This adjustable LED light is great for any after-dark activity, whether you're hosting a family BBQ at the campsite or putting in long hours at the jobsite. Plug the light into a Yeti power station (sold separately) to extend the battery life.
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Hey everyone, it's Evangeline here at etrailer.com. And today, we have the Goal Zero Skylight. This is gonna be a portable tripod light, great for overlanding, camping, setting up your space. If you want a large floodlight that is adjustable in terms of brightness and also height, this might be the one to look at. This is an up to 6,000 lumen light that can go from four feet up all the way to 12 feet up. And when you turn those lights on, you can get up to a 300 foot diameter beam radius.
Here we are in one of our installation studios. I couldn't quite find us an empty room that was 300 feet in diameter, so we aren't quite able to see that full radius of light. But still, even in this tall studio, we have a good amount of light output. This light has four settings, by the way. The first setting is gonna be off, but once you turn it on, you can then go from low, medium, to high output at 6,000 lumens.
To cycle between those settings, you have this switch. The switch also is pretty much where you're going to plug this into your power source for when you need to charge the lights. And you can see our LED lights here also indicate the battery level. So if I needed to turn the light on or off, I would long press this button. Once the button or the light is on, you just press it once, and then you can cycle through the different output settings.
The lowest setting is gonna be 400 lumens, and then you can go all the way up to 6,000 lumens. Choosing which light output will depend also on how long your battery will last. What I was a bit curious about was how do the pedals work and maneuver around to really block off one side of the light. So here we have our pedals down, and in the down position, they do a pretty good job of blocking that. There's a little bit of light seeping around the edges, but enough where I'm not blinding my neighbor to one side.
And I have two pedals up illuminating the garage door pretty well. We have a very large and wide beam, and it does seem pretty diffused, so nothing too stark and in your face. So this could be helpful in a campsite where you wanna light up your vehicle or camper but not blind everyone else around you. This light stores into this hard plastic case. So if you're someone that has your trailer or your vehicle set up for overlanding and camping, this makes it easier to lug around as well as store safely and securely. Now, to set this up, it's simply a matter of getting your case, unscrewing the top, lifting the light up and out of that case, and then if you hold onto the hand grip and press the button, you can then extend the tripod out. Now, you just undo the wire, flip open the levers, lift the tripod up to your preferred height while securing the levers to keep it in that open position. And just like that, you now have your large area light. I've worked with a bunch of different area lights and this Goal Zero Skylight is gonna be the more premium and pricey option, but you definitely see in its build why you might pay more for better features. This sits very sturdily out here. We do have it in its almost max setting, max at least for the middle pole. And while we do have a little bit of sway from those top heavy LED pedals, I'm pretty confident in how well it's holding up. Now, you do have to take this down during rainstorms and thunderstorms, but that's a very easy process. What I care the most about though is the base. We have three telescoping legs. Usually I would prefer just keeping them in the preset default position just 'cause you can get plenty of height without having to extend the legs. But if you want a bit extra, these legs, if you undo the lever, can also extend out, and that's how you get from your 12 feet of height to your 12 1/2 feet. The bottom has these rubber feet, which help give a little bit more grip on the ground, especially if you're in a parking lot or hard terrain, this is gonna be helpful. Now, at the end, you have a hole which you can use with your own stakes, or you can utilize the integrated stake. So if you lift this middle piece up and you pull it out, you can see that it has sharp ends that will fit into the end of that foot. So on soft terrain, you can use this to secure your tripod. I did see to take this down during a thunderstorm, and that's not dissing on the quality of the tripod, but just more of you don't want this acting as a lightning rod extended up into the air. But if it's just a quick little rain shower or if there's just dust kicking up, that's fine. This is rated for IPX4, which means rain coming down, water splashing around, dust and outdoor debris, the enclosed panels will keep things secure. This has six individual light pedals and just kind of like the petal of a flower in design. And these can rotate up and down 180 degrees. So that's gonna be helpful for, let's say you just want all your light shining down around your campsite, or if you wanna change things and have it shining maybe towards your trailer, but not into the trees. This gives you some option for how you spread your light around or keep it focused in. This has its own internal battery, which can run from an hour at the highest setting to eight hours on the lowest light setting. This works great with your Yeti Goal Zero products. However, it also has a six millimeter plug or an adapter included into a 12 volt socket if you wanna plug this into your power station or into your vehicle to charge. And what I have noticed while camping in different seasons is I do have to be conscious about operating temperatures of things that have power. So this works from -4 degrees Fahrenheit all the way up to 140 degrees Fahrenheit. So this will be great for your spring, summer, and fall camping adventures. During the winter time though, you do have to double check that temperature gauge because it might drop down a little too low for this light to start up. It's obviously a warm summer day here at etrailer. So I do appreciate the mix of materials here for this tripod. For some of the metals, it is made of aluminum, so it's not holding that heat. The top of our LED panels are made of plastic, which also helps with not keeping in all that heat. Everything just works together to make this an easy to use, but also very functional tripod or area light. At the beginning of this video, I did say that the Goal Zero Skylight is a more premium area light at a more premium price. So I grabbed one of our a lot more affordable work lights, so that you just can compare some of the different features because it really depends on what are you planning on using the light for and what features are important to you. So I have here the STKR Concepts FLi OVER-LANDER. This goes up to 10 feet and has a 2,600 lumen maximum output. So it's significantly less than the 6,000 lumen output that the Goal Zero Skylight has. However, it does have its perks. It is a little bit more affordable than the Skylight. It folds up to be a lot more compact and light, this being the little bag that it folds down into, compared to the big plastic case the Skylight goes into. It's also a lot easier to charge the FLi OVER-LANDER. It has USB-A and USB-C ports that you can charge the light with, but also use to charge your other electronics. These Skylight though has a six millimeter jack, which works great with your Goal Zero Yeti products, but not so much other power stations or power banks. And if you don't have a 12 volt port, it might be a little tricky to get the Skylight charged up without purchasing separate adapters. So, if you're in the Goal Zero ecosystem and you have the other Goal Zero products, or you already have your overlanding power station with a gazillion and two plugs and ports, the stability of the Skylight, the output of the lumens, and just how tall it gets is definitely worth investing in. If you don't need those extra features though, you just want something small, compact, a bit more affordable, and you don't wanna pay extra for features you might not need or use, then that's where the STKR Concepts FLi OVER-LANDER might be the better fit. You might not know it, but here at etrailer we actually deal with a lot of overlanding products. In fact, we've seen a lot of different lights here, and the Goal Zero Skylight has actually been a hit when I set it up at the campus. Everyone's favorite part about it seemed to be how sturdy it looked and it felt. The sturdiness of those telescoping legs give you a lot of peace of mind so that when you get to the campsite, all you need to do is press a button, unfold the whole thing, lift everything up, and now you have a bright and reliable area light. With all those fun features in mind though, as someone who's camped at overlanding campsites, I would like to say, please be mindful of your neighbors. If you are out in the wild, in the forest, out in nature, and you do have a really bright light like this, if you do have other people camping around you, be mindful of their quiet times or their sleep times so you're not invading their area with your bright light. 6,000 lumens is awesome for your own campsite, but try not to be intrusive for others. With this, it may be very easy to do that. So it is nice that this gives you a bunch of different settings so you can pick how much brightness you may or may not need when you're out on your adventures. But for something that has the whole package, stability, portability, durability, and a lot of light, this right here was a look at the Goal Zero Skylight Telescoping Area Light at etrailer.com. My name's Evangeline, and I hope you enjoyed the journey.
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