Light Up Tent Stakes

Product Description

The UCO StakeLight is a unique tent stake with a built-in LED light to provide area lighting around your tent. The 17 lumens of light can help you locate your tent in the dark and alert campers to the presence of tent guy lines. Switch to strobe mode to help locate your tent over longer distances in the backcountry. The StakeLight LED provides up to 10 hours of continuous light or up to 24 hours of light in the strobe mode. Each StakeLight is powered by 1 AAA conventional battery (sold separately) and is encased in a highly water-resistant TPE housing (IPX 6). The StakeLight is constructed from durable, lightweight 6000-series aluminum. Each stake is 9-Inch long and weighs just 1.3 ounces (36g) without battery.

Features

• Crafted from the highest quality materials
• Built for performance and durability
• Made in China
• Area mode provides 17 lumens of light and burns for up to 10 hours
• Strobe mode marks tent location and burns for up to 24 hours
• Constructed from durable 6000 series aluminum
• Each StakeLight powered by 1 AAA battery (sold separately); on/off switch is integrated into the lens
• LED enclosed in highly water-resistant TPE housing (IPX 6)

Top Reviews

Really Good - but a Few Tips
by dugn (5 out of 5 stars)
May 27, 2014

They're definite keepers.

In addition to lighting the tent area, these do a GREAT job of making tent stakes and guy lines visible at night. No more 'line paranoia' and cursing when you step out of the tent into the guy wires in the middle of the night.

The stakes are V-shaped and don't bend like cheap stakes.

The top of each stake has holes for a guy line as well as a hooked head to handle any rope/guy-line need.

A FEW TIPS

If you strain to pull the rubber-enclosed lamp off the stake, be easy on it. No need to squeeze it so hard. It should slide off gently. But there's enough resistance to keep its place during use.

There are no instructions on the package to insert the 1 AAA battery into each lamp. The web site has a single sentence, but I'd replace it with: 1) Pry the black rubber housing away from the white plastic lamp. 2) Do it gently so you don't unseat the black rectangular, piece within. Both minor tips. But if you only buy one, you don't have a clue which direction the two-toothed piece should point if it pops out (tip: the teeth go toward the stake, not toward the battery). I wanted to take off a star due to this confusion, but the rest of the product is too good.

OTHER THOUGHTS

Like most real stakes, these are too wide to fit into the small, pencil-sized holes on many tents. Use them like real stakes to tie your guy lines through for strong, solid mounts.

They'll run in strobe mode for 24 hours. Always-on mode for 10 hours.

The white lamp assembly is completely enclosed in black rubber sealing it from even the worst of rainstorms. The lights are bright enough you probably wouldn't want to point them inward toward your tent. But the light dissipates enough that you won't be illuminating the neighboring campsite when turned outward.

Overall - a good buy for illuminated stakes that are also remarkably sturdy.
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very handy around camp, lights removable expands it's uses.
by magnetik (4 out of 5 stars)
November 16, 2014

ok.. just got through a weekend camping trip with these. Make sure you don't hammer them down too hard cause if you hit a rock, they bend. In my opinion they should have left out the holes at the bottom of the stake. That's exactly where two of mine bent hitting a hard spot as hard as I usually do with my ground hog stakes. I sorta straightened them out with a multitool but you can tell the aluminum was weakened. I'm just going to relegate the stakes to backup or loaner duty. So the stakes for me were meh. The lights were what I really wanted anyway. They aren't perfect but they work really well. There is a plastic insert that plugs up the rubber housing behind the battery compartment. Not sure of it's use but it falls out easily. I might glue it in. Not sure what it's really for other than to fall out when changing batteries. I think it's to keep water out but why have the hole in the first place? On strobe mode my buddies say it looks like a airport landing strip. (I purchased 2 sets) Makes it real easy to locate camp too. In the end.. I ended up not using the stakes but running some paracord hitched through the light housing along with a cord squeeze lock and caribiner. I can now attach them anywhere like my hammock ridgeline or off my ground hog stakes. So.. to be fair, just taking one off for the stakes. They are serviceable if you are careful but the lights are real handing in not tripping up on guy lines, finding camp, etc. I can't comment on battery life since the batteries I used were suspect and it was very cold outside. I may update the review after a few trips with the lights.
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Great invention.
by Noyb (5 out of 5 stars)
January 17, 2019

Awesome light. Single AAA battery, which is so much more convenient than 2032's. Flash mode is bright and truly a flash, unlike most which cycle 50%. Installed a couple Kam-snaps on the light and dog's collar for the best dog light anywhere. Stake is large and thus heavier than would normally be carried, but as a cat-hole digger, it's ok (19g).

One suggestion would be to use a clear lens for less diffusion? One supposes a tent-stake light requires less light and more diffusion, but most other applications clear would be better? Second suggestion, lose the little plastic bar behind the light. It doesn't work, is fiddley and worst, it breaks any possibility of waterproofness.
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I like these tent stakes
by AirplaneMX (3 out of 5 stars)
September 1, 2016

I like these tent stakes, I gave them a three because of two reasons. First while installing the battery I have had them come apart on me. One the actual switch came out and multiple times the plastic battery reinforcement comes out. Secondly if ising these in high grass the light gets barried and very limited use. Another point I'd like to share is because they are touch activated you have to take the batteries out each use or they will turn on when you pack your tent. Not a big deal but if you're going out multiple nights and a different place each night it can be a pain.
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Accidental Illumination and Half Unusable (and they don't last).
by juanlargemoose (2 out of 5 stars)
February 28, 2015

I just received these, and have not used them for camping yet. They appear sturdy and should work as tent stakes. I have two concerns:
1) Once the batteries have been installed, the lights turn on with a simple click. That would be fine, except that it means that you can't trust that the lights won't get turned on when they bump together in your pack. Even when packed together with the lights facing inward, it's possible to turn them on just by pressing them together. That's not good.
2) Because of the position of the lights, the stakes can only be driven about 4" into the ground. That's only half way. You can use them as lights, but they won't provide a sturdy replacement for actual stakes.

I am considering returning these for something more practical.

Update (2019): They do not last.

After two years one of the lights failed. After a year more, the other light failed. If I pressed my finger against the battery and pushed the connecting tabs, the light would go on, but even after cleaning and bending the battery tabs I couldn't get the lights to work on their own.

I kept the stakes, which are solid enough, but I tossed the lights.
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The batteries quickly died after one use for about an hour
by Martin G (1 out of 5 stars)
September 2, 2019

Great idea but quality is so-so. First backpacking trip I had the stakes turned on (in just the "glow" position. I turned them off before going to bed. The next day they wouldn't turn on. Used new batteries on the second trip, same experience... only lasted for a short time. When I pulled batteries out when I got home the connectors were corroded. It was damp so possibly moisture was an issue?
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Batteries are easy to install
by Lawrence M. (5 out of 5 stars)
December 7, 2015

Just what I needed for walking around at night time at the campsite!

One stake can light about 8 ft clearly then starts to fade into the darkness.

Batteries are easy to install ...you just need to purchase them;P

Pretty durable for the money. I did not pound them with a hammer, but pushed them with my palm and stood up with ease.

Material is very lightweight, so definitely take them on your backpacking trips!
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Don't trip in the dark
by Tally Calvert (5 out of 5 stars)
February 20, 2018

So excited not to fall over tent lines while drunk camping. Well, you still might fall but at least you'll have light on the way down. These are just bright enough and have a flashing option. Not too bright so they light up inside the tent
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Great camping item - but buy extra
by zynzynviolin (4 out of 5 stars)
December 7, 2017

These are a great idea. They lost one star because 1 of 4 failed pretty quickly with little use. Shame on you Uco. In a campground or out in the woods they would certainly let you know where your tent is. My advice is buy enough that if they fail you'll have a replacement.
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Great for camping.
by Michael R. Memoli (5 out of 5 stars)
September 29, 2018

Great for marking the corners of the tent when camping. Especially help full with new campers for telling one site from the other.

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