 GMT -8
they are not secrets, if you want to make good night catching, you have to accept to take a minimum of material with you ! Today it is possible to buy light generators of some kgs only, but it costs.
This one of the reasons they are so few nights catchers under tropics (too havy for travelling), it is easier to take a net only and hunt by day !
night catchings under tropics is not an easy work.
Thierry
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Post by lucanidae25 on Sept 12, 2011 23:18:41 GMT -8
What I found is 8W UV lights are only good for collecting moths but not bright enough to collect Lucanidae, you really need a MV light with very long extention cord.
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Post by Khalid Fadil on Sept 13, 2011 18:39:10 GMT -8
they are not secrets, if you want to make good night catching, you have to accept to take a minimum of material with you ! Today it is possible to buy light generators of some kgs only, but it costs. This one of the reasons they are so few nights catchers under tropics (too havy for travelling), it is easier to take a net only and hunt by day ! night catchings under tropics is not an easy work. Thierry I live in the tropics, so I have full access to all of them! ;D ;D ;D |
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Post by Khalid Fadil on Sept 13, 2011 18:46:13 GMT -8
My front and back packs are already more than 24kg, just all collecting equipments. It's not possible for me to bring another 20kg generator and traveling on bus in Asia. I know the Chinese one is cheap but it's just too heavy to bring plus my back pack. Raymond Why so heavy? I hardly get anywhere near that weight whenever I go collecting... |
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Post by nomihoudai on Sept 14, 2011 6:31:49 GMT -8
Maybe you are doing something wrong Khalid ?  Last trip I went I carried 45 kg with 3 friends up a mountain in Switzerland. |
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Last trip I went I carried 45 kg with 3 friends up a mountain in Switzerland.